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Let's talk about movies with great cinematography
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I recently watched 2 movies from way back in Patton and Dr. No. Both looked absolutely gorgeous in a way I havnt seen in a long time. The shots in patton were amazing, and the color ways in Dr. No were great as were the framing of shots.
More recently a few of the movies I can remember that looked great were city of god due to many of the colors absent from most films such as oranges, yellows, and turquoise.
I always like looking at Once Upon a time in Mexico more than watching it because of the bright over exposed yellows, oranges and reds that are many times shot at a distance.
What other films are some of you're visual favorites and why?
More recently a few of the movies I can remember that looked great were city of god due to many of the colors absent from most films such as oranges, yellows, and turquoise.
I always like looking at Once Upon a time in Mexico more than watching it because of the bright over exposed yellows, oranges and reds that are many times shot at a distance.
What other films are some of you're visual favorites and why?
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But I guess what appealed to me is how the colors of the entire world changed. In the red world they practiced calligraphy in red tinted sand and drank pink tea. In the green world they dueled over a shimmering pool of lime water. The entire blue world was shot (it seemed) in cool tones.
Wow, I never thought about that before, although they're all awesome. I always think in term of some of my favorite moments. The initial attack on the training school and the scene with the leaves are two I always remember.
Man Who Wasn't There... Gangs of New York both have high contrast angled shots.
I like Spike Lee's stuff. Even though he's an asshole.
Especially that one scene where they're driving through the van Gogh painting or whatever.
Also, Requiem for a Dream.
It really makes you feel isolated and tiny.
And let us never speak of that movie ever again
Pfft, it's a good movie.
Yeah a good comedy
Also, Last of the Mohicans
Also, shifting gears, Pride and Prejudice. And to clarify since there are like 3, the recent one with Keira Knightley. Don't much care for the movie itself, but Jesus, the shots in that film consistently stun me. The dude got a bunch of nominations for it in contests not called the Oscars.
EDIT: And yeah, the shots in Amelie were quite lovely. They do a great job of playing up the romantic and quaint side of France.
One of the greatest films of the last decade.
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Shame the plot sucked balls.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
So, did you just come in here to movie bash?
Final scenes of Last of the Mohicans...
Other photographers I particularly admire: Terrence Malick (Thin Red Line, The New World, Days of Heaven, Badland), David Gordon Green (George Washington, All the Real Girls, Undertow, Pineapple Express (yes, the stoner movie -- watch it again, the photography is Grade A)), Wes Anderson (for 1 part photography, 1 part mis-en-scene), Steven Soderbergh (he does all his own photography under a pseydonym, as well as his editing, and often operates his own camera as well -- Traffic, Solaris, even Full Frontal, in particular the Oceans movies all look fantastic).
If you're serious about watching photography, always pay attention to the cinematographers' names. Most of those directors I listed either do their own cinematography, or else they have a strong working relationship with a specific one (like David Gordon Green and Tim Orr, we could probably debate who's really responsible for their magic if we wanted, or Kar Wai who wasn't quite as strong after Doyle left him). There's also a Martin Scorsese documentary called Light and Shadows specifically about cinematography that I've heard is fantastic and have been meaning to watch for a very long time, but yeah, basically if the movie has a good photographer on it, you're probably going to see good pictures.
Yes. Shooting in black and white is actually really fucking hard to do well, and they pulled it off.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly was robbed of the cinematography Oscar this year.
At the time, Dick Tracy was lauded for it's use of only six colors throughout the whole movie to give it that comic strip feel.
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And if that weren't enough, he was also the cinematographer of the megahit, multi Academy Award winning biopic of Vanilla Ice: "Cool as Ice".
We should also talk about Mr. Robert Burks, who was DP of several of Hitchcock's greatest films, including Dial M for Murder, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Rear Window. There are some incredible shots in TMWKTM.
And we may also want to discuss Mr. Peter Suschitzky, who is the cinematographer/DP who brought us The Empire Strikes Back, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Mars Attacks, Immortal Beloved, and even Krull.
Agreed, I wasn't in love with the Proposition even though I thought it was good, but I would totally watch it again, especially for the cinematography and for the fat english man, can't remember his name right now.
I didn't pop the movie in and check the credits, but if IMDB is right
Emmanuel Lubezki did the cinematography and Fernando wasn't the Director either
And that's the other thing -- sometimes cinematography lies with the director, and sometimes it lies with the DP. There are some directors who are more visually gifted and carry a distinct visual style, despite working with different DPs (Spike Lee is the first name that comes to mind), but if you're interested enough to track the names of DPs, you will generally find that the cinematography on all the movies they work, regardless of director, remain strong. I used to watch more movies and track this stuff more closely, but not so much any more.
Let me also add that while I loathe the films of Paul Thomas Anderson, I respect his photography.
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City of Men, not Children of Men. City of Men is a expanded tv show like City of God.
So restricted palettes and lush palettes are great. By the way, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover has a similar thing going to Hero. A very shocking movie though - I've never seen so many people walk out of a cinema.
How about good cinematography in terms of movement and shots? The Shining was very good for that, but I don't remember any other good examples.
Paris, je t'aime - not all of the short clips, I loved the cowboy on the horse in paris, so so contrasting.
The Italian Job - Amazing car chase.
I think the movie that takes the visual cake for me is Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I saw it countless times when I was younger, and there really isn't anything like it. So surreal and amazing to look at. Brazil is sort of similar, but the atmosphere is different. It's also great looking, though.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DdfWyWIFqM
Seriously... for the latter, that scene where Tuco is just running among all the graves is amazing. And Blondie's triumphant ride at the end.
Seems like the cinematographer on Conan died or dissappeared cause imdb shows very little.