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What struck you recently as having particularly beautiful cinematography?Please, no Fifth Element or Lost in Space... something at least a couple of nothches above that.
I love great battle scenes, but choices there are severely limited - I can't take Austerlitz with 50 people on each side. I would kill for a DVD of Waterloo - some day it might come out, who knows, as that one is without an equal.
But barring that one, what else had breathtaking cinematography that you recall seeing recently?
Black and White allowed, as is 4:3.
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I recently saw the IMAX film on bird migration, Some awsome photography.
In Cinemascope----I remember being as awed as I was in "Lawrence of Arabia."
Is Carol Baker's character the biggest bitch of all time, or what?
I love the film but what makes it work for me most is the score. Of course, I'll go a long way with a flick if it has a good score.
Cinematography is a fallback position, taken when plot, dialog, character development and mise-en-scene all fail.clark
Citizen Kane, 2001, Casablanca, Far From the Madding Crowd, Barry Lyndon, Greed, Gone With the Wind, Barry Lyndon, Days of Heaven, Chinatown, etc., ad nauseum.Great cinematography ADDS to the enjoyment of a great film and the suspension of disbelief.
You don't have to take your usual contrarian position on everything, you know.
***Cinematography is a fallback position, taken when plot, dialog, character development and mise-en-scene all fail.Sounds like you are talking about Dali!
Yes, I am looking for a few *watcheable* movies with great cinematography, something better than the HDTV demonstration I can get... he-he...
If only I could find the Passison in the Desert on a DVD!
Hint - yesterday a friend did show up hours before the dinner, and he did sit through the six hours of Lord of the Ring... I still can't figure out why, but anywho, I tried to sit along a few times... and every time the boredom and uneasiness set in quickly, as I watched more of that gray screen, and I left without looking back everytime. Crap. That is not what I am after.
Lawrence I already watched a few times on the large screen, and it was just slightly above boring. Actually once was in HD. I suspect the cinematography was good when it first came out, but it aged poorly in my opinion.
But all dinner guests were completely taken with the images last night, they had to be escorted to the table by force. You couldn't drive a wedge between them and Macaulay Culkinon on 100" 16"9 HD screen... the power of trash! Poor souls - most of them have not seen the HDTV glory before. I felt like Jesus.
I have quite a few great films, but I can count ones that have great image on one hand's fingers. For instance, My Fair Lady, that I value exceedingly highly, has only a mediocre quality... shame, as it is a treat when shown right.
I suspect Greenaway might be a good thing - if it is slightly move lively than the Prospero's Book - that one was too thick even for my blood... heck, even my wife asked to ternimate the torture! If only I could just watch like a ten minute segment every now and then... and.... in HD! It would be like visiting Mona Lisa on Tuesday morning, when there's no crowd.
Recent yiewings include Citizen Kane and David Copperfield/
BARRY LYNDON!!!
Beautifully done. And on the second DVD issue they finally got it right.
I have the early release DVD, and the quality is awful. Do you have the later one? How is it?
This, to me, was Greenaway's most straight forward and sensible film. The true star of the film is Rome. Plus, Greenaway's sets and art direction are always a feast of art and placement. View it from a creatively visual standpoint and not from intellectual substance.
Greenaway's "The Baby of Macon". That one eluded me. Is it available on DVD or VHS in this country?
Japanese subtitles, its quite uncommon tho
Eric
Although I was able to find a VHS copy on eBay...dubbed from a European PAL video...yech.Baby of Macon was never released here threatrically either.
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A very interessting film but also a little bit to..intellectual for a film..a pleasure anyway of uppermost quality!
But I don't see it on DVD... remember, this is the Video Sucker day!
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"The Passenger." The latter has some great shots of Barcelona, especially of a Gaudi masterpiece. In this earlier work, one can also see the "unspoiled" Jack (Nicholson, of course) before his eyebrows ran away with him. Maria Schneider is also fresh and appealing, just having finished her first course of Marlon in "Last Tango..."
The Passenger has been one of my favorite films since it came out, and I have it on tape. We talked about it here, but I don't see it on DVD.
"The Sheltering Sky," I appreciate more and more each viewing, though I find more to fault in Winger's performance each time, too.
If you want to really go back aways, try "L'Atalante."
I love the early reference to Star Wars and the wonderful tracking shots.
Jean Vigo died at 29... such a loss. Of four films he made I saw two - that one and Zero for Conduct.I bet you didn't know Georgy Daneliya made essentially a remake of L'Atalante, called Fortuna... not too bad either, but set in the bandit Russia of the nineties.
Well, maybe a "remake" is too strong a word, but you will definitely recall the Vigo's film when watching the Fortuna.
Of course there's no Michel Simon in Fortuna.
we move back to civilization, I'll find it.
...but understanding the Georgian-accented Russian?
Laughton was really good at dircting..., and that may easily be the best role Mitchum ever played.An eerie, poetic film indeed.
Regards
BF
was more believable) in "Cape Fear." (The original, of course, with a fabulous Gregory Peck performance and with Polly Bergen looking good enough to eat [Mitchum came close...]).
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..this is a beautiful film.
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