Steve Laramie
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Carlitos Way was very originol cinematography. Especialy with the unique shots. Like when sean pen is walking through the gate to the jail and it looks like a dolly but then it pulls away like a mile and its a helocopter shot.
Pick ONE movie for cinematography excellence
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LoneWolfProductions
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hossain maruf
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The Fountain!!
Mad Max
Without a doubt: Stan Kubrick's 'Barry Lyndon'
The whole thing is like watching a live renaisance<sp> painting.
Also Peter Greenaway's: ' The Thief, The Cook, His Wife & Her Lover '
Peter makes some very strange movies but the composition & lighting in this one is mesmerising.
The whole thing is like watching a live renaisance<sp> painting.
Also Peter Greenaway's: ' The Thief, The Cook, His Wife & Her Lover '
Peter makes some very strange movies but the composition & lighting in this one is mesmerising.
Mtech
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Barry Lyndon looks so perfect it's almost disturbing. Clockwork Orange also managed to look good despite the shoestring budget.
Kurosawa's Ran is nice too, those silent war scenes still give me the chills. There's only one close-up in the whole three hour movie!
(Picking one aint fun.)
Kurosawa's Ran is nice too, those silent war scenes still give me the chills. There's only one close-up in the whole three hour movie!
(Picking one aint fun.)
renegadewill
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For grittiness it's pretty much any Mann film. I love his films so much, it's like cinematic life.
agreed on BArry Lyndon, but add "Everything is Illuminated" in there, that was a great looking film.
marlontorres
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In The Mood for Love
Absolutely Marlon thats beautifully shot.
DammitJanet
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Mike Mills' "Thumbsucker". This film made me completely re-think the methods for shooting suburban life.
blackenbmx02
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DC
Cinematographiliac
There's an extended scene in Army of Darkness that I seriously think is an amazing feat of focus-pulling. It's when "Ash" barricades himself in the windmill and is carefully investigating the premises after getting spooked. It ends with himself charging into the mirror. This is an extended sequence found on the Director's Cut DVD. The theatrical version of the same scene moves a lot quicker.
marlontorres
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I know my cinematographyI also love 2046.
Me too, of course though I am somewhat biased as the Director of Photography in both was Chris topher Doyle - an Australian.
angrynerdrock07
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Anything Christopher Doyle and Wong Kar-Wai do is absolutely gorgeous. I loved "The Hand" segment they did for "Eros". I think with it they perfected the look that they had created for ITMFL and 2046.
Justin Kuhn
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Anyone mentioned Children of Men yet?
Holy Harry
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The Seventh Seal - Dir. Ingmar Bergman - Cinematography Gunnar Fischer
I first saw this film two years ago and my head is still happily spinning. It is an absolute stunner, a masterpiece. The final scene...
... of death leading the souls away... oh - it sends shivers up my spine every time I see it. (Apparently it was shot as an afterthought; using crew members - the cast had gone back to their hotel - and using the last few leftover feet of film in a reel; purely because Bergman and Fischer thought the light was beautiful the way it shone from behind a particular cloud).
Pure magic, and a must see for anyone in this fantastic business of ours.
I first saw this film two years ago and my head is still happily spinning. It is an absolute stunner, a masterpiece. The final scene...
... of death leading the souls away... oh - it sends shivers up my spine every time I see it. (Apparently it was shot as an afterthought; using crew members - the cast had gone back to their hotel - and using the last few leftover feet of film in a reel; purely because Bergman and Fischer thought the light was beautiful the way it shone from behind a particular cloud).
Pure magic, and a must see for anyone in this fantastic business of ours.
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