Movies every film maker should see

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Isaac you've definitely got some good taste there... Brando is frickin BRILLIANT in streecar named desire...

Apocaplypse Now is another definite watch for any filmmaker. Heart of Darkness, the documentary on the making of it is another very good watch. This is a requirement for our senior film class at our highschool... you write an essay about the movie too ;)

This shows you the problems that even a movie with a limitless budget and time can have. Charlie Sheen got so into his role and almost self-destroyed himself and got a heart attack while filming. There are tapes Coppola recorded saying how he might kill himself because he'd be unable to finish the film and that there is hundreds of millions of dollars and people's jobs and livlihoods on the line... it's quite disturbing actually...
 
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[quote author=THiNSPiRiT link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=75#80 date=09/05/04 at 23:35:37]Charlie Sheen got so into his role and almost self-destroyed himself and got a heart attack while filming.[/quote]

Martin Sheen. Of course it would be funny to see Charlie try to pull it off.

That reminds me of how Tom Cruise got ulsers on Eyes Wide Shut because Kubric was pushing him so hard.
 
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I am a bad man. I have never seen HEART OF DARKNESS. Ill check it tomorrow at my local corporate whore DVD rental Blockbuster. And it was Martin!
 
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LMAO!!!!! HAHAHAHAA!!! you can tell it's been a REALLY long night when I make a mistake like that... damn... was charlie even born when the movie was made?
 
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Yeah it's been a long night. It's 4 am in New York and I just stumbled in. Started drinking twelve hours ago. I think I'll watch the beginning of The Graduate. I love that film.
 
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I'm happy to see some people mentioned Ichi The Killer, and Boondock Saints.

Ichi was kinda brilliant in a funny way because it was Violence not just for th sake of violence, but it was what i like ot call "porn of violence"... Fo thoes of you who who have never seen it, the difference in Graphic violence level between say, Total recall and Ichi the killer is the difference in terms of sex between, Wild orchid and "Backdoor sluts 23"....... But it kinda filled a niche in the sense that, there is this weird little japanese animation sub culture called "guinea pig" ... which is basically SUPERviolent disection films.... yea kinda werid.... but this kinda mainstreams the idea of super violence. I dunno ithought its creation and export to america was a nice littel relfection on our morbid curiosity.

And boondock saints was great, except the end is Hokey.... But i cant help but love the cat scene, and Funny mans question of "is it Dead?"
 
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how about Oscar, you know the Sylvester Stallone Comedy gangster movie.- Man, brilliant doesnt even begin to describe it. Seriously though, it was an entertaining movie to me. "Finuccii brothers!"


Forgive me if I rename some already mentioned.


-Braveheart
-Signs
-Road to Perdition
-Jaws
-Rocky 1 & 2 -I love how at the end of Rocky 2 Stallone looks for Adrien crying and then finds her saying "Yo, Adrien, I did it!"
-Seabiscuit
-Memento
-The Four Feathers
-Forest Gump
-The Untouchables
-Airplane- To take a break and laugh your ass off!
-The Pianist- man that movie moved me.
-The Green Mile
and last but not least, -The Silence of the Lambs

Cheers!
 
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[quote author=Arcburn link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=75#76 date=09/03/04 at 13:48:52]where did you see Red Cockroaches Barnesy?

And was it shot on DVX?[/quote]

Red Cockroaches is a feature made by a Cuban director that came to the US for a year and decided to make a feature while he was here. He shot the entire thing on a Canon GL1 with essentially zero help. I met the director in an educational capacity when he first started production and had limited contact with him during the year he spent working on it.

I recommend it to low-budget filmmakers because it was produced for under 2k, and unlike a lot of these low budget features that quote bogus budgets (el mariachi), this one was actually shot for under $2000.

The subject matter and story aren’t exactly enthralling to me, but visually, what he was able to do in post was nothing short of inspiring to me. I saw a lot of his dailies early on in production, and they were assuredly atrocious. A year later he returned with the finished product and it hardly looked like the same film.

I don’t know if it’s available for sale or if it’s playing at any festivals, but there is an official website and a number of google-able reviews if you search under Red Cockroaches.

http://www.redcockroachesmovie.com/

Caveat: Obviously, I’ve had personal contact with the director of this film, however we don’t have any relationship…professional or personal, and I don’t currently have any contact with him.
 
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For some good examples of the following techniques, see these:

Time manipulation:
- Hiroshima Mon Amour - blending of current and past time into one plane

Montage:
- Battleship Potemkin - simply groundbreaking
- Citizen Kane - pay close attention to the montage of Kane and his wife

Shot Composition and Framing:
- Yojimbo (Kurosawa) - watch how he frames foreground, mid and background

Action:
- anything by Sam Peckinpah

Flash backs:
- Miss Julie (Sjoberg) - excellent manipulation of time and flashbacks



Oh and be sure to watch the Anime, Cowboy Bebop, my all time favorite...
 
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saw the title of the thread, heres my essentials:

Children of Heaven
The Color of Paradise
2001: a space odyssey
Cinema Paradiso
The Bicycle Thief
Punch Drunk Love
Buffalo '66
Singin' In The Rain
Persona
anything by Cassavetes
Kill Bill
City of God
The Kid
City Lights
Vertigo
SECRET HONOR (this was a very exclusive film by Altman, only availible as i know from amazon, on VHS. my film teacher has a laerdisc copy and i am super jealous)
Streetwise (i think it's out of print but i have a vhs copy)
Metropolis - i didn't find it ineresteing but considering what it did for the medium of film and moviemaking at the time, i reccomend it.


so much more but i have US history to attend to.. adios.
 
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[quote author=Young-H._Lee link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=75#88 date=09/07/04 at 14:12:01]
- Battleship Potemkin - simply groundbreaking
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Another fun thing to do is watch the "baby carriage going down the steps" scene in Potemkin and then watch the same scene in DePalma's Untouchables.

Once you see the similarities, you start looking at every DePalma scene as suspect (with good reason in some cases).
 
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[quote author=michael_summers link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=75#89 date=09/07/04 at 16:55:45]saw the title of the thread, heres my essentials:

The Bicycle Thief
Singin' in the Rain
Streetwise (i think it's out of print but i have a vhs copy)
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Three of my absolute favorites. I keep hoping "Streetwise" will make its way to DVD. Did you ever see "American Heart," which was sort of a fictional re-telling of some of the stories from "Streetwise," directed by Martin Bell, who also helmed "Streetwise?" It's a wonderfully downbeat family drama, and Jeff Bridges's best performance.

[quote author=michael_summers link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=75#89 date=09/07/04 at 16:55:45]SECRET HONOR (this was a very exclusive film by Altman, only availible as i know from amazon, on VHS. my film teacher has a laerdisc copy and i am super jealous)[/quote]

Michael, you'll be happy to know that Criterion is scheduled to release "Secret Honor" on dvd this October. I haven't seen it, but Altman has made some of favorite films of all time. Don't know if you liked "Short Cuts," but Criterion's releasing that on DVD as well, in November, I think. They're also releasing Altman's cable series "Tanner '88" next month.

Here's the link for "Secret Honor":

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=257
 
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Most of the movies I'd reccomend are already mentioned, but here are some I don't recall seeing in this thread:
Sydney Lumet's "The Hill"
Breaker Morant
El Topo
Straw Dogs
The Party
Casino Royale
City of lost children (cinematography)
Hard Boiled
The Killer
Any Sergio Leone film
The Vikings (With Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis)
Rope
The Killing Fields
Midnight Run (Hilarious)
And two movies a very dear friend of mine directed:
"El milagro de P. Tinto" and "Mortadelo y Filemon" (Biggest Box office hit in the history of Spain)

That's it for now

Eco
 
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*Peter Weir: The Mosquito Coast ( I think this is Harrison Ford's best acting performance.)

Forgot to add that one. It's a really fine film.
 
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[quote author=Stas_Tagios link=board=movies;num=1093667155;start=90#91 date=09/07/04 at 21:10:00]

Three of my absolute favorites.  I keep hoping "Streetwise" will make its way to DVD.  Did you ever see "American Heart," which was sort of a fictional re-telling of some of the stories from "Streetwise," directed by Martin Bell, who also helmed "Streetwise?"  It's a wonderfully downbeat family drama, and Jeff Bridges's best performance.


Michael, you'll be happy to know that Criterion is scheduled to release "Secret Honor" on dvd this October.  I haven't seen it, but Altman has made some of favorite films of all time.  Don't know if you liked "Short Cuts," but Criterion's releasing that on DVD as well, in November, I think.  They're also releasing Altman's cable series "Tanner '88" next month.

Here's the link for "Secret Honor":

http://www.criterionco.com/asp/release.asp?id=257[/quote]

thats awesome, i can't wait for that dvd to replace my crappy vhs version. no, i didnt see the other film by Bell. can i find it on dvd?
 
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I forgot to mention..

Thursday

Any of you seen it?
 
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I'm finding that my tastes change over the years. Films and filmmakers that I once loved now leave me cold. Or maybe its because the changes in the industry make our tastes change.

One film that was not mentioned is Scorsese's "King of Comedy." It was such a departure for him and DiNiro (DiNiro plays a nerd). The film makes one think with new perspective about one's ambition to make it in the entertainment industry.
 
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Lessons of Darkness - Director:Werner Herzog. Amazing footage of burning oil wells after the first gulf war.

Solaris - Director:Andrei Tarkovsky. Slow, comtemplative, many say boring. Don't know, I liked it.

8 1/2 - Director:Federico Fellini. Beautiful, rich black and white.

The way things go - Director: Peter Fischli, David Weiss (II) Shot on video and looks like it. A Rube Goldberg chain reaction that lasts 30 minutes. Weirdly fascinating to watch.
 
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I am surprised no one has mentioned this

THE ABYSS

A very underated film in my opinion.
 
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