john threat
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What film have you seen that totally changed the course of your directing forever?
Name the film the film that changed the course of your directing.
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David G. Smith
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Zak Forsman
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listening to scorsese's commentaries on the laserdiscs for raging bull and taxi driver during the mid-90s was an eye-opening education and forever changed my perception of filmmaking.
Doc Bernard
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Drew Ott
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When I was just getting started it was The Usual Suspects and Memento type films. I liked the "OH SH*T!" endings. Then it was existential crisis dramas like The Graduate and American Beauty. These days it's multi-generational ensemble films like Fannie and Alexander and Magnolia.
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me too
hscully
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In Dreams is directed beautifully. Have you seen it? The wide shots especially in the house, and how they cut are stunning. They place them in that world in a way I have never seen. Jordan acheives a poetry of image that I think is unique. The scene with the kids when the daughter is lost, and that kinetic sequence of the mother losing it there in the dark with the horses and the strung lights just knocks me out.
I'm not saying that it's the greatest movie but it's directed impeccably as is Ondine, another Jordan gem. I had never seen this style. I really think it's unique and it changed the way it made me feel about what's possible which is kind of what the OP is asking, I think.
No?
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-Stands up and applauds-
john threat
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For me its Holy Mountain. I think that film unlocked my potential mentally in terms of visual extremes to tell a simple story.
Battu, show that first short film!
Battu, show that first short film!
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Eric Boellner
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The Lord of the Rings is the one that got me wanting to direct in the first place. I think some weird combination of The Godfather, Mean Streets, Pulp Fiction, and 13 Assassins is probably to blame for how I want to go about doing that.
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HorseFilms
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John Carpenter's Halloween is the reason I picked up a camera in the first place. It was also the reason I decided to learn how to light things.
drapeama
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I second that. Se7en was (and still is) a total inspiration for me. Everything from A to Z in this movie is just pure genius.
I'm a huge Holy Mountain fan, but for me it's Pink Flamingos. It's liberating and I think every aspiring film maker should watch it.
CallaghanFilms
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Eadweard Muybridge's THE HORSE IN MOTION
Batutta
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I'm doing you a favor by not. And I'm certainly not spending the money to have it transferred (it was done on film, I'm that old). We learn the most from our mistakes was my point.