c_watson1 Posted October 26, 2019 Share Posted October 26, 2019 Any Wong Kar-wai film with Chris Doyle as cinematographer. "In the Mood for Love" and "2046" are both stunning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanKlein Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, The Searchers, the original King Kong (what the heck) Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/photos/alanklein2000/albums Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikemorrell Posted October 27, 2019 Share Posted October 27, 2019 I'd go with 'Lawrence of Arabia' too - one of my all time favourite films. But the first film/TV-series by which I was pleasantly stunned by the quality of the lighting and color grading was 'Outlander' which I watched on Netflix. It's on series 5 now but t . I found both the lighting and color grading incredibly subtle. I enjoyed the story of the first few series but I enjoyed the subtle colors and lighting just as much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tholte Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Pecker by John Waters is a classic and not to be missed in my opinion. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supriyo Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio De Sica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILQc12Zy-qI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uhooru Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 "Somewhere" by Sophia Coppola; Wong Kat Wai films including "Days of Being Wild", "Fallen Angels" and "In the Mood for Love"; Jarmouch's "Limits of Control". Also some of the b/w noir films including those by Orson Welles, Hitchcock and others. For just classically beautiful cinimatography like "Barry Lyndon", Lawrence of Arabia, etc. "Dawn Wall" and "Free Solo" Also Fellini, Bunuel, and John Ford and even the director of "The Good, The Bad etc". There's just so much out there that's good. I too really liked "Pecker" for a lot of reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
royfisher Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 If you want to watch a kids' movie while no one is looking over your shoulder, I'll suggest Fly Away Home (1996) directed by Carol Ballard with Caleb Deschanel as DP. I like the full frame version; the cropped "widescreen" version looks rather claustrophobic. A similar Ballard/Deschanel project is Black Beauty from 15-20 years earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grh Posted October 29, 2019 Share Posted October 29, 2019 "Hundred Foot Journey" is a master class in lighting and composition. It practically makes me cry. Every scene is beautifully constructed and lit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 The "Alien" films, excluding "Alien 3," but including the two "Prometheus" fils Also, film noir movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michaellinder Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 I saw the first season of Outlander. But you haven’t seen Hannibal yet. There’s even an homage to Kubrick in it which I recognized immediately when I first saw the scene. That's love for the craft. [ATTACH=full]1315953[/ATTACH] Phil, I've been so taken with "Hannibal" that - so far - I've seen it 3 times. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDMvW Posted October 30, 2019 Share Posted October 30, 2019 Kurosawa was a painter And he often did paintings where others might do storyboard cartoons. Some of my disks of his films have these as 'features' 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allancobb Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 What was the movie from a good while back in which Nick Nolte played a news photographer in a war zone..... Rick H. That was “Under Fire,” from 1983, taking place in Nicaragua. Another interesting movie involving photographers in a conflict zone was “The Bang Bang Club,” from 2010, depicting the actions of four photojournalists during the South African Apartheid Period in the early 90s, one of whom was Kevin Carter, who won a Pulitzer covering the 1993 Sudanese famine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray House Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Citizen Kane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andylynn Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Does anybody remember a movie called The Public Eye? Joe Pesci plays a photojournalist I’m pretty sure is supposed to be loosely based on Weegee who photographs crime scenes in New York, where the are so many crime scenes you can pretty much walk around with a camera at night and see half a dozen bodies. IIRC it starts out funny, gets progressively less realistic and the end is ridiculous. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_gallimore1 Posted November 1, 2019 Author Share Posted November 1, 2019 Thanks, all, I'm going to write this up into a list and keep a look out for those I don't already have. There's enough suggestions to last me years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Herbert Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 I must be a romantic.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orsetto Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 TI still have to complete the new season of Twin Peaks strangely, but that's because I only care to watch it when I have a stash of weed in place and want to get high and which isn't all that often in the sense that getting high for me is more like a rite, not a ride. But I do get high of course whenever I watch Twin Peaks. The recent reboot of Twin Peaks is so off the rails, I'm not sure if the experience would be enhanced or diminished by weed. ;) It never even occurred to me to roll up while I was engrossed in it: it looks like a stoner trip, but I really don't think I could have followed it at all after a few tokes. Then again, I'm only an occasional user, and the last 'occasion' was before this new Peaks aired in 2017... steve_gallimore, if you aren't familiar with Twin Peaks, it would be worth tracking down the 8th episode of the latest reboot third season for your list. It's a surrealist mini-masterpiece with incredible imagery, and can totally work as a standalone visual experience (almost no dialog and no critical backstory connections with the series that would impact the uninitiated). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orsetto Posted November 2, 2019 Share Posted November 2, 2019 (edited) Last Year At Marienbad (1961), full of meticulously composed scenes (if a little too inert for cinema): Edited November 2, 2019 by orsetto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tholte Posted November 3, 2019 Share Posted November 3, 2019 I just saw "Jay Myself" a documentary about Jay Maisel and his move from a bank building he has owned and lived in since the 80's. Interesting on many different levels. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochetrider Posted November 8, 2019 Share Posted November 8, 2019 We just saw The Lighthouse, a weird film shot on 35mm black and white FILM and shown in the very obscure aspect ration of 1.19:1 Willem Dafoe really kills it, he is amazing. The Lighthouse (2019) - Technical Specifications - IMDb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Crowe Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Koyaanisqatsi, Powagqatsi, and Nagoyqatsi. I have seen the first two on their original releases. Since the advent of digital photography/video I often think about trying to emulate the time lapse/sped up techniques that were showcased in these films. Techniques that may very well have been pioneered in these films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vincent Peri Posted November 9, 2019 Share Posted November 9, 2019 Koyaanisqatsi, I really liked that movie. You can see the full movie here for free: https://vimeo.com/21922694 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glen_h Posted November 18, 2019 Share Posted November 18, 2019 As for movies with photography as a subject, "Kodachrome" came out last year. -- glen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgs Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, based on a story by Julio Cortazar. An admission: this is probably the film that got me interested in photography when I was an kid in London. It's a fantasized view of photography and photographers but I didn't see things that way back in the late 60s. So I went out and bought my first serious camera and tried hard (but unsuccessfully) to look like David Hemmings ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgs Posted December 22, 2019 Share Posted December 22, 2019 Blowup, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, starring David Hemmings, based on a story by Julio Cortazar. And some of the filming locations were a stone's throw from where I used to live in South-East London (the park scene). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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