+1 Blade Runner - my 2nd favorite film of all time. "I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic."
Actor who uttered that line (M. Emmett Walsh) was also in a great movie, that looks just beautiful. It's called "Straight Time". Dustin Hoffman in 1978 just killing it - a must see. Don't sleep on this one. Here's a clip:
Dont look now Anthony B. Richmond
Peeping Tom Otto Heller, B.S.C.
The Nanny Harry waxman
Hausu (house) Yoshitaka Sakamoto ..........very experimental film with some lovely cinematography.
Let the right one in Hoyte Van Hoytema
@lolo change the topic's title or everybody goes on putting off topic movies..
change the topic's title or everybody goes on putting off topic movies..
+1
saluti Ric
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Okay you've changed it already, kiul
OK I'll bite... though for me these are "mind-blowing little known cinematography jewels" for various reasons, not (or not only) for the cinematography but also for the scenario, the editing, a superb style idea or their intrinsic beauty, whatever...
@ lolo: dunno where on earth you are, but "Le cou de la girafe" is sometimes shown in one of those small independant theaters in Paris that show several "classic" indie movies every day, all day long...
@flablo Guy Maddin has an unique style, indeed. On vimeo you can find a making of where is documented his cinematography too ( super8, 16mm,vintage emulsion and vaseline!). His last film, "Keyhole", was shooted on a Canon 5d handheld (you can note a rough amount of rollng shutter ahaha).
A real eccentric and genial cinematographer is Mario Masini, who has worked with the Italian artist and director Bene in the sixties, making 5 low budget films shooted on 16mm and screened in international festival like Cannes.
Another director with interesting cinematography is no doubt Raoul Ruiz. Watch his "City of Pirates", full of surreal shots with a very low budget, and a peculiar use of wide angle.
A real masterpiece in terms of cinematography. though not experimental cinematography, is the rare film by the Italian couple of directors Ciprì & Maresco, titled "Totò who lived twice": you can recognize in it the wonderful style of the great black and white italian films of the 60s (expecially Pasolini) with a touch of Bunuel.
La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty
Luca Bigazzi , Cinematographer
Trailer
REVIEWS:
Everything in the film is masterful: the photography, flying/flowing camerawork and editing; the dialogue and the acting; the music selection and its seamless editing; the deliberately thin plot that nevertheless keeps propelling the film forward; the many characters, sub-characters and sundry types; how the sublime is constantly yet effortlessly juxtaposed to the ridiculous; the overall wit and lightness of touch; and finally Rome herself, the eternal city, so insufferably, infuriatingly, absurdly yet nonchalantly beautiful, from her most celebrated sights down to her most recondite places.
http://disinfo.com/2013/12/great-beauty-high-culture-without-highbrowness/
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/great-beauty/review/526135
Always been a big WKW fan. Guy doesn't get the praise like he should because their not blockbuster hits. But watching each frame is a composition in itself.
Have you seen Themroc ?
The original Conan The Barbarian. Seriously.
There are periods in the movie that have only music and no dialogue but the action on the screen tell you everything you need to know. It's a great study in how blocking and framing can make fairly bad acting look really good on film.
ajjaja Conan the barbarian jajaj i have never seen the complete movie, but i will now jajjaja
(i dont know how unkown is this one but i´m from Chile and not too much european films are seen here, so)
Paradise:Love ; i find interesting the use of wideangles and fisheyes, they do give a sort of unpleasent and yet calm atmosphere, the framing with the wideangles is whta i find most cinematographically interesting of this movie
@paddy jajja that is a no-go for me i live in southamerica jajaja, but thank you for your consideration
For all no-budget DSLR shooters I suggest Leos Carax's "Mauvais Sang": very interesting cinematography, only long lenses used (I daresay 35 mm on GH2), "hand-held shhoting style, lots of close ups, but framed in an original way. In the 80s 1,33 format was revalued, and a part from old TV-like shots, this format let to frame more freely..widescreen present more rigid composition rules..
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