List some great detailed works of cinematography
Hi, Mundo.
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2001
Black Dahlia (too bad about the acting)
Mulholland Drive
Lawrence of Arabia
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A couple of mine...
Beowulf & Grendel
Lust, Caution
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The Thin Red Line
Also:
Brokeback Mountain
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Hell, anything by Ang Lee...
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Some great works of cinematography
Lucien Ballard, THE WILD BUNCH (especially the scene where the bridge gets blown up)
Winton C. Hoch, SHE WORD A YELLOW RIBBON
Burnett Guffey, BONNIE AND CLYDE
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A few...
Walkabout
The Shining
Citizen Kane
Raging Bull
Alien
Any goddamn thing by Alfred Hitchcock
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Wulfgar and TMundo mentioned
Wulfgar and TMundo mentioned some of the really good ones (namely: Raging Bull, Citizen Kane, Eyes Wide Shut, Hitchcock's Vertigo).
Also:
The Man Who Wasn't There
House of Flying Daggers
The Village
E.T.
American Beauty
Far From Heaven
Road to Perdition
The Last of the Mohicans
Atonement
The Shawshank Redemption
Manhattan
The Third Man
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Manhattan? Really?
I guess I don't remember the cinematography from that film. It didn't strike me as anything memorable when I last saw it, but admittedly it's been a while...
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Manhattan
Yes, really. Or maybe it's just that NYC looks so great when shot in Glorious Black-and-White.
Oh, I'm also adding The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford to the list.
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Speaking of The Assassination of Jessie James...
I was about to rent this from the video store, but the clerk told me it was one of the shittiest movies he'd ever seen, and convinced me to rent 3:10 To Yuma, instead. Was The Assassination really that bad?
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I haven't seen it
But from what i heard is an excellent movie, just very slow, i guess your clerk is an RV fan.
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I'm totally kicking myself...
...for leaving off The Last of the Mohicans...
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Oh don't be so hard on yourself, Wulfie
Turns out they found another Mohican anyway.
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, and The Aviator
A couple of memorable recent movies which garnered Academy Awards. I mean, come on. You can't expect me to remember anything past the last few years, can you? I looked at the list of Academy winners for cinematography and those two movies were ones that visually had blown me away. Speaking of being blown, I'm glad Xur listed Brokeback Mountain because no man in Oklahoma can admit to having ever seen that movie or being within 1/2 mile of where it was shown. But I hear the cinematography was breathtaking. Or should I say "Fantastic!"
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Also Star Wars
With it's groundbreaking use of modeling, it captivated me from its opening shot where the rocket chasing R2D2 and C3PO's escape pod filled the screen. (Rajah, that's the Trash Can Robot and the Gay Robot to you) I suppose the same could be said for
2001 A Space Idiocy
and
Jason and the Argonauts.
All three films were kick-ass for their time but may seem a bit lame by today's standards.
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I think you meant: "FAB-U-LOUS!"
I'm just saying.
Best regards, Wally
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Damn you Wally
You beat me to the obvious joke.
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Oh Dang the Lot of Ya!
And dang the time limit on the Edit function. You're right: I should have said "fabulous!" I guess I'm far to macho a person to voice the sentiments of a gay man. Hey! How 'bout them Cowboys?
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Well, Midnight Cowboy while we're at it
...now there's some great cinematography there. Great flashback/memory sequences.
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My nominees:
Gone With The Wind
On The Waterfront
Bridge on the River Kwai
Lawrence of Arabia
Spartacus
Doctor Zhivago -- the scene where the flowers bloom in spring after the long Russian winter might be the loveliest shot in the history of film.
Barry Lyndon
Gandhi
Fargo
LA Confidential
The Assassination of Jesse James
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While we're at it, can you name any badly-photographed movies?
I saw a still for I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF that was so badly lit the female victim seemed to have a mustache!
I haven't seen the Anthony Hopkins movie MAGIC, but Pauline Kael's NEW YORKER review said that Victor J. Kemper's photography was so bad he made some fancy Manhattan restaurant look like a Burger King!
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