Hello guys, my first post on this interesting website and I would say Amadeus on Mozart by Milos Forman, Mahler by Ken Russell, Lisztomania by the same Ken Russell, Gaudi by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Great Ball of Fire on Jerry Lee Lewis by Jim McBride, Camille Claudel on the amazing french sculptress by Bruno Nuytten, Bird on Charlie Parker by Clint Eastwood, Love is the Devil on Francis Bacon by I don’t remember his name, Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat, Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon (not directly on his life but a similar one) by Bertrand Tavernier, Immortal Beloved on Beethoven by Bernard Rose, these titles are just like that on the top of my head.
I would go for several titles already quoted like of course Seven Samurai, Sanjuro but also the Baby Cart (or Lone wold and cub) series, Lady Snowblood (both movies), the very dark Sword of Doom, Hara Kiri, the first 4 movies of the Zatoichi series by Kenji Misumi (not the Kitano movie which really disappointed me), the most sexual ones are by far the one from the crazy Hanzo the razor series (using a different type of Blade :-)
Also let’s not forget in a completely different genre the excellent anime serie Samurai Jack or the nice japanese anime Samurai 7 inspired as you can easily guess by the Kurosawa masterpiece.
Hi, excellent list indeed. For a few baddies more I would add:
-Angela Lansbury as Laurence Harvey’s mum in The Manchuruian Candidate, the worst and most terrifying mum in the world
-Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death of the Poe Cycle by Roger Corman
-Willem Dafoe in Wild at Heart by David Lynch
-The infamous Dr Mabuse created by Fritz Lang, especially in The Testament of Dr Mabuse
-Nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher in A Flew over the cukoo’s nest by Milos Forman
-Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Tobe Hooper
-Max Caddy by Robert de Niro in Martin Scorcese’s remake of Cape Fear
-Joe Pesci in Goodfellas or Casino both by Scorcese
-Mr Arkadin played by Orson Welles in Confidential Report directed by him too
-Sutter Cane played by Jurgen Prochnow in In the mouth of Madness by John Carpenter
-the little girl in Operazione Paura by Mario Bava
-the piano teacher played by Alida Valli in Suspiria by Dario Argento
-Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights by John Schlesinger
-the nazi played by Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man
-Aggire played by the mad Klaus Kinski in the movie by Werner Herzog
-the officer played by Tom Berenger in Platoon by Oliver Stone
-Nick Nolte in U-Turn by Oliver Stone also
-Henry played by Michael Rooker in Henry Portrait of a serial Killer by John McNaughton
-The Butcher played by Philippe Nahon in Stand Alone by Gaspar Noe
-The Baron Frankenstein played by the amazing Peter Cushing in Terence Fisher’s third Frankenstein movie for the Hammer, Frankenstein must be destroyed
-Cousin Frank and his stepsister Julia in Hellraiser by Clive Barker
-Robert Carlyle as Colqhoun in Ravenous by Antonia Bird
I’ll stop there otherwise I’ll spend the whole night on this, I love villains and bad guys or women
The one that impressed me the most, put you completely in the mood of the film but mainly is really creepy and disturbing, once again done by the unsurpassed master of the genre, Saul Bass, is the credit sequence of a sadly forgotten masterpiece by John Frankenheimer, SECONDS. With just a metallic mirror in which a camera shoot the deformed reflection of a face, thanks also to the amazing DP work of James Wong Howe as well as the creepy music of Jerry Goldsmith (one of his forgotten and nevertheless best scores) as well as an incredible science of editing, Saul Bass grabs you completely.
Check an image there : http://www.the1-2-3-4.com/post-images/2007-03-images/seconds1.png
For me it would be in Romeo is bleeding by Peter Medak as the romantic rotten cop or in State of Grace by Phil Joanou as the crazy and dangerous but sympathetic Irish mobster and even though he does not play in it let’s not forget his hard and intense movie as a director Nil by mouth about his hard youth in UK with the also amazing Ray Winstone;
For me it would be in Romeo is bleeding by Peter Medak as the romantic rotten cop or in State of Grace by Phil Joanou as the crazy and dangerous but sympathetic Irish mobster and even though he does not play in it let’s not forget his hard and intense movie as a director Nil by mouth about his hard youth in UK with the also amazing Ray Winstone;
The absolutely horrendous 80’s crap music of the otherwise masterpiece TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. It almost made me go out of the screening room, and Wang Chun should be severely punished for this :-)
Sorry if I get carried away bv the exercice but it was fascinating to remember all the movies that struck me the most cinematographically wise (oohh don(t if that one is English).
I am quite interested to discuss any of my choices with you guys and if you also have suggestions :
- Sven Nikvist for Persona (Bergman)
- James Wong Howe for Seconds (Frankenheimer)
- Jordan Cronenweth for Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- Pasqualino de Santis for Death in Venice (Visconti)
- Luciano Tovoli for Suspriria (Argento)
- Vittorio Storara for Il Conformista (Bertolucci) et Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
- Peter Suchitzky for Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)
- Ubaldo Terzano for Blood and black lace and The whip and the bodty (Mario Bava)
- Dean Cundey for The Thing (Carpenter)
- Benoit Debie for Innocence (Hadzihalilovic) and Irreversible (Noe)
- Colin Watkinson for The Fall (Singh)
- Tom Elling for The Element of Crime (Von Trier)
- Alex Thomson for Excalibur (Boorman)
- Ernest Laszlo for Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
- Ron Garcia for Twin Peaks : Fire walk with me (Lynch)
- Yoshio Miyajima for Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
- Christopher Doyle for In the mood for love (Kar Wai)
- Philippe Rousselot for Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
- Derek Vanlint for Alien (Scott)
- Darius Khondji for Seven (Fincher) and City of the lost children (Caro et Jeunet)
- Jeffrey L Kimball for Jacob’s Ladder (Lyne)
- Kozo Hokazaki for Goyokin (Gosha)
- Gordon Willis for The Godfather Trilogy (Coppola)
- Giuseppe Rotuno for Fellini’s Casanova (Fellini)
- Vilmos Szigmond for The Deer Hunter
- Edmond Richard for The Trial (Welles)
- Hiroshi Segawa for Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
- Jack Cardiff for The Barefoot Comtessa (Mankiewicz) and Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
- Tomas Mausch for Aguirre (Herzog)
- Nicholas Roeg for Masque of the Red Death (Corman)
- Stanislas Milota for The Cremator (Herz)
- Stuart Dryburgh for The Piano (Campion)
- John Alcott for Shining (Kubrick)
- Max Greene for Night and the City (Dassin)
- John F Seitz for Sunset Boulvard (Wilder)
- Robert Richardson for Snow falling on Cedars (Hicks)
- Freddie Francis for Elephant Man (Lynch)
- Lubezki for Children of Men (Cuaron) and The New World (Malick)
- Ellen Kuras for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
- Roger Deakins for Barton Fink and No Country for Old Men (Coen)
- Nestor Almendros for Days of Heaven (Malick)
- Ron Fricke for Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi (Fricke)
- Miroslav Ondricek for Amadeus (Forman)
- John Alonzo for Chinatown (Polanski)
- Tonino Delli Colli for Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone)
- Robby Muller for Paris, Texas (Wenders)
- Dante Spinotti for The last of the Mohicans (Mann)
- Rodrigo Prietto for Amorres Perros (Innaritu)
- Freddie Yound for Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago (Lean)
- Matthieu Libatique for Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (Aronosfsky)
- Jeff Cronenweth for Fight Club (Fincher)
- Steven Soderbergh for Kafka, The underneath, Out of Sight, The Limey
- Janusz Kaminski for The Schlinder’s list (Spielberg)
- John Toll for The Thin Red Line (Malick)
- Edward Lachman for Far from Heaven (Haynes)
- Shinya Tsukamoto for Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto)
- Vadim Yusow for Andrei Rublev (Tarkovski)
- Hiyong -ku Kim for Memories of Murder (Joon-ho)
- Tokusho Kikumura for Cure (Kurosawa)
- Pierre L’homme for L’armée des Ombres (Melville)
- Witold Sobocinski for The glass-hour sanatorium (La Clepsydre) (Haas)
If you enjoyed then you should jump on the incredibly modern and fasinating masterpiece :
The testament of Dr Mabuse
This movie is still almost a serial following the previous Mabuse “adventures” but widen its horizons by making of the Dr one of the most striking figure of absolute evil, able to control and manipulate his ex associates even beyond death and plan for world domination by fear !!
Visually strking, totally hypnotic, powerfully meatphoric, prodigiously courageous and sarcastic (for The Nazis and directly aimed at Hitler), it is in my eyes Lang’s masterpiece that needs to be seen by all !
Great films about artists.. over 3 years ago
Hello guys, my first post on this interesting website and I would say Amadeus on Mozart by Milos Forman, Mahler by Ken Russell, Lisztomania by the same Ken Russell, Gaudi by Hiroshi Teshigahara, Great Ball of Fire on Jerry Lee Lewis by Jim McBride, Camille Claudel on the amazing french sculptress by Bruno Nuytten, Bird on Charlie Parker by Clint Eastwood, Love is the Devil on Francis Bacon by I don’t remember his name, Van Gogh by Maurice Pialat, Round Midnight with Dexter Gordon (not directly on his life but a similar one) by Bertrand Tavernier, Immortal Beloved on Beethoven by Bernard Rose, these titles are just like that on the top of my head.
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Greatest samurai film of all time? over 3 years ago
I would go for several titles already quoted like of course Seven Samurai, Sanjuro but also the Baby Cart (or Lone wold and cub) series, Lady Snowblood (both movies), the very dark Sword of Doom, Hara Kiri, the first 4 movies of the Zatoichi series by Kenji Misumi (not the Kitano movie which really disappointed me), the most sexual ones are by far the one from the crazy Hanzo the razor series (using a different type of Blade :-)
Also let’s not forget in a completely different genre the excellent anime serie Samurai Jack or the nice japanese anime Samurai 7 inspired as you can easily guess by the Kurosawa masterpiece.
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Most Memorable Villain over 3 years ago
Hi, excellent list indeed. For a few baddies more I would add:
-Angela Lansbury as Laurence Harvey’s mum in The Manchuruian Candidate, the worst and most terrifying mum in the world
-Vincent Price as Prince Prospero in The Masque of the Red Death of the Poe Cycle by Roger Corman
-Willem Dafoe in Wild at Heart by David Lynch
-The infamous Dr Mabuse created by Fritz Lang, especially in The Testament of Dr Mabuse
-Nurse Ratched played by Louise Fletcher in A Flew over the cukoo’s nest by Milos Forman
-Leatherface in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre by Tobe Hooper
-Max Caddy by Robert de Niro in Martin Scorcese’s remake of Cape Fear
-Joe Pesci in Goodfellas or Casino both by Scorcese
-Mr Arkadin played by Orson Welles in Confidential Report directed by him too
-Sutter Cane played by Jurgen Prochnow in In the mouth of Madness by John Carpenter
-the little girl in Operazione Paura by Mario Bava
-the piano teacher played by Alida Valli in Suspiria by Dario Argento
-Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights by John Schlesinger
-the nazi played by Laurence Olivier in Marathon Man
-Aggire played by the mad Klaus Kinski in the movie by Werner Herzog
-the officer played by Tom Berenger in Platoon by Oliver Stone
-Nick Nolte in U-Turn by Oliver Stone also
-Henry played by Michael Rooker in Henry Portrait of a serial Killer by John McNaughton
-The Butcher played by Philippe Nahon in Stand Alone by Gaspar Noe
-The Baron Frankenstein played by the amazing Peter Cushing in Terence Fisher’s third Frankenstein movie for the Hammer, Frankenstein must be destroyed
-Cousin Frank and his stepsister Julia in Hellraiser by Clive Barker
-Robert Carlyle as Colqhoun in Ravenous by Antonia Bird
I’ll stop there otherwise I’ll spend the whole night on this, I love villains and bad guys or women
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Your favorite title sequence over 3 years ago
The one that impressed me the most, put you completely in the mood of the film but mainly is really creepy and disturbing, once again done by the unsurpassed master of the genre, Saul Bass, is the credit sequence of a sadly forgotten masterpiece by John Frankenheimer, SECONDS. With just a metallic mirror in which a camera shoot the deformed reflection of a face, thanks also to the amazing DP work of James Wong Howe as well as the creepy music of Jerry Goldsmith (one of his forgotten and nevertheless best scores) as well as an incredible science of editing, Saul Bass grabs you completely.
Check an image there : http://www.the1-2-3-4.com/post-images/2007-03-images/seconds1.png
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Favorite Gary Oldman Role!! over 3 years ago
For me it would be in Romeo is bleeding by Peter Medak as the romantic rotten cop or in State of Grace by Phil Joanou as the crazy and dangerous but sympathetic Irish mobster and even though he does not play in it let’s not forget his hard and intense movie as a director Nil by mouth about his hard youth in UK with the also amazing Ray Winstone;
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Favorite Gary Oldman Role!! over 3 years ago
For me it would be in Romeo is bleeding by Peter Medak as the romantic rotten cop or in State of Grace by Phil Joanou as the crazy and dangerous but sympathetic Irish mobster and even though he does not play in it let’s not forget his hard and intense movie as a director Nil by mouth about his hard youth in UK with the also amazing Ray Winstone;
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What's the most annoying film music you've had to endure? over 3 years ago
The absolutely horrendous 80’s crap music of the otherwise masterpiece TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. It almost made me go out of the screening room, and Wang Chun should be severely punished for this :-)
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Best criterion transfers over 3 years ago
Videodrome and Naked Lunch
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One Cinematograper, One Film about 2 years ago
Hi all !Sorry if I get carried away bv the exercice but it was fascinating to remember all the movies that struck me the most cinematographically wise (oohh don(t if that one is English).
I am quite interested to discuss any of my choices with you guys and if you also have suggestions :
- Sven Nikvist for Persona (Bergman)
- James Wong Howe for Seconds (Frankenheimer)
- Jordan Cronenweth for Blade Runner (Ridley Scott)
- Pasqualino de Santis for Death in Venice (Visconti)
- Luciano Tovoli for Suspriria (Argento)
- Vittorio Storara for Il Conformista (Bertolucci) et Apocalypse Now (Coppola)
- Peter Suchitzky for Naked Lunch (Cronenberg)
- Ubaldo Terzano for Blood and black lace and The whip and the bodty (Mario Bava)
- Dean Cundey for The Thing (Carpenter)
- Benoit Debie for Innocence (Hadzihalilovic) and Irreversible (Noe)
- Colin Watkinson for The Fall (Singh)
- Tom Elling for The Element of Crime (Von Trier)
- Alex Thomson for Excalibur (Boorman)
- Ernest Laszlo for Kiss me Deadly (Aldrich)
- Ron Garcia for Twin Peaks : Fire walk with me (Lynch)
- Yoshio Miyajima for Kwaidan (Kobayashi)
- Christopher Doyle for In the mood for love (Kar Wai)
- Philippe Rousselot for Dangerous Liaisons (Frears)
- Derek Vanlint for Alien (Scott)
- Darius Khondji for Seven (Fincher) and City of the lost children (Caro et Jeunet)
- Jeffrey L Kimball for Jacob’s Ladder (Lyne)
- Kozo Hokazaki for Goyokin (Gosha)
- Gordon Willis for The Godfather Trilogy (Coppola)
- Giuseppe Rotuno for Fellini’s Casanova (Fellini)
- Vilmos Szigmond for The Deer Hunter
- Edmond Richard for The Trial (Welles)
- Hiroshi Segawa for Woman of the Dunes (Teshigahara)
- Jack Cardiff for The Barefoot Comtessa (Mankiewicz) and Black Narcissus (Powell and Pressburger)
- Tomas Mausch for Aguirre (Herzog)
- Nicholas Roeg for Masque of the Red Death (Corman)
- Stanislas Milota for The Cremator (Herz)
- Stuart Dryburgh for The Piano (Campion)
- John Alcott for Shining (Kubrick)
- Max Greene for Night and the City (Dassin)
- John F Seitz for Sunset Boulvard (Wilder)
- Robert Richardson for Snow falling on Cedars (Hicks)
- Freddie Francis for Elephant Man (Lynch)
- Lubezki for Children of Men (Cuaron) and The New World (Malick)
- Ellen Kuras for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Gondry)
- Roger Deakins for Barton Fink and No Country for Old Men (Coen)
- Nestor Almendros for Days of Heaven (Malick)
- Ron Fricke for Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi (Fricke)
- Miroslav Ondricek for Amadeus (Forman)
- John Alonzo for Chinatown (Polanski)
- Tonino Delli Colli for Once upon a time in the West (Sergio Leone)
- Robby Muller for Paris, Texas (Wenders)
- Dante Spinotti for The last of the Mohicans (Mann)
- Rodrigo Prietto for Amorres Perros (Innaritu)
- Freddie Yound for Lawrence of Arabia and Dr Zhivago (Lean)
- Matthieu Libatique for Requiem for a Dream and The Fountain (Aronosfsky)
- Jeff Cronenweth for Fight Club (Fincher)
- Steven Soderbergh for Kafka, The underneath, Out of Sight, The Limey
- Janusz Kaminski for The Schlinder’s list (Spielberg)
- John Toll for The Thin Red Line (Malick)
- Edward Lachman for Far from Heaven (Haynes)
- Shinya Tsukamoto for Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto)
- Vadim Yusow for Andrei Rublev (Tarkovski)
- Hiyong -ku Kim for Memories of Murder (Joon-ho)
- Tokusho Kikumura for Cure (Kurosawa)
- Pierre L’homme for L’armée des Ombres (Melville)
- Witold Sobocinski for The glass-hour sanatorium (La Clepsydre) (Haas)
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which Fritz Lang films should I watch about 2 years ago
If you enjoyed then you should jump on the incredibly modern and fasinating masterpiece :
The testament of Dr Mabuse
This movie is still almost a serial following the previous Mabuse “adventures” but widen its horizons by making of the Dr one of the most striking figure of absolute evil, able to control and manipulate his ex associates even beyond death and plan for world domination by fear !!
Visually strking, totally hypnotic, powerfully meatphoric, prodigiously courageous and sarcastic (for The Nazis and directly aimed at Hitler), it is in my eyes Lang’s masterpiece that needs to be seen by all !
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Death to realism about 2 years ago
Do not forget Allegra Geller said " The possibilities are so great and people are programmed to accept so little "
For me this summarize it perfectly well oh and also Death to Videodrome and Long live the new flesh !!
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movies that shake you to the core about 2 years ago
Another list on which I get carried away so here is a pretty exhasutive list of the movies I find disturbing and challenging as a viewer :
In my skin (Marina de Van)
Stand alone (Noe)
Irreversible
Salo
Requiem for a dream
Pi
The Tenant (Polanski)
Repulsion
Bad boy bubby (De Heer)
Henry portrait of a serial killer (McNaughton)
The Cremator (Herz)
The cook, the thief the wife and her lover (Greenaway)
Twin Peaks
Lost Highway
Eraserhead
Videodrome
Dead Ringers
The Fly
The Brood
Crash
Naked Lunch
The Texas chainswa massacre
The seventh continent
Benny’s Video
El Topo
The Holy Mountain
Nil by mouth
Peeping Tom
Scum
Straw Dogs
Bring me the head of Alfredo Garcia
The tin drum
Come and See
Santa Sangre
Songs from the 2d Floor
Hour of the wolf
Gozu
Audition
Possession (Zulawski)
Cries and whispers
The baby of macon
Breaking the waves
Antichrist
Eyes without a face (Franju)
Innocence (Hadzihalilovic)
Aguirre
Tokyo Fist (Tsukamoto)
Tetsuo
The servant (Losey)
Freaks
A clockwork orange
Jacob’s Ladder
Suspiria
Suicide Club
Strange Circus
The testament of Dr Mabuse
Seconds
The Manchurian Candidate
The Trial
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The MUBI Forum Users' Top 20 List: Longform List and Voting Series 7 months ago
2001 +2
Videodrome -1
The Manchurian Candidate -1
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