Taipei Story – Yang
A Time to Live and a Time to Die – Hou
Back to the future – R.Zemeckis
The Purple Rose of Cairo – W.Allen
Ran – A.Kurosawa
Almanac of Fall – B.Tarr
A Zed & Two Noughts – P.Greenaway
Brazil – T.Gilliam
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure- T.Burton
Kiss of the Spider Woman – H.Babenco
I remeber when I read Notes on cinematography for the first time in my school library…I turned to the back page and someone had wrote a quote in pencil…
It was something like
“be a painter not a writer. Cinema responds better to a painting than it does to the written word”
Im not very good with words…so i drew a comical penis next to it (in pen)…that was my contribution
UK … It changes all the time … apart from the top 4
1. Bill Douglas Trilogy (Bill Douglas)
2. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings)
3. This Happy Breed (David Lean)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terrence Davis)
5. Great Expectations (David Lean)
6. Comrades (Bill Douglas)
7. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
8. Listen To Britan (Humphrey Jennings)
9. O Dreamland (Linsay Anderson)
10. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
“Stroszek” for me isnt Herzogs best, yet “Children In The Wind” is within Shimizu Hiroshis top 3. I know it’s not a very strong method of choosing … but it’s what I’m doing grrr
It really depends … the opening to “What time is it there?” (and most of Tsais work) and the opening in “Kagemusha” used long static shots for completely different reasons … and produced very different effects. Long static shots usually (Tsai, early Hou, Hirokazu, Tarr, Bartas, Akerman etc.) is a great method when capturing a contemplative tone … when time and place is the primary area of interest.
Also Long static shots can work very well in comedy, Roy Anderson (especially in his TV commercials) uses this very well I think … and I think it helped in a lot of silent comedies too, despite this usually being overlooked.
When a film is not trying to embrace plot, melodrama or character development … but wishes to capture the essence of a moment or of a place, for me the film-makers that choose to use long static photography always captured this best.
I think on a personal level the techniques used in No Day Off were very very interesting (and can easily be overlooked). I was never much of a Trier fan (despite the fact I understand totally why he’s so admired) … I guess No Day Off is more my cup of tea
I see the Theorema references for sure … Vistor Q from the very first scene simply challanges the concept of the “Functional Family”.
“Many people don’t see the difference between a functional family and a normal family. If all of us could function from what society told us was normal, then there would be a hell of a lot more happy people. Families can’t always act the way society tells them is normal, sometimes the strangest families are the ones that function best”
huge fan of Elephant and it’s one of my favourite British films … but it doesnt match up to DOACP (the hip way to title diary of a country priest) in my eyes
MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMS IN COLOR almost 3 years ago
erm…
The River – Renoir
Anything Ozu (post Tokyo Twilight)
2046/In the Mood for Love
Yi Yi
aah too many i give up
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Dostoevskian films almost 3 years ago
Four Nights Of A Dreamer is possibly my favourite Bresson
and at the same time im a big fan of Viscontis version of white nights too
I think short stories make better film adaptions usually (opposed to novels that is)
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3 Favourite Movies From 5 Favourite Directors almost 3 years ago
erm erm…
YASUJIRO OZU
1. Banshun/Late Spring
2. Hen in the wind
3. The Record of a Tenement Gentleman
SHIMIZU HIROSHI
1. Children in the Wind
2. The Masseurs and a Woman
3. Mr. Thank You
MING LIANG TSAI
1. What Time Is It There?
2. Vive L’Amour
3. Goodbye, Dragon Inn
BILL DOUGLAS
1. My Childhood
2. Comrades
3. My Way Home
HUMPHREY JENNINGS
1. Fires Were Started
2. Listen To Britain
3. Family Portrait
that hurt me so much :’(
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What's the point of watching a film? almost 3 years ago
Because I like it!
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Tsai Ming-Liang vs Hou Hsiao-Hsien over 2 years ago
too hard … but if i dug down deep…id have to say tsai
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best British films of the last 25 years over 2 years ago
I agree with anyone that said Comrades
and It’s so good to hear so many people saying it
I think Distant voices, Still Lives is there too…along with Naked
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TOP 10 FILMS FROM YOUR "BIRTH YEAR" over 2 years ago
1985
Taipei Story – Yang
A Time to Live and a Time to Die – Hou
Back to the future – R.Zemeckis
The Purple Rose of Cairo – W.Allen
Ran – A.Kurosawa
Almanac of Fall – B.Tarr
A Zed & Two Noughts – P.Greenaway
Brazil – T.Gilliam
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure- T.Burton
Kiss of the Spider Woman – H.Babenco
Not in order… apart from Taipei Story
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TOP 10 FILMS FROM YOUR "BIRTH YEAR" over 2 years ago
man you people are old :P
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Anybody else hate the Dark Knight? over 2 years ago
I thought it was fun!
But I really can’t see what makes it anything more than a slightly “over-average” Hollywood film…
It doesn’t do anything special in any area of cinema…nor anything new…
It uses a lot of gimmicks…but hey thats Hollywood, if you haven’t gotton used to it by now you never will!
people are entitled to their taste…
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good scriptwriting tips over 2 years ago
I remeber when I read Notes on cinematography for the first time in my school library…I turned to the back page and someone had wrote a quote in pencil…
It was something like
“be a painter not a writer. Cinema responds better to a painting than it does to the written word”
Im not very good with words…so i drew a comical penis next to it (in pen)…that was my contribution
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The world would have been a better place if Robert Bresson... over 2 years ago
…referred to himself as “Bobby Bresson”
and I know what you’re all thinking…
“Finally…someone has had the balls to say it….”
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top 10 favourite films from your home country about 2 years ago
UK … It changes all the time … apart from the top 4
1. Bill Douglas Trilogy (Bill Douglas)
2. Fires Were Started (Humphrey Jennings)
3. This Happy Breed (David Lean)
4. Distant Voices, Still Lives (Terrence Davis)
5. Great Expectations (David Lean)
6. Comrades (Bill Douglas)
7. The Innocents (Jack Clayton)
8. Listen To Britan (Humphrey Jennings)
9. O Dreamland (Linsay Anderson)
10. A Taste of Honey (Tony Richardson)
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Cinema21: Tsai Ming-liang about 2 years ago
Nohea … that was very nicely put!
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MANNY PACQUIAO! about 2 years ago
Pac-Roids!!!! … only kidding I love manny
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what film changed you about 2 years ago
MARY POPPINS … LATE SPRING … What time is it there?
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 3: Werner Herzog (Stroszek) vs. Hiroshi Shimizu (Children in the Wind) almost 2 years ago
Stroszek 0 – Children in the Wind 1
“Stroszek” for me isnt Herzogs best, yet “Children In The Wind” is within Shimizu Hiroshis top 3. I know it’s not a very strong method of choosing … but it’s what I’m doing grrr
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 2: Abbas Kiarostami (Where Is the Friend’s Home?) vs. Šarūnas Bartas (The Corridor) almost 2 years ago
this one is too hard for me … ive copped out
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Long Static Shots! Hate or Love? almost 2 years ago
It really depends … the opening to “What time is it there?” (and most of Tsais work) and the opening in “Kagemusha” used long static shots for completely different reasons … and produced very different effects. Long static shots usually (Tsai, early Hou, Hirokazu, Tarr, Bartas, Akerman etc.) is a great method when capturing a contemplative tone … when time and place is the primary area of interest.
Also Long static shots can work very well in comedy, Roy Anderson (especially in his TV commercials) uses this very well I think … and I think it helped in a lot of silent comedies too, despite this usually being overlooked.
When a film is not trying to embrace plot, melodrama or character development … but wishes to capture the essence of a moment or of a place, for me the film-makers that choose to use long static photography always captured this best.
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 6: Lars von Trier (Antichrist) vs Eric Khoo (No Day Off) almost 2 years ago
dont know if im too late or what but mine is
Antichrist – 0 No Day Off – 1
I think on a personal level the techniques used in No Day Off were very very interesting (and can easily be overlooked). I was never much of a Trier fan (despite the fact I understand totally why he’s so admired) … I guess No Day Off is more my cup of tea
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Director’s Cup – Film Analysis: Visitor Q (2001) by Takashi Miike almost 2 years ago
so … Isnt everyones family like that?
I see the Theorema references for sure … Vistor Q from the very first scene simply challanges the concept of the “Functional Family”.
“Many people don’t see the difference between a functional family and a normal family. If all of us could function from what society told us was normal, then there would be a hell of a lot more happy people. Families can’t always act the way society tells them is normal, sometimes the strangest families are the ones that function best”
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Anyone Heard Of The Black Country? almost 2 years ago
… never heard of it
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 10: Sergio Leone (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly) vs Victor Sjöström (A Man There Was) almost 2 years ago
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Sergio Leone: 0 — A Man There Was, Victor Sjöström: 1
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 11: Orson Welles (Othello) vs Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) almost 2 years ago
Orson Welles (Othello) 0 vs Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs) 1
easy
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 13: Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest) vs Alan Clarke (Elephant) almost 2 years ago
Diary of a Country Priest (1) Elephant (0)
huge fan of Elephant and it’s one of my favourite British films … but it doesnt match up to DOACP (the hip way to title diary of a country priest) in my eyes
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 13: Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest) vs Alan Clarke (Elephant) almost 2 years ago
despite Jirin speaking about the wrong film … i totally agree with him / her
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The Gultiest of Guilty Pleasures. almost 2 years ago
Glory Holes … whenever im in a public toilet I just have to use them!
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 13: Robert Bresson (Diary of a Country Priest) vs Alan Clarke (Elephant) almost 2 years ago
A good Middleweight …Up against a good Heavyweight in my opinion
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 16: Terry Gilliam (Brazil) vs Seijun Suzuki (Kagero-za) almost 2 years ago
Brazil 0 – Kagero-Za 1
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 15: Claude Chabrol (Le Boucher) vs Béla Tarr (Damnation) almost 2 years ago
Le Boucher 0 – Damnation 1
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Directors’ Cup Voting, Round 1, Match 17: Takashi Miike (Visitor Q) vs Stan Brakhage (Black Ice) almost 2 years ago
Takashi Miike (Visitor Q) – 1 vs Stan Brakhage (Black Ice) – 0
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