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Post by Froggy on Mar 16, 2017 19:40:06 GMT
I just finished Bela Tarr's last film, The Turin Horse (2011), and the constant wind got me thinking about other windy movies.
Windy throughout (or in large parts):
The Wind (1928)
The Hurricane (1937)
Key Largo (1948)
Twister (1996)
The Perfect Storm (2000)
Notable wind in selected scenes:
The Gold Rush (1925)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Blazing Saddles (1974)
Any others?
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Post by teleadm on Mar 16, 2017 20:07:34 GMT
The one I came to think of first was Steamboat Bill, Jr. Buster Keaton 1928, with it's climatic cyclone scene.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 16, 2017 20:14:52 GMT
Gun Fever. A Mark Stevens western from 1958. It has to be seen to be believed. The IMDB reviews are mostly terrible, but I enjoyed it thoroughly. It's very low budget, and I'm guessing the wind was made by fans. The electric bill must have been the most expensive item in the film!
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 16, 2017 20:24:06 GMT
Une histoire de vent, A Tale Of The Wind (1988) Directed by Joris Ivens
This film travels through fantasy and reality as Joris Ivens in his late eighties goes to China to capture the Wind. The film reflects the film maker's life journey - including his first film on the wind (Pour Le Mistral, 1966) to this his last film after six decades of international filmmaking
Une histoire de vent is a combination of documentary and fantasy, a free-associating mix of essay film, tone poem, ethnography and autobiography.
It is a film that defies classification.
Ivens sits in a chair in the middle of the Gobi desert, waiting for the wind. Because he is asthmatic and functioning with only half of one lung, the wind has an extra physical metaphorical value to him. He seeks out a martial arts master to learn the secrets of breathing. There are shots of the wind moving trees and water, shots of windmills. There are shots of rock formations carved by the wind over centuries which are juxtaposed with shots of magnificent sculptures carved by human hands.
Having previously seen most of Ivens films this is also a profoundly moving swansong which paints a touching and intimate portrait, while we wait for the wind to arrive...
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 16, 2017 21:24:38 GMT
 Onibaba (1964) Japan Directed by Kineto Shindo The cryptic folk tale quality of this masterpiece film is heightened by the haunting, propulsive score and most importantly by Shindo’s dramatic use of expressive landscapes which includes the setting within a claustrophobic sea of swamp grasses which are constantly swaying in the unrelenting wind creating an unnerving atmosphere... |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Mar 16, 2017 21:42:20 GMT
Samuel Fuller's Forty Guns (1957)
The wind storm scene is an important plot element in the development of the character relationship between Griff (Barry Sullivan) and Jessica (Barbara Stanwyck)
Jessica is thrown from her horse after it is spooked by the approaching windstorm and distant tornados, she becomes entangled and dragged for some distance before Griff chances upon her and comes to the rescue. Both have been wary of each other, but having to take shelter from the wind in an old shed for the night changes all that...
Stanwyck did her own stunt-work in that amazing scene after her stuntwoman refused because it was too dangerous!
one of my all time favourites...
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Post by Froggy on Mar 16, 2017 21:49:44 GMT
Mention of Onibaba makes me think of Kobayashi's Harakiri from a couple of years earlier, which had a great windy samurai duel amid long grass.
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Post by shield on Mar 16, 2017 22:08:50 GMT
Some windy sandstorms
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
The Mummy (1999)
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Post by wmcclain on Mar 16, 2017 23:33:27 GMT
I Know Where I'm Going
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Post by telegonus on Mar 17, 2017 6:46:32 GMT
Thanks for the mention. A beautiful film. I thought of that one, passed, not sure why. |
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Post by telegonus on Mar 17, 2017 6:47:43 GMT
Reap The Wild Wind and Giant come to mind.
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Post by politicidal on Mar 17, 2017 18:09:01 GMT
Into the Storm?
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 17, 2017 22:18:48 GMT
There is a famous scene involving wind in "The Quiet Man".
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Post by telegonus on Mar 18, 2017 6:07:58 GMT
The 1935 China Seas features one of the best storms at sea I've ever seen in a movie, and it's awfully windy out there on deck.
There's a good gust of wind and some rain in 1944's Lifeboat.
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Post by pippinmaniac on Mar 18, 2017 12:39:34 GMT
It was constantly windy on the Edoras set of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers". While filming outside, the wind blew so hard that it tore off a flag and they kept it in the film. Also, Peter Jackson said the wind was blowing so hard it blew his glasses off his face.
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Post by angel on Mar 18, 2017 15:22:59 GMT
The Happening
Twister
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Post by divtal on Mar 18, 2017 18:30:40 GMT
- I've never experienced a tornado, but I have to believe that the storm depiction in Places in the Heart, was close to real. I know it was terrifying.
- For short, funny clip of wind, I like Marcel Marceau's scene in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie, where he mimes fighting the wind coming through his window, to get to the telephone.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Mar 27, 2017 2:30:18 GMT
The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)WC Fields The prodigal son of a Yukon prospector comes home on a night that "ain't fit for man nor beast." Wind and snow to the max.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 22, 2017 21:56:21 GMT
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Post by london777 on Oct 23, 2017 2:55:02 GMT
Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
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