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Post by Popeye Doyle on Feb 1, 2019 16:41:23 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Feb 1, 2019 16:42:24 GMT
Won the Oscar.
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Post by mslo79 on Feb 1, 2019 18:57:02 GMT
The gold standard of cinematography if you ask me! because while there are quite a few movies out there that have above average cinematography, the field is much more limited when you look at high quality movies paired with great cinematography straight up. because not only goes it look great but some of it's best moments visually also happen to be great moments to like the Tommy Gun scene in the rain at night and the end scene where Jude Law shoots Tom Hanks in the back and proceeds to take his picture. basically the two pictures the OP posted (the bottom two). it's a crime that movie is not in the IMDb Top 250 as it wipes the floor with a high percentage of the movies that are in the Top 250. in fact, it's within my Top 8 movies straight up simply because there are only eight movies I gave a 10/10 and this is one of them. or look at it this way... Road to Perdition (2002) is in the running for my #1 movie because while I can't outright name my #1 movie, I can say it's in the running for my #1 spot.
p.s. Road to Perdition (2002) is easily Sam Mendes #1 movie as the overrated American Beauty (1999) can't hold a candle to it. Sam Mendes top movies in my mind are... 1)Road to Perdition (2002) (10/10) 2)Skyfall (2012) (9/10) 3)Spectre (2015) (7.5-8/10).
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Post by vegalyra on Feb 1, 2019 21:41:05 GMT
I need to see this again. I saw it when it first came to disc, but I was pretty dead tired and I don't even remember if I finished it.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Feb 1, 2019 22:20:10 GMT
Handsome, that's the word I first & always use for RTP. Is it a bit on the safe side? Sure, but so what.
All of Jude Law & his sequences prop the film up, not least the cinematic tone with his stuff.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 22:54:57 GMT
absolutely incredible looking cinematography in that film. god damn! oh and the film is great too
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Post by petrolino on Feb 3, 2019 14:48:29 GMT
I'm glad Paul Newman was there to see Conrad Hall win his third Oscar (posthumously) for 'Road To Perdition' which is my favourite Sam Mendes film. Their journey in film together began in the mid-1960s. Paul Newman became a capable film director during this period and said he picked up some useful things observing Hall at work. And as a fan of 'The Hudsucker Proxy' (1994), I also like seeing Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh in another movie together.
"Paul was 76 when I worked with him on Road to Perdition. Conrad Hall, another great man who is now sadly gone, was the cinematographer. He was about Paul's age, and he'd also shot Harper, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, so they had been shooting together from their mid-thirties to their mid-seventies. They had grown old together. At one point he was shooting a close-up of Paul looking into a fire and I turned around to find that Conrad was crying as he lit the shot. I asked him what was wrong and he just said, 'He was so beautiful'. And I said, 'Well, he's beautiful now,' and Conrad repeated, 'Yes, but he was so beautiful.' I think he was crying for both of them. But unlike Conrad, who fought the idea of death, I always got the feeling that Paul was at peace with it. He knew what an incredible life he had led and how fortunate he had been. 'Yeah, I've had a great innings; it's about time I give all this up. It's all a bit silly.'
A final image. He used to walk on his hands. I walked into the room twice when he was doing it. He was entertaining the kids on set, the two boys in the movie with whom he had an eccentric, fatherly relationship. He was immediately drawn to them, and they to him. He wanted to make them laugh.
Paul Newman was a hero to me, and I dare say many millions of others. To be such a humble man, to be so eager to be as good as - or better than - he had ever been before. To have given so much to charity. To have raced those cars, been that cool. To have been such a good director. To have had that marriage. To have been Harper. And Hud. And Fast Eddie. And Butch Cassidy. And Cool Hand Luke. And through it all, to have retained his dignity. What a life."
- Sam Mendes, The Guardian
Tim Robbins, Paul Newman & Jennifer Jason Leigh in 'The Hudsucker Proxy'
Jennifer Jason Leigh in 'Road To Perdition'
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