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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 10, 2020 2:38:59 GMT
Whether it be in the writing, direction, storytelling, etc...
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Post by sdrew13163 on Jan 10, 2020 4:26:20 GMT
The Dark Knight Rises (mixture of action and emotion)
Lawrence of Arabia (total technical ambition on a massive scale)
Star Wars (pushes visual effects possibilities)
Memento (pushes narrative possibilities)
Brawl in Cell Block 99 (story structure)
Dunkirk (visual storytelling)
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Post by ck100 on Jan 10, 2020 4:30:00 GMT
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 10, 2020 4:31:34 GMT
Citizen Kane
Pulp Fiction
Star Wars
Raiders of the Lost Ark
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Post by movielover on Jan 10, 2020 4:32:48 GMT
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Godfather I & II
The Wild Bunch
Jaws
Taxi Driver
Memento
Body Double
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Post by leroybrown2 on Jan 10, 2020 4:36:14 GMT
Citizen Kane All you have to do is to watch it several times you will learn about pacing how to make the film seem faster, focus on a certain POV. When to get out of the way of actors. All sorts of visual trickery that makes says a lot about the main character's current status. Basically everything you've ever wanted to know about filmmaking
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Post by maxwellperfect on Jan 10, 2020 5:46:32 GMT
The "appendices" to the Extended Editions of the three Lord of the Rings movies, which exhaustively documented the creation of the movies from the earliest conceptual sketches through final pick up shots.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Jan 10, 2020 6:07:44 GMT
The "appendices" to the Extended Editions of the three Lord of the Rings movies, which exhaustively documented the creation of the movies from the earliest conceptual sketches through final pick up shots. On the extended editions of the Hobbit trilogy, each movie has about 10 hours of documentaries. Far more interesting than the movies. |
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Post by twothousandonemark on Jan 10, 2020 22:50:44 GMT
Citizen Kane All you have to do is to watch it several times you will learn about pacing how to make the film seem faster, focus on a certain POV. When to get out of the way of actors. All sorts of visual trickery that makes says a lot about the main character's current status. Basically everything you've ever wanted to know about filmmaking Roger Ebert's dvd commentary is virtually essential eye opening. It's actually helped shed light on the medium as a whole for me. Doesn't hurt that he's enjoying it & it's entertaining.
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Post by sostie on Jan 10, 2020 23:33:39 GMT
Halloween (1978) - great examples of use of light, framing, pacing and music all on show
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Post by Dirty Santa PaulsLaugh on Jan 11, 2020 0:06:04 GMT
Not about filmmaking, but about how to view it:
A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema
Kenneth Brownlow’s series Hollywood
Buster Keaton’s The General (silent film comedy)
Howard Hawk’s Bringing Up Baby (comedy)
John Ford’s Stagecoach (Westerns)
RKO’s Astaire and Rogers film (dance in musicals)
The original King Kong (action horror)
Ford’s They Were Expendable (war movies)
Powell/Pressburger’s Black Narcissus (grotesque romance)
Billy Wider’s Double Indemnity & Robert Siodmak’s The Killers (noir)
Robert Wise’s The Day the Earth Stood Still (sci-fi)
Irving Rapper’s Now, Voyager (romance)
William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (epic)
William Friedkin’s The Exorcist (horror)
Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (comic book)
And Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock Anything.
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Post by vegalyra on Jan 11, 2020 0:52:14 GMT
Extremely different films but:
Lawrence of Arabia
8 1/2
Boogie Nights
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Post by petrolino on Jan 11, 2020 1:10:56 GMT
I feel I've learnt something different from each and every master I've studied. Be it Max Ophuls to Orson Welles for long-takes, Jean-Luc Godard to Wes Craven for jump-cuts, Sergei Eisenstein to Brian De Palma for montage, Francois Truffaut to Tobe Hooper for low angles, Tod Browning to Wes Anderson for energetic tableaux, Elia Kazan to Sidney Lumet for arguably the most difficult art of varied shot selection, or Fritz Lang and Jean Renoir for all of it ... I believe the technicals are all there to revel in if you can embrace the positivity of the moving arts. Then, every great filmmaker brings something to the table.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Jan 11, 2020 4:11:35 GMT
Apocalypse Soon: The Making of 'Citizen Toxie' (2002)
It really dives into the best and worst of independent cinema.
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Post by jonesjxd on Jan 11, 2020 11:56:16 GMT
When I used to make movies, I'd always watch movies with audio commentary every night before filming days. The two biggest ones were John Carpenter, Brian DePalma and George A. Romero, but to most peoples surprise the fourth director I'd always watch and listen to was Joel Schumacher. If you're into filmmaking he was one of the best commentaries to listen to, because he'd talk a lot about the process of making movies.
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Jan 11, 2020 14:45:33 GMT
Most Robert Zemeckis movies.
That guy loves solving filmmaking problems while getting the audience to notice he's playing tricks on them, but not quite figuring out how he does it.
Dude is a genius at this because his stories are usually to interesting to ignore.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jan 11, 2020 15:34:06 GMT
Three come to mind:
The Killing by Kubrick
Memento
Russian Ark
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Post by johnspartan on Jan 11, 2020 17:07:52 GMT
Star Wars 1977 because it lead me to this documentary when I was very young.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 13, 2020 10:33:29 GMT
The first port of call would have been Ryan's Daughter, when I was about 8. I was watching this brilliantly shot film on a giant 70mm screen and immersed in the imagery and the characters. It was an adult themed film, but I just recall loving it. We walked in late and missed the first 5mins.
What really struck me next I feel was Star Wars. Same cinema as Ryan's and about a year older in 70mm. As soon as it opened and I saw the set and costuming of Darth Vader, Leia the Stormtroopers, the spacecraft and laser fight and then a focusing on 2 droids lost on a desert planet for 20mins, I knew I was watching something new and original for that time. Close Encounters and The Spy Who Loved Me, which I preferred to Star Wars from the same year, were also fascinating and awesome experiences for me. The visual effects in CE and the intrigue of Spy had me mesmerized and less questioning of the films techniques, just that I got caught up in them.
Amadeus for its use of music surrounding the film and the quality of production design and acting. It was around the mid 80's when I really started to take note of various films and the film making techniques, cinematography was a big thing with me, and I wasn't seeing films just for pure entertainment value. Make-up effects were what really fascinated me in the early 80's and onwards too. So many to mention and in the mid 80's, I started to get more interested in film festivals and foreign films.
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Post by Toasted Cheese on Jan 13, 2020 10:38:01 GMT
Raiders of the Lost ArkThe Godfather I & II The Wild Bunch Jaws Taxi Driver Memento Body Double Good memory jog for me. I think with Raiders, I started to get the wink\nod to the audience aspect behind the filming technique and writing. I was about 13. This connected with me when Indy was asked how he was going to achieve something, he replied something of the sort.... "I'm just making this up as I go".
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