spiderwort
Junior Member
@spiderwort
Posts: 2,523
Likes: 9,325
|
Post by spiderwort on Aug 28, 2017 12:44:29 GMT
Joan being driven to recant in La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928) - one of the most dazzling editorial constructs in the history of cinema.
The first twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan (1998) - a masterpiece of neo-realistic editing.
The Odessa Steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potempkin (1925) - perhaps the most brilliant evocation of montage editing in existence.
Abel Gance's multiple tryptichs throughout his masterpiece, Napoleon (1927), in which three visual stories are told in three images simultaneously displayed in a split screen technique. The final tryptich is particularly dazzling.
The stunning final sequence of Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which I won't describe because of spoilers.
The mirror sequence in Orson Welles' The Lady From Shanghai (1947). Its genius is almost beyond comprehension.
The very long opening sequence of Baz Lurhman's Moulin Rouge (2001), a brilliant marriage of montage, music, and performance.
to name a few. . .
|
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 28, 2017 12:52:26 GMT
Hi spiderwort. Here's 3 favourites from westerns that totally blow my mind ...
The opening stand-off and subsequent gunfight in 'Once Upon A Time In The West' (1968) which relies heavily on rhythm - Nino Baragli.
The climactic battle in 'The Wild Bunch' (1969) which combines dynamic cross-cutting and furious bloodletting - Lou Lombardo.
The botched bank job in 'The Long Riders' (1980) which combines audacious sound editing with avant-garde editing techniques to create a maelstrom of fear - Freeman Davies & David Holden.
{Last Edit: a few seconds ago by petrolino lol}
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 28, 2017 13:01:54 GMT
The baptism montage near the end to The Godfather.
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 28, 2017 13:14:02 GMT
The assault on Aqaba in Lawerence of Arabia. The presence of the Turkish artillery is discussed by Lawrence et al prior to the attack and addressed at the end of the clip. I like the pinup in the tent at 1:14!
|
|
|
|
Post by petrolino on Aug 28, 2017 16:02:23 GMT
The botched bank job in 'The Long Riders' (1980) which combines audacious sound editing with avant-garde editing techniques to create a maelstrom of fear - Freeman Davies & David Holden. Hi, petrolino. Certainly agree with you about the first two, but I haven't seen the last one. I trust your judgement, however. Don't watch westerns much anymore, but if I ever get a chance I may give that one a look.The crisp editing in Walter Hill's action pictures is a major asset. There's also a number of recurring visual ideas in his movies. For example, he loves to shoot people flying through (or falling through) glass. He's a meticulous craftsman of the highest order. |
|
|
|
Post by koskiewicz on Aug 28, 2017 17:23:35 GMT
...the first that comes to mind is the street gun battle in "Heat"
I also agree about the sequence in The Long Riders...great film...
...and I will bump my gums one more time about The Man From Snowy River...there is a sequence entitled "Jim's ride" that is absolutely breathtaking...!!!
|
|
|
|
Post by politicidal on Aug 28, 2017 18:39:17 GMT
The opening to TOUCH OF EVIL. It's so good they paid homage to it in Spectre (2015).
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 28, 2017 18:42:57 GMT
The opening to TOUCH OF EVIL. It's so good they paid homage to it in Spectre (2015). Also in The Player. |
|
|
|
Post by movielover on Aug 28, 2017 18:43:52 GMT
I so love the editing in Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch, particularly the action scenes.
|
|
|
|
Post by BATouttaheck on Aug 29, 2017 3:35:35 GMT
Would The Marseilles Scene in Casablanca qualify ?
|
|
spiderwort
Junior Member
@spiderwort
Posts: 2,523
Likes: 9,325
|
Post by spiderwort on Aug 29, 2017 12:09:04 GMT
The opening to TOUCH OF EVIL. It's so good they paid homage to it in Spectre (2015). That is a great sequence indeed, one of the greatest, in fact. But I consider it a long take with only one cut. So I wouldn't include it in the category of "edited" sequences. I haven't seen SPECTRE, but would love to see the correlation between the two. Altman's homage in THE PLAYER was a good one (longer than Welles), interesting and effective, but for me TOUCH OF EVIL still sets the standard. |
|
spiderwort
Junior Member
@spiderwort
Posts: 2,523
Likes: 9,325
|
Post by spiderwort on Aug 29, 2017 12:16:21 GMT
Would The Marseilles Scene in Casablanca qualify ? Yes, I think it would qualify. Such an important sequence, too, in advancing the plot and fighting the fight through competing songs, which the editing perfectly defines. |
|
spiderwort
Junior Member
@spiderwort
Posts: 2,523
Likes: 9,325
|
Post by spiderwort on Aug 29, 2017 13:20:57 GMT
I so love the editing in Bonnie and Clyde and The Wild Bunch, particularly the action scenes. Movielover, I don't remember The Wild Bunch that well, having seen it only once when it was first released. But I've seen Bonnie and Clyde numerous times, and I'm a huge, huge fan of Dede Allen's revolutionary editing in that. It's simply stunning. (Btw, as I've said elsewhere, she was the first American film editor in history to get a single screen credit for editing). Thinking about B & C reminds me of another that needs mentioning: Aram Avakian's brilliant editing in the dream sequences in The Miracle Worker - jump cuts; slow motion; fades in and out; lap dissolves that essentially become superimpositions. Incredibly beautiful! Of course, a lot of this is a credit to Arthur Penn's direction ( hmm - he also directed Bonnie and Clyde). Many of those sequences are perfect homages to films when films weren't really even films yet (the 1890s, etc.). And yet in that, they seem revolutionary. There's no way to minimize the critically powerful tool editing is in the art of filmmaking. |
|
|
|
Post by manfromplanetx on Aug 29, 2017 23:33:53 GMT
Not a sequence but this may be of interest ... A highly acclaimed fascinating short film on the editing process just released down here in OZ is Woman With An Editing Bench (2016) from Writer/Director Karen Pearlman, released from Ronin Films... Inspired by a true story, Woman with an Editing Bench pays homage to the creativity of Elizaveta Svilova , the unsung editor and wife of director Dziga Vertov, she was the woman at the editing bench behind the scenes in creating his 1929 documentary masterpiece, Man With A Movie Camera. This brilliant little film uses Svilova's revolutionary editing techniques to reveal her thoughts and recuperate and highlight her outstanding legacy in the history of cinema. A film about sustaining creativity and fighting repression in 1930s Russia, it is a beautiful realised homage to the little known woman behind the Man with a camera, and an insightful celebration of the art of film editing.. 
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 30, 2017 0:24:08 GMT
OT, but Frances McDormand plays a film editor in Hail, Caesar!  |
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 30, 2017 0:49:38 GMT
OT, but Frances McDormand plays a film editor in Hail, Caesar! I did not know that (haven't seen the film). Most editors don't smoke in the editing room now, but maybe it's a period piece? Anyway, it would be interesting to see it, given that I started as an editor and miss the look and feel of film. And 16mm and a moviela, no less. Editing rooms are all digital now. Not the same thing at all. Hail, Caesar! is set in 1951 Hollywood. Josh Brolin plays studio fixer Eddie Mannix who has to deal with a pregnant unmarried starlet, rumors of gays, gossip columnists, communist writers, and a kidnapped star. Not well liked but I give it a 7.5/10. |
|
|
|
Post by mikef6 on Aug 30, 2017 1:50:16 GMT
This scene from The Birds begins with the usual cross-cutting to build suspense…the genius occurs when the cross-cutting stops!
|
|
|
|
Post by bravomailer on Aug 30, 2017 12:59:03 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by Richard Kimble on Sept 2, 2017 6:31:20 GMT
|
|
|
|
Post by neurosturgeon on Sept 4, 2017 4:14:50 GMT
From a film that was not received very well, I would like to recommend this; The Cotton ClubWarning: violence and language may offend. |
|
