Anyone inspired to photograph after watching a movie

Thanks for the info about Christopher Doyle, will definitely try to see more of the movies he has shot.
 
I was very much inspired by the movie "Smoke". Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) takes everyday at the same place, at the same time a single pic.

I think this sounds like a great project. Maybe someday I will do something like this...

Very cool movie!!!

Greetings, Satch
 
A little over a month ago, I tracked down a copy of the old film noir movie The Big Combo-A movie I always wanted to see, after reading Painting with Light. That movie has inspired me to start tracking down flashbulbs and hot lights to play with:D

Richie
 
"I know where I'm Going" - B&W Scottish Highlands majesty from Erwin Hillier
"Black Narcissus" - Full-on technicolor majesty from Jack Cardiff, also includes some of the downright best eye makeup ever used on camera, Kathleen Byron looks like a heroin-chic model at the end. In fact, anything from Cardiff is complete genius...
 
No one mentioned The Public Eye based on Weegee! I also love Spy Games with Brad Pitt running around with all the Leica's around his neck! :p Funny Face is one of my favorite movies so that's got to be listed.

As for a film where camera's aren't used much but I love how it is shot it would be Lola rennt (Run Lola Run).
 
Maybe I'm something of a simpleton, but I felt inspired to buy some colour film watching 'Little miss Sunshine'

I haven't watched 90% of the movies mentioned in this thread, and probably won't :-/ But this one (if you haven't seen it) is very accessible.

I thought Rain Man was nicely shot too.

Not much of a cinema goer!
 
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"In the mood for love" and "2046", both by Wong Kar Wai, are visually inspiring: photography full of bokeh, great 1960's era clothes, lots of smoking, rainy streets.
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x2. All Wong Kar-Wai films are required viewing. Days of Being Wild is a favorite.
 
neelin said:
"The Naked City" TV series. Routinely outstanding b/w photography around NYC 1960.

robert
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Agreed, Naked City, great filming and good, simple storytelling.

Orson Welles everytime, The Stranger and Third Man are my favorites for noir.
 
My last viewing of The Shining renewed my enthusiasm for super wides. There's a scene in "the Making of the Shining" where Kubrick is going into the maze with his crew telling them all to stuff various lenses in their pockets "you put the 15 in your pocket, and you put the 24 in your pocket..."

And all great Film Noir films are inspirational: Double Indemnity, Angel Face, Scarlet Street, The Third Man, Night and the City, The Big Sleep, et al

Brokeback Mountain and No Country For Old Men were pretty amazing for cinematography too.

I could go on forever..
 
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"Raise the Red Lanterns" by Zhang Yimou, snow fluffs with the red lanterns.
"Solaris" and "Stalker" by Andrei Tarkovsky, grass and small objects in the flowing water.
"Enigma of Kaspar Hauser" by Werner Herzog. Wind sweeping through the meadowland with tall grasses.
"Akira Kurosawa's Dreams" by Akira Kurosama, water flowing under the bridge.
"Summer with Monica" by Ingmar Bergman, boat slowly drifting in the small canal with Monica lying on it.
I think these themes evoked my childhood memory, and I was emotionally driven to reproduce them.

-- Yefei
 
I second Solaris--plus Andrei Rublyov. Solaris is so slow it practically is still photography.
 
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Recently, I found 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' to be very inspiring. The cinematography by Roger Deakins was sumptuous.

Another fairly recent film, The Painted Veil was excellent as well.

I just rewatched La Haine by Matthieu Kassovitz, such great black and white photography.
 
chut said:
Recently, I found 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' to be very inspiring. The cinematography by Roger Deakins was sumptuous.

Another fairly recent film, The Painted Veil was excellent as well.

I just rewatched La Haine by Matthieu Kassovitz, such great black and white photography.
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Agreed with you for La Haine, I saw it so many times, I would add great black and white street photography.
 
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