How about movies???

[bruenhilde]

I am an Akira Kurosawa fan, from Rashomon, to Kagemusha, Yojimbo, Sanjuro, etc. The bloodier, the better 😉. Takeshi Kitano's remake of the legendary Zatoichi was pretty good, too.

I like Kurosawa's movies very much too, but Rashomon bloody ?, bloody funny maybe, but how true... 😀
I hope to get his Dreams on DVD really soon ! This movie is just unobtainable in Europe.

Otherwise, IMHO, on of the best directors of all times is Alfred Hitchcock, his movies are timeless masterpieces, as are those made by Milos Forman (Amadeus, One Flew over the Cuckoo Nest,...)

For comedy just try to watch John Cleese in Clockwise 🙂

p.s.: Depression is good for taking great photos ! 🙁 😉

 

[siverta]

A bout de souffle (Godard, 1959) - Breathless in English - is my all time favourite. As I see it this movie follows one of the most simple plots in cinema: A nice girl, a man and a gun.
But what makes it special is the aestetichs: Jump cuts, grainy black&white and, some will say that this is a blooper, the camera (and camera-man) sometimes is visible in various reflections.

The US remake from 1983 by Jim McBride, starring Richard Geere is pure crap (as is true with mos US remakes).

Sivert

 

[24x30]

What about Jim Jarmusch films 'Death Man' and 'Ghost Dog'. I like films with color effects like the actual film 'sin city', the begin of 'Black Hawk Down' or 'Delicatessen' (don't know the english title of this one).

/rudi

 

[pmu]

For photogaphers I believe these movies should give a lot:

-Kieslowski's colour trilogy (Blue, White, Red) Just superb cinematography and excelent films.

-Baraka

-Koyaanisgatsi

http://www.spiritofbaraka.com/

Exceptional visual masterpieces, but also equally fantastic as a movie!

 

[nomade]

La vita e bella, one of the movies that really took my breath away...Very light at th beginning, Begnini handled all the dsiturbing events in a way that sometimes puts u in the little boy's frame or laugh off ur socks...With some shots that touches u and gives u a feeling of tenderness, but all the drama thatw as pout in this movie breaks out in the last 10 minutes...

Also i was rewatching Casablanca yesterday, the B&W magic 😉

 

[Roman]

What about Jim Jarmusch films 'Death Man' and 'Ghost Dog'. I like films with color effects like the actual film 'sin city', the begin of 'Black Hawk Down' or 'Delicatessen' (don't know the english title of this one).

/rudi

I like Jarmusch' stuff, but more his funny movies, like 'Down By Law' (which has Roberto Benigni in it, BTW), or 'Coffee and Cigarettes'.
'Dead Man' was great, too, with Neil Young's great music, and that funny scene when headhunter nr. 1 asks number 2: 'Are you German?', and the second one says 'No, Austrian' - then, cut, and you in the next scene you see nr. 1 barbecueing an arm (or was it a leg?) of nr. 2 over a campfire...

Roman