Movies for Photographers

I have to add "The Handmaid's Tale" to this thread. It's not a movie, and it is one bleak TV show. But the imagery is remarkable. Lighting. Composition. Sets. Everything about this show is visually wonderful.

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Another vote for Barry Lyndon. It's a very slow moving, long movie though. Actually, most any Kubrick film is a winner.
 
Frantz. A beautiful and captivating film. Thanks for the recommendation Bayernfan. I’m sure I never would have found it on my own.
 
I don't know if it has been mentioned or not but "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford," is absolutely fantastic. Derek Cianfrance as a director is great too. He did "The Place Beyond the Pines" and "Blue Valentine," which are amazing. "Drive" with Ryan Gosling is great as well.
 
Somebody recently recommended Cameraman, featuring Buster Keaton. I found it highly enjoyable. More mood and storyline in a silent film than the junk they're pushing out of hollywood these days.
 
Two pages in and no mention of Jack Cardiff ? A Matter of Life and Death and the Red Shoes are visually amazing

Also, no mention of Roger Deakins and Wally Pfister ? Two of the best cinematographers working today.
 
nickla said:
I just produced a movie called “Camera Store”

It’s about a failing camera store in the early 90s. It’s on Netflix currently as well as iTunes and VOD.

Definitely some great cinematography imo ;)

I hope y’all check it out and dig it!

Trailer:
https://youtu.be/qQWGgE6w0jg
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I watched this a while back. This one hit me hard because I’ve worked in a shopping mall for the past 13 years and you guys did a good job of encapsulating that environment.
 
I'd check out the work of specific cinematographers if I were you and start watching their movies if I were you.

Could do worse than start with a living legend like Rogers Deakins...
 
Contarama said:
The Legend of Boggy Creek
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Wow...I remember 'Boggy Creek' as having particularly nice cinematography...Techniscope, I think it was. Beautiful natural light as I recall.
I nominate MacKenna's Gold (1969, Columbia). The last film shot by Joe McDonald, [mostly] in 65mm Super Panavision. There are also a second unit cinematographer plus 3 additional cinematographers credited, so at times it's hard to know who did which cool shots.
 
Three that quickly come to mind for me are:

The Milagro Beanfield War
A River Runs Through It
The Natural

Coincidentally Robert Redford has ties to all of these as he directed two of the above and starred in the other. Each featured a different cinematographer.
 
Any film by Yasujiro Ozu is worthy of a stills photographers time for some sublime lessons in composition, color and simple but effective lens use. In his color cinema especially look for his use of the color red.

These videos gives an overview of his almost stills photographic style. Incidentally he almost always used a 50mm lens in all of his shots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKxa9JBsY3I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04tBDrPy9Uw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujAldDnOYWQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQDOJaTdzHw

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Virgin Suicides - directed my Sofia Coppola... She was inspired by the photography of Bill Owens... Dark movie but well shot..
 
RoccCity said:
I watched this a while back. This one hit me hard because I’ve worked in a shopping mall for the past 13 years and you guys did a good job of encapsulating that environment.
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Just saw this! Thank you! We shot in a real mall that was dying. Half the mall was unoccupied and we built out the whole thing. It was awesome. We could shoot in 360 degrees. Very rare to get to do that.


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