Movies with great cinematography

[lawrence]

For something a bit more lightweight I watched 'The Odd Couple', directed by Gene Saks, a few nights back and thought the cinematography was fluent and unobtrusive, just as it should be.

 

[Canyongazer]

"Jazz on a Summer's Day", by the great Bert Stern.
A documentary film of the 1958 Newport Jazz festival.
As Judith Crist rightly remarked, every shot could be a wonderful still photograph.

Of course, that was Stern's "regular" job.
One of the three most skilled and imaginative illustration/fashion photographers of the 50s, 60s and 70s. (Along with Avedon and Irving Penn----what a trio they were!)

 

[megido]

Anything shot by Raoul Coutard

 

[Daniel Teoli Jr.]

Well, tons of movies have great shots in them. Recently have been watching lots of Ozu films.

You can freeze frame almost any film and extract great still photos or at least nicely composed stills from it.

http://photohostsnapshots.tumblr.com/image/115758155828

Here is a freeze frame sampling from a 1975 student film I made for my final exam in film class. Sadly, the school would not allow me to show it.

Babs does a reprise of a little trick with a cigarette 'she' performed in the 1950's when she worked the hoochie shows.


(nsfw)

https://danielteolijr.wordpress.com...prise-of-the-hoochie-show-she-use-to-perform/

I guess this will add fuel to the poor street photographers that can't shoot anything good, so they want to shoot video and take their stills from the video.