Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 11 minutes ago, Quintus said: See, it's been years since I saw this and I remember it totally living up to the hype and it was monochromically striking, but the 4:3 spoils its picturesque still credentials for me. Bah! I should try and get over myself a bit. Yeah, funny enough, while Casablanca is one of my favourites, and I love that scene, I thought the same when I posted the pic...that it just looks weird and "uncinematic" in that ratio. And like you, I immediately decided that was a lame opinion. Even if I do have to admit it would look much better in 2:35. But I cheated a bit, I had a bunch of ideas of top shots, but I just ended up posting shots based more on their poignancy and meaning to me, and not so much on the cinematography. Just way, way too many of the latter to choose from for that. Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 4 minutes ago, Margo Channing said: Academy ratio. Fascinating. 4 minutes ago, Nick1066 said: Yeah, funny enough, while Casablanca is one of my favourites, and I love that scene, I thought the same when I posted the pic...that it just looks weird and "uncinematic" in that ratio. And like you, I immediately decided that was a lame opinion. Even if I do have to admit it would look much better in 2:35. I spent a stupid amount of time trying to find something from an old 60s B&W British film that I love, but the images online (and their ratio) were just too unsatisfactory for posting. Ricard and Unlucky Bastard 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Not '60s, but that image of the boat going over the waterfall in Kind Hearts and Coronets is oddly beautiful and really funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I personally thought automatically of Jaws when the camera shoot throught the great white shark jaw in Quint's bathhouse. Its a beautifully shot sequence in that near perfect film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 1 hour ago, Nick1066 said: Yeah...this is a that "extreme polarisation" in opinions about movies. There IS a middle ground here. By no means to do I think La-la land is some kind of classic, and I don't think it merited all the over the top praise and awards it got. But in terms of just escaping by watching pure Hollywood for a couple hours? If was fine....more than fine, it was fun. It certainly wasn't anywhere near "film garbage" or a "stain" on musical cinema. That's not even good nonsense. Forget it. They stubbornly persist at rating movies as binary - either 10/10 masterpieces, or 0/10 stains on cinema history. Since any old regular guy has a platform on the internet now, nuance became diluted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,511 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Contact (1997). This shot + Silvestri's music = Awesomeness Se7en (1995) The Matrix: Revolutions (2003) Alien (1979) Disco Stu and Bayesian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Ooh good choice from Seven. I forgot to include some Fincher in my posts. Matrix Revolutions isn’t from 2001 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 18 minutes ago, Loert said: Contact (1997). This shot + Silvestri's music = Awesomeness Yep. Fantastic film & score. Wanna take a ride?! RIP Art Bell. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Who 919 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Dunkirk Interstellar Titanic Mitth'raw'nuorodo and Bilbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 2 minutes ago, Mr. Who said: Titanic Spectacular. Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I like the bit where the big boat goes blurp blurp and down and down and everyone's like "aggghhh whooaa!" It was kewl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 23, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted April 23, 2018 My favourite Titanic shot. 1977, Loert, Bayesian and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 58 minutes ago, Nick1066 said: My favourite Titanic shot. That’s a great one. Does a spectacular job of highlight how fucked and alone they are. Nick1Ø66 and Bayesian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Yep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 That reminds me of this brief cut, which always stood out to me for its brilliant placement and effectiveness at communicating scale and remoteness. Kubrick was great for those infrequent deviations from his usual objective cinematography to emphasize something, be it this, or a rare but perfectly timed closeup (when Jack squints at Delbert Grady in the bathroom, for instance, that shit is harrowing), etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I think ILM did the shot of Titanic sinking posted above because it ended up being too complicated for Digital Domain to figure out. It's incredibly effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Almost any Spielberg movie has a shot that's in one of my favorites. To just list one, there's a shot in Minority Report after Lamar is publicly revealed to be Anne Lively's murderer, and he spots Anderton's hooded form walking on the far side of the hall. The camera closes up to Lamar's face...with Williams' music, and the exhalation of Lamar's nostrils, that's all you need to feel fate and destiny looming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Ricard and Bilbo 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I could go on forever... Mitth'raw'nuorodo and The Illustrious Jerry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 I sense a theme there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,192 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 Pretty much all of BR2049. Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted April 23, 2018 Share Posted April 23, 2018 (Amadeus) Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 @Marian Schedenig Love that shot from Tarantino. It’s the closest he ever got to emulating Leone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Romao's post reminded me, any Kirosawa fans here? Kagemusha has shots that give me chills! Nick1Ø66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Unlucky Bastard and dtw42 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted April 24, 2018 Author Share Posted April 24, 2018 I've always really loved this shot from the closing scenes of The Godfather Part III: The death of Michael Corleone. A haunting parallel to Vito's death in his garden from the first film, except that unlike his father, he is alone when he dies. There are no loved ones near him as he passes. He is utterly alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 That kid didn't give a shit when Vito carked it. He might as well have been alone too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly is chock full of masterful shots. The Illustrious Jerry and Ricard 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,344 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 6 hours ago, Romão said: = 7 hours ago, Sharky said: Good choice, Sharky, but here's one with better quality: Why Ridley didn't 'letterbox' The Duellists is a mystery to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 14 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: Why Ridley didn't 'letterbox' The Duellists is a mystery to me. You mean why didn't he shoot it in anamorphic? Super 35 wasn't commonplace in the 70s. Maybe the producers couldn't afford to rent anamorphic Panavision lenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 Strange, I've seen plenty of movies shot in 2.35:1 in the '70s. Maybe it's because Barry Lyndon wasn't shot in 2.35:1 either? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 4 minutes ago, Alexcremers said: Strange, I've seen plenty of movies shot in 2.35:1 in the '70s. Maybe it's because Barry Lyndon wasn't shot in 2.35:1 either? Ugh, way to misread what I wrote. Again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 7 hours ago, Glóin the Dark said: (Amadeus) Rock me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 16 hours ago, Sharky said: The Last Jedi? Bilbo and Gruesome Son of a Bitch 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 23 minutes ago, Not Mr. Big said: The Last Jedi? One of the coolest things about The Last Jedi was how magnificently Mark Hamill has aged, unlike some actors his age who've down the plastic surgery route. He really does resemble Ollie Reed in some shots. BTW, that still's from Ken Russell's The Debussy Film (1965). It's a TV movie about an actor (Reed) who's playing Debussy in a biopic, and begins to closely identify with the composer. Not Mr. Big 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 11 hours ago, John said: I've always really loved this shot from the closing scenes of The Godfather Part III: The death of Michael Corleone. A haunting parallel to Vito's death in his garden from the first film, except that unlike his father, he is alone when he dies. There are no loved ones near him as he passes. He is utterly alone. A beautiful shot that nonetheless isn't as effective as it could have been due to the time jump which causes the scene to lose much of its impact. It felt tacked on because it was tacked on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 7 minutes ago, Sharky said: One of the coolest things about The Last Jedi was how magnificently Mark Hamill has aged, unlike some actors his age who've down the plastic surgery route. He really does resemble Ollie Reed in some shots. BTW, that still's from Ken Russell's The Debussy Film (1965). It's a TV movie, but you'd never know it. Hamill fits back into the role in a way that I would never have guessed in 2011 or so (when he was more or less retired from live-action acting). It's arguably the highlight of the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 17 minutes ago, Nick1066 said: A beautiful shot that nonetheless isn't as effective as it could have been due to the time jump which causes the scene to lose much of its impact. It felt tacked on because it was tacked on. Now I'm not one of those who argues Part III is secretly a masterpiece or the best of the 3, but for me the point of the time-jump is to imply that following his daughter's death he was almost cursed with many completely empty years, devoid of meaning or any events worth remarking upon. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I agree with Disco Stu. Dammit . Bayesian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 8 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: Now I'm not one of those who argues Part III is secretly a masterpiece or the best of the 3 Best of the 3? Are there people who really argue that?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 4 minutes ago, Nick1066 said: Best of the 3? Are there people who really argue that?! You have me on ignore, don't you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 #HotTake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,516 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 I'm not sure about favourite shot of all, but the greatest shot of all time is, undoubtedly, the opening shot of STAR WARS. It lasts for about twenty five seconds, and in those seconds-those six hundred frames-the way we watch, and listen to, films, was changed, forever. That's what makes it the most emotive, and the most important shot in all of cinema. Nick1Ø66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 15 minutes ago, Disco Stu said: #HotTake Sometimes I feel like the living embodiment of that. Ricard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 17 hours ago, Sharky said: Shadows and check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,714 Posted April 24, 2018 Share Posted April 24, 2018 16 hours ago, Bilbo said: I could go on forever... Is this shot actually in the movie, or a publicity still? Not doubting it's there, just can't remember it specifically. 17 hours ago, Bilbo said: Thank Ralph Bakshi for this one. Bonus points if you can find this scene in the book! Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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