What are your favorite shots in a movie?

[Sharkissimo 1,973]

 

 

 

 

[KK 3,307]

I was there last week Sharky!

 

On 4/16/2020 at 1:09 AM, KK said:

 

 

 

 

 

[KK 3,307]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Jerry, is that from INGLORIOUS BASTERDS?

@KK, more Bergman? I'm going to go for WINTER LIGHT, but I'm probably wrong.

[TheUlyssesian 2,478]

It's Haneke's White Ribbon. Another great masterpiece.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[KK 3,307]

9 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

 

@KK, more Bergman? I'm going to go for WINTER LIGHT, but I'm probably wrong.

 

Ulyssian nailed it. But considering it takes a lot after Nykvist's lighting and Bergman's framing, you weren't too far off

 

[A24 4,331]

6 hours ago, TheUlyssesian said:

It's Haneke's White Ribbon. Another great masterpiece.

 

And probably his crowning achievement.

[Brundlefly 2,385]

On 4/16/2020 at 12:17 PM, Borodin said:

 

(You can't really do better than this in film.)

This shot is responsible for the creepiest movie scene of all time!

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

 

I'm sure it isn't an actual shot from the movie, but as a production still, it's a beautifully lit photograph.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[KK 3,307]

 

 

 

 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Its not exactly a shot but I love the scene in Star Trek thr Undiscovered Country Spock tells Kirk "only John Williams could have scored Jaws". Wait...

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

7 hours ago, KK said:

 

 

 

 

Now, that is how to frame!

Magnificent.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[Holko 9,519]

 

 

Transitioning from real mountains into a CG map, floating over it to where we are next, pulling off of the CG map into a real room, sitting on a dolly, then doing a creeping sliding pan on it to look in on Bilbo muttering to himself, in one shot. On the last rewatch tons of creative camerawork stuck out to me in Fellowship, but much less so in the other two. Maybe I was too drawn into it by then.

[Chen G. 3,949]

3 hours ago, Holko said:

On the last rewatch tons of creative camerawork stuck out to me in Fellowship, but much less so in the other two. Maybe I was too drawn into it by then.

 

I think that's the explanation. It was all shot in one-go, so there isn't really any reason for the camerawork to be different film-to-film. Its illusory.

 

There is some more overtly-stylized, in-your-face shots in stuff that got shot very early on in the shoot (I'm mostly thinking the wide-angle-lensed closeups in the Prancing Pony) that got ironed-out in the following weeks, but otherwise I don't see a difference in how the films were covered.

 

If you want inventive camerawork, watch Heavenly Creatures. The camerawork there is as wacky as the main characters. But inventive and effective aren't necessarily the same thing, and I like the more restrained approach that shaped-up during The Lord of the Rings.

[John 2,032]

[JoeinAR 1,949]

[KK 3,307]

 

 

 

 

[Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488]

How depressing.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Where are these from. @KK?

[Holko 9,519]

Last night I watched the first Hungarian film to feature sequences shot in colour (The Talking Robe, 1941)... And they made damn good use of the Alföld skies.

[KK 3,307]

35 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:

Where are these from. @KK?

 

Come on now Richard, can't give it away that easily.

 

It's a Kaufman film :p

[Chen G. 3,949]

Its Synecdoche, New York.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Oh, wow! I was just gonna say: "SYNECDOCHE NEW YORK" 

 

4 hours ago, Gruesome Son of a Bitch said:

How depressing.

Depressing can still be beautiful.

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

12 hours ago, JoeinAR said:

 

I didn't know he measured the shark precisely.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

I learnt a new word, today: "meterer".

[JoeinAR 1,949]

3 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

I didn't know he measured the shark precisely.

He said 20 footer. 20 feet is 6.09 meters

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

6 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

He said 20 footer. 20 feet is 6.09 meters

 

But I didn't know he measure the shark to be precisely 20 feet long, and not a fraction of an inch more or less.

 

Or you might just be deliberately ignoring that he obviously would have said "6 metres" had he been using the metric system, and nobody would have seen the need to comment that he would then have otherwise said "19.685 footer".

[JoeinAR 1,949]

4 hours ago, Marian Schedenig said:

 

But I didn't know he measure the shark to be precisely 20 feet long, and not a fraction of an inch more or less.

 

Or you might just be deliberately ignoring that he obviously would have said "6 metres" had he been using the metric system, and nobody would have seen the need to comment that he would then have otherwise said "19.685 footer".

He did not give an estimate or an approximation he gave an exact amount. Get over it

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

Perhaps he misjudged by 22.68018 pica (96 millimetres) and the shark was actually 6 metres long.

[Bayesian 1,363]

Folks need to start identifying up front the films they’re posting stills from. It’s hard to have to hunt in this thread for the name of the film and whether someone guessed it right. Just sayin’...

[TheUlyssesian 2,478]

5 minutes ago, Bayesian said:

Folks need to start identifying up front the films they’re posting stills from. It’s hard to have to hunt in this thread for the name of the film and whether someone guessed it right. Just sayin’...

 

I think that's part of the fun.

[Bayesian 1,363]

9 minutes ago, TheUlyssesian said:

 

I think that's part of the fun.

One man’s fun is another’s pain in the ass.

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

Sometimes, they are the same thing! 

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

As I've said before: Spoiler tags. Leave it up to the reader to decide what's fun for them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Spoiler

Nightcrawler

 

[Edmilson 7,434]

That movie is great.

[KK 3,307]

Yea, that was a great film. Forgot how good it looked too.

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

Yes. I remembered that the film was very good, and that Gyllenhaal was very good (frighteningly good, in fact). But the nighttime cinematography is excellent as well. And the focus in that last scene is much more gripping than the still image conveys.

[KK 3,307]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

L'Avventura

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

I suppose this is the best thread to drop this:

 

 

[JoeinAR 1,949]

Whats the

 point of hiding the title. Is it because of this pathetic need to not succumb to "spoilers". 

[The Illustrious Jerry 3,356]

56 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

Whats the point of hiding the title. Is it because of this pathetic need to not succumb to "spoilers". 

A couple of us enjoy guessing the movie from which the shots are taken, so the title is hidden. However, for those who'd rather not guess but still want to know the the film, they can simply reveal hidden contents and be informed. 

[Naïve Old Fart 9,515]

...and that's Jenga 

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

 

 

 

 

 

 

[KK 3,307]

Nice. I always forget what a looker that one is. One of the few films that delivers on all fronts.

[Marian Schedenig 8,191]

I find these presumably inconspicuous looking films in Deakins' portfolio very rewarding when re-watching them. Only a few months ago I watched The Big Lebowski for probably about the 10th time and was amazed what a treasure trove of great shots it really is.