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Interesting rare and unknown cinematography movies
  • lolololo

    I have just seen this movie:

    Tony Takitani http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420260/

    And i was mind blown about how coherent the cinematography was to the drama at hand, everything makes sense, quite a sad story and with an open ending, so perhaps not really appealing to a mass audience, but it has a beautiful cinematography, that proyects what the main characters feels really well, It is alo interesting for the budget filmmakers, as the style is really minimalistic and yet interesting.

    Does anyone has other cinematography jewls, that are not really well known?

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  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    For all no-budget DSLR shooters I suggest Leos Carax's "Mauvais Sang": very interesting cinematography, only long lenses used (I daresay 35 mm on GH2), "hand-held shhoting style, lots of close ups, but framed in an original way. In the 80s 1,33 format was revalued, and a part from old TV-like shots, this format let to frame more freely..widescreen present more rigid composition rules..

  • lolololo

    @paddy jajja that is a no-go for me i live in southamerica jajaja, but thank you for your consideration

  • lolololo

    ajjaja Conan the barbarian jajaj i have never seen the complete movie, but i will now jajjaja

    (i dont know how unkown is this one but i´m from Chile and not too much european films are seen here, so)

    Paradise:Love ; i find interesting the use of wideangles and fisheyes, they do give a sort of unpleasent and yet calm atmosphere, the framing with the wideangles is whta i find most cinematographically interesting of this movie

  • svartsvart

    The original Conan The Barbarian. Seriously.

    There are periods in the movie that have only music and no dialogue but the action on the screen tell you everything you need to know. It's a great study in how blocking and framing can make fairly bad acting look really good on film.

  • mikomiko

    Have you seen Themroc ?

  • griplimitedgriplimited

    Always been a big WKW fan. Guy doesn't get the praise like he should because their not blockbuster hits. But watching each frame is a composition in itself.

  • jleojleo

    La Grande Bellezza - The Great Beauty

    Luca Bigazzi , Cinematographer

    Trailer

    REVIEWS:

    Everything in the film is masterful: the photography, flying/flowing camerawork and editing; the dialogue and the acting; the music selection and its seamless editing; the deliberately thin plot that nevertheless keeps propelling the film forward; the many characters, sub-characters and sundry types; how the sublime is constantly yet effortlessly juxtaposed to the ridiculous; the overall wit and lightness of touch; and finally Rome herself, the eternal city, so insufferably, infuriatingly, absurdly yet nonchalantly beautiful, from her most celebrated sights down to her most recondite places.

    http://disinfo.com/2013/12/great-beauty-high-culture-without-highbrowness/

    http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movie/great-beauty/review/526135

  • AlbertZAlbertZ

    @flablo Guy Maddin has an unique style, indeed. On vimeo you can find a making of where is documented his cinematography too ( super8, 16mm,vintage emulsion and vaseline!). His last film, "Keyhole", was shooted on a Canon 5d handheld (you can note a rough amount of rollng shutter ahaha).

    A real eccentric and genial cinematographer is Mario Masini, who has worked with the Italian artist and director Bene in the sixties, making 5 low budget films shooted on 16mm and screened in international festival like Cannes.

    Another director with interesting cinematography is no doubt Raoul Ruiz. Watch his "City of Pirates", full of surreal shots with a very low budget, and a peculiar use of wide angle.

    A real masterpiece in terms of cinematography. though not experimental cinematography, is the rare film by the Italian couple of directors Ciprì & Maresco, titled "Totò who lived twice": you can recognize in it the wonderful style of the great black and white italian films of the 60s (expecially Pasolini) with a touch of Bunuel.

  • flabloflablo

    Guy Maddin. I find him fantastic. Style is peculiar for sure

  • PaddyPaddy

    OK I'll bite... though for me these are "mind-blowing little known cinematography jewels" for various reasons, not (or not only) for the cinematography but also for the scenario, the editing, a superb style idea or their intrinsic beauty, whatever...

    • Nostalgia de la luz (Patricio Guzmán, Chili/France, 2010)
    • Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler, USA, 1968)
    • La primera carga al machete (Manuel Octavio Gómez, Cuba, 1969).
    • Kiss of the Spider Woman (Hector Babenco, USA/Brasil, 1985)
    • Maladie mortelle (François Weyergans, Belgium, 1977)
    • Le joli mai (Chris Marker/Pierre Lhomme, France, 1962)
    • Silent Light (Carlos Reygadas, Mexico, 2007)

    @ lolo: dunno where on earth you are, but "Le cou de la girafe" is sometimes shown in one of those small independant theaters in Paris that show several "classic" indie movies every day, all day long...

  • maxrmaxr

    @jazzroy

    change the topic's title or everybody goes on putting off topic movies..

    +1

    saluti Ric

    PS
    Okay you've changed it already, kiul

  • jazzroyjazzroy

    @lolo change the topic's title or everybody goes on putting off topic movies..

  • MimirsanMimirsan

    Dont look now Anthony B. Richmond

    Peeping Tom Otto Heller, B.S.C.

    The Nanny Harry waxman

    Hausu (house) Yoshitaka Sakamoto ..........very experimental film with some lovely cinematography.

    Let the right one in Hoyte Van Hoytema

  • matt_gh2matt_gh2

    +1 Blade Runner - my 2nd favorite film of all time. "I need ya, Deck. This is a bad one, the worst yet. I need the old blade runner, I need your magic."

    Actor who uttered that line (M. Emmett Walsh) was also in a great movie, that looks just beautiful. It's called "Straight Time". Dustin Hoffman in 1978 just killing it - a must see. Don't sleep on this one. Here's a clip:

  • kazuokazuo

    In The Mood For Love

    Ashes of Time

    Days of Being Wild

    The Grandmaster

    2046

    What Time Is It Over there?

    The Return (the one by Andrey Zvyagintsev)

    The Banishment

  • lolololo

    Dudes, this topic is about cinematography jewels, movies that are not really well known but cinematographically interesting

  • shianshian

    The films that still influence me are

    Blade Runner

    Delicatessen

    Brotherhood of the Wolf

    Amelie

    2046

  • jazzroyjazzroy

    nice one maxr!

  • maxrmaxr

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  • jleojleo

    Interview with cinematographer Gordon Willis ASC, discussing his work on The Godfather, Annie Hall, Stardust Memories, Manhattan and All The President's Men, and other films.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Willis

  • t_robsont_robson

    The Conformist (1970) has stunning cinematography. It was shot by a master - Vittorio Storaro. I love this film.

  • kankalakankala

    La antena.

    I was looking for a trailer

    and I found the actual film, but without subtitles and only 240p:

  • No_SuRReNDeRNo_SuRReNDeR

    So maybe its not that unknown as a foreign film(But I am in America) --- I am blown away by "a Very Long Engagement"...Incredible cinematography by Bruno Delbonnel

    I cant seem to find anything above 480p on web though.

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