Best Film You Have Ever Seen

[MontyVeda]

That is wonderful, all one take, lovely camerawork.

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You'll be suitably impressed with this then?

 

[MontyVeda]

If you like long tracking shots, you should check out the last 15 mins of Children of Men. Regardless whether you like the film, the end scene is wonderful. Yes, I know that in fact it has been edited together and isn't in fact one take, but you really can't tell.

There's a couple of excellent long shots in Children of Men... the attack on the car earlier in the film... i was thinking... where's the cameraman fit in?

 

[benb]

You'll be suitably impressed with this then?

Technically - yes, very.
Musically - pass the brain bleach.

 

[benb]

Kurosawa's "The Seven Samurai".

A visually stunning film, which has spawned many lacklustre imitators.

I hope you're not including Battle Beyond the Stars in the lacklustre category!

 

[Ravenbait]

I hope you're not including Battle Beyond the Stars in the lacklustre category!

I don't think any film that has a spaceship with breasts and Robert Vaughan trying to keep a straight face can possibly be described as lacklustre.

Sam

 

[ColinJ]

There's a couple of excellent long shots in Children of Men... the attack on the car earlier in the film... i was thinking... where's the cameraman fit in?

This scene (NB - violence and strong language!):


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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkb0SecL-9I[/media]


Answer:

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]View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A55xTYXMpI[/media]


Clever!

 

[Chromatic]

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Withnail and I the most over rated film of all time!

I think it is vastly over-rated too, so that makes at least three of us.

 

[AhThisFeckinThing]

The Big Lebowski, The Dude Abides

 

[plainlazy]

Eat The Rich
Midnight Express
Cool Cookie and the Girl Guides
The Fastest Indian
The Adventures of Mark Twain

 

[GM]

The Green Mile

Don't look now

 

[benb]

The Big Lebowski, The Dude Abides

I love that film.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

The Green Mile

Looks like I need a trip to the Worst Film thread...

 

[Monsieur Remings]

Some others that spring to mind:

Russian Ark
Flame and Citron
Ryan's Daughter
American History X
Training Day

 

[Alun]

Has nobody mentioned "The Italian Job" ?
You will incur my displeasure !
Showing my age now.

 

[benb]

Can I appear to be an intellectual by saying The Battleship Potemkin?