If you knew somebody that has never seen a movie, and you only had a choice of 25 films to teach them as much as possible about film history, technique, evolution etc, to have a wide a range of film knowledge to be a filmmaker... what 25 films would you pick?
Some of my choices
"Sunrise" by Murnau (Representing the silent films)
"Sunset Blvd" by Wilder (Representing old Hollywood)
"Citizen Kane" by Welles (Representing the possibilities of the camera)
"Red River" by Hawks (Representing the Western)
"The Bicycle Thief" by De Sica (Representing Neo Realism)
"Breathless" by Godard (Representing the French New Wave)
"Rashomon" by Kurosawa (Representing unreliable narrative)
"2001" by Kubrick (Representing Science Fiction/technology)
"Raging Bull" by Scorsese (Representing a mixture of the best of all categories, except sound).
"Down By Law" by Jarmusch (Representing the minimalism of camera movement... yeah, yeah, I know about Ozu)
"Pulp Fiction" by Tarantino (Representing dialogue, and script order)
"Gerry" Van Sant (Representing, well... lack of plot needed to make a nice thoughtful film).
Other options being "Buffalo 66" "Trainspotting" or "Run Lola Run".
What's your take on this?
Some of my choices
"Sunrise" by Murnau (Representing the silent films)
"Sunset Blvd" by Wilder (Representing old Hollywood)
"Citizen Kane" by Welles (Representing the possibilities of the camera)
"Red River" by Hawks (Representing the Western)
"The Bicycle Thief" by De Sica (Representing Neo Realism)
"Breathless" by Godard (Representing the French New Wave)
"Rashomon" by Kurosawa (Representing unreliable narrative)
"2001" by Kubrick (Representing Science Fiction/technology)
"Raging Bull" by Scorsese (Representing a mixture of the best of all categories, except sound).
"Down By Law" by Jarmusch (Representing the minimalism of camera movement... yeah, yeah, I know about Ozu)
"Pulp Fiction" by Tarantino (Representing dialogue, and script order)
"Gerry" Van Sant (Representing, well... lack of plot needed to make a nice thoughtful film).
Other options being "Buffalo 66" "Trainspotting" or "Run Lola Run".
What's your take on this?
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"I know a man who was born with his heart on the outside. Every man's worst fear, he also had heavy hands. he couldn't touch his lovers face, he couldn't hold a baby." - Buck 65
"I know a man who was born with his heart on the outside. Every man's worst fear, he also had heavy hands. he couldn't touch his lovers face, he couldn't hold a baby." - Buck 65