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Top 10 movies that have influenced your work!
On the one side... The Passion of Joan of Arc Metropolis The Dark Crystal 8 1/2 Brazil And on the other... Kind Hearts and Coronets My Blue Heaven The Neverending Story Ghostbusters As Good as it Gets Dec 12 06 01:19 am Link I would have to say: -The Shining -Silence of the Lambs -8mm -Hellraiser -Dark City -Gattica -Psycho(original, not the poopy remake) -Trainspotting -Candyman -Sid and Nancy I notice a trend here now, hmmm... Dec 12 06 01:21 am Link I have not done any but would love to use scenes from..... -Scarface -Anne Rice "Queen of the damned" -Zula -Strange days -Jacobs Ladder -Fifth Element -Matrix -The Color purple -Crybaby -Pulp Fiction -Total recall -The thomas crown affair Dec 12 06 01:36 am Link (My rule was I must have watched it as a child) Funny Face or Breakfast at Tiffany's Blade Runner Barberella Sunday in the Park with George (on VHS) On the Town I, Claudius Anne of a 1,000 days or Young Bess Wizard of Oz Gentlemen Prefer Blondes All About Eve Singin in the Rain Laura Stage Door GiGi Muppets Take Manhatten Laberynth (sp?) Dark Crystal The Neverending Story The Princess Bride Dec 12 06 01:55 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: How could you miss Switchblade Sisters Dec 12 06 01:59 am Link Star wrote: We had a VHS with The Neverending Story followed by The Dark Crystal. We wore that tape out... Dec 12 06 02:10 am Link Kids... Those of you that are fashion shooters how can you miss. The Eyes of Laura Mars. If you haven't seen it get it. My favorites for photo influence ********Eyes of Laura Mars!!!!!! Lolita Breakfast at Tiffanyâs Blow up Dec 12 06 02:10 am Link Billy Pegram wrote: In blow up he is shooting with umbrellas, and yet he never has a strobe flash!!! Dec 12 06 02:14 am Link Are we talking inspiration, lighting, or listing "intellectual" film? My lighting inspired films are: Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Casablanca Gone With The Wind A Man and A Woman 8 1/2 Breakfast At Tiffany's Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid The Hunger Blade Runner L.A. Confidential Dec 12 06 02:15 am Link Ten? There's only one that I've directly linked to affecting the direction(s) I've taken photographically: Hero. The entire movie was gorgeous visual art, and the use of color was awe-inspiring. I started off with entire image sets devoted to particular colors. This progressed to the use of tinted lighting, playing with multiple hues...and here I am. Dec 12 06 02:18 am Link Star wrote: Well if it were top 15 I woulda included it as well as Thriller: A cruel Picture, Your Vice is a locked room and only I have the key, Black Sabbath (Mario Bava), and The Blood Drinkers = ) Dec 12 06 02:23 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: All crappy movies no one has heard of except for Collin. Dec 12 06 02:28 am Link Top 10 films I've shameless ripped off: Barbarella Cabaret Metropolis Roberta Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? Morocco Casablanca Videodrome A Fool There Was Sweet Charity Dec 12 06 02:29 am Link Envy wrote: HAHAHA! in fact I'm buying the shipping container for them tomorrow = ) Dec 12 06 02:29 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: "Them"? Are you shipping me dead hookers feet? Dec 12 06 02:30 am Link hmmmm this is a tough one. Lets see: 1) Metropolis 2) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( i prefer the slower german version more than the 52 minute american version because its creepier) 3) Resevoir Dogs( my first true Noir film introduced me to the subject) 4) Seven 5) Mad Max(more for its grit and intensity and lighting though when i was 10 i didnt know thats what i liked about it) 6)The Way of the Gun 7)Hard Boiled 8) Taxi Driver 9)Nosferatu 10) Bram Stokers Draculla( the Francis Ford Coppala from 92) Dec 12 06 02:32 am Link Envy wrote: NOOOO I'm keepin' the feet...yer gettin' the footless hookers Dec 12 06 02:32 am Link Freaks.... I'm making my own films... But I love me some Dr. Strangelove... Dec 12 06 02:34 am Link I don't know that it can be seen in my work, but as far as shaping my sense of aesthetics: THX 1138 U2 Rattle & Hum Star Wars (as a whole, but mostly the last six hours) the Hudsucker Proxy the Man Who Wasn't There Pi Munich That's all I can think of as far as films. Dec 12 06 02:34 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: Stingy fucker. Dec 12 06 02:34 am Link James Graham wrote: It's true. He made me wear half a chicken costume... Dec 12 06 02:39 am Link saverio wrote: Been wanting to see the first two for awhile and can't find them anywhere. Haven't heard of the third, but I'll add it to my list. Big fan of the Cavallino Rampante, if I were a sculptor, Scaglietti and Pininfarina would be major influences. Dec 12 06 02:40 am Link Films really haven't influenced my work, and I don't think my work will reflect any of the films I'm mentioning, but the following inspire me when I'm very very close to just forgetting photography altogether: Suspiria Deep Red Inferno A Zed and Two Noughts The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover Nosferatu (Werner Herzog) Aguirre, the Wrath of God Nashville In A Glass Cage Leolo Blue Velvet Dressed to Kill (de Palma) Stranger than Paradise Andrei Rublev and anything by Andrei Tarkovsky basically I almost forgot 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange Paul Dec 12 06 03:08 am Link Star wrote: No movie has ever captured the work or the life of a photographer (at least not a fashion photographer) even halfway adequately yet. As for the flash thing, the flash can be invisible if it isn't synched to the cine camera's exposure (remember, shooting 24 fps, each exposure is about 1/48th, and the other 1/48th the shutter is closed and the film is advancing, assuming a 180 shutter angle, less with a 172 or smaller shutter). Dec 12 06 03:10 am Link Excessive Force II Dark Angel (the tv series) Point of No Return/La Femme Nikita Sin City Kill Bill Battle Royale Red Sonja Equilibrium and um, Pump up the Volume? Dec 12 06 03:20 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: Heh, those could have easily been in mine as well. A Top 10 is pushing it and a top 20 would have been asking too much! ;D Oo..Actually never saw Fingered though. Planet Of The Vampires (which Alien owes a lot), Faster Pussycat, Blue Velvet, and Vampiros though...Wow. Good choices. Dec 12 06 03:44 am Link Collin J. Rae wrote: We should be best friends! ;D Thriller is just that! Although I DO prefer the american title "They Call Her One Eye" (but not the american edit). I first saw that film as a Danish bootleg with NO subtitles. It was an interesting way to see it. They could have been speaking in the Sims language and you'd still know what was going on. Dec 12 06 03:52 am Link Narhan wrote: great story about scaglietti, it goes something like this: as a brand new car is being unveiled in an italian piazza a journalist approaches scaglietti who has hand formed the italian aluminum art "signore scalietti, how beautiful!" as he leans in, "but i see that the two sides are slightly different?" signore scalietti leans back to the journalist "yes, but you can only see one side at a time." Dec 12 06 05:54 am Link I'll toss a few of mine down and see if I come up with ten Serenity Kiss Kiss Bang Bang The Big Lobowoski X2 Fight Club Wllace and Gromit Dec 12 06 09:49 am Link Marko Cecic-Karuzic wrote: where was his sync cord? Dec 12 06 03:02 pm Link KitFoto wrote: Ohhh! I forgot about Bergman. All of his stuff is great. "Cries and Whispers" is another standout. Dec 12 06 03:06 pm Link James Graham wrote: Shssh Dec 12 06 08:18 pm Link for visuals and other things Citizen Kane the seven samurai (or any of Kurosawa's) the good the bad and the ugly (or any of Leone's films) Peckinpah's the Wild Bunch Farewell My Lovely Apocalypse Now Bladerunner Fritzcarraldo The Doors Pollack Dec 13 06 01:15 am Link |
