Exemplary films

[Valve]

contempt
breathless
gambling, gods & lsd
Броненосец Потёмкин (The Battleship Potemkin)
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[Batboy]

Nowhere near obscure enough for this thread, mate

Or pretentious enough I guess

Quite how you can find an 'exemplary film that makes you see the world differently' is a bit of a joke really unless it is a documentary or news item and if that is the case the perhaps my suggestion would be when I was a child and saw the harrowing footage of Belsen when the British Army arrived there. Childhood ended that day for me.

 

[PacificOcean]

Or pretentious enough I guess

Quite how you can find an 'exemplary film that makes you see the world differently' is a bit of a joke really unless it is a documentary or news item and if that is the case the perhaps my suggestion would be when I was a child and saw the harrowing footage of Belsen when the British Army arrived there. Childhood ended that day for me.

Using your criteria, film wise I guess it's Bambi for me then. It was the first time I had to deal with death.

"..Bambi, your mother is dead"

Still, makes me well up.

 

[zed]

It is a very good film.

However the rest of that post is tosh!

Really? Why?

 

[belboid]

Really? Why?

Very good? Definitely. Seminal? Undoubtedly. Best film ever made? Arguably. Deserving of a place on this list? Absolutely.

However......

the acting is good, but (excepting Welles) not that amazing. The camera angle, well, as far as angles went, it had all been done before, the germans and some noir stuff. The big thing was surely the use (or illusion of in many cases) deep focus, which was revolutionary. Lighting? Good, but absolutely nothing new. Subject matter? brave, might be a Hollywood first, but I'm not convinced. Welles multipple roles? there is a scene in Ed Wood wich hs Ed meeting Orson and saying 'hey we are the only two directors who have ever written directed and starred in our own movies'. Many have since, but the vast majority have been more Ed Wood than Orson Welles. Largset ever advance? That one may well be right in fact, so I will withdraw my claim of tosh apropos it! Destroyed his career? No, that was Magnificent Ambersons.

 

[zed]

Magnificent Ambersons? OK, I accept that this film did suffer from some 'artistic upheavals' but it was still a decent film IMHO ....but my understanding is that William Randolph Hearst put the knives in once the thinly veiled expose of his life was released as Citizen Kane.

Welles then found it very hard to get the financial or creative support he needed to keep making the types of films he wanted to make. What happened with The Magnificent Ambersons was a symptom of this.

 

[Firky]

City of God.


Gritty, funny, sad, violent, great soundtrack, great script/storyline. So good I didn't even notice it was subtitled - that in itself transcends most boundaries for me

Aye, wicked film.

 

[Firky]

motorcycle diaries

Really enjoyed this, but che was so sickingly charismatic and good looking - just like he was in life apparently, that at times I found it hard to take seriousley in places.

But the scenes where he's traveling meeting people, children and fellow travelers are so well done, that I wonder if they were actors or real people - all done ad lib?

 

[Ryazan]

Like an average Gap Year.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Thought I would try a little list to get my brain working. No order.


Bird People in China
Sympathy for mr Vengence
3 Iron
Rushmore
The Station Agent
Kishiwada shônen gurentai - Bôkyô
the big labowski
Wild at Heart
Visitor Q
Bottle Rocket
Sideways
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind
I heart Huckabees
Ichi the Killer

 

[Fez909]

Blue Velvet.

Quest for Fire.

To Kill a Mockingbird.