| Movies / Cameras in the Movies / TV / Media If you are a photographer, it's difficult not to appreciate movies too. In this forum you can discuss movies, as well as the cameras used in them.
What camera used in what film / TV show etc has long been a topic of discussion at RFF. Whether the Exakta and 400mm Kilfitt lens in Hitchcock's Rear Window or the Nikons in Eastwood's Bridges of Madison County, cameras are tools which reflect the time and technology of the film. |
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Jazz and Cocktails
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What is your all time favorite movie?
After responding to Dave Lackey's thread about the 70th anniversary of 'Casablanca" I thought it might be interesting to find out RFF member's all time favorite movies.
I'll start :
1. Casablanca
2. Lawrence of Arabia
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Measured by the number of views, 'Sideways' and 'Annie Hall' could be considered my faves.
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For number of views, Die Hard.
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Cat on a hot tin roof
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Honestly, too many to choose from... I could never just pick one.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jsrockit
Honestly, too many to choose from... I could never just pick one.
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Ditto. But just for fun, Chinatown. |
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I have no absolute favourite, but would include Goodfellas, Inglorious Basterds and Lawrence of Arabia. By number of views probably Star Wars or LOTR, as watch those with the kids.
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Forrest Gump for me
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" The Third Man"
"Cinema Paradiso"
"The Seventh Seal"
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"Raiders of the Lost Ark"
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Shooter of Film...
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1. The Graduate
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Antwone Fisher
I can pick up these movies at any point and watch it to the end...
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According to my netflix rating (6000+ club) these are my top (5 star) movies and some TV
Five Stars
The Asphalt Jungle
Spirited Away
Stalag 17
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Big Lebowski
The Sorrow and the Pity
Key Largo
Red Beard (note this film needs to be viewed more then once to really absorb all the story lines).
East of Eden
Closely Watched Trains (I actually have this on 16mm film)
Smiles of a Summer Night
In Cold Blood (easily one of the best B&W films ever shot)
Blue (Tri-Colour)
Breaking Away
The 400 Blows
The Seventh Seal
Connections
A Clockwork Orange
Babe
Ran
Once Upon a Time in the West
Red (Tri-Colour)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Brazil
Wild Strawberries
Trainspotting
To Kill a Mockingbird (Possibly one of the best films ever made)
The Godfather
The Stax Records Story
The Enemy Below
Slumdog Millionaire (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
The Cove Documentary (I need to see this again in a year or two and see if it stands up to my 5 rating)
Ugetsu
Last Exile
Ken Burns' America: Brooklyn Bridge
Ken Burns' America: Huey Long
Hotel Terminus
Harlan County, U.S.A.
La Strada
The Apartment (another nearly perfect film)
Roman Holiday
My Neighbor Totoro
Ikiru Foreign
The Rules of the Game
Yojimbo (Another nearly perfect film and almost as well shot as In Cold Blood).
Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (I need to see this again in couple of years and see if holds up).
Howards End
The Wire:
The Corporation
The Great Escape (Another nearly perfect film)
Ken Burns: The Civil War
The Man in the White Suit (ealing comedies, need I say more?)
Traffik (Almost as perfect as The Wire).
My Life as a Dog
Princess Mononoke
The Conformist
Shoot the Piano Player
L.A. Confidential
Odd Man Out
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Wallace & Gromit: Three Amazing Adventures Children & Family
The Brother From Another Planet (first indie film I ever saw)
The Thin Red Line
The Seventh Seal
Ulee's Gold
The Double Life of Veronique
Salesman (2nd best documentary ever made)
Rushmore
The Devil Came on Horseback
The Graduate
Fargo
Billy Liar
The Conversation
The Last Emperor
Pan's Labyrinth
Seven Samurai
Grey Gardens (the Documentary, not the movie)
Dead End
Dr. Strangelove
Billy Bragg and Wilco: Man in the Sand
Night and the City
Mad Men
No Country for Old Men
Down from the Mountain
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Le Grand Illusion
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blade runner
the searchers
serenity
ran
hero
as it is in heaven
once upon a time in the west
lawrence of arabia
dr. zhivago
braveheart
gladiator
paris, texas (haven't thought of that for a while)
usual suspects
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Always looking
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The Godfather (parts 1 and 2)
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Uh, that's a hard one.
I have seen them all, and I have made some too...
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yes, the godfather trilogy.
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i seek to photograph the things not seen.
" ... faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrews 11-1
"One eye sees. The other eye feels." - Paul Klee
"... For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." - apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians, 4:18
"Film will only become art when it's materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau
http://blackcreekjournal.blogspot.com/
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amen, roland, amen. fonda is fantastic in that movie. the soundtrack? could be my no. 1, too ...
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i seek to photograph the things not seen.
" ... faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrews 11-1
"One eye sees. The other eye feels." - Paul Klee
"... For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." - apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians, 4:18
"Film will only become art when it's materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau
http://blackcreekjournal.blogspot.com/
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The"Unforgiven" with Clint Eastwood
The OK Corral - all the movies (4 I think)
Any Cowboy movie with John Wayne.
OK, I like cowboy movies.
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Animal House
Brings back fond memories, at least what I can remember.
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yes, unforgiven, how could i forget that. searchers, unforgiven, one upon a time in the west all tied for no. 1 western for me ...
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i seek to photograph the things not seen.
" ... faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." Hebrews 11-1
"One eye sees. The other eye feels." - Paul Klee
"... For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal." - apostle Paul, 2 Corinthians, 4:18
"Film will only become art when it's materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper." - Jean Cocteau
http://blackcreekjournal.blogspot.com/
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Lflex
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Diva - this movie is bad in the good way.
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Fluffy Marsupial
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Aliens2 gets me in a killin' mood, for when I have to go out front to spray the weeds.
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La Haine
The grapes of wrath
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Any of the old Indiana Jones' & 28 Weeks later!
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Lord of the Dings
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My Life as a Dog
Local Hero
Master and Commander - The Far Side of the World
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