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[NinjaBoiX]

Try and post a few images to illustrate, it makes things more interesting. Thanks.

City of God

César Charlone

Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy

Hoyte Van Hoytema

There Will Be Blood

Robert Elswit

Amélie

Bruno Delbonnel

 

[ComputerMKII]

Titanic

 

[MuggerMD]

Braveheart

 

[velociraptor]

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

 

[SirIgbyCeaser]

skyfall, brick, looper.

 

[Salvadora]

Skyfall is incredible.

 

[shira]

cinematography is way overrated

Story first please.

 

[ZombieFred]

Skyfall deserves a mention

<3

 

[teruterubozu]

Emmanuel Lubezki - The New World, Children of Men & The Tree of Life.

 

[Nlroh]

Anything Lubezki, The Tree of Life.

 

[Slizz]

I thought Munich's cinematography was good...

 

[kadab]

The Fall

 

[Dead Man]

You put There Will Be Blood in the OP and not The Assassination of Jesse James? Disappointed.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

I'm an uncultured cinema pleb, so I'm not sure if I'm "allowed" to nominate it (because of CGI stuff), but The Fall had some stunning scenes.

I'm pretty sure I'm supposed to mention Lawrence of Arabia while I'm here, too.

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Try and post pics, this is all about imagery after all.

Nice work ZombieFred.

Edit: Mutes, I don't know about anyone else, but I consider CGI fair game. Most movies are so post processed these days anyway, it'd be tough to draw a fair distinction.

 

[UltimaPooh]

cinematography is way overrated

Story first please.

Cinematography helps tell the story. Without it most movies would be like home videos.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

cinematography is way overrated

Story first please.

Cinematography is incredibly important in films. Sometimes more than the story. A simple story can be made into a great movie with it.

 

[DoctorPayne]

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

 

[Risette]

cinematography is way overrated

Story first please.

Vile post. Contradictory.

ontopic: High & Low.

 

[ThoseDeafMutes]

Try and post pics, this is all about imagery after all.

Grr, google searching is hard.

From The Fall

 

[teruterubozu]

cinematography is way overrated

Story first please.

For me, the soundtrack makes a huge impact on that scene:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qssvnjj5Moo

Definitely awe-inducing all around though.

 

[nOoblet16]

All Bond movies starring Craig are good looking but Skyfall takes the cake:

All David Fincher movies but Zodiac most prominently:

Tron Legacy:

 

[Dead Man]

Try and post pics, this is all about imagery after all.

Nice work ZombieFred.

Edit: Mutes, I don't know about anyone else, but I consider CGI fair game. Most movies are so post processed these days anyway, it'd be tough to draw a fair distinction.

It can be hard to find still images that capture the cinematography.

 

[Rubbish King]

Life of Pi?

Trying to find some screenshots in India >.< Cant find any

 

[NinjaBoiX]

Wow, The Fall looks pretty incredible.

*opens IMDB*

 

[EatChildren]

Children of Men's long shots. Really no point posting pictures as the quality of that cinematography is lost without motion.

All David Fincher movies but Zodiac most prominently:

Yeah, Zodiac deserves a nod. Very distinct cinematography.

 

[jossueinacoma]

Enter the Void
Pierrot Le Fou
8 1/2
Any Kubrick film
Sunshine

list goes on and on.

 

[SirMossyBloke]

All Bond movies starring Craig are good looking but Skyfall takes the cake:

You could say it takes the layer cake, even.

 

[Acidote]

Collateral

And I mean it. Those shots with the empty streets and metro, the coyote and a few other moments.

 

[davepoobond]

Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[Halcyon]

The Sound of Music

 

[NinjaBoiX]

It can be hard to find still images that capture the cinematography.

I managed.

I hope! It's hard to find decent images that don't break people's browser. I consider 100kb the cut off. Of course, I use m.gaf, which seems to resize everything well. It might look awful on vanilla GAF!

 

[John Dunbar]

as someone with very little knowledge of how movies are actually made, how much does the work of a cinematographer and a director overlap? for example, that famous single take scene in goodfellas is often mentioned when scorsese is talked about, but does the cinematographer deserve any or all the credit for that?

 

[seanoff]

here's an older one

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir (Director) Russell Boyd (Cinematography)

 

[Dead Man]

I managed.

I hope! It's hard to find decent images that don't break people's browser. I consider 100kb the cut off. Of course, I use m.gaf, which seems to resize everything well. It might look awful on vanilla GAF!

So did I, I think. Couldn't find the scenes I really liked though.

here's an off the older one

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Peter Weir (Director) Russell Boyd (Cinematography)

Shit yes, amazing film.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

I love Manhattan's style

Stalker

Three Colors Blue, but I don't think a still picture can capture that film's beauty.

The Passion of Joan of Arc was ahead of it's time in the cinematography department. Highly recommended if you can watch a silent film. Great, really great film.

 

[DonasaurusRex]

Yeah im gonna say Tron Legacy, the story fell short but man every sec of that movie ...beautiful

 

[genjiZERO]

Baraka

 

[richiek]

The Godfather films

There's a reason why Gordon Willis was called "The Prince of Darkness".

 

[NinjaBoiX]

as someone with very little knowledge of how movies are actually made, how much does the work of a cinematographer and a director overlap? for example, that famous single take scene in goodfellas is often mentioned when scorsese is talked about, but does the cinematographer deserve any or all the credit for that?

The cinematographer's job is basically to realise the directors vision for the shot in question. Framing, colour balancing, lighting, etc. The director is more about setting the mood, and giving the actors context, and again, helping them realise his vision for the character.

Basically, imagine the director is telling a story through paintings. The cinematographer would act as the painter, and paint what the director described for the scene.

Or something like that...

Edit: the Goodfellas scene in question, I guess is kind of a group effort! The whole crew moving in prefect unison! But again, he would simply be helping Martin construct the images he has in his mind, for the screen.

 

[Conceited]

Chungking Express

 

[Risette]

as someone with very little knowledge of how movies are actually made, how much does the work of a cinematographer and a director overlap? for example, that famous single take scene in goodfellas is often mentioned when scorsese is talked about, but does the cinematographer deserve any or all the credit for that?

A lot.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

 

[RobbieH]

Days of Heaven
The Assassination of Jesse James
Barry Lyndon
Apocalypse Now
Every Tarkovsky

 

[davepoobond]

The cinematographer's job is basically to realise the directors vision for the shot in question. Framing, colour balancing, lighting, etc. The director is more about setting the mood, and giving the actors context, and again, helping them realise his vision for the character.

Basically, imagine the director is telling a story through paintings. The cinematographer would act as the painter, and paint what the director described for the scene.

Or something like that...

you're half right. it depends on the director, really. sometimes they are more involved with the cinematography than with the actors themselves, and vice versa.

 

[God...frey Jones]

CHILDREN OF MEN

 

[ngower]

The Thin Red Line
Harold and Maude
Chunking Express
Blade Runner
The Red Balloon

 

[HiResDes]

Senso (1954):

In the Mood for Love (2000):

 

[mxgt]

Alien

 

[JaseC]

Atonement is striking at times.

(The second shot loses its lustre in stills.)