Joe Taylor Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Looking for documentaries that have unusually high quality cinematography. Tow that come to mind right awa are "Fast, Cheap, and out of Control" with Robert Richardson, and "March of the Penquins." Can you recommend others? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris caliman Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 hi, heres a link of my documentary i´ve shooted with a old arrisr1 16mm,BW its a interesting small film with a own style... i hope you liked it "Thanatopraxie Der Letzte Weg" 11.Min, 16mm, 1:1.33, BW, 70MB., Good Quality "Thanatopraxie The last Way" Link : http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/in...showtopic=16786 By chris caliman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Irwin Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 I thought "Fog of War" was very well shot. Lots of slick table-top, slow motion, and persicope shots. The interview with McNamara looks great as well, as interviews go. "Winged Migration" falls along the same lines as "March of the Penguins" IMO. It put some friends of mine to sleep, but I thought the shooting was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris caliman Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 (edited) i would say "Africa Addio" is a really nice photographed documentary, its a very hard to see film, but with truly "technical" nice pictures. Directed by jacopetti and cavara. old but very interesting. 35mm, 1:2.35 :-) and a other fantastic film with pictures i have never seen again, "Le Sang des bêtes" (1949) by George Franju by chris caliman Edited September 2, 2006 by chriscaliman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Bass Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Mr. Death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris caliman Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 :-) i have a third very good documentary "Animal Love" by Ulrich Seidl 1996 very special and truly good by Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Alderslade Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Etre Et Avoir - is the first that jumps to mind. I believe its shot on super 16. The original segments for Capturing the Friedmans. - are quite nicely done. If you have access to BBC documentries, some of them have been very nicely shot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Alderslade Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 (edited) Had a look at your documentry Chris Caliman, looked good - though perhaps its best to warn people of the explicit details they are about to see. I know you must have had to sit through it in real life, but I'm not sure if everybody can. Edited September 2, 2006 by Andy_Alderslade Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Wheeler Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 I would say Baraka is basically a documentary and its beautiful. I think it was shot on 65mm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaan Shenberger Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 "dutch harbor: where the sea breaks its back" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Williamson Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 "Tokyo Olympiad" is pretty stunningly photographed, it's available on DVD from Criterion. There's some amazing anamorphic long lens work, the director talks about shooting with 1000mm and 1500mm lenses and the operating on the film is incredible. And thinking about the Olympics, Riefenstahl's "Olympia" is brilliant as well. I think most of the Maysles Bros. films are well shot, "Salesman" and "Gimme Shelter" come to mind. Some of the early verite stuff like "Primary" is great, Wiseman's "High School" also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon-Hebert Barto Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Triumph Des Willens (Documentary? Maybe not, but thats what it was made to "look" like. No less a Doc than many M. Moore films) Still one of the best examples of telephoto lenswork ever! One of the best films ever, if you can overlook the whole Hitler thing... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar Godfrey Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 The BBCs recent nature series Planet Earth was very good as well as facinating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Alderslade Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 (Documentary? Maybe not, but thats what it was made to "look" like. No less a Doc than many M. Moore films) Every documentry filmmaker I've met still regards a M. Moore film as a documentry, even if they don't approve of what he's doing. Subjective or agitropic, it remains non-fiction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris caliman Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 Etre Et Avoir - is the first that jumps to mind. I believe its shot on super 16. The original segments for Capturing the Friedmans. - are quite nicely done. If you have access to BBC documentries, some of them have been very nicely shot. hi "capturing the friedmans" is a good and nice film, i dont know but isn´t it a fake documentary? its a little bit to perfect to be real... by chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Alderslade Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 hi "capturing the friedmans" is a good and nice film, i dont know but isn´t it a fake documentary?its a little bit to perfect to be real... by chris Ha, I see what you mean, the gravity of the subject matter and the wealth of the material seems a little to good to be true. However I seriously doubt that is anything but completly genuine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Shani Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 hi not just mister death but all Errol Morris movies are great in cinematography also" tokoy ga" by- venders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Shani Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 hi not just Mr. death but all Errol Morris movies are great in cinematography also" tokyo GA" by- venders "persona non grate"- Oliver stone "what the blip do we know" - movie that change the way i look at life and exposed me to quantum theory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eric Steelberg ASC Posted September 3, 2006 Share Posted September 3, 2006 You chould check out the trailer for a documentary I did which has gotten great mention about the photography. Check out the trailer at ...www.ruralstudios.net Let me know what you think after watching the trailer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Taylor Posted September 3, 2006 Author Share Posted September 3, 2006 Eric, This is exactly what i was asking about. There are some fantastic images here. What did you shoot this film with? Excellent work. You should be proud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris caliman Posted September 4, 2006 Share Posted September 4, 2006 (edited) hi eric, it looks very very nice... my cinematography-showreel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9bGRfHqvo4 Edited September 4, 2006 by chriscaliman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom Stitt Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Ron Fricke! See Koyaanisqatsi, one of my all-time favorite films. The entire film is entirely composed of absolutely stunning images. I don't think I've ever seen a film with such gorgeous city-matography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tim J Durham Posted September 5, 2006 Premium Member Share Posted September 5, 2006 'Rivers and Tides' by Thomas Riedelsheimer is a great looking doc. 'Little Dieter Needs to Fly' by Werner Herzog is another. The former was shot on 35mm and I suspect the latter as well. It can still be done. Errol Morris docs all have a great look. Check out 'The Gates of Heaven', shot back in the 70's and before he went to the more stylized approach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon-Hebert Barto Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Every documentry filmmaker I've met still regards a M. Moore film as a documentry, even if they don't approve of what he's doing. Subjective or agitropic, it remains non-fiction. Very true. Twisting truth is not fiction. What is "agitropic"? Where's my damn dictionary??? I'm familiar with "allotropic", meaning one thing existing in two forms. If that is what you mean it is a perfect way to describe Moores way of the documentary, IMHO. He mixes truth with inuendo, sarcasm, which eludes to a "point-of-view". I mean we could talk about this all day, "what is truth?", etc.,etc.,etc. After all, everything is subjective. My point is that TRIUMPH DES WILLENS records "reality"(staged as it was) and uses editing to force its opinion(more cinematic), whereas Moore uses words/speech within the frame, and in real expressed time and environment, to force his, like a sly interegator. He is very good at what he does and Leni was very good at what she did. This is really a very fascinating subject. But your point is very valid, and true. I guess I just showed my inherent bias on two different fronts at the same time. :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy_Alderslade Posted September 5, 2006 Share Posted September 5, 2006 Very true. Twisting truth is not fiction. What is "agitropic"? Where's my damn dictionary??? I'm familiar with "allotropic", meaning one thing existing in two forms. If that is what you mean it is a perfect way to describe Moores way of the documentary, IMHO. He mixes truth with inuendo, sarcasm, which eludes to a "point-of-view". I mean we could talk about this all day, "what is truth?", etc.,etc.,etc. After all, everything is subjective. My point is that TRIUMPH DES WILLENS records "reality"(staged as it was) and uses editing to force its opinion(more cinematic), whereas Moore uses words/speech within the frame, and in real expressed time and environment, to force his, like a sly interegator. He is very good at what he does and Leni was very good at what she did. This is really a very fascinating subject. But your point is very valid, and true. I guess I just showed my inherent bias on two different fronts at the same time. :lol: 'Agitropic' is one of these new words formed from old ones that is floating about at the moment, its perhaps indecent of someone with my my spelling ability to try and use it. Its essentialy a word regarding a piece of work, be it a film, play that is made to 'agitate' or stir-up thought - polemical even. I remember the word being used a lot a few years ago when I worked at an arts-centre that was showing Tim Robbin's Embedded (Actually at the time somebody vandalised an outside wall, graffiting "Robbins is a traiter and all Brits are gay" lukily someone else had to scrub it off) Many documentry filmmakers (the ones i've met) are somewhat more honest than the rest of us (non-documentry filmmakers) about actually how manipulitive and 'point of view' all documentry films are, so still regard Moore as a documentry filmmaker. In the end he hasn't crossed the line yet of fictionalising a scenario and then filmming it, though some right-wingers are under the belief he has - well there is Canadian Bacon. He certainly pushes right up to the boundaries of what is thought of acceptable - but he was critised of doing that even before he did. Infact the great critic Paeline Kael on 'Roger and Me' accused his footage of failed locale enterprises (Hotel, Themepark) as being before the factory-closings and that he wrongly inserted it into the documentry in false context when its actually Moore's original footage made in reaction to the factories closing - infact if you watch it thats obvous. You're right its an interesting subject, but I sense its perhaps best avoided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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