Hamid Khozouie Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Which films influence you for using the good advantages of lighting in outdoor cinematography? My options are : DAYS OF HEAVEN(1976) Nestor almendros SHELTERING SKY(1990) Vittorio Storaro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignacio Aguilar Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Some of my favourites: -"Lawrence of Arabia", "Doctor Zhivago" & "Ryan's Daughter", Freddie Young BSC. -"Dances with Wolves", Dean Semler, ACS, ASC. -"Apocalypse Now", Vittorio Storaro, AIC, ASC. -"Baraka", Ron Fricke. -"The Thin Red Line", John Toll, ASC. -"Ran", Asakazu Nakai. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cinematography Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Lawrence of Arabia tops my list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raffinator Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 Ahh, the great outdoors. No set can match the beauty and poetry of mother earth. Loved "RAN", "LAWRENCE", "BARAKA", "APOCALYPSE NOW" as mentioned before. A few more: "McCABE & MRS.MILLER" -Vilmos Zsigmond: incredible use of flashing, a totally unique look. "THE SEARCHERS" -Winton C. Hoch: Monument Valley, John Wayne on a horse, what else can you say? "THE WILD BUNCH" -Lucien Ballard: great skies, death as ballet. "PREDATOR" -Donald McAlpine: incredible jungle textures, green jungle, red blood. "THE BLACK STALLION" -Caleb Deschanel: fantastic visual storytelling. "BARRY LYNDON" -John Alcott: not entirely "outdoors", but sumptuous, painterly landscapes, and nice use of zooms (normally considered an amateur move) Raffi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Amerikaner Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 In no particular order: "Baraka" (although I'm not sure that much of it is lit since it's a non-fiction film). "Never Cry Wolf" Hiro Narita ASC (probably the best wilderness movie survival not seen by many people). "Derzu Uzala" directed by Akira Kurosawa (one of his bests, sadly little seen by anyone but the most devout fans). "Border Incident" and "Devil's Doorway" John Alton ASC (cinema's greatest noir cinematographer shot some westerns late in his career. The best day for night photography I've ever seen). "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" Roger Deakins ASC, BSC (sumptuous colors thanks to a carefully used DI) "Cool Hand Luke" and "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" Conrad L. Hall ASC (you've seen them, what more is there to say) ?The Fellowship of The Ring? Andrew Lesnie ACS (my favorite of the trilogy, although there?s great work throughout). J Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member David Mullen ASC Posted May 22, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted May 22, 2005 I would only ADD a few items to what has already been listed, like "Out of Africa", "The Emerald Forest", "Gallipoli", "The Mission"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Tim J Durham Posted May 22, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted May 22, 2005 I would only ADD a few items to what has already been listed, like "Out of Africa", "The Emerald Forest", "Gallipoli", "The Mission"... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> "Black Robe" "Touching the Void" "Winged Migration" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Wendell_Greene Posted May 22, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted May 22, 2005 Only because I just watched it again recently - Roman Polanski's film TESS. photographed by the late, great Geoffrey Unsworth and Ghislain Cloquet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorme Jean-Marie Posted May 23, 2005 Share Posted May 23, 2005 also Easy riders 'laslo kovaks" Quest for fire : "Claude Agostini" himalaya : "Eric Guichard" have you seen this last one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy Montana Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 "BARAKA". Stunning, stunning photography. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Derango Posted June 13, 2005 Share Posted June 13, 2005 Hands down, "The Thin Red Line" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Wells Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 WALKABOUT- Nic Roeg/Tony RichmondVery exciting location work. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have to agree, I'd forgotten how good until I rented the DVD recently... Wow this is a broad category. I second "The Thin Red Line" not because it's beautiful per se but because the moves make the camera some kind of primeval observer amidst the madness of war. These two really need the big screen...... A few that might not get mentioned: Recently, Li Ping-bin for Hou's "The Puppetmaster" and "Good Men, Good Women" Speaking of Iran, Kiarostami's "The Wind Will Carry Us" (Mahmoud Kalari ?) Classicaly way too many to mention but Tisse on Eisenstein's unfinished "Que Viva Mexico" -Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landon D. Parks Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 I would have to say the film with the best outdoor photography is the Lord of the Rings films... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucita Jones Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 "The Return" Dir.: Andrei Zvyagintsev year 2003 Cinematography : Mikhail Krichman This is cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidSloan Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 It's hard for me to answer such a question because I can't separate the cinematography from the film itself. I have too much of a writer/director mentality to simply be satisfied with nice images. I'm sure the exteriors in Sahara were nice, but I wouldn't see that film for money. Some favorite films with lots of rich outdoor cinematography: Zabriskie Point The Cow Sword of Doom Why Has Bodhi Dharma Left For the East Stalker Voyage to Cythera 29 Palms El Topo Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Brown Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Thin Red Line & Days of Heavan all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Luke Prendergast Posted June 18, 2005 Premium Member Share Posted June 18, 2005 Once Upon A Time In The West Le Grand Bleu/The Big Blue Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Salzmann Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Aguirre: Wrath of God Stalker Ran Badlands Deerhunter This is pointless because there are so many. Just as pointless as the "Most influential cinematographer" thread. I mean Billy Bitzer (DW Griffith's) cameraman was there at the beginning and seriously innovating on a daily basis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timHealy Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 off the top of my head, I'd like to add to a great list: A Walk in the Clouds. Just beautiful. Tucker again beauty all the way. And Black Hawk Down. from a gritty, get your hands dirty, point of view. It has already been mentioned, but I got a chance to see Lawrence of Arabia at the Ziegfeld in NY when it was restored in the early 90's. It was nothing less than spectacular. Films like that are simply not made for television. This list could go on and on.... Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Shani Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) hi "the thin red line" "day of haevan" "stalker" "house of fllying dagers"- "dreams"-korasawa " apocalypse now" ram Edited June 18, 2005 by ramdop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidSloan Posted June 20, 2005 Share Posted June 20, 2005 I forgot to mention one of my favorite films of all time-Beau Travial, directed by Claire denis, and shot by Agnes Godard (jean Luc's daughter). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mariano Nante Posted June 21, 2005 Share Posted June 21, 2005 Kim ki duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, winter...and Spring Again Just beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J. Lamar King IMPOSTOR Posted June 25, 2005 Share Posted June 25, 2005 I would add to the list Caleb Deschanel's work: The Black Stallion The Right Stuff The Natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Algis Kemezys Posted June 29, 2005 Share Posted June 29, 2005 For me the films of David Lean come first. Then some of the eearly Clint Eastwood Classics. The first film I ever saw was The Good Bad and the Ugly. My father called me blondie after that. Merchant Ivory films are also a must. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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