Martin Scorsese's Film School: The 85 Films You Need To See To Know Anything About Film. Interviewing Martin Scorsese is like taking a master class in film. Fast Company’s four-hour interview with the director for the December-January cover story was ostensibly about his career, and how he had been able to stay so creative through years of battling studios. But the Hugo director punctuated everything he said with references to movies: 85 of them, in fact, all listed below. Some of the movies he discussed (note: the descriptions for these are below in quotes, denoting his own words).
Others he just mentioned (noted below with short plot descriptions and no quotes). But the cumulative total reflects a life lived entirely within the confines of movie making, from his days as a young asthmatic child watching a tiny screen in Queens, New York to today, when Scorsese is as productive as he’s ever been in his career–and more revered than ever by the industry that once regarded him as a troublesome outsider.
The Band Wagon: “It’s my favorite of the Vincente Minnelli musicals. Mr. What Are We Meant to Get Out of Movies Based on Short Stories and Novels? By Daniel Mendelsohn Film, which shows things, and literature, which tells them, speak different languages. Illustration by R. Kikuo Johnson Daniel Mendelsohn And Baz Luhrmann thought he had something to kvetch about! When the Australian director’s steroidal, 3-D, hip-hopped version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wistfully gossamer masterpiece “The Great Gatsby” came out earlier this year, critical reception was mixed, with a number of memorably vitriolic pans.
Stroheim had long dreamed of making a meticulously complete adaptation of Norris’s tawdry tale of love, lust, winning lottery tickets, friendship, betrayal, love triangles, murder and unlicensed dentistry. Stroheim’s aesthetic calvary raises familiar questions: To what extent can literature be translated into an entertaining spectacle? Critical angst often arises from the inescapable fact that film, which shows things, and literature, which tells them, speak different languages. In a warm review of Luhrmann’s “Gatsby,” The Times’s A. Top 10 documentaries | Film. 10. Man With a Movie Camera To best understand this 1929 silent documentary, one ought to know that its director, the exotically named "Dziga Vertov", was actually born David Abelevich Kaufman in 1896.
Some say the name derives from the Russian word for spinning top, but the pseudonym is more likely an onomatopeic approximation of the sound made by the twin reels of film as the director ran them backwards and forwards through his flatbed editor. For Vertov, film was something physical, to be manipulated by man, and yet, paradoxically, he also saw it as a medium that revealed the truths of life. Heavily influenced by futurism and constructivism, both key concerns of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov set out with a simple plan – to record a day in the life of urban Russia. Significantly, though, there is nothing mimetic about this documentation; Vertov's plan was to make the camera and the celluloid itself as significant as the scenes portrayed. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Visionary Cinema - a list by dcioppa. Top 10 movie adaptations | Film. 10. Planet of the Apes Although the source novel, La Planète des Singes, was written by Frenchman Pierre Boule and originally reached its futureshock climax in Paris, this enduring sci-fi fantasy is profoundly American, putting Charlton Heston's steel-jawed patriotism to incredible use. It also holds up surprisingly well as a jarring allegory for the population's fears over escalating cold war tensions. Beginning with a spaceship crash-landing on an unknown planet after years of cryogenic sleep, Franklin J Schaffner's film soon gets into gear as Heston's upstanding astronaut Taylor is chased and seized by a troop of gorillas on horseback.
Interestingly, for a film based on a single idea, it is the sum of its parts that make it so timeless – principally Jerry Goldsmith's eerie, organic score – while the cast makes easy work of ensuring the apes are simultaneously terrifying and, in the case of in Kim Hunter and Roddy McDowall as Zira and Cornelius, incredibly sympathetic. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. Film Network - FilmMaking - Guide - Related Links: Recommended Watching. The finest art films on earth. Features Canada We pick the best from Fifa, the world’s biggest festival of its kind, taking place in Montreal this month By Iain Millar. Media, Issue 244, March 2013Published online: 11 March 2013 Some of the subjects of Jake Auerbach’s “The Last Art Film” The 31st International Festival of Films on Art (Fifa)—the world’s largest festival of its kind—takes place in Montreal, Canada, from 14 to 24 March. For the third consecutive year, the festival will include a market section, where distributors and media buyers can attend more intimate screenings and meet film-makers and producers at private networking events.
Highlights among the festival’s 200-plus films include: “An Ocean of Images” — The director Helen Doyle interviews and follows photographers and graphic artists to examine what makes specific images stand out from the many thousands produced each day. For more details, visit www.artfifa.com Submit a comment All comments are moderated. Email* Name* Name required Name required City*