Cinephiles recommend movies like my favorites?
I like a wide variety of movies. However, I don't really know anyone that knowledgable about film, or a cinephile or anything like that. Here are a list of movies I would consider among my favorites. What are some SIMILAR ones I would like? I am NOT ust looking for a random greatest of all time or 2013 award winner/2014 newest release list. In no particular order Ben X Clerks 2 North by Northwest Ohayo/Good Morning The Last Supper Requiem Paper Moon Series 7: The Contenders Paper Moon Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory The Replacements The King of Kong Stagecoach Major League Speak Ferris Bueller's Day Off Good Will Hunting Joy Ride The Wizard of Oz The 400 Blows Ordinary People Animal House Pieces of April Word Wars Box of Moonlight The Lucky Ones Maria Full of Grace Young@Heart Rounders Juno Confessions of a Superhero Mozart and the Whale Stand By Me Clerks Saved! Pee-Wee's Big Adventure Gypsy 83 Nanook of the North My Flesh and Blood Election Planes, Trains, and Automobiles Office Space A League of Their Own Saint Ralph It Happened One Night Bringing Up Baby Clockwise Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog God Bless America Hackers Home Room Moneyball Poltergeist The Breakfast Club The Dinner Game The Shawshank Redemption The Wrestler
How can an individual become a cinephile?
The word “cinephile” literally means a person who is fond of motion pictures. You might say passionate instead of fond if you'd like. But at any rate, the point is:There's no special path to becoming a cinephile.I was a freshman in college when I realized I simply was a cinephile. If I'd realized it sooner I'd have gone a different professional route.But as is I channel my love of film into writing occasional reviews for the local paper and answering questions on Quora.And of course by watching as many films as I can.
What are some Bengali films every cinephile must watch?
What are some Bengali films every cinephile must watch?As a non-Bengali speaking cinephile with the resultant limitations, I would suggest :All the films of Satyajit Ray.All the films of Mrinal Sen, andAll the films of Ritwik Ghatak.These are non negotiable minimum recommendations. Better suggestions can come from native Bengali cinephiles.
How do you start being a cinephile? What would you recommend me to start being a proper cinephile?
Thanks for the A2A! If you love movies, then you’re already a cinephile, by definition. But if you want a higher level of discernment and sophistication, I could suggest that, like any art, exposing yourself to both more movies and a wide range of movies will deepen your appreciation almost automatically. Try genres that you’re not already attracted to, even (or especially) disreputable ones. What makes for a distinguished work in each genre? Take thrillers, for example. How is a great thriller constructed, from the story down through performances to editing? What are the hallmarks of a great thriller, as opposed to hackwork? Look at how Hitchcock developed his style and his approach over the decades.Or comedy. Count the ways that the mastery of, say, Preston Sturges or Billy Wilder showed itself.Two good questions to be asking yourself are In what ways does this movie serve its subject? and What does it do to work on (and for) its audience?One last suggestion: Tony Zhou’s YouTube series Every Frame a Painting is fantastic for providing insight into effective film form.PS Special bonus suggestion from the estimable Mr. Fishkin (in the comments): read reviews from intelligent reviewers (historical examples: Pauline Kael, Roger Ebert; currently, Mick LaSalle at the San Francisco Chronicle) after you see a film. Let that be food for thought.
Other movies similar to March of the Penguins?
Farce of the Penguins is a parody of March of the Penguins. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0488539/ Here's a few sites that list similar movies: http://www.moviefone.com/movie/march-of-... http://www.fandango.com/marchofthepengui... http://www.starpulse.com/Movies/March_of_the_Penguins/Similar_Movies/
Hidden gem movie recommendations?
- Venus - Leaving Normal - The Lucky Ones (2008) - not seen myself - Raising Arizona - Le couperet, a.k.a. The Ax - Adam's Apples - You, The Living - The Bothersome Man - The Far Side Of The Moon - Fandango - Perfectly Normal (1991) - Whisky (2004) - A Serious Man - Broken Flowers - Four Rooms - Ghost Dog: Way Of The Samurai - Slums Of Beverly Hills - Sunshine Cleaning - Carnage - TransAmerica - Lord Of War - Thank You For Smoking - Fast Food Nation - Drop Dead Gorgeous - Plots With A View - Estomago - He Was A Quiet Man - Good Bye Lenin! - Malcolm (1986) - The Straight Story - Okuribito, a.k.a. Departures - Bin-Jip, a.k.a. 3-Iron - Soom, a.k.a. Breath - Happy-Go-Lucky - Jeux d'enfants - La fée - Kitchen Stories (2003) - Window To Paris - Empties - Noodle (2007) - Nothing Is Private - Ermo - The Hedgehog - Expired - Unrelated (2007) - La délicatesse (2011) - Les petits mouchoirs (2010) - Little Miss Sunshine - Il ladro di bambini - Mediterraneo - Noi albinoi - Perfectly Normal - Ghost World - Don't Come Knocking - 11:14 - Hundstage - I Heart Huckabees - The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou - Freeway - Flashback (1990) - Whale Rider - Muriel's Wedding - Love Serenade - Mortel transfert (2001) - Amateur (1994) - Potiche - Little Children - Trees Lounge - Living In Oblivion - 2 Days In The Valley (1996) - Big Trouble (2002) - Big Nothing (2006) - The Big White (2005) - A Fish Called Wanda - Dobermann (1997) - 99 francs (2007) - Big Night (1996) - The Big Hit (1998) - maybe - Read My Lips - maybe - Luna Papa (1999) - maybe - Welcome To Collinwood (2002) - Thursday (1998) - Micmacs à tire-larigot (2009) - Chopper (2000) - Spun
How do cinephiles rank the crop of American movies that will be vying for the best Picture Academy Award in 2019?
What I see, more and more every year, is what I’ll call good Friday Night Movies (I’ll capitalise that), and movies that tried but failed to be special.Look at last year: Hidden Figures, Get Out, The Post, and Darkest Hour, all great Friday Night Movies. Not particularly special, but with special elements in them. Then there’s Three Billboards, Call Me By Your Name, and Dunkirk, all movies that aspired to greatness but fell well short.This year looks much the same. Green Book, Crazy Rich Asian’s, Avengers Infinity War, and Bohemian Rhapsody are the Good Friday Night Movies. (Black Panther to me is an Okay Friday Night Movie, not worthy of consideration.). All very well done, with some outstanding elements, but not much that stays with you.Movies that shot for the stars but failed include A Star is Born, and First Man. They both have the look, but some pieces are missing.I don’t know what to think about A Quiet Place. It is fundamentally a Friday Night Movie, but it really transcends the genre, it is so perfectly conceived and executed. It deserves consideration.Leave No Trace is, really, a French-style movie shot in America. It was brilliant and beautiful, but doesn’t conform to American storytelling stereotypes, so it won’t get much consideration.I still have a few to see. 2010 for me was the last really good crop of nominees, and indeed most years 2000–2009 had a number of great movies up for consideration. These days, it’s harder to get excited about them.
I came across this movie about cinephiles, it's a movie where these guys are so obsessed to watch a particular number of movies per year. I don't remember the title. Please help, what is his movie called?
The Dreamers?Featuring Eva GreenThe Dreamers (film)
What are the major similarites and differences between French New Wave and Italian Neo-realism?
Italian Neo-realism emerged in Italy in the aftermath of World War II and reflected the desperate state of Italy at the time by focusing on stories set amongst the poor and working classes. The directors associated with the movement such as Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica were reacting against the mainstream cinema in their country at that time which they felt was unreal and unrepresentative of what was really happening in the country. They wanted to be more realistic and truthful so they took their cameras out on the streets, frequently used unprofessional actors, and avoided artifice in editing, camerawork and lighting in favour of a “style-less” style. They also avoided contrived, neatly plotted stories in favour of looser, more episodic structures and favoured raw emotions over ideas. Because of their originality and universality the films had a big impact and influenced other directors. In the late 40s and early 50s when Neorealism was at its height, the young cinephiles who would later become the directors of the French New Wave such as Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, were writing film criticism in Paris for magazines such as Cahiers du Cinema. They were knocked out by the films coming out of Italy. They praised them for their honesty, energy and lack of contrivance. When they became directors themselves they took some of the lessons they’d learnt from Neo-realism and put it into their own work, such as filming on location using small crews, capturing the way people really interact and talk, and favouring looser more organic stories. However, there were differences too. Paris in the late 50s and early 60s was very different from post-war Italy. Their films were more irreverent and intellectual, played around with genre conventions and often featured bohemian middle-class characters at their centre. To find out more about these two great movements try these two links: http://www.criterion.com/explore/6 http://www.newwavefilm.com/