For the uninitiated - this is like the game of Kho kho where someone lists his/her list of 10 movies that changed his/her life and asks you to do the same. The problem is that for the first time in life I have realised that 10 is such a small number!! I will have to list at least 100-150 to do justice to all the great films out there. So, I will cheat and add more. Promise less and deliver more!!
So here are ten(?) movies which, in some way or the other, have managed to stay with me. Not so much as change my life, but these films helped me escape it. I was stunned/awed/gobsmacked/moved by the artistry of these. In some way or the other these films changed my idea of what a cinema is and what a cinema is supposed to do.
Not including RGV's Sarkar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee,Anurag kashyap, Upendra, Puttanna kanagal and other Indian greats as we are already well aware of those.
1. Memento and every other film of Nolan(Well, before you call me a Nolantard let me exclude The Dark Knight rises)!!
2. Judgement at Nuremberg - Any time anybody recommends 12 Angry men to me I thank them by recommending this in return!
3. Miller's Crossing - Heights of Coen brothers' madness. The way the characters were etched and the way the dialogues are written is worth studying. Coens could have filled Quotable quote sections of at least ten copies of Reader's Digest with the dialogues they wrote.
4. Watch Lock,Stock and 2 smoking barrels and you will get the heights of Guy Ritchie's madness!! Totally changed my views on using the camera, editing and background music.
4. No Man's Land .
5. Saving Private Ryan and Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg
6. Ran by Akira Korosawa. Others with same emotional intensity -Hotel Rwanda, Bicycle thieves, Umberto D
7. Aguirre the wrath of God - Hypnotic and mesmerising work of ART. As a buy one get one free offer I will recommend movies by the master Theo Angelopulos - A landscape in the mist, Weeping meadows, eternity and day.
8. Hero by Zhang Yimou - Every frame a painting!! That reminds me of Days of Heaven by Terrence Mallick and that in turn reminds me of Spring,Summer,Fall,WInter,Spring by Kim ki Duk !!
9. Cinema of Iran - Children of Heaven, Song of the sparrows, The cyclist, Kandahar
10. Cinema of Jeane Pierre Jeunet - Amelie, Delicatessen.
Try watching everything by these directors:
So here are ten(?) movies which, in some way or the other, have managed to stay with me. Not so much as change my life, but these films helped me escape it. I was stunned/awed/gobsmacked/moved by the artistry of these. In some way or the other these films changed my idea of what a cinema is and what a cinema is supposed to do.
Not including RGV's Sarkar, Hrishikesh Mukherjee,Anurag kashyap, Upendra, Puttanna kanagal and other Indian greats as we are already well aware of those.
1. Memento and every other film of Nolan(Well, before you call me a Nolantard let me exclude The Dark Knight rises)!!
2. Judgement at Nuremberg - Any time anybody recommends 12 Angry men to me I thank them by recommending this in return!
3. Miller's Crossing - Heights of Coen brothers' madness. The way the characters were etched and the way the dialogues are written is worth studying. Coens could have filled Quotable quote sections of at least ten copies of Reader's Digest with the dialogues they wrote.
4. Watch Lock,Stock and 2 smoking barrels and you will get the heights of Guy Ritchie's madness!! Totally changed my views on using the camera, editing and background music.
4. No Man's Land .
5. Saving Private Ryan and Artificial Intelligence by Steven Spielberg
6. Ran by Akira Korosawa. Others with same emotional intensity -Hotel Rwanda, Bicycle thieves, Umberto D
7. Aguirre the wrath of God - Hypnotic and mesmerising work of ART. As a buy one get one free offer I will recommend movies by the master Theo Angelopulos - A landscape in the mist, Weeping meadows, eternity and day.
8. Hero by Zhang Yimou - Every frame a painting!! That reminds me of Days of Heaven by Terrence Mallick and that in turn reminds me of Spring,Summer,Fall,WInter,Spring by Kim ki Duk !!
9. Cinema of Iran - Children of Heaven, Song of the sparrows, The cyclist, Kandahar
10. Cinema of Jeane Pierre Jeunet - Amelie, Delicatessen.
Try watching everything by these directors:
- Billy Wilder
- Preston Sturges
- Charlie Chaplin
- Buster Keaton
- Orson Welles
- John Huston
- Fritz Lang
- John Ford
- Ernst Lubitsch
- Alfred Hitchcock
- John Ford
- William Wyler
- Don Siegel
- Stanley Kramer
- Vincente Minnelli
- Sergio Leone
- Franklin J. Schaffner
- George Roy Hill
- Martin Scorsese
- Stanley Kubrick
- Brian De Palma
- Sidney Lumet
- Francis Ford Coppola
- Clint Eastwood
- Werner Herzog
- John McTiernan
- Steven Spielberg
- James Cameron
- Ridley Scott
- Christopher Nolan
- Tony Scott
- Coen Brothers
- Michael Mann
- Terry Gilliam
- Paul Verhoeven
- Mel Gibson
- M. Night Shyamalan
- Wolfgang Petersen
- David Mamet
- David Fincher
- Alejandro G. Iñárritu
- Joon-ho Bong
- Quentin Tarantino
- Jee-woon Kim
- Jean Pierre Jeunet
- Johnnie To
- Majid Majidi
- Mohsen Makmalbaf
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