Re: a great movie
Date: November 18, 2005 22:18
gmanp Wrote:
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> Days of Heaven
That's one of my standard answers to people who ask me "what's my favorite movie?"
Must have seen it dozens of times. Actually I like all of Malick's work, but this one really gets me, the lighting and framing is amazingly good. As well, the narrative voice of Linda Manz's character is amazing, naive, gutter poetry.
"I've been thinking what to do wit' my future. I could be a mud doctor. Check out the earth. Underneat'.
This girl, she didn't know where she was going or what she was going to do. She didn't have no money on her. Maybe she'd met up with a character. I was hoping things would work out for her. She was a good friend of mine."
I'm looking forward to The New World, apparently he's shot the entire thing on 65mm film (novisual effects footage). It was supposed to be out this month, but it looks like it's been moved to limited release on Christmas day and then January throughout North America.
Sounds so obvious but since no one's said it yet I'll mention a little movie made by a 26 year old guy from radio, his first film, it was called, what was it now . . .oh yeah, Citizen Kane. Not a bad little picture to have if you're stuck on a desert isle.
And since this is a sound board, It's probably worth mentioning that that Kane Bernard Herrmann's first score.
His last film is worth mentioning, too: Taxi Driver.
And then there's the personal indulgence film: Planet of The Apes (original). I saw that in the theatre when I was 6 years old, and by the time I left I had forgotten that the real world actually existed. Scared the sheet out of me.
Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!