Amazing Cinematic Shots or Scenes

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:34pm

Recently, I found 2 that were truly amazing.

In "Brokeback Mountain" after Heath Ledger's character gets into a fight at the July 4th picnic, he stands up, and the camera shoots him up from the ground, looking like a Western hero, with gigantic red, white and blue fireworks exploding behind him. Incredible.

Also- Sayuri's dance debut in "Memoirs of a Geisha." One of the most painfully beautiful scenes i have ever seen.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:35pm

Every shot of Hero.

[nmartin]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:40pm

Damn near anything shot by Orson Welles or Josef von Sternberg, especially the opening shot of Touch of Evil and Dietrich first shot in Blonde Venus.

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:43pm

I recently saw A Clockwork Orange for the first time and was amazed by it. Kubrick is great in general for wonderful shots, but the one where Alex and his friends are sitting in the back of the milk bar and the camera keeps backing up and the whole bar comes into view with the female "dispensers" and everything else is something spectacular. That shot pushed the breath out of my lungs and I sat there amazed wishing it would go on and on.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:44pm

OTA- SorryGrateful, have you been to the Korova Milk Bar in the East Village? It's modelled after Clockwork...

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:48pm

For real? No I've not been there as I've only been to New York twice. That sounds absolutely amazing. I'm hoping to come in April, so I will definitely have to hunt that mother down. Thanks for the info!

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:51pm

[SorryGrateful]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:55pm

Another that I love is in Rebecca. Laurence Olivier is telling Joan Fontaine about what really happened to Rebecca as they are both standing in that boathouse and the camera goes in one long shot around the room to where Olivier says Rebecca fell or sat, etc. Then it circles round back to him. Olivier and Fontaine were incredible in that scene, as was Hitchcock.

[nmartin]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 3:58pm

Harry Lime's entrance in The Third Man directed by Carol Reed.

[Jane2]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:00pm

The entire film DEATH IN VENICE.

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:07pm

I feel like Requiem for a Dream is the most genius camera work I've seen done in a film since Hitchcock.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:14pm

john wayne's introduction in stagecoach.

[manders]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:15pm

Anyone had a chance to see the new Pride and Prejudice movie?

I quite liked Mr. Darcy emerging from the fog... in that coat... aahhhh

[Gothampc]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:18pm

Wim Wenders' "Wings of Desire" and "Faraway, So Close"

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:19pm

manders- loved that scene in Pride and Prejudice. The entire scene had an intense blue/grey colouring. Really beautiful.

[Pinguin]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 4:32pm

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:26pm

The Last Emperor.

That film is visually stunning, especially if you are a fan of Chinese history.

House of Flying Daggers also has some amazing scenes.

[roquat]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:30pm

The entire airborne fight scene between Zhang Ziyi and Maggie Cheung in "Hero". The whirlpools of yellow leaves that all turn red at once--stunning.

Updated On: 12/27/05 at 06:30 PM

[GClef2]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:42pm

The upside down car wreck scene in crash.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:47pm

Lighting the warning bonfires of Gondor in the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

[LionessInWinter]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:51pm

Long shots of people coming closer into focus from the distance in Lawrence of Arabia.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 6:56pm

Every moment of a Baz Luhrmann film. The man does things with color and texture that most directors can't even begin to dream of.

[broadway86]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 7:30pm

Nearly every shot in (partial list)...

Girl with a Pearl Earring
Kill Bill: Vol. 1
Far from Heaven
A.I.
Legends of the Fall
Se7en
In the Cut
The English Patient
American Beauty
Pleasantville
Elephant
The Talented Mr. Ripley
From Hell
Moulin Rouge
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Femme Fatale Updated On: 12/27/05 at 07:30 PM

[Plum]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 7:37pm

Give Donald McAlpine some credit for the look of Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge, too, because cinematographers really matter in that sort of thing.

I think the most viscerally disgusting thing I've seen on film recently is the eyeball getting squashed in Kill Bill Vol. 2.

[Beergoggles]

Posted: 12/27/05 at 7:39pm

The chornicles of Narnia:The lion, the witch and the wardrobe. Absoloutely astounding film and visually stunning! I highly reccomend it to everyone!