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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #40 on: November 12, 2009, 01:44:22 AM »


Tak Fujimoto puts both Deakins and Almendros to shame.

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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #41 on: November 12, 2009, 02:55:26 AM »
I love that people love this film, even though I don't love it as much as they seem to.

Is that weird?

Not to me.  I feel that way about Chungking Express and Once Upon a Time in the West (sort of), for starters.
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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #42 on: November 12, 2009, 02:57:10 AM »
Tak Fujimoto puts both Deakins and Almendros to shame.

Haskell Wexler would probably punch his computer monitor if he read that.

Ebert wrote, "The credit for cinematography goes to the Cuban Nestor Almendros, who won an Oscar for the film; ``Days of Heaven'' established him in America, where he went on to great success. Then there is a small credit at the end: ``Additional photography by Haskell Wexler.'' Wexler, too, is one of the greatest of all cinematographers. That credit has always rankled him, and he once sent me a letter in which he described sitting in a theater with a stopwatch to prove that more than half of the footage was shot by him."
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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #43 on: November 12, 2009, 02:58:34 AM »
To be fair, Wexler is a little crazy.

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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #44 on: November 12, 2009, 03:00:48 AM »
To be fair, Wexler is a little crazy.

I certainly wasn't implying that he wasn't :)

That stuff with David Carradine was painful to read about.
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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #45 on: November 12, 2009, 06:24:14 AM »
I, too, had it in my top 100. It's an amazing film.

This.

Glad you enjoyed it ferris.

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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #46 on: November 12, 2009, 07:59:55 AM »


Tak Fujimoto puts both Deakins and Almendros to shame.

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so true.  and after seeing The Insider (for the first time) this week, i would also give him major props for that (though just outside of goose egg contention (1999))
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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #47 on: November 12, 2009, 08:15:07 AM »
I haven't seen Spirited Away or Diving Bell. I have Diving Bell on my computer, but I never seem to find time for it.

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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #48 on: November 12, 2009, 08:48:14 AM »
wait...I thought Miami Vice was Dion Beebe
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Re: Ferris' Goose Egg Marathon: Ten Great Films from this Decade (2000-2009)
« Reply #49 on: November 12, 2009, 08:57:44 AM »
wait...I thought Miami Vice was Dion Beebe

i give props to mann for visual design.  no way his (more recent) films have the visual character they do primarily because of the DPs
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