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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #120 on: May 03, 2010, 08:47:55 PM »
In which I steal lotrsamnumbers' idea and apply it to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the second-greatest film of all time.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director/Writer: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Deyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Music by: John Williams
Special Effects by: Douglas Trumbull

This film is awesome. I will review it scene-by-scene. You know the drill and I need not say more.

Introduction
Scene 1
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #121 on: May 03, 2010, 10:33:15 PM »
In which I steal lotrsamnumbers' idea and apply it to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the second-greatest film of all time.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director/Writer: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Deyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Music by: John Williams
Special Effects by: Douglas Trumbull

This film is awesome. I will review it scene-by-scene. You know the drill and I need not say more.

Introduction
Scene 1

I hate that I didn't think of this first!  I'll be enjoying every frame.  Very cool you're doing this.

One thing I would have have you highlight is the first of what I call the "Speilberg Foremovements".  In one of the shots in that opening scene the flap from the plane wing is flinging up and down in the foreground while one the guys is yelling out serial numbers (I think).  The first of many cool little directing touches in the film
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #122 on: May 05, 2010, 05:20:22 PM »
In which I steal lotrsamnumbers' idea and apply it to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the second-greatest film of all time.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director/Writer: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Deyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Music by: John Williams
Special Effects by: Douglas Trumbull

This film is awesome. I will review it scene-by-scene. You know the drill and I need not say more.

Introduction
Scene 1
Scene 2

SCENE 2 IS UP!!!!! It contains screencaps of radar screens.
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #123 on: May 05, 2010, 10:28:52 PM »
In which I steal lotrsamnumbers' idea and apply it to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the second-greatest film of all time.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director/Writer: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Deyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Music by: John Williams
Special Effects by: Douglas Trumbull

This film is awesome. I will review it scene-by-scene. You know the drill and I need not say more.

Introduction
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3

And now there's Scene #3!!! Go read it or else!
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #124 on: May 05, 2010, 11:53:11 PM »
In which I steal lotrsamnumbers' idea and apply it to Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the second-greatest film of all time.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Director/Writer: Steven Spielberg
Starring: Richard Deyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
Cinematography: Vilmos Zsigmond
Edited by: Michael Kahn
Music by: John Williams
Special Effects by: Douglas Trumbull

This film is awesome. I will review it scene-by-scene. You know the drill and I need not say more.

Introduction
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3

And now there's Scene #3!!! Go read it or else!

I can't think of a movie with 3 more perfect opening scenes.


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Clovis have you heard the story about how Speilberg got the great reaction from Barry in front of the open fridge?
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #126 on: May 12, 2010, 10:57:36 PM »
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I'm fascinated by your left/right screen positioning discussion. I haven't heard a theory like that before.
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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #127 on: May 12, 2010, 11:01:35 PM »
I was wondering about this. It's something I picked up when we discussed the basic principles of image composition in film in one of my classes. I might need to go about explaining it better.

Basically what they found is that all people have a tendency to focus on the right side of the frame, therefore it has more dominance.

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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #128 on: May 12, 2010, 11:33:22 PM »
Some people have this idea that Malick's shots of nature are magnificent and cinematic. However, I prefer to see them as indulgent and they make his films slow and boring.

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Re: Presenting Filmspotters Favorite Films
« Reply #129 on: May 12, 2010, 11:36:09 PM »
Some people have this idea that Malick's shots of nature are magnificent and cinematic. However, I prefer to see them as indulgent and they make his films slow and boring.

You're probably right. You're also probably wrong. I have a sneaking suspicion there will be a Malick dictation in our future and then we'll be forced into this argument.
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