well the best thing you can do is to look for movies that have won oscars for "best movie", "best directo", "best cinematography".

i'm like you, i'm always looking for movies i can learn from.
i do have a few favorite ones:
road to perdision, cinderella man, the return of the king.
good luck.

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Originally posted by indy_pendent

well the best thing you can do is to look for movies that have won oscars for "best movie", "best directo", "best cinematography".

i'm like you, i'm always looking for movies i can learn from.
i do have a few favorite ones:
road to perdision, cinderella man, the return of the king.
good luck.

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Yeah, i also like "Road to Perdition" i love the framing and colors and the way it was directed is just amazing...
Cinderella Man was ok i wasn?t too crazy about it.. 🙂
I have to check "The Return of The King"
I love the way those movies were directed Fight Club, Se7en, Catch me if you can, Snatch, Aviator and few others...

any other movies i should check out?

I would watch American Beauty, Catch Me if You Can, Raging Bull, The Graduate, and Hero to the list of movies. They all stood out to me particulalry by having meaningful camera movements.

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Raging Bull is one of my favorite movies 🙂 i watched it many times... but i never saw American Beauty and The Graduate.. I will check them out 🙂

any more movies guys?

The best way to study the camera shots and movement, subject movement and lighting is to turn off the sound so you are not distracted.

Check out any film directed by the best cinematographers and directors.

I think The Coen Brothers have the most revealing and innovative movement of any directors/filmmakers. Check out "Raising Arizona" and "O' Brother Where Out Thou"

I think I've already answered this question elsewhere on the forum but in short I would recommend 'Once Upon A Time In The West'. Sergio Leone's masterpiece has everything you could ever wish to know about camera movement. Also refer to Kurosawa. 'Rashomon' being my favourite. Great fight scene as well - much copied, seldom surpassed. ?:)? Oh and 'The Passenger' has some great camera work, especially the very last scene - sheer genius.

Ross

"Photography does not so much confirm our experience of the world as it actively constructs it." AS-G

One thing you might want to look at is Scorcese's 'History of American Cinema' documentary; it doesn't have much on how to shoot a movie, but between the pure historical parts there are a lot of examples of work by American directors of the past. If you're lucky you might be able to borrow the DVD or VHS set from your local library.

Another thing you might take a look at is Life Aquatic/Rushmore/Royal Tanenbaums in which there are lots of well-framed cuts but limited camera movement. Same with Napoleon Dynamite. Depending upon your movie camera movements can be gratuitous.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA