Well, 'Citizen Kane', for a start... they put an awful lot of effort into the lighting and camera work.

More recently, David Fincher usually seems to do interesting things with the camera; I think he's a Hitchcock fan, whose movies also had a lot of interesting camera work. Ridley Scott, maybe?

If you're interested in Hollywood directing in general, I'd suggest watching Scorcese's 'History of American Cinema' documentary; that's got a lot interesting stuff in it, and you may be able to find it on loan at a local library.

Natural Born Killers is a good start, in the open sequence alone he uses almost every camera movement and position in the book. Good examples of POV shots, camera dolly and angles for psychological effect, multimedia, use of colors to enhance sequences.

Yeah, true, NBK has a lot of interesting stuff... a friend who knew one of the producers once described it as the world's most expensive art movie, which it probably was at the time.

Robert Richardson (who shot NBK) often does interesting things with cinematography, I remember one time watching a Scorcese movie not because Scorcese directed it but because Richardson was the cinematographer :).

I will suggest you check out some stuff from French New Wave directors like Francois Truffaut or Jean Luc Goddard. They were true auteurs of cinema in did some really different things in their movies in regard to editing and angles and camera movement.

Since the majority of at least their early stuff was mainly shot in real locations or outdoors, the lighing is usually pretty natural, but the other things I mentioned are really interesting to see, especially when compared to the majority of stuff that was being done in Hollywood up to that point.

And all the american New Hollywood Wave directors like Scorcese, Friedkin, Coppola, etc all stated European New Wave directors as being the biggest influences for them.

I would suggest Robert Rodriguez's El Mariachi with the audio commentary track. He doesn't really have fancy movements or framing but he moves the camera a lot and uses a lot of cuts and it's a good primer on what can be done on virtually no budget.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

thanks for telling me the names but please tell me the names of the movies not of the filmmakers as its impossible to get cds by taking the names in a country like pakistan.so tell me the names of hollywood masterpieces

adeel akhter

Try the website www.imdb.com and search for the filmmaker for an entire list of their movies.

RJSchwarz
San Diego, CA

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well im just a young aspiring filmmaker and i studied here in asia Cebu,Philippines. and right now in in our thesis 401. well its a good thing that RED Digital Cinema Inc. has delivered the first of a total of five RED Cameras to our school making it the first film school in Asia to incorporate the vastly publicized new generation of cameras.

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Alex Proyas has a lot of really cool shots. And his camera rarely stays still. Check out movies like The Crow and Dark City. Also Conrad Hall the DP, always has great lighting. You should check out In Cold Blood. There's a scene when one of the characters and i can't remember who it was right now, is talking to his buddy at night looking out the window while it rains. It's a pretty heart felt conversation where you would expect this guy to cry. But he doesn't. However, the water thats pouring down the window casts a shadow on his face that looks like tears. Simply brilliant.

in my opinion, micheal mann does some fine camera work, some of his movements are very differnt then most.