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use of color (brilliant) -- other movies?

posted 17 years ago by zadie-4
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This was admittedly pretty slow, but the art direction was absolutely amazing. The rooms were gorgeous, as were the clothes, and the sets... this for me made the film, not the amorphous plot. I also thought that Schneider's purportedly "wooden" performance, with its slow, lazy diction and slumping and sultry, was perfect: like being out in the sun too long, exhausted and weary.

Anyone able to name movies that similarly were effective more for their atmosphere than their plot, per se? Especially w/ sets. I do think of the Paltrow "Great Expectations"... mediocre movie w/ beautiful use of color, or Ju Dou. Others?

Cool movie, overall, but took me two sittings to get thru.

[–] g_monescu 17 years ago

Some notable films with vivid art direction - especially with the use of colors - are Godard's 60's films (A Woman Is a Woman, Contempt, Pierrot Le Fou, etc), the works of Wong Kar Wai (In the Mood for Love), nearly every film in Stanley Kubrick's oeuvre, Sergei Paradjanov's The Color of Pomegranates, the later works of Fassbinder (Maria Braun, Lola, Thirteen Moons, etc), just to name a select few.

[–] imwithstupid_35 14 years ago

Ran by Kurosawa

[–] panospcm 14 years ago

Vertigo, for sure.

All those moments will be lost... in time... like tears in rain...

[–] HolyShackles 14 years ago

Antonioni's other color films, particularly Red Desert. Cries and Whispers, Barry Lyndon, Jean Renoir's The River, anything by Sergei Paradjanov, and if you can handle true avant-garde films I'd also recommend Inaguration of the Pleasure Dome by Kenneth Anger.

[–] zadie-4 14 years ago

Kenneth Anger, Hollywood Babylon fame? Yes!

Thanks, man!

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[–] design-252-951723 10 years ago

The cook, the thief, his wife and her lover- great use of colour