I find the photography in Play Time magnificent. The structure, the composition, dynamics, light...
Besides Wings of Desire, The Conformist, Apocalypse Now and 2001 it has my vote for best cinematography ever. What do you think?
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Agree!
How about the cinematography of Gertrud, Ugetsu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Andrei Rublev and The Magnificent Ambersons?
For me the 3 most revolutionary films of the 1960's are "2001", "Playtime" and "Last Year at Marinbad".
How about the cinematography of Gertrud, Ugetsu, Letter from an Unknown Woman, Andrei Rublev and The Magnificent Ambersons?
Or Vertigo, Young Mr. Lincoln, Lubitsch's The Merry Widow, Black Narcissus, Last Tango in Paris, Il Deserto Rosso, Lola Montes, Madame de..., Jalsaghar and Some Came Running.
For me the 3 most revolutionary films of the 1960's are "2001", "Playtime" and "Last Year at Marinbad".
For me it's Play Time, then Antonioni's L'Eclisse and Gertud.
Also
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
La Prise de Pouvoir par Louis XIV
Week End
Marnie
Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors
The Silence
Persona
Peeping Tom
8 1/2
Il Gattopardo
Lola
Jules et Jim
Pierrot le Fou
La Peau Douce
Faces
The Savage Innocents
and
Lawrence of Arabia.
The 60's needless to say was a special time in world cinema. It's likes will not be seen again.
"Ça va by me, madame...Ça va by me!" - The Red Shoes
Not sure how special the cinematography is, but the direction/mise en scene is probably the best, or at least most complex, ever. I think the best colour cinematography I've ever seen is a tie between "The Cook The Thief His Wife and Her Lover" and "Apocalypse Now".
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I find the photography in Play Time magnificent. The structure, the composition, dynamics, light...
It is. Although Jacques Tati is seen as a master of composition and use of sound, his eye for colour and light is just stupendous. The beautiful use of the muted colours and the brief bits of bright colours. Like the green dress worn by the American girl. And also it's lit differently too. Like in the film there are many occassions where different people tend to walk by looking like Hulot or wearing similar outfit but you can always tell Hulot apart by the very distinct gray overcoat he wears. I also love the neon lights which Tati treats like carnival lights. And I enjoyed the scene at that cafe/drugstore where Tati and customers are lit in Vertigo green...and the American girl that Hulot falls for only for that to never get anywhere is also dressed in green. Is Frere Jacques tipping to Hitchcock?
What do you think?
Well it's different from the films you mentioned. Il Conformista and Apocalypse Now have a kind of pictorialism, a very stylized luscious palette. The palette of Play Time is restrained and meant to convey the colours that we see in our daily lives. It's aesthetically beautiful but it's different.
"Ça va by me, madame...Ça va by me!" - The Red Shoes
I have to add that there is very little red in Playtime - the majority of the colours are steely blues, so much that even the green dress and green lighting stand out.
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