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More films like this?

posted 14 years ago by BERSERKERpoetry
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If I were to give you this list, what would you add to it?
I'm looking for anything with this same feeling.
Quiet, personal films with good cinematography.

Whistle Down the Wind (1961)
Paper Moon (1973)
Alice in the Cities (1974)
Harry and Tonto (1974)
The Deer Hunter (1978)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Black Stallion (1979)
Breaking Away (1979)
My Brilliant Career (1979)
Threshold (1981)
The Dead Zone (1983)
Never Cry Wolf (1983)
Silkwood (1983)
Tender Mercies (1983)
Testament (1983)
Country (1984)
Paris, Texas (1984)
Places in the Heart (1984)
The Stone Boy (1984)
Vigil (1984)
The Quiet Earth (1985)
84 Charing Cross Road (1987)
Ironweed (1987)
Matewan (1987)
High Tide (1987)
Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Signs of Life (1989)
An Unremarkable Life (1989)
The Long Walk Home (1990)
Rising Son (1990)
The Inner Circle (1991)
Passion Fish (1992)
On My Own (1993)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
The Secret Garden (1993)
A Place for Annie (1994)
Imaginary Crimes (1994)
The Secret of Roan Inish (1994)
Dead Man (1995)
Dolores Claiborne (1995)
Margaret's Museum (1995)
A Family Thing (1996)
Fly Away Home (1996)
Eve's Bayou (1997)
New Waterford Girl (1999)
The Straight Story (1999)
Wit (2001)
In America (2003)
Off the Map (2003)
The Snow Walker (2003)
Old Joy (2006)
The Necessities of Life (2008)
Wendy and Lucy (2008)
Winter's Bone (2010)

[–] mastholte 14 years ago

BERSERKERpoetry, thanks for posting the list. Sorry, I can't think of anything to add right now, just want to say look how their number dwindles in the last decade, it may be indicative of sad things ... or, well, we'll have to live one or two more decades before we discover more good movies from the early 21st century.

[–] BERSERKERpoetry 14 years ago

For this feeling of movie, the late 70s to early 90s is best for me. It's just the visual sense that came natural to so many films. I fell in love with the quality of film and photographic approach.

[–] mastholte 14 years ago

I'm gonna go back in time exactly to those years. For the things yet unknown.

So far I'm in late nineties. It's Malick.

[–] mastholte 14 years ago

Days of Heaven didn't look like fitting this list to me, I'm sorry. However, I can add a few that I've seen from the seventies. Bad News Bears and Breaking Away with young Jackie Earle Haley, and Tim with young Mel Gibson.

[–] BERSERKERpoetry 14 years ago

Breaking Away is great.

Well, it's my list, and Days of Heaven is the very definition of it to me. The more a film is like Days of Heaven, the more it belongs on this list.

[–] mastholte 14 years ago

If for cinematography... it's undeniably great, but the message? Quiet and personal? Well, I admit I've watched it once, sure it can't be enough to judge. What about Badlands, then?

[–] BERSERKERpoetry 14 years ago

Sure, that's exactly the sort it is. Besides, "quiet and personal" is an attitude, not a message. All those slow, leasurely scenes, intimate conversation, the narration by Linda Manz. It's like the definition of quiet and personal. "Badlands" qualifies, sorta, but the fact that it's mainly about murder sort of distracts from that.

[–] mastholte 14 years ago

I see, thanks.

[–] LudwigVanGoldfish 14 years ago

Ater reading through your list I had to reply - there is a glaring omission!

Watch this film and enjoy: Map Of the Human Heart.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104812/

And you even have Margaret's Museum, okay, so try these:

Amelie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/

Smoke http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114478/

Look where no one else is looking and see what no one else sees.

[–] bminney 13 years ago

Try Once 2007 or The road Home 1999 - both films to watch over and over again, Sheer Magic!!

[–] tuvok-voyager 13 years ago

I am suprised no one mentioned Flight of the Phoenix (2004)

[–] Dave1136 11 years ago

The 1965 version was a million times better!

[–] m2dad 13 years ago

The Mighty

[–] goleafsgo27 13 years ago

Several of the films on your list are among my faves. Here's another, a lesser-known Kurosawa film from 1975 that won the foreign film Oscar: Dersu Uzala.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071411/
Enjoy!

[–] dynamite6000 13 years ago

Hi,
thanks for the list.

You should definitely definitely add "Far North" (2007) with Michelle Yeoh and Sean Bean.

I love that movie...its also a very quiet, independent movie.

[–] jmim-1 12 years ago

As I posted on another thread, I highly recommend the following (although they don't all meet your criterion for cinematography):

- Children of Heaven (1997: I just can't say enough about this one; filmed in Iran, Persian language with English subtitles; check out what Roger Ebert has to say about it)
- Baran (another Iranian film with English subtitles, critically acclaimed)
- The Color of Paradise (ditto)
- Departures (Japanese with English subtitles - very moving and utterly unique)
- Secrets & Lies (Brenda Blethyn's performance will astonish)
- The Joy Luck Club
- Beyond Rangoon
- Return to Me
- The Little Princess
- Dear Frankie
- The Third Miracle
- Into the West
- The Spitfire Grill
- Amelie
- A Love Song for Bobby Long
- I Dreamed of Africa
- An American Rhapsody
- Between Strangers
- Arranged
- Sabah: A Love Story
- Amreeka
- Silent Running
- One True Thing

That's all that comes to mind right now.