similar films
i loved it..
can somebody suggest something similar?
There are NONE. Everything today is CGI. All or mostly CRAP.They don't make films like this anymore. You would have to go back to the best decade in cinema, THE 70'S
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Some other films starring young children and showcasing them and their sense of wonder, that i really love,are: Ponette,City of Lost Children, The Secret of Roan Inish,and Into the West.None have amazing visual fantasies except City of Lost Children.
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i m going to watch city of lost children.
samp, if you love the style of City of lost....,you might love his other works. my favs are:
delicatessen, amelie, and micmacs. fantasy plays a large part in all of them.
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Then you all should try to see Ken Russell's THE DEVILS and THE MUSIC LOVERS. Two of the greatest masterpieces in Cinema History. The main problem is neither are available in widescreen DVD. The VHS tapes are unwatchable.From my understanding THE MUSIC LOVERS has been released in the UK, not the States.
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You might like a film called Baraka. Its kind of, but not really, a documentary with AMAZING visuals of real natural and man made things around the world. There's no narration and no discernable 'story' other than comparing and contrasting the many amazing patterns in life (which is where the "kind of, but not really, a documentary" comes in lol). Watch it in high definition for an absolute trip!
Baraka: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103767/
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shareI love Baraka, and frankly it seems to me that this filmmaker Tarsem kind of cribbed from Baraka in places. But Baraka's scenes of beauty were much more transcendent without the cheesy 1930s kiddie reel characters.
shareSeriously, did he not? I'm thinking of that ceremony in the first half of the film when the "mystic" finds the green spot and the group of mud-covered people hold forth that ritual over him. I just mentioned that today to my wife, when we were watching this thing on DVD for the second time in a couple of years.
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The Fall has pays homage to (cribs from...or whatever anyone wants to call it) Baraka in a few places, such as:
the whirling dervish shots
the monkey ritual
the mystic, who looks a whole lot like a dreadlocked guy that appears in Baraka
a nearly identical shot of the same terraced rice farm
a shot in the scene where the masked bandit and girlfriend face each other, bird on her shoulder, and the camera cranes down to a little fountain/waterfall thing
and I think the temple/palace where the mystic does his mass kill was a Baraka location
I don't mind it. I think it's cool and shows some love for an amazing predecessor
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But I don't think people should have to have seen Baraka to realize this. There should be an acknowledgement in the opening credits.
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attribution is a good thing. a mention of Baraka would fit nicely in the end credits, in the same place where it is mentioned that The Fall is based on Yo Ho Ho
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I strongly second the films of Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie, Micmacs, and A Very Long Engagement).
I'll also second the films of Ken Russell (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic, The Devils, etc.)
Along the lines of Baraka mentioned above is Koyaanisqatsi (man, could they make the title of that movie any harder to spell?), which also has some truly amazing visuals.
Of course there is the other film which Tarsem Singh directed called The Cell. Not as good as a story as The Fall but still has those totally amazing visuals (plus he bases to scenes on works from two of my favorite contemporary artists, Damien Hirst and Odd Nedrum). Keep an eye out for Singh's new film Immortals which opens in most countries on November 11th.
The scene where the mystic is being killed and the birds are flying out of his mouth totally reminds me of a scene in The Holy Mountain where demonstrators are being gunned down by military police and birds are flying out of the wounds. You should definitely see The Holy Mountain, it is truly unlike any other movie ever made. You should also check out other films from director Alejandro Jodorowsky like El Topo and Santa Sangre.
trailer for Holy Mountain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_k8oaeHsnc
Also, the moment where the film switches to stop-motion animation to depict the surgery of the little girl after her fall is almost straight out of the film Frida where the film switches to stop-motion animation to depict Frida Kahlo's surgery after the bus accident. Other films from director Julie Taymor are well worth watching too: Titus, Across the Universe, and The Tempest. The Brothers Quay who did the stop-motion animation have made a lot of amazing shorts and a feature length film called The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes which are really cool.
trailer for Frida: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zudfarZ-ZNk
This film's ode to silent films reminds me a lot of Canadian director Guy Maddin who is obsessed with the look of silent films and has such an incredibly visual style. All of his films are great but The Saddest Music in the World is my favorite.
check out this short film by Guy Maddin called The Heart of the World: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4JmeXXRmZg
If you liked this film, I also think you would really like The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus. The director Terry Gilliam is one of my all-time favorite and has such a great visual style on films like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Adeventures of Baron von Munchausen, Brazil, and Twelve Monkeys.
trailer for Imaginarium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jU3AimFaz0
I would also highly recommend the Polish Brothers film Northfork and two film Guillermo del Torro: Pan's Labyrinth and The Devil's Backbone, Michel Gondry's Science of Sleep, Darren Aronofsky's The Fountain, and Matthew Barney's Cremaster 1 throguh 5 (featuring some of the most amazing visuals I have ever seen!).
Northfork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpNQ1yly8aE
Pan's Labyrith: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqYiSlkvRuw
Devil's Backbone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHm_Me0CDC0
Science of Sleep: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUCrM5i_W3c
The Fountain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1esJ_iQnkTA
Cremaster cycle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWtS9HsP4U
thanks a lot :)
i have seen some of the mentioned films...twelve monkeys, fountain, pan's labyrinth and most of the films by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
i'll surely watch others mentioned by u as well, but "the fall" is a rare film, magnificence of the visuals so well balanced by the simplicity of the story...i sigh with love everytime i m reminded of it.
thanks again.
Had you seen the others in the Qatsi Trilogy? The three are shown here as Koyaanisqatsi: Life out of balance (1983)
Powaqqatsi: Life in transformation (1988)
Naqoyqatsi: Life as war (2002)
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All brilliant!
Thanks for your review of the other films you've mentioned. I'll go hunting!
Since nobody suggested, i'll suggest Radio Flyer.
shareIf you liked this try the Fountain similar in many ways and in my opinion a lot better.
Also try the Jacket, not a visual film but this film reminded me of it. It is also a very good film
This movie had a very similar effect on me as The Fountain did. So I agree there. I love them both.
This movie also made me think of Pan's Labyrinth and the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus a lot.
Another very similar movie is Sucker Punch. It is supposedly all style and no substance like this movie, but all the different characters have a purpose and represent something, the fantasies mirror reality, and the fantasies cover up a very dark but ultimately rewarding story.
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I havent seen "the fall" but im dying to. The trailers make it look similar to "The Cell". And also looks like "Melancolia" thats coming out soon in theaters.
shareThe theme is reminiscent of Tideland.
shareWhat Dreams May Come - Sad/Uplifting, Visually Striking. I honestly can't think of a movie more similar to The Fall than this one.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen - A classic and the costume/locations are a lot alike. It's very fantasy based. I promise I'm not going for a Robin Williams theme here.
Dreams by Akira Kurosawa - A collection of short films/dreams.
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Nope, I was referring to the 1998 film, What Dreams May Come.
Here's a link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/
So was I. Thats my title for this piece of crap. You seemed to have liked it. That's OK.I didn't.
shareYou seem to have mistaken this thread about being what you do and don't like, when in fact, someone asked a rather simple and straight forward question. You failed at answering that question.
The two films you did manage to muster up (something you didn't try on your first comment) deal heavily in graphic sex or are just sexual in nature. Those things are fine but I fail to see how they relate to The Fall.
Frankly, your overall negativity keeps people from taking you even remotely serious. "I HATE THINGS!" Who cares?