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This week's Thursday Movie Picks is Favorite Cinematography
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Today's theme is a suggestion from Brittani and it is certainly a tough one in that there are just so many to choose from. So I'm doing a theme with a theme. My picks are all period dramas based on books I've read. I'm not going to name them, so have a guess what movies they are from the movie stills.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock, Girl With a Pearl Earring, and Cold Mountain?
ReplyDeleteRight with first two.
DeleteI can't argue with period dramas, most are beautiful. Of the ones you shared, I really liked Girl with a pearl Earring and Jane Eyre (I think that's Jane Eyre?)
ReplyDeleteYes spot on with the third.
DeleteI'd agree with Ted on the first two but I'm not sure what the last is.
ReplyDeleteMine are all period pieces as well.
Legends of the Fall (1994)-Lavish star-studded (Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt, Aidan Quinn etc.) familial drama set in Big Sky country with cinematographer John Toll’s breathtaking vistas as the various hardships of the star-crossed Ludlow clan unfurl.
Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)-Set in the rural West Country of Victorian England future director Nicolas Roeg (Don’t Look Now) in his original capacity as director of photography captures gorgeous shots that have a painterly feel of the area and almost equally beautiful performers (Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Terence Stamp).
A River Runs Through It (1992)-Based on the memoir of Norman MacLean and once again starring Brad Pitt this small story of a quiet preacher (Tom Skerritt) and his two son-studious, serious Norman (Craig Sheffer) and feckless Paul (Pitt) in the years between WWI and the Great Depression that posits fly fishing as a metaphor for life captures the beauty of Montana thanks to DP Philippe Rousselot fantastic eye for detail.
I've seen your first two pick. Don't remember much of the first one. I remember more of the second, mostly the story and performance but not how the film looked.
DeleteThe last one , I think, is The French Lieutenant’s Woman. Great still from these films.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure about the first one, but is the second Girl with the Pearl Earring and the third Jane Eyre?
ReplyDeleteYes and yes.
DeleteI knew right away the third one is JANE EYRE. I love the cinematography of that film, so atmospheric and eerie.
ReplyDeleteMe too. I love this particular scene in the still. It is one of the more actiony scene, lots of movement. Also very Gothic with the mist and tree branches.
DeleteWithout reading the comments.. last one is Jane Eyre? Is the middle one girl with the pearl earring or something? Not sure about the first one.
ReplyDeleteAlso I keep forgetting to add my link. Even tho I haven't skipped a single week this year (again). :D
I've no idea what the first one is but I'm pretty sure the other two are Girl with a Pearl Earring and Jane Eyre.
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