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"If you are interested in cinematography, great cinematography, and great cinematographers, Cinematographer Style would probably be both a highly interesting and highly frustrating experience. Keep reading to find out why! First of all, as an irrelevant piece of information (you can skip this paragraph if you just want to hear about the movie itself) I first heard about this movie from one of my former roommates. He was quite a young guy that I found on craig's list who was studying cinematography at Columbia College in Chicago. He mentioned that he knew a guy who was working on this production, and I think he may have even visited the set one day they were filming one of the cinematographers in the film. Anyways he made the whole thing sound very exciting and epic. A couple months later, after never moving anything else into the apartment except for a few articles of clothing and his guitar and sleeping on our couch until 2 PM every day, and after failing to pay any rent, he s ... "
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx Apocalypse Now is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#28)100 Movie Quotes (#12 - Colonel Kilgore: "I love the smell of napalm in the morning.")The Revised Top 100 (#30) I borrowed this film again from my parents; I think they live in the 70s sometimes. This is the second time I watched Apocalypse Now. The first time, I fell asleep. The second time, I almost fell asleep - in a different spot - but still, the eyes were droopy. I'm not sure why that is. The second time, I definitely enjoyed the film much more. Like Citizen Kane, it seems to get better with age and multiple viewings, though that's a bit problematic to me when you're watching films that are supposed to be the greatest of all American movies... I digress - and recognize my own biases in that statement. Apocalypse Now is based ... "
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"This was one of my most difficult decisions…there is an undisputed number 1 spot, which will be revealed when I get to writing something that will successfully pay homage to the film itself, but this spot was tough. I thought it was clear-cut for a while, but then I recently saw a film that I really wanted to add. Both films are pretty bleak, pretty disturbing, and pretty strange; and both are definite classics, outstanding films from legendary directors. So, after much deliberation, here is number 2 and number 2½. 2. Apocalypse Now I have always been intrigued by this movie. I saw a good deal of it on AMC when I was about 12 years old, and promptly set to begging my parents to let me go out and buy/rent it. Finally, after ragging them for the "
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"“I love the smell of napalm in the morning…smells like…victory”. Great stuff. Brando, Duvall, Martin Sheen…how can you go wrong with a cast like that? "
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"i had to watch this movie twice.the first time, it was just a war movie to me.the second time, it was a lot more deeper than a war movie.and the second time,the movie seemed a lot more scarier. marlon brando was so intangible with his horror speech. "
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"Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)Talk about setting a tone.With Apocalypse Now, Coppola came out blazing.A whooshing noise, heard but offscreen, is placed when a helicopter drifts into view, almost dreamlike in it's approach, heading towards a lush green jungle. The first chimes of 'The Doors' haunting and atmospheric 'The End' starts to chime, primary coloured smoke starts to fill the screen and that beautiful jungle explodes, a raging inferno engulfing the landscape.Welcome to hell on earth. The madness and the poetic, the perverse and the divine, such an arresting display of visual and audio effects has hardly been bettered than this opening gambit. The face of Martin Sheen, Captain Willard, starts to fade into view, the sound of the helicopters rotor blades transform in to the sound of a ceiling fan and we find ourselves in a hotel room in S "
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"FORWARD: Once again, I am perusing deeper themes while looking at only a few movies. However, this review will probably not serve as a review per-say, where an amount of discussion is spent over the qualities of the movies. The movies cited are as examples to discuss deeper themes of character and qualities attributed to a movies plot. "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" is to be my chief example for this review, for the reason that after speaking with an individual who had seen some of this movie they had come to the conclusion that they did not like it based on the personification of the characters. In this movies case, the question can be honestly raised, whether or not that was the point. The facts of "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" are well researched, and it is therefore evident that what this film is laying down is an amount of truth that is not often seen in movies of its genre. Westerns in general are very character dri ... "
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"In what must be one of the first documentaries to deal with the actual experience of American soldiers involved in the Iraqi war (I imagine more will follow) Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein’s Gunner Palace is, in its way, a triumph of understatement. It is not a great film by any means, but it is intriguing, engaging, and more than a little troubling. Tucker lived with the soldiers, bunking with them in the bombed out Azimiya Palace, last occupied by Uday Hussein and built by Saddam Hussein. It was in many ways the perfect venue, in the heart of Baghdad, Adhamiya. Following the conventional wisdom that “less is more” Tucker takes an almost parenthetical approach to the lives of the soldiers of 2/3 Field Artillery, showing us what happens before and after raids and skirmishes get really violent and disturbing, and the downtimes when the soldiers are relaxing, reflecting and taking time out for some rest and recreation. We see them swimming, golfing, partying, pl ... "
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"I have about 800 ideas for books that I'll probably never write; one of them is acollection of case studies of films that initially flopped, only to be reclaimed as classics. In the same vein, via GreenCine Daily comes news of the Ambitious Failure blogathon. Beginning today and running through Sunday the 24th, the blogathon was initiated by William Speruzzi, who writes: Pushing the limits of budget, creativity and patience can all be a bust in the end but that is in the eye of the beholder. Can hindsight work in a film?s favor? Was the criticism deserved or misguided? What makes a film that aspires to reach beyond the boundaries of entertainment go down in flames? Who gets to determine its demise? What is an ambitious failure? That?s what we?re here to find out. There are four entries up already, each approaching the concept of failure from a different angle. Perhaps unsurprisingly, 50 percent are so far concerned with films by Francis Ford Coppola:
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Re: Top War Films
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"1. Apocalypse Now - It's not only my favorite war film, but one of my favorite films period. It's hard to say anything about this film that hasn't already been said many times before. It's just perfect from the direction, writing, cast and soundtrack. The Ride Of The Valkyries scenes is still one of the greatest ever filmed. 2. The Deer Hunter - A heartbreaking film that's got one of the greatest cast ever assembled. The Russian Roulette scene goes under my top 5 uncomfortable moments. 3. Saving Private Ryan - I know many people consider this to be way overrated, but it's a film that left such an imprint on me. 4. The Thin Red Line - As with all of Malick's films, Thin Red Line is a sobering and contemplative masterpiece. 5. All Quiet On The Western Front - Told from a completely different point of view than most other War films. This thing holds like crazy! Here are some honorable mentions that almost made my Top 5: Overlord Full Metal Jacke ... "
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