5 Movies to inspire (and improve) your Cinematography

Here are 5 movies to inspire and improve your cinematography.
What are yours ? :)
Cheers,
Flo

Macbeth is seriously overlooked, one of the most beautiful films ever

I completely agree with Arrival being a calm movie. I felt strangely connected to it. Very good video and commentary. Loved it!!

Bradford Young is my favorite. He also shot the Docu-series "When they See Us'' on Netflix. Amazing DP.

I love that you show these inspirations. Of course, it's very personal what one feels that really connect to oneself, It's on a higher awareness level but when a film manages to do that well for me that's what I hope a film shall do and Arrival does that. Thanks for the tip on McBeth!

Love your breakdown on these films... Moonlight, Arrival and The Revenant are some of my favorite films and for many of the same reasons you highlighted. Great video, thank you for sharing.

These are amazing! I definitely have to check some of them out!! A few movies I’d say inspire me with their cinematography are Knives Out, JoJo Rabbit, Drive, Marriage Story and any movie by Wes Anderson.

This was so awesome to watch. Didn’t skip a single second. I know which movies will keep me trapped in my room over the weekend now! Another movie that one of my buddies recommend to me that I thought was shot really well was
Bad Times at the El Royale

Great list... Thanks. Here are a couple of notworthy choices imo:
- Terrence Malik's movies have some nice handheld and wide angle cinematography... In particular Song to Song (2017) and Tree of Life (2011). Immersive in the sense that it puts you inside the drama
- Blade Runner (1982)... Lots of heavily stylised mood and atmosphere
- The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)... Stunning movie, shot by Roger Deakins. Some stylised visuals for dramatic scenes, but then naturalistic lighting for most of the rest of the movie, but somehow seamless transitions between the two
- The Good Shepard (2006)... Lots of moody/darker compositions fitting with the spy theme. Silhouettes, chiaroscuro, half hidden faces/eyes, but done in a way that draws you inside to the movie
- There Will Be Blood (2007)... Excellent lighting and compositions, as well as how the shots move from one compositions to another as they did with classic movies instead of being wide, over the shoulder and then close ups... Very cinematic and helps with immersion.
I'll post a separate list of older movies later... Some great cinematography in the black and white days...

The Place Beyond the Pines is an excellent film. So much love for that movie.

Great picks man! Emmanuel Lubezki and Roger Deakins are two of my favorite cinematographers atm. But there are definitely so much more talented DOPs out there. Gonna look up the one from Macbeth and The King too. Didn't realise they were shot by the same person.

Shawshank Redemption, Jurassic Park, Home Alone, The Truman Show, Big Fish, LOTR, Children of Men, No Country for Old Men, Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Revenant, 1917 and my list goes oin and on but that is some of my favorite movies.

LOTR: FOTR absolutely changed my life as a 12 year old girl when it first came out. Unreal. made me want to work in film. Thank you for seeing it as I do!

Nice one man, Prisoners is definitely up there for me too! Cool to see some Hollywood in your vids :)

Love the movie selection and the channel thank you for the inspiration!!

Amazing video!!! Such a great work, I felt moved when watching it.

Thanks for your recommendations. I love the Revenant. Bladerunner 2049 and original are also stunning. Two of my other favories are "The Passion of the Christ" and "Goonies" Yes, I said Goonies! Ha ha. Something about the look and feel is so comforting. Blessings.

You have a great taste bro. Love it

This was a great breakdown. I'm totally watching Macbeth this weekend.

Great selection!

Great choice of movies, thank you & good luck

beautifully said!

What an introduction bro wow 💥💥💥

Nice films! My pick would be: Eternity and a Day by Theo Angelopoulos, Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky, The Double Life of Veronique by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders, Das Boot by Wolfgang Petersen and Aberdeen by Hans Petter Moland

Gonna watch all 5 of them!

Ah Call Me By Your Name is just perfect :) xx

Never heard of that Macbeth film before I'll have to check that out.

I don't know how Ryan Gosling is in so many aesthetic and best cinematic movies ..drive , blade runner 2049 , lala land and more

I think 'HER' should have been here. Cuz the colour science in the movie is beyond excellent.

I bought the Blu-ray of Macbeth solely based on this video. After movies like EX Machina, Arrival, Blade Runner 2049 or even Prometheus I gained such an appreciation for Cinematography, that sometimes, when I watch a movie the second time or more, I ignore the plot and just look at and analyze the colors, lighting, contrasts, camera angles or color palette.

You are intensive speaker

There’s a movie that I could recommend is a film called Columbus it’s a cinematographers dream film.

This is so beautifully inspiring!! 😍😍 Would you be able to send over some BMPCC6K + Meike 35mm footage so that I could test and practise on it? That would be greatly appreciated.👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

I watched call me by your name twice before even knowing what cinematography is and once after immersing myself deeply.
I thought what a shit film this is before and then I cried after the second go I wish to this day I could experience call me by your name for the first time with the knowledge I have in cinematography today and regret just looking over the very intricate details placed in the film.

What movie is the shot with the eye from at 12 seconds?

Maybe this is a stupid question... in Call Me by Your Name... Do you know is that 35mm in full-frame or cropped super35 -> approx. 50mm in ff?

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LOTR is the best ❤️

Dunkirk

In intro we watch a girl running into her grandfather. What movie is that ???

All this movie cost million you can't do that without studio backing you up