After viewing some great films this semester, the three I believe every film student should see are: American Beauty, Pan's Labyrinth, and Memento.
American Beauty is an amazing film. It is a great character piece where the cast and crew all perform top notch work as it was honored at the Academy Awards that year being nominated for eight Oscars winning five including Best Picture. This film is such a perfect example of film at its best with everything made to perfection in classic form.
Pan's Labyrinth is a foreign language film by Guillermo del Toro. It is a film that can show film students the power of imagination, make-up, and mise-en-scene. The film blends both the real and the fantastic in perfect form. It tells an amazing story and it definitely one of the two best foreign language films I have seen except the one mentioned further down the blog.
Memento depicts the beauty of plot. The story is actually quite straight forward but the plot shows the story in reverse not only showing the audience how Leonard Shelby feels but the audience actually only knows what he does and they actually feel what Leonard feels as the audience is left in the dark. The plot created by writer/director Christopher Nolan makes is amazing along with the editing perfection makes this film one any film student should view.
Although I found just about all of the films this semester to be amazing, the three films that I found most compelling and noteworthy were: North By Northwest, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
North By Northwest is a classic. It is an adventure with mystery, comedy, drama and thrills in it. It is classically acted and created by Alfred Hitchcock. It left a lasting impression on me as it does stay ambitious throughout including scenes like Cary Grant running from crop dusters and climbing down Mount Rushmore. Overall, it is a thrill ride with perfect acting and a great example of amazing storytelling that left me yearning for some adventure in my own life, not an adventure as intense as Roger Thornhill's, anyways, or should I say George Kaplan?
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is the best foreign language film that I have ever seen. The cinematography during the beginning of the film puts one in the audience in Jean-Dominique Bauby's point of view with great examples of point-of-view cinematography. But past that is an amazing story of a man who experiences locked-in syndrome after a stroke. He experiences all sorts of feelings ranging from severe depression to extreme optimism for the future. The film has mixes of mild comedy, inspiration, sorrow, and tragedy into an amazing story that really left an effect on me.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind has become one of my favorite films ever after viewing it. It left a great effect on me as the character development in this film is the best I've ever experienced personally. It tells a contemporary story with science fiction elements in a very unorthodox form. The editing of those things make this film that has left a lasting effect on me. Both Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet put in what I believe to be their best performances to this date. This film is a masterpiece in my mind and I could speak of it greatness in detail and with ease. Truly one of the best films I've ever experienced.
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