Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts

Thursday, February 13, 2014

The Seventh Seal - Confession - best scene


This is a movie clip from the 1957 movie "Det Sjunde Inseglet" (The Seventh Seal), directed by Ingmar Bergman.

Antonius Block is a knight returning from the Crusades. Here, he's entering a chapel to confess about his withering faith and his thoughts about god and death to Death himself, who disguised into a priest. This is a short, yet accurate trip to the innermost depths of a human's fears and wonders.

KNIGHT
I want to talk to you as openly as I can, but
my heart is empty.

DEATH doesn't answer.

KNIGHT
The emptiness is a mirror turned towards my
own face. I see myself in it, and I am filled
with fear and disgust.

DEATH doesn't answer.

KNIGHT
Through my indifference to my fellow men, I
have isolated myself from their company. Now I
live in a world of phantoms. I am imprisoned in
my dreams and fantasies.

DEATH
And yet you don't want to die.

KNIGHT
Yes, I do.

DEATH
What are you waiting for?

KNIGHT
I want knowledge.

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

My List of Top Films (name/director)

This is an incomplete list. Things I look in films are plot, message, soundtrack, actors&acting and cinematography. You can probably see my movie taste from this list.

  • The Seventh Seal - Ingmar Bergman
  • Wild Strawberries - Ingmar Bergman
  • Before Sunrise/Sunset - Richard Linklater
  • Waking Life - Richard Linklater
  • Coffee and Cigarettes - Jim Jarmusch
  • Dead Man - Jim Jarmusch
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey - Stanley Kubrick
  • A Clockwork Orange - Stanley Kubrick
  • Amadeus - Forma and Shaffer
  • Lost in Translation - Sofia Coppola
  • Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain - Jean-Pierre Jeunet 
  • Pulp Fiction - Quentin Tarantino
  • Reservoir Dogs - Quentin Tarantino
  • Ikiru - Akira Kurosawa
  • Tokyo Story - Yasujirō Ozu
  • Vanilla Sky - Cameron Crowe
  • Inception - Christopher Nolan
  • Der Himmel über Berlin - Wim Wenders
  • Das Leben der Anderen - Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
  • Goodbye Lenin - Wolfgang Becker
  • Submarine - Richard Ayoade
  • Chungking Express - Wong Kar-wai
  • In the Mood for Love  - Wong Kar-wai
  • New World - Park Hoon Jung
  • A Bittersweet Life - Kim Jee-woon
  • Oldboy - Park Chan-wook
  • Memento - Christopher Nolan
  • Prestige- Christopher Nolan
  • 5 Centimeters per seconds - Makoto Shinkai (+other makoto works)
  • The Machinist - Brad Anderson
  • The Number 23 - Joel Schumacher
  • Requiem for a Dream - Daren Aronofsky
  • Matrix - Wachowski brothers
  • Fight Club - David Fincher
  • Dolls - Takeshi Kitano
  • The Illusionist - Neil Burger
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Michael Kondry
  • Dead Poet Society - Peter Weir
  • V for Vendetta - James McTeigue
  • Tokyo Sonato - Kiyoshi Kurosawa
  • Casablanca - Michael Curtiz
  • The Graduate - Mike Nichols
  • Schindler's List - Steven Spielsberg
  • Life is Beautiful - Roberto Benigni
  • Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese
  • Last Emperor - Bernardo Bertolcci
  • Godfather - Albert Ruddy
  • Citizen Kane - Orson Welles
  • Turkish Gambit - Konstantin Ernst
  • Studio Ghibli works (mainly Hayao Miyazaki's works)


Two explanations

One of the many great scenes  from Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
"...Nino is late. Amelie can only see two explanations.
  1  - he didn't get the photo.

  2  - before he could assemble it, a gang of bank robbers took him hostage. The cops gave chase. They got away... but he caused a crash. When he came to, he'd lost his memory. An ex-con picked him up, mistook him for a fugitive, and shipped him to Istanbul. There he met some Afghan raiders who took him to steal some Russian warheads. But their truck hit a mine in Tajikistan. He survived, took to the hills, and became a Mujaheddin. [Increasingly angry] Amelie refuses to get upset for a guy who'll eat borscht all his life in a hat like a tea cozy... "

the photo Amelie is talking about