Paris, je t'aime // Faubourg Saint-Denis

Paris, je t'aime is a movie consisting of 18 different stories about love in the broadest sense of the word. 18 directors have 5 minutes each to film a story about love in one of the 20 arrondissements in Paris. This clip, made by director Tom Tykwer, is my personal favourite and I have chosen it because I think it's a great editing example. It fools you into believing things that are not really happening and that in only 2,5 minutes... ;) Enjoy!


Sarah

Memento

The first time I was so impressed, it was the first time i got in contact with a movie that was played backwards en which had been geniusly been constructed. It's from the year 2000 and in the plays Guy Pierce (the count of monte cristo, also very good movie) and Carrie-Ann Moss (the matrix).
The main caracter in the movie suffers from short term memorie lost and tries to figure out if he killed his wife or not. He left a lot of clues on himself in shapes of tattoos, so that he will not forget.The story unwrappes itself the further it goes back and you really get caught up by it.
I choose this movie, because of the cuttings and the editing of using the combination of black and white, with colored images. Everything is done so good. Please watch it if you haven't watched it!

Trailer of 'Memento'

Deon

The girl with the pearl earring / A Clockwork Orange

The first movie is the one of the girl with the pearl earring. I really love the concept of a fictional story about a famous painting like this one. Scarlett Johansson plays the role of Griet who is a maid in the house of Johannes Vermeer (Colin Firth). He get's inspired by her en she becomes his assistend and later on even his model, in which he will made the famous painting. The atmosphere is very good in every scene, the clothing and even hair and make-up (Scarlett really looks like the girl in the painting). It is deffinitly a film to watch! It even got a nomination for best art direction, so that says somehting I suppose.

Trailer of 'The girl with the pearl earring'

The other movie is 'A clockwork orange' of the famous director Stanley Kubrick. This very strange movie, looks very futuristic eventhough it's been made in 1971!
Alex deLarge is a crook in modern Brittain and he does a lot of forbidden things, is violent and rude even to his own 'friends'. But then the police catches him and trials him for a lot of things. He goes to prison and the only way to leave it is to cooperate with this re-intergration program, but then things don't go as they should have gone.
Like I said this movie is it's time way up ahead and still a inspiration to a lot of other movies, photography and fashion. Everything is over the top and gets weirder and weirder.
Check it for yourself!


Trailer of 'A Clockwork Orange

Deon

Cloverfield / (500) Days of Summer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufYF0f-zMgY
I thing you will all know the movie Cloverfield but I wanted to but it on the blog because it is a really interesting movie, about the way it's been filmed. The camerawork and the editing. The film was shot and edited in a Cinéma vérité style, to look like it was filmed with one hand-held camera
(Cinéma vérité, "truthful cinema"; it is a style of documentary filmmaking, combining naturalistic techniques with stylized cinematic devices of editing and camerawork, staged set-ups, and the use of the camera to provoke subjects. It is also known for taking a provocative stance toward its topics.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsD0NpFSADM
The same for the second film. I thing you all know this movie but I really wanted to share this with you because it is one of my favorite movies! With all the flashbacks and -forwards, the great way they show the days, and the split-scenes that work very well. (And I love the soundtrack!)
Marija

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voIOtJfRNfI&feature=related


This a film with really great art direction! It is just beautiful! It is a film by Peter Greenaway and it's about a man 'Spica' who just bought a high-class restaurant, run by a French Chef. Spica makes nightly appearances at the restaurant, his behavior causes frequent confrontations with the staff and his own customers. He is married to Georgina, who he makes fun of all the time, and treats her with no respect. Soon she catches the eye of a quiet regular at the restaurant, bookshop owner Michael... I won't tell you to much about what is going to happen next because you just have to see it! Almost the whole movie is filmed in four places; the restaurant, the kitchen, the toilets and just outside the kitchen, and every set has it's own color in props, costumes everything! 


(Oh...and Jean-Paul Gaultier designed the costumes.)


Marija

Fellini - Casanova

Here is another example of great art direction in Fellini's old classic Casanova

Scarlett

Some inspirational fashion movies that I would also like to share J

Scarlett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHRwrXWkDnc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8bjwFaL3As&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ag4ac5QqbmQ&feature=player_embedded#!

This is one of my favorite movies, especially when looking at the art direction. 

For me the best scene of the movie.

Scarlett

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz3DROS00k4&feature=related

Inspiring editing and camera work example: In the mood for love (2000)

Check the longer version in high quality on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPg-2Ryte10&hd=1


In the mood for love by Hong Kong film maker Wong Kar-Wei won several prices, also for best film editing. (Editor: William Chay)

The story is about Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chan who live on the same floor in a crowded Hong Kong building. They often cross each others ways alone and after a while realize that their spouses have an affair.

The cinematographers: Christopher Doyle and Mark Lee Ping-Bin set their cameras as an interloper viewing his subjects on the sly. The cheating spouses are shown from behind, in shadow or via obscured view.
There is a lot of slow motion used in the movie, to underline the melancholy of the story.

I really like the soundtrack of this movie.

Lara

Storytelling: my favourites.

These clips are my favourite scenes in regard of great Art direction (Benjamin Button), great Camera work (2001: A Space Odyssey) and great Editing (Four Rooms)

I hope you enjoy the scenes as much as I do, have fun watching them! Kelly.

IDFA documentaries

If i'm looking to be inspired shot/music/set-wise i like to visit the site of IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam), they have all the documentaries by year in full length (good quality too!) and i really never get bored with them!
you can watch them on this page: http://www.idfa.nl/nl/idfatv/films-trailers/films.aspx
Sorry the links are in dutch! If you click one film you fancy and hit 'Volledige Film' you should be fine.
Enjoy!
Marthe

The imaginarium of doctor Parnassus

A great movie, which we use for inspiration for our film. Its a fantasy film that follows a traveling theater group. Almost everything takes place in one theater. There is a magical mirror which takes the audience to explore their imagination. The line between realism and surrealism disappeared. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOL-wZSCn_g

Aranka

Inspiration films

http://www.nfb.ca/explore-by/title/?genre=4&lang=en&title_range=All&decade=&sort=desc_most_recent

Website for good inspiration!

Aranka

Memoirs of a geisha

This is a movie with really nice art-direction by Rob Marshall. The movie is particularly about appearance and is filmed in an almost painted way. It has a great atmosphere and shows Japan in a beautiful way. 

The movie is about a young girl Chiyo who is sold to a Geisha house. It's a tale of love and treason against the background of the rapidly changing Japanese society in the 20th century. The jealous Hatsumomo takes Chiyo under her charge and trains her into a Geisha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_TXEEgNiWE

Aranka

Far from Heaven- Todd Haynes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHr1z_o0upM

Another 'golden oldie' as one of my favorite movies, art-direction wise. Everything is set to a tee, just like the real 50's era. Julianne Moore plays a woman, who finds her husband having an affair with a younger man, while she herself gets involved with a man of color. Something quite taboo in that time.
Still, she has to maintain a perfect exterior, while everything inside crumbles.

Thomas

You must love this Art Direction!

It's my favorite. Also because i love movies with the twenties look. Here's the trailer of Changeling.

Amazing movie & Art direction

I guess most of you all know this movie but it is very much worth mentioning. 'Finding Neverland' is about an author (Johnny Depp) who writes the the story about Peter Pan. It is an amazing movie about hope, love and an how far imagination can take you.

The art direction is extremely well done. The hole movie is so visually pleasing and so to the point in every single detail form styling to setting. The distinction between the 'real' world and the 'fantasy' world and how that's incorporated is very inspiring.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqXYTSYHFKI



Danielle

Editing & Camerawork: The Hurt Locker - Epic Explosion Scene

Movie:"The Hurt Locker",2008

This is an army movie that takes place in Iraq.

This is the first scene from the movie "The Hurt Locker". Here you will see that the film editing becomes a very important role. It's all about precise timing! Also check out the camera angles and camerawork.

Check it out:

By Tj Tilakdharie

Happiness by Todd Solondz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkQ_JxoWUP8

I've only recently seen this film and it blew my mind. It was so refreshing and that considering it's from 1998. The dialogue is sharp, dry and sometimes excrutiatingly painful but written so incredibly clever. Since the trailer doesn't entirely do justice, I'll also add a clip of 3 father-son moments in the film, that should give some clues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDLnwS8JE2k

Thomas

New York I Love You

Everyone know this by now, but it's one of my favorite movies and I really love the art-direction and camera work in this part! It's just so beautyfull!

from 2.40 till 3.36
New York I love you

This movie you just need to see! As a whole movie togheter it doesn't work so well, but if you just look at the seperate story's they are great!!!

For the good feeling!

Great story! With the best ending!!

Masha

The pledge

Here you see the opening of the pledge. It's great editing and camera work! It gives you a feeling of weard freedom. the part is from the beginning till 0.59
It's a film worth seeign! I won't tell more because you just need to see it, but you won't be happy in the end so be ware!

The pledge

Masha

Sixth Sense

This is a really short part of the sixth sense, but it is so affective!
The boy is stepping away from Bruce Willis and the camera also comes back, it's really easy but it adds so much!
The part is between  1.50 and 6.05, the camera work that i mean is at 4.00

Sixth sense

Masha

Inspirational camerawork and editing

Another scene, this one is a scene from Quentin Tarantinos Deathproof (2007).
This scene is not special, but it's one long shot and the camera rotates around them all the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxAIWLEy4mA

The movie has an old atmosphere and feels like a B-movie, nice work if you know it's a movie from 2007.

If you know the movie 'The Higlander' you know that it has really nice transitions between the now and the past. We couldn't find a nice scene that shows this on youtube. So if you're interested you have got the download it. Most honestly, the transitions are nice but the movie itself isn't that interesting.

Lars Von Trier is the director of the movie The Idiots, this is a Dogma-movie. So he uses a handheldcamera. This style of shooting, Dogma, is interesting to take a look at. Lars von Trier made some quite different movies. It's nice to do some research about him.

Loes & Mathil

Inspirational camerawork and editing

We would like to share this clip of Trainspotting,

a movie by Danny Boyle (1996).

The whole movie has a great atmosphere, thanks to the camera angles.

We really like the 360 shot starting at 00:36 with some nice editing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIean6qWuRg

Loes & Mathil

Atonement- The Love scene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izs4_0X7UlY

This scene is so darn sensual, and that coming from me. Nothing explicit is shown but merely the suggestion is highly charged. Furthermore, this scene is actually the start of the plot and something terrible is about to happen. Therefore it is intruiging to think the color of Keira's dress represents poison...

Thomas

8 Femmes- Francois Ozon

As a great admirer of the Technicolor artform, murder mysteries and French movies in general, this has to be one of my favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPhGfyyWQ4
Thomas

Inspiration camerawork and editing

We would like to show you the teaser of INCEPTION.

The design of the film and the plot structure is based on Ascending and Descending of M.C. Escher.

The story consists of a puzzle with different kind of layers or tunnels, which represent real time, dreams and dreams in a dream. The camerawork amplifies the feeling of being in a tunnel, by its perspective and movements. Besides that, the camerawork helps us to make a distinction between real time and dream time.

By Joyce Roco & Phoebe Cornelisse

Art + Commerce

On the website of Ar + Commerce, an agency that hosts a lot of inspiring photographers, setdressers, make-up artists and more. From well known to unknown.

http://www.artandcommerce.com/aac/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=AAC_HomePage

My favorite is Tim Walker  because of his really beautiful, lovely and precise settings.

Niki

Sang Bleu

This is a french magazine that also has a website/blog. They feature everything from photography, typography, artists, art, films etc. It can give you a lot of inspiration for your film!


http://sangbleu.com/

Danielle

Inspiration Art-direction & Camera, King Kong, Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack (1933)

I choose this footage because it's an old classic. The art-direction looks now-a-days very old, but for those days very modern. 

King Kong

"A film crew goes to a tropical island for an exotic location shoot and discovers a colossal giant gorilla who takes a shine to their female blonde star."

By Robin Straatman

Inspiration mise-en-scéne, Gladiator, Ridley Scott (2000)

I took a scene of the film Gladiator, the mise-en-scéne and the art-direction are very important, because the atmosphere in the movie looks like you actually step in the Roman-eara.

Gladiator

"When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge."

By Robin Straatman

Great Art Direction

Check out the art direction of this movie. Everything is perfect, the perfect chair, the sole of the shoes, the clothes, the entire room. Take a good look at the details!


Sherlock Holmes

By Olivier

Little People 2.0

Some funny inspirational little people from the street.

By Olivier

Alexa Meada

Check out this girl.

"Alexa Meade is a 23-year-old artist based in Washington, DC. She has innovated a Trompe-L’Oeil painting technique that can perceptually compress three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional plane. Rather than painting a representational picture on a flat canvas, Meade paints her representational image directly on top of her three-dimensional subjects. The subject and its representation become one and the same." 

By Olivier

Inspiring Abstract Video

LIQUID LUXE from TEST on Vimeo.

Check TESTmagazine for more inspiring fashion films!

Anne-Britt

misplaced

some collected inspiration for 'misplaced'
stolen & collected by
Stefanie

Nike SB x Ben-G

Amsterdam Noord. Was a fun day.

Stef

Roy Andersson

Roy Andersson is a swedish film director who has done large variety of different films, commercials/advertisements and short-films. He is famous for his personal style which is characterized by his swedish 'black humor', which can be described as odd and quite grotesque..

A lot of his work and his website is in swedish but you can press 'se klipp'  in the describing texts next to the stills and you can watch some of his work. His work is very interesting and inspiring, both art-direction and style-wise. Give it a look, even though you don't understand what's being said!

http://www.royandersson.com/produktion.html

Danielle

Where the wild things are

A really sweet story with great art direction. Through costumes, make-up and special effects the creatures in the movie become very real. Nicely done! Check it out


Lara

Trailer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-PqqifyjA

An adaptation of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story, where Max, a disobedient little boy sent to bed without his supper, creates his own world--a forest inhabited by ferocious wild creatures that crown Max as their ruler.