Thread: Movie

i haven't seen any thread here introducing Artistic Movies with defined structure.
i start it my self by Stalker by Andrei Tarkovsky.(one of my favorite movies)


Stalker (1979)








Rating: 8.2/10 (7,702 votes)
Runtime: 163 min
Language: Russian (various subs available)
Country: West Germany / Soviet Union
Color: Black and White / Color
IMDb Link: Stalker (1979) - IMDb

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast:
Aleksandr Kajdanovsky ... Stalker
Alisa Frejndlikh ... Stalker's Wife
Anatoli Solonitsyn ... Writer
Nikolai Grinko ... Scientist
Natasha Abramova ... Martha, Stalker's daughter
Faime Jurno
Ye. Kostin
R. Rendi

Description: Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, an alien place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers. Over his wife's numerous objections, a man rises in the dead of night: he's a stalker, one of a handful who have the mental gifts (and who risk imprisonment) to lead people into the Zone to the Room, a place where one's secret hopes come true. That night, he takes two people into the Zone: a popular writer who is burned out, cynical, and questioning his genius; and a quiet scientist more concerned about his knapsack than the journey. In the deserted Zone, the approach to the Room must be indirect. As they draw near, the rules seem to change and the stalker faces a crisis.

see also: Stalker (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Det Sjunde Inseglet (1957) aka The Seventh Seal





Rating: 8.4/10 (16,238 votes)
Runtime: 96 min
Language: Swedish
Country: Sweden
Color: Black and White
IMDb Link: The Seventh Seal (1957) - IMDb

Director: Ingmar Bergman
Cast:
Gunnar Björnstrand ... Jöns, squire
Bengt Ekerot ... Death
Nils Poppe ... Jof
Max von Sydow ... Antonius Block
Bibi Andersson ... Mia, Jof's wife
Inga Gill ... Lisa, blacksmith's wife
Maud Hansson ... Witch
Inga Landgré ... Karin, Block's Wife
Gunnel Lindblom ... Girl
Bertil Anderberg ... Raval
Anders Ek ... The Monk
Åke Fridell ... Blacksmith Plog
Gunnar Olsson ... Albertus Pictor, Church Painter
Erik Strandmark ... Jonas Skat

Description: A Knight and his squire are home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. The knight challenges Death to a chess game for his life. The Knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

see also: The Seventh Seal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Forbrydelsens element (1984) aka The Element of Crime




Rating: 6.6/10
Runtime: 104 min
Language: English
Country: Denmark
Color: Color
IMDb Link: The Element of Crime (1984) - IMDb

Director: Lars von Trier
Cast:
Michael Elphick ... Fisher
Esmond Knight ... Osborne
Me Me Lai ... Kim (as Meme Lai)
Jerold Wells ... Kramer
Ahmed El Shenawi ... Therapist
Astrid Henning-Jensen ... House Keeper
János Herskó ... Coroner (as Janos Hersko)
Stig Larsson ... Coroner's Assistant
Harry Harper ... Portier 1
Roman Moszkowicz ... Portier 2
Lars von Trier ... Schmuck of Ages
Frederik Casby ... White Policeman
Duke Addabayo ... Black Policeman
Jon Bang Carlsen ... Angry Policeman
Leif Magnusson ... Hotel Guest

Description: Fischer, an ex-cop, returns to his old beat somewhere in northern Europe after a thirteen-year hiatus in Cairo. His former mentor and role model, author of a treatise called "The Element of Crime", asks him to solve a series of murders involving lottery ticket sellers. Guided by the theories put forth in the book, Fischer retraces the steps of a suspect, Harry Grey, as recorded in a three-year-old police surveillance report. A dark film set in a post-somethingorother Europe with unique visual atmosphere and kind of cult-movie status (in Europe at least).

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_element_of_crime

Krótki film o zabijaniu (1988) aka A Short Film About Killing


Rating: 8.2/10 2,801 votes
Runtime: 81
Language: Polish
Country: Poland
Color: Color
IMDb Link: A Short Film About Killing (1988) - IMDb

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski
Cast:
Miroslaw Baka ... Jacek Lazar
Krzysztof Globisz ... Piotr Balicki (Advocate)
Jan Tesarz ... Waldemar Rekowski (Taxi driver)
Zbigniew Zapasiewicz ... Przewodniczacy Komisji
Barbara Dziekan ... Bileterka
Aleksander Bednarz ... Kat
Jerzy Zass ... Naczelnik
Zdzislaw Tobiasz ... Judge
Artur Barcis ... Young Man
Krystyna Janda ... Dorota
Olgierd Lukaszewicz ... Andrzej


Description: Expanded from Kieslowski's famed European TV series Decalogue (Episode VI was adapted into A Short Film About Love), A Short Film About Killing potrays the tragic, parallel destinies of a cab driver, drifter, and lawyer in Warsaw with chilling effect. A young drifiter, Jacek, brutally murders a taxi driver for no comprehensible reason. An idealistic young lawyer is assigned to the case, but when his client is sentenced to death he is riled by the injustices of the legal system. A powerful rebuke to a world that fights violence through ritualized capital punishment, but still sensationalizes and perpetuates it, Kieslowski's land-mark film depicts a decaying society as barbaric as the crimes it outlaws. It also started a debate that led to the abolition of the death penalty in Poland.

see also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Film_About_Killing

good share mate.

ill recommend some movies

Eraserhead (1976)



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Jacob's Ladder (1990)



[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlnEkciqkl4]YouTube - "Jacob's Ladder" (1990) - Trailer[/ame]

Naked Lunch (1991)



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Eraserhead is a good movie directed by David Lynch. although, i like Mulholland Dr. and Lost Highway much more.

according to me,

his real masterpiece film is eraserhead. less money and limited possibilities is not important int this. with perfectly created closed and apocalyptic atmosphere, eraserhead is real treasure for seventh art.

but you may not understand movie in the end too :)

I'm about to watch Eraserhead, great review, the trailer really caught my attention.

Originally Posted by ofharvest

but you may not understand movie in the end too :)

all of Lynch works are the same! lol
in general, surreal movies.
some Lynch works are psychological too.
Great artist.
but Inland Empire is a disaster. who makes a movie based on personal night dreams?!