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Top 10 Best Film Editing Sequences

Found this article on the some of the most excellent film editing sequences throughout the years and how film editing has changed. I found it a pretty interesting read:

http://www.filmsite.org/bestfilmediting.html

I also found this article on film editing and the Oscars in The New York Times archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/movies/awardsseason/06harr.html

Top 100 Movies.

Firstly, i have to say i don't particularly like Kung-Fu movies and did not know what to expect with Kung-Fu hustle but i really enjoyed it. I liked the seriousness of parts mixed with cartoon elements. The looney toons comparison in class was perfect!

I found this link while i was ''stumbling'', it is a list of what are considered the top 100 movies complete with brief plot description, memorable moments, why people love the movie, best quotes and screenshot. Many of the movies were mentioned as peoples favorites in class and 1 or 2 i think we are actually watching - Citizen Kane is on there. Anyway check it out....

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/AUqBAs/www.lifed.com/top-100-best-movies-of-all-time

I just finished 13 Assassins and it was really good for a Samaria movie. Personally I am not too fond of Samaria movies, mostly because i feel that the idea is really over done, but it held my attention and the action scenes were really awesome but honestly I dont think ill ever be a huge fan of action movies. But that's just me. I think the fights scenes were more believable than most and that if you are an action fan this film is a must.

13 Assassins

I just finished watching 13 assassins. I thought the story line was really entertaining and always moving in a direction. With some bloody action movies the story gets lost in the fighting and the movie itself suffers. Even in the final battle scene there was a direction. The way the camera moved inside the village really made it seem like an unescapable maze. Then when the lord and his three body guards finally walk out into the open it really felt like a whole other world. Even the last shot when the final samurai is walking away from the village and the last walkway crumbles and falls behind him, it was like a literal closure to that part of his life.

13 Assassins' Movement

First of all, before watching this movie, for some reason, I had conceived the notion that 13 Assassins was not going to be entertaining. I thought it was going to be another martial art movie with the same old story. But once the action started picking up, I found myself exclaiming to my roommate: "Holy ?#@% ! This is really good!" But, relating back to the theme of movement, any time a samurai would unsheathe his sword, there were excellent camera shots that added to the more detailed movement that really would hit an audience hard and connect them deeper to the characters or the story; specifically the opening suicide scene. With a close up shot of the man, never revealing any knife or blood, the slightest movement of his shoulders or body made me wince. The close up amplified the brutality, even though most of the action was not visible. To make me wince, only showing the bare minimum of a suicide, is quite a skill possessed by the director. The way that the camera showed some details and hid the others throughout the movie would cause any slight sword motion to make anyone in the audience say "Holy ?#@% !"

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Reflection.

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, in my opinion, was a great film. The shots were taken in such a way that the viewer feels a sense of being uneased, uncomfortable, and maybe even claustrophobic. One of the most interesting aspects to me was that of the dialogue boxes. They had a cartoon like back round, which complemented the cartoon like set the film had. In fact, the whole movie seemed to have a sense of choppy cartoon style animation, which made it such an interesting horror film to me.