I think I should make a list of GREAT PLEASURE DERIVED FROM DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN FILMS, because I find that I am particularly drawn to different elements in different films. However, this list is not to say that the films in the list have only one great element in them. I still find that the combining of all the elements in a film is one important thing that can make a film a masterpiece or not. The list below is just an example to show that there are many ways to make a film that I can worship. All the films in this list surely have many great elements in them, not only the one I listed.
GREAT PLEASURES DERIVED FROM DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN FILMS
1.IMAGES -- SOMBRE (1998. Philppe Grandrieux, A+)
2.MISE-EN-SCENE – NORA HELMER (1974, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, A)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070457/
This is a comment in imdb,com
“I've now seen four film versions of Ibsen's "A Doll's House", and this has to be the best. The first thing that grabs your attention is the art direction/camera-work,which shows us everything through glass, through netting, or reflected through multiple mirrors. This really drives home the unreal hothouse atmosphere, the "Doll's House", in which Nora lives.”
3.COLORS – UNE VIE (1958, Alexandre Astruc, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052339/
4.LIGHT – DUTCH LIGHT (2003, Pieter-Rim de Kroon, A+), DAYS OF HEAVEN (1978, Terrence Malick, A+)
5.ABSENCE OF LIGHT – THE POLICEWOMAN (2003, Joaquim Sapinho, Portugal, A+)
6.LIGHTING – INSTITUTE BENJAMENTA (1995, Brothers Quay, A+)
7.CAMERA MOVEMENT – The ending of AMOUR D’ENFANCE (2001, Yves Caumon, A+)
8.LITTLE CAMERA MOVEMENT – GOODBYE, DRAGON INN (2003, Tsai Ming-liang, A+)
9.CAMERA ANGLE – THE LAW OF DESIRE (1987, Pedro Almodovar, A+)
10.TEXT – BIRTH OF THE SEANEMA (2004, Sasithorn Ariyavicha, A+)
11.SOUND – ANAT(T)A (2006, Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr + Koichi Shimizu, A+)
12.COMBINATION OF SOUND AND IMAGES – PAMELA, POUR TOUJOURS (2003, Alain Bourges, A+)
13.SOUNDTRACK – PROSPERO’S BOOKS (1991, Peter Greenaway, A+), soundtrack by Michael Nyman
14.SONG – DORIAN GRAY IN THE MIRROR OF THE YELLOW PRESS (1984, Ulrike Ottinger, A+)
15.VOICEOVER – INDIA SONG (1975, Marguerite Duras, A+), MAGIC WATER (2001, Panu Aree, Thailand, A+)
16.INSTALLATION OF THE SCREEN – WHO WISHES TO REPRESENT AN ANGEL, MAKES A BEAST (2007, Christine Laquet, A+)
17.EDITING – JFK (1991, Oliver Stone, A+)
18.SPEED OF IMAGES – TOTEM (2001, Maider Fortune, A+)
19.JUXTAPOSITION OF IMAGES – EDEN AND AFTER (1970, Alain Robbe-Grillet, A+)
20.JUXTAPOSITION OF STORIES – THE POWER OF EMOTION (1983, Alexander Kluge, A+)
21.STORY – THE MISSION (1986, Roland Joffe, A+)
22.IDEAS – TWO OR THREE THINGS I KNOW ABOUT HER (1966, Jean-Luc Godard, A+)
23.POLITICAL CONTEXT – SPECTRE: 16 YEARS LATER (2006, Prap Boonpan, A+)
24.HEROINE WORTH WORSHIPPING – MUSIC BOX (1989, Costa-Gavras, A+)
25.TRUE TO REAL LIFE (OF MY FRIEND) – MON FILS A MOI (2006, Martial Fougeron, A+)
26.CRUELTY – PAIN (1994, Eric Khoo, A+)
27.HUMANITY – CHOICES OF THE HEART (1983, Joseph Sargent, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085332/
28.SERIOUSNESS – THE NINTH DAY (2004, Volker Schloendorff, A)
29.LIGHTNESS IN SERIOUS STUFF – JEANNE AND THE PERFECT GUY (1998, Olivier Ducastel + Jacques Martineau, A+), HEAL HITLER! (1986, Herbert Achternbusch, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123923/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091191/
30.DIALOGUE – FOUR ADVENTURES OF RAINETTE AND MIRABELLE (1986, Eric Rohmer, A+)
31.MONOLOGUE – TEN TINY LOVE STORIES (2001, Rodrigo Garcia, A+), FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995, Mark Rappaport, A+), Barbara Gass’s monologue in the final part of THE ANDECHS FEELINGS (1974, Herbert Achternbusch, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301924/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071140/
32.FUNNY QUOTES – “NEVER TRUST A NAKED BUS DRIVER” in ANYTHING ELSE (2003, Woody Allen, A)
33.BLACK HUMOR QUOTES – “I DIE, THEREFORE I AM” in THE DEATH KING (1990, Joerg Buttgereit, A+)
34.MALE PERFORMANCE – CHRISTIAN BALE in THE MACHINIST (2004, Brad Anderson, A+)
35.FEMALE PERFORMANCE – DARLING NARITA in BANG (1995, Ash, A+)
36.BARE SETTINGS – BREMEN FREEDOM (1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, A+)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068314/
37.ELEGANT SETTINGS – ONEGIN (1998, Martha Fiennes, A+)
38.COSTUME AND MAKEUP – MADAME X: AN ABSOLUTE RULER (1977, Ulrike Ottinger, A+)
39.STYLE – THE DEATH OF MARIA MALIBRAN (1972, Werner Schroeter, A+)
40.SHORT DURATION – THE EVIL FAERIE (1966, George Landow, A+)
41.LONG DURATION – HITLER: A FILM FROM GERMANY (1977, Hans-Juergen Syberberg, A+)
42.OPENING SCENE – SCREAM (1996, Wes Craven, A+)
43.ENDING SCENE – BUNNY (2000, Mia Trachinger, A+)
44.ABSENCE OF SCENE OR ELLIPSIS – L’ARGENT (1983, Robert Bresson, A+), RAIN DOGS (2006, Ho Yuhang, A+), GLORIA (1999, Manuela Viegas, Portugal, A+)
This is a photo of GLORIA (1999, Manuela Viegas)
http://www.oeff.jp/95_Gloria.html
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