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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jun 30, 2023 13:17:25 GMT
I should probably preface this post by saying that I absolutely love snow!  I always enjoy seeing it presented onscreen - it's so evocative. I watched 1933's Queen Christina last night - an astonishingly beautiful film, brilliantly directed by Rouben Mamoulian and gorgeously performed by Greta Garbo. (Seriously, if you haven't seen it, you must!) Set in 17th Century Sweden, it features some lovely snowscapes, but perhaps most memorably there is a scene where Garbo's Queen washes her face with snow! I've never heard of such a beauty regimen, but... who can argue with those results?    Please do share some of your favorites! |
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Post by stephen on Jun 30, 2023 13:21:26 GMT
I am an absolute sucker for an austere snowy Western. The Great Silence is paramount, but I also love McCabe & Mrs. Miller, those snowy bits of The Searchers and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford... and while I think The Hateful Eight is a mess of a movie on an inherent script level, those snowy vistas are undeniable.
On this note, I am of two minds on The Revenant's cinematography. It's obviously beautifully shot because it's Chivo, but I also think that he and AGI took the wrong tack with the vibe of that movie; it should've been grimmer and darker, like Sleepy Hollow -- which also has fantastic snowy cinematography.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 30, 2023 13:41:26 GMT
Well obviously The Great Silence and McCabe & Mrs. Miller but two that are among my favorite movies - ever - are not set in snow at all but use snow in their endings to spectacular effect kind of how Coppola uses it in The Godfather, Part II to represent the aborted child wiith the snow covered swing set etc. Oldboy and Blow Out - in both cases suggest the film's narrative point: purity (of the daughter in Oldboy and Nancy Allen in Blow Out), "spoiled" by "less pure" characters (the male leads) and "frozen" in time - memories that are not only not distorted but vivid. In Blow Out - it's literally preserved forever.......and that movie is diabolical with it too - since the snow conveys time passing - the last scene we saw was on July 4th after all.........in Oldboy it presents a kind of "hope denied" if you see the ending as "sad" (you should) - it suggests that there will never actually be a Spring........permanent winter........ It's quite brilliant - those 2 films make the snow a character,a theme and a visual cue to the audience:   |
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Post by Martin Stett on Jun 30, 2023 14:23:46 GMT
The obvious choice is Moonlit Winter, one of the best romantic dramas of the past decade. The coldness of snow is inescapable in this movie, which makes the ultimate warmth of its characters so much more affecting.     On the topic of snowy westerns, we would be remiss not to mention Jeremiah Johnson, which probably does a snowy environment better than any of them. |
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Post by SZilla on Jun 30, 2023 14:27:02 GMT
Surely, John Carpenter’s The Thing
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 30, 2023 16:01:10 GMT
Fanny and Alexander
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Post by avnermoriarti on Jun 30, 2023 17:33:17 GMT
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Post by Pavan on Jun 30, 2023 18:02:56 GMT
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Let the Right One In
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2023 22:47:26 GMT
Is Fargo too obvious or what?  I have mixed feelings on Coppola's Dracula (lean more positive) but it's rage-driven, snowy finale was magnificent. |
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Post by countjohn on Jul 1, 2023 3:03:48 GMT
Surprised no mentions of Doctor Zhivago so far. Always makes me cold the same way Lawrence of Arabia makes me thirsty.
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Jul 1, 2023 4:39:48 GMT
The Shining
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jul 1, 2023 23:47:51 GMT
Some more beautiful mentions (all among my Top 100)! The Dead (John Huston, 1987)  Le notti bianchi (Luchino Visconti, 1957)  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)  |
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Post by Kings_Requiem on Jul 2, 2023 1:31:28 GMT
The Hateful Eight
On Dangerous Ground
Seraphim Falls
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Post by speeders on Jul 2, 2023 14:31:56 GMT
Let the Right One In (2008)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Wind River (2017)
Fargo (1996)
The Shining (1980)
Fanny & Alexander (1982)
I'm sure I'm forgetting a few.
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Post by PromNightCarrie on Jul 2, 2023 15:50:42 GMT
Edward Scissorhands
McCabe and Mrs Miller
Let the Right One In
Fargo
The Shining
Misery
The Thing
There are a lot of fantastic ones that come to mind off the top of my head.
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Post by pessimusreincarnated on Jul 2, 2023 17:56:48 GMT
It's certainly not the best movie I could name, but damned if Balto isn't one of the first that came to mind.
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Post by Feesy on Jul 10, 2023 20:36:18 GMT
Blade Runner: 2049
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I always enjoy seeing it presented onscreen - it's so evocative. 
