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A Documentary Feel
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Movies that feature acting and direction that evoke an organic, documentary-like realism. Some of the elements that characterize this style include:
Handheld cameras Visual drabness (muted colors, grainy film-stock, etc) Lack of flashy techniques (visual effects, narration, pop soundtrack, etc) Nonprofessional actors in key or tertiary roles. Related: actors with looks or speech atypical in films (obesity, "low class" accents, etc) Improvised or prosaic dialogue and natural conversation rhythms (interruptions, stammering, "ums," etc) Silence: scenes with little or no dialogue Ambient noises in place of musical score (traffic, fluorescent lights, birds, etc) Stillness: scenes with little or no action A realistic plot; often with difficult ("gritty") subject matter and a lower socio-economic setting.
This mostly unclassified documentary-like style (Sometimes, ridiculously, labeled "Neo-neorealism") has antecedents in Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, and New Hollywood. It shares elements with (but is not equivalent to) Dogme 95 and Mumblecore, and is mostly a post-2000 phenomenon (kickstarted and most heavily influenced by the 90s films of the Dardenne brothers). International hotspots include France, America, Romania, and Iran.
Please leave suggestions! I will add more. Keep in mind that "Mockumentary" films like Borat, Man Bites Dog, Blair Witch, Spinal Tap, etc, are a different animal and do not qualify.
Handheld cameras Visual drabness (muted colors, grainy film-stock, etc) Lack of flashy techniques (visual effects, narration, pop soundtrack, etc) Nonprofessional actors in key or tertiary roles. Related: actors with looks or speech atypical in films (obesity, "low class" accents, etc) Improvised or prosaic dialogue and natural conversation rhythms (interruptions, stammering, "ums," etc) Silence: scenes with little or no dialogue Ambient noises in place of musical score (traffic, fluorescent lights, birds, etc) Stillness: scenes with little or no action A realistic plot; often with difficult ("gritty") subject matter and a lower socio-economic setting.
This mostly unclassified documentary-like style (Sometimes, ridiculously, labeled "Neo-neorealism") has antecedents in Italian Neorealism, French New Wave, and New Hollywood. It shares elements with (but is not equivalent to) Dogme 95 and Mumblecore, and is mostly a post-2000 phenomenon (kickstarted and most heavily influenced by the 90s films of the Dardenne brothers). International hotspots include France, America, Romania, and Iran.
Please leave suggestions! I will add more. Keep in mind that "Mockumentary" films like Borat, Man Bites Dog, Blair Witch, Spinal Tap, etc, are a different animal and do not qualify.
Multilingual Talents
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A list of actors and directors who have made films in at least three different languages.
List guidelines: The actors need to actually speak and understand the languages they use, not memorize the lines phonetically. Also, I'm assigning credit for between-film language-use, not for within-film language-use. So if English, German, and French are all spoken in the same movie I'm not giving credit for three languages; the actor or director must work mostly in English for one movie, French in another movie, and German in another movie, etc.
I haven't seen many of these films and I'm making some guesses about language-use from the IMDb info, so let me know if you spot mistakes. And I know there must be many more polyglot talents, so please leave suggestions!
List guidelines: The actors need to actually speak and understand the languages they use, not memorize the lines phonetically. Also, I'm assigning credit for between-film language-use, not for within-film language-use. So if English, German, and French are all spoken in the same movie I'm not giving credit for three languages; the actor or director must work mostly in English for one movie, French in another movie, and German in another movie, etc.
I haven't seen many of these films and I'm making some guesses about language-use from the IMDb info, so let me know if you spot mistakes. And I know there must be many more polyglot talents, so please leave suggestions!
My God! It's Full of Colors!
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The most colorful films ever made.
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