Influential Films

 

For a rich, retrained color palette, and elegant use of shadow.

Here is a film with an exceedingly tight sense of visual scope that created production value through exquisite attention to detail.   

Through use of color and light, the film keeps the audience with one foot in another world, both strange and friendly.    

Like the previous three films, the movie establishes intimacy and otherworldliness through the use of warm color and shadow.     

PERFORMANCE REFERENCES:   

With a sense of both realism and poetic timing, the actors in Sideways invite the audience into an experience that is both comfortable and dangerously unpredictable.  What's more, the dynamic between the leads reflects a ton of goodwill and a ton of apprehension, glued together by their evolving need for one another.

Here, actors tackle the intimate details of absurd or fantastic realities with a heroic sense of honesty and a human sense of good will.   

Perhaps more than any other film, these actors are wrestling with a terrific sense of history that won't remain silent.  This film demonstrates how the past can be a character in the story.   

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead 

What a rich sense of play between the leads in this film...  They create a sense of adventure through their interactions with one another, as much as through their interactions with the world around them.     

The Maltese Falcon 

When people are keeping important secrets from one another, digging for those secrets becomes important action. 

Autumn Sonata 

Likewise, bringing light to the dark past can be important action, when that past is too painful to bear.    

Sideways 

Really getting to know somebody else is a journey.