Movies for Poetic Inspiration

[Tathagata]

Dreams - Kurosawa
Little Big Man
Stand By Me
Kundun
The Big Sleep - Bogie version
The Outlaw Josie Wales - Chief Dan George
O.C and Stiggs
Buster Keaton - Just about anything he ever did
A Christmas Story
Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind
Stranger Than Paradise
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Bank Dick
A Night at the Opera
The Last Emperor
Amadeus

 

[mojo_cat]

I like movies with a rich visual style, they've inspired me sometimes much more than the actual plot or characters. Though my stuff tends to be dark in nature, I'm always trying to show the beauty in the grotesque.

Two movies that visually thrilled me and helped me write, while fantasizing being in their world walking through the colours and atmosphere, were The Cell and Brazil. Being a huge Stoppard whore, the second one was sort a no-brainer - Terry Gilliam visuals and some of Stoppard's best screenwriting? Yes, please!

I was really surprised to hear he co-wrote Shakespeare in Love as well, since I thought that movie was an abomination of overacting and pretension...but I'm a Shakespeare dork. I thought Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead was a better Shakespeare exploration for him...but your mileage may vary.

Tathagata:

A Night At The Opera

Ey, you like-a my movie, that's-a great!

 

[twelveoone]

La Belle Noiseus (The Beautiful Idiot) Director Jacques Rivette

Starring: Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanualle Beart

It's basically about an artist in a creative struggle and the film really gets to grips with creative struggle without glamourising it. So simple but yet so rich and complex.

It's 3 hours 50 minutes long and it doesn't seem long enough.


Eraserhead by David Lynch He creates a surreal nightmare world that in many ways is ultra real. Weird imagery. Brilliant!


Fitzcarraldo, Cobra Verde , Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Nosferatu the Vampyre and Woyzeck. All diirected by Werner Herzog and starring Klaus Kinski. It is difficult to describe so many films but they are all expressive but it is easy to understand why Herzog insisted on Kinski starring no matter how nuts the bloke was. I don't think I ever create anything without one of these films popping into my mind.

Kinski is nuts, <snigger>

This is a good thread O' anna I'm bored
Everything I write is based on
A Fistfull of Dollars
Coconuts
Pulp Fiction
The Fifth Element
Coconuts
Yojimbo
C-Span
Coconuts

 

[anonamouse]

Dreams - Kurosawa
Little Big Man
Stand By Me
Kundun
The Big Sleep - Bogie version
The Outlaw Josie Wales - Chief Dan George
O.C and Stiggs
Buster Keaton - Just about anything he ever did
A Christmas Story
Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind
Stranger Than Paradise
The Last Temptation of Christ
The Bank Dick
A Night at the Opera
The Last Emperor
Amadeus

Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can?

 

[sandspike]

Movies can move one

If you take a second to review my past work you will notice
how I have used two great films to tie my volumes together.
Animal House and Beach Blanket Bingo speak volumes about
the readers I try to reach with words of....... whatever.
It doesn't have to be opera you just have to be able to dance
to it.

 

[Angeline]

If you take a second to review my past work you will notice
how I have used two great films to tie my volumes together.
Animal House and Beach Blanket Bingo speak volumes about
the readers I try to reach with words of....... whatever.
It doesn't have to be opera you just have to be able to dance
to it.

Frankie? Is that you?

 

[Tathagata]

Every Which Way But Loose and Any Which Way You Can?

Actually a friend and I would hum the sax music they play in that film whenever they show the bikers while we cruised Revere Beach
( many harley bars there)
Nice call


I wrote a poem a few days ago on the 30 thread called " snow witch" which was based on a scene from " Dreams"
Amazing movie

 

[denis hale]

froggy ebert votes for

21 Grams


truly awesome flick

 

[BooMerengue]

this explains it so much better than I, except her feast was a poem in and of itself.

Babbettes Feast​