I'd agree with you about restraint, so many films and tv shows I've seen this year have been overly busy. Yet when you peel away the clutter, there isn't much there that hasn't been said before many times. They aren't adding much that is new to the landscape. And I tend to forget them.
Clooney appears to have studied or followed Robert Wise's style of filmmaking. Robert Wise was a popular filmmaker in the late 1950's and 1960's. His films include The Andromeda Strain, The Haunting, and a film about nuclear war which Clooney remade that takes place entirely within the three or four rooms. Wise also, during a time of technocolor, often used black and white. Interesting thing about the 1950s and 60's - the dramatic films or heavier films, often were in black and white - while the blockbuster epics were filmed in technocolor. Today - you see a similar contrast - the blockbuster films use digital and cgi special effects, while quieter films tend to pull back and rely on dialogue and simple shots.
In Good Night And Good Luck - there is a shot worthy of Hitchcock or Robert Wise - where you see Murrow's reflection in the studio glass over a singer performing, then close-up on Murrow. No dialogue, the music is the singer's slow jazzy blues number, and the cigarette. Beautiful in its simplicity.
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Date: 2006-05-07 09:00 pm (UTC)I'd agree with you about restraint, so many films and tv shows I've seen this year have been overly busy. Yet when you peel away the clutter, there isn't much there that hasn't been said before many times. They aren't adding much that is new to the landscape. And I tend to forget them.
Clooney appears to have studied or followed Robert Wise's style of filmmaking. Robert Wise was a popular filmmaker in the late 1950's and 1960's. His films include The Andromeda Strain, The Haunting, and a film about nuclear war which Clooney remade that takes place entirely within the three or four rooms. Wise also, during a time of technocolor, often used black and white. Interesting thing about the 1950s and 60's - the dramatic films or heavier films, often were in black and white - while the blockbuster epics were filmed in technocolor. Today - you see a similar contrast - the blockbuster films use digital and cgi special effects, while quieter films tend to pull back and rely on dialogue and simple shots.
In Good Night And Good Luck - there is a shot worthy of Hitchcock or Robert Wise - where you see Murrow's reflection in the studio glass over a singer performing, then close-up on Murrow. No dialogue, the music is the singer's slow jazzy blues number, and the cigarette. Beautiful in its simplicity.