Film is a topic that I personally have become quite fond of marginally with each passing year. In my opinion, a quality film is the equivalent of a great novel by a great author or a symphony by a great composer; as a result, if there's a film that I really grow fond of, then I usually find myself researching the director, cast, screenplay writers, etc. I'm not really sure what brought my attention to film, but I suppose it was my strong fascination with history. I've always been fascinated with history, even as a child. My passion for history led to a passion for literature, which eventually led me to film. I'm at the point now where I watch a film not only for the plot, but for the dialogue that is spoken, the body language of characters, the tone of voice that is spoken, camera frames and angles and many other factors. As a result, I tend to make many literary allusions to the many themes I find from the careful clues, because, in my opinion, a film screen is the artistic equivalent of a painter and his canvas. In other words, everything within the frame of the screen is there intentionally by the director to help the viewer look for clues to grander themes that are subliminally embedded throughout the movie. This artistic view is probably what has captivated me most about the world of film; the idea that nothing is irrelevant, and the fact that everything matters and should be taken into its proper context, whether it is intentional or not.
With this approach, no quality film ever gets dull for me. I can watch the same film numerous times and never grow tired of it, because the more I watch it, the more I feel as if I'm watching it for the first time. I watch any films: classic, silent, foreign, etc. Some of my favorite films include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove, Bridge On The River Kwai, and an Italian film by the name of La Vita E Bella. Some of my favorite directors were considered radicals for their time such as Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles, and D.W. Griffith. These were real geniuses and the modern-day Da Vinci's. Unfortunately, the film industry has been lackluster over the course of the past decade, because its art form is gradually becoming depleted as each year passes.
Links:
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_directors.htmlhttp://www.imdb.com/
http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_movies.html
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/
