Need CGI-free film recommendations (1 Viewer)

[JohnAD]

Nosferatu probably doesn't have any CGI in it .

John.

 

[Robert Floto]

George Kaplan wrote:

If I'm not mistaken, BRAM STOKERS DRACULA is cgi free

Excellent effects in that movie.

There were some morphing effects.


Okay...I'll shut up now...

 

[Sergio Martorel]

I´m a purist too.
I only watch movies made with hand-cranked cameras and natural lighting.
If it has electricity, I´m out.
Any suggestions?

 

[David Lambert]

Again, Sunrise!

 

[Sergio Martorel]

Sunrise isn´t hand-cranked.

Hence, it sucks.

 

[Sergio Martorel]

I have some friends, who are quite traditionalists and refuse to watch films that contains any CGI animation.

Show ´em JURASSIC PARK and tell ´em that all dinosaurs are robots.

(Hey, I have friends who ACTUALLY believe that!)

 

[AllanN]

Im going through my DVDProfiler collection, so there might be doubles of what others have recomended.

2001: A Space Odyssey
About Schmidt
American Beauty
American Pie
American Pie 2
Annie Hall
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Can't Hardly Wait
Casablanca
Chasing Amy
Citizen Kane
Clerks
A Clockwork Orange
Dead Poets Society
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Election
Full Metal Jacket
Gattaca
Good Will Hunting
The Graduate
Grosse Pointe Blank
High Fidelity
Lawrence of Arabia
Mallrats
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Mumford
Narc
Office Space
Open Your Eyes (Abre los Ojos)
The Pianist
The Princess Bride
Road to Perdition
Robin Hood
Ronin
Say Anything
Se7en
Seven Years In Tibet
The Shawshank Redemption
Signs
Sneakers
Spaceballs
Spy Game
The Sure Thing
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Usual Suspects
Vanilla Sky
When Harry Met Sally
Who Framed Roger Rabbit




Movies that have very little CG and is worked in well or movies im not sure about there GG content.

12 Monkeys -Not sure about CG
Amélie - Only a very fiew CG scenes, but they work well and are ment to be a depection of the charecters imagination.
Black Hawk Down - Probiably just the crash scenes.
Chicago -Did they use any CGI? I dont think so but im not sure?
Spy Game - See above response.

 

[Kami]

Attack of the Clones and The Matrix are both fine choices.

Final Fantasy is also a fine choice.


sorry, i'm beating a dead horse now. couldn't resist.

 

[Richard Kim]

Chicago -Did they use any CGI? I dont think so but im not sure?

I believe the commentary says that a matte painting of the skyline is digitally created.

 

[Jesse Blacklow]

AllanN: I'm pretty sure the following movies in your list do in fact contain CGI to some extent.
American Beauty
American Pie
American Pie 2
Being John Malkovich
The Big Lebowski
Gattaca
Road to Perdition
Se7en
The Shawshank Redemption
Signs
Spy Game
The Usual Suspects
Vanilla Sky
Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

[Sam Davatchi]

The original Star Wars....................Damn! It doesn’t exist anymore!

 

[Lew Crippen]

I agree with Jesse’s post: very few, if any films today don’t have some type of digital manipulation. This may be hard to tell, because often the change is the erasure of something (like a safety wire to make sure that no harm comes to an actor or stuntman).

 

[Robert Floto]

The original Star Wars....................Damn! It doesn’t exist anymore!

Actually, Star Wars had some early computer generated graphics. Particularly the images on computer screens, holograms, and the targeting device during the trench run...


Okay, now I'll really shut up now...:b

 

[Nathan V]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned this-

HEAT by Michael Mann. That's as good as it's going to get if you're shutting yourself off of CGI.
Malick's BADLANDS and THE THIN RED LINE are also highly, highly recommended. I would recommend Fight Club, but it has about 30 seconds of CGI, so I guess you won't be seeing that.

 

[Kevin M]

The Dark Crystal & Dragonslayer are both excellent examples of pre-CGI effects work at it's best...as far as them being un-sentimental...well they both have rather dark elements to them under the guise of family films.

 

[Sergio Martorel]

American Pie - it DID used CGI, to retouch the Pie holes. Serious.

Being John Malkovich - It has CGI-created mattes.

Gattaca - The ships going into space, their smoke is CGI.

The Shawshank Redemption - CGI mattes.

Signs - A lot of the crops were CGI, and so´s the ET´s.

Spy Game - Wire removal, CGI fire.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit - CGI environment in some small sequences.

 

[ThomasC]

Were some of the frogs in Magnolia CGI?

 

[Dan Rudolph]

Nosferatu probably doesn't have any CGI in it.

Actually, most of the modern releases have new, re-translated intertitles which were presumably computer-generated.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Part of it was, actually.

"Sunrise" was shot by two different cinematographers: Charles Rosher, ASC and Karl Struss (who recieved ASC membership as a result of this film). "Sunrise" was also the first film to win an Academy Award for cinematography. At the time, Rosher and Struss were the very best at what they did.

Struss used a motorized Bell & Howell camera. Rosher operated a hand-cranked Mitchell camera. Apparently which cinematographer worked on which shot was determined by which camera director F.W. Murnau thought was best to capture that particular action.

 

[Chad A Wright]

Jaws. It doesn't get much better.