I watched Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Act of Killing. It’s a very unusual film. Joshua had this idea for a documentary where he tracked down the perpetrators of Indonesian death squads and asked them to re-enact their crimes... But it gives you a sense of the kind of power that some sort of re-enactment or fictionalization can have when you’re dealing with things where you can’t fully be journalistic or you can’t fully bring things to life in a way that gives people a true sense of them.
Films like 'Kagemusha' or 'Ran' deal with massive historical canvas, and yet tell a very intimate story at their heart, and are hugely influential.
Films like 'Kagemusha' or 'Ran' that deal with a massive historical canvas, and yet tell a very intimate story at their heart, are hugely influential.
Films that deal with massive historical canvas, and yet tell a very intimate story at their heart, are hugely influential.
Films That Influenced Oppenheimer
