100 Films in Under 2 Minutes

By David in Film on Jun 29, 2008 at 5:26 am

Montage-maker Paul Proulx’s work has been featured on Neatorama before, but I just couldn’t resist myself again: Proulx has recently put together a 2-minute clip that features moments from his 100 favorite films. At first I didn’t feel like this clip was particularly creative but as I watched it more, I realized that aside from the juxtaposition of similar beats/events/lines here, there’s a rhythm to the way these moments are edited together…and I like it. What do you think?

Also, can you name all the films?

Link

Tags: editing, film, montage, movies

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samantha
Jun 29th, 2008 at 6:38 am
note: this will sound dorky

but it reminds me of the end of the great movie ride at mgm in disney world– i guess a little darker, but yeah.

i kinda like it though.
samantha
Jun 29th, 2008 at 6:47 am
ahem. see here for poorly recorded tourist movie of such: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cd6NwtAd2s
gdw3
Jun 29th, 2008 at 9:32 am
Nice editing. Quite a few of my favorites in there!
Marcysaturn
Jun 29th, 2008 at 9:34 am
That was cool!
Here are the movies I think I picked out:
After Hours
Harry Potter
Lethal Weapon
There Will Be Blood
American Beauty
2001
The Apartment
The Blair Witch Project
Edward Scissorhands
Titanic
Apolcalypse Now
Zodiac
Die Hard
Jaws
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Sleeper
Glory
Nightmare on Elm Street
The Assassination of Richard M. Nixon
The In-laws
The Goodbye Girl
Hard Eight
Blowout
Short Cuts
Philadelphia
Ed Wood
Psycho
Star Wars
The Age of Innocence
The French Connection
Easy Rider
Dick Tracy
Carrie
The Exorcist
And Justice for All
Annie Hall
Ghostbusters
About Schmidt
Chinatown
American Graffiti
The Godfather
The Wizard of Oz
The Deer Hunter
Magnolia
Dr. Strangelove
Barton Fink
Silence of the Lambs
One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
JFK
The Graduate
The Fisher King
Forrest Gump
No Country for Old Men
A Clockwork Orange
Dog Day Afternoon
Schindler’s List
The Company
Pulp Fiction
Nashville
The Conversation
Midnight Cowboy
Goodfellas
Magnolia (again?)

I love the cut from the Russian roulette in the Deer Hunter to the firecracker in Magnolia.

Check out the video montage I made of 50 movies set to “Ode to Joy” (51 if you count the bonus audio at the end):
http://youtube.com/watch?v=1JUJAeWnVjo
Marcysaturn
Jun 29th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Oops–I meant the cut from Deer Hunter to Boogie Nights!
Sheldon
Jun 29th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Macysaturn- it would be a lot better if you cut the audio from all of the other clips. Hearing it sometimes really softly isn’t that fun. Especially when I either want to hear just that or just Ode to Joy.
Ma Copine
Jun 29th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
“can you name all the films?”

No,Can you say them?
Johnny Cat
Jun 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Yeah, lots of cool transitions there. Man, i wish i was back in editing school these days.
Nicolas
Jun 29th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
Add Back to the future
prophet
Jun 30th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Too much time spent here! Nice work.
Caitlin
Jun 30th, 2008 at 11:36 am
i saw trainspotting right after he noticed his heroine suppositories went down the toilet in that nasty bathroom.

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