Lucille Oka Posted January 27, 2012 Report Share Posted January 27, 2012 I love movies, black & white or color, new or old period pieces or contemporary themed. But many of my favorite movies usually have good shots of beautiful ceramic ware in them. Some movies I buy just to see the ceramics. I have a list of my favorites. I won’t tell you which scenes these pots appear, it will be more interesting when you spot them. If you ever venture to see these films I have noted the star of the film so as not to confuse it with movies of similar titles. Do you have any favorite pot films? Please let me know so I can see it too. 1. Laura (Gene Tierney) 2. Room With A View (Helena Bonham Carter) 3. Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley) 4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy 5. Romeo and Juliet (Leonard Whiting) 6. King's Speech (Colin Firth) 7. Remains of the Day (Anthony Hopkins) 8. Dial M for Murder (Ray Milland) 9. Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson) 10. All about Eve (Bette Davis) The following are honorable mentions reason being the ceramic ware was destroyed or there were only a few or they were shown very briefly- -Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Harrison Ford) -Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (Judi Dench) -Rebecca (Joan Fontaine) -Hope and Glory (Sebastian Rice Edwards) -Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Daniel Radcliff) -Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart) -Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart) -Holiday (Katherine Hepburn) -The Godfather (Marlon Brando) -The Mummy (Brendon Frasier) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 <"Ugetsu" Japanese Classic about a potter corrupted by greed B and W from the 50s. http://www.filmcritic.com/reviews/1953/ugetsu/ Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederik-W Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 Dear Lucille, Some would say you are complete nuts, to have such a weird potty fetish. But I understand (I think). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JBaymore Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 <"Ugetsu" Japanese Classic about a potter corrupted by greed B and W from the 50s. http://www.filmcriti...ws/1953/ugetsu/ Marcia I was going to list this one, but Marcia beat me to it. How many movies have the potters as protagonists? A must see. Great sets. It's a Japanese "morality play"......."know your place in life". Watch the background. best, .............john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bciskepottery Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 What . . . no one to speak up for "Reefer Madness" and "Ghost"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Denice Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 I don't know if this counts as a ceramic pots movie but they do work with a lot of clay in sculpting maquettes in the movie: Camille Claudel , Rodin's mistress and great sculptor in her own right. It's a great movie you get so involved in it you forget its in french and your a sniffling mess with piles of wet tissues around you by the end of the movie. I think I need to rent it again. Denice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Unknown Craftsman Posted January 28, 2012 Report Share Posted January 28, 2012 "What . . . no one to speak up for "Reefer Madness" and "Ghost"?" Well, I guess it had to be mentioned, and only five posts in! Boy, you have a great eye, Lucille, I have never paid that much attention to the pottery in movies. I'll have to look for them in "Laura" and "Rebecca", I have both on DVD; besides, I get to watch a movie with Gene Tierney in it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted January 29, 2012 Report Share Posted January 29, 2012 I love movies, black & white or color, new or old period pieces or contemporary themed. But many of my favorite movies usually have good shots of beautiful ceramic ware in them. Some movies I buy just to see the ceramics. I have a list of my favorites. I won’t tell you which scenes these pots appear, it will be more interesting when you spot them. If you ever venture to see these films I have noted the star of the film so as not to confuse it with movies of similar titles. Do you have any favorite pot films? Please let me know so I can see it too. 1. Laura (Gene Tierney) 2. Room With A View (Helena Bonham Carter) 3. Pride and Prejudice (Keira Knightley) 4. Lord of the Rings Trilogy 5. Romeo and Juliet (Leonard Whiting) 6. King's Speech (Colin Firth) 7. Remains of the Day (Anthony Hopkins) 8. Dial M for Murder (Ray Milland) 9. Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson) 10. All about Eve (Bette Davis) The following are honorable mentions reason being the ceramic ware was destroyed or there were only a few or they were shown very briefly- -Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (Harrison Ford) -Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown (Judi Dench) -Rebecca (Joan Fontaine) -Hope and Glory (Sebastian Rice Edwards) -Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Daniel Radcliff) -Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart) -Maltese Falcon (Humphrey Bogart) -Holiday (Katherine Hepburn) -The Godfather (Marlon Brando) -The Mummy (Brendon Frasier) Add Taming of the Shrew with Taylor and Burton...great props. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dinah Posted February 19, 2012 Report Share Posted February 19, 2012 Shakespeare in Love, a lovely little e'ware cup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PRankin Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 We saw "Ugetsu" last night and it was a very strange, enjoyable movie. The 1950's Japanese filming style was very dated but we loved the parts about the potter and pottery. As a side note when I searched for Ugetsu on this forum my ipad autocorrected it to uterus so I couldn't find this thread for awhile even though I knew it was here. Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 I have pot in a movie its a bad movie at best called Humboldt County- my bowl is on the table for about one nano second. I would say its a grade c film. I will be glad when (ghost) folks cannot recall that film=its caused me more pain than gain. Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayaldridge Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Mark, it can't be that terrible a movie. IMDB ranked it 6.4 out of 10. I'll look for it, since the counterculture is a particular interest of mine. "I have pot in a movie its a bad movie at best called Humboldt County-" I'm just guessing, but I bet a lot of people in that movie have pot. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted July 23, 2015 Report Share Posted July 23, 2015 Mark, it can't be that terrible a movie. IMDB ranked it 6.4 out of 10. I'll look for it, since the counterculture is a particular interest of mine. "I have pot in a movie its a bad movie at best called Humboldt County-" I'm just guessing, but I bet a lot of people in that movie have pot. (Sorry, couldn't resist.) The move has a pot theme(not ceramics)-my bowl in on dinning table in one scene in house . The only way you can see it is freeze frame-my wife noticed it . Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark C. Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 My mug on Mike Rowes somebody has to do it is top featured compared to this low budget film -Humboldt County.Mark If you want your pots in a film I suggest doing lots pottery for about 40 plus years and sure enough it just happens, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJR Posted July 24, 2015 Report Share Posted July 24, 2015 I just watched The Magnificent Seven on Netflicks. Eligh Wallack is the bad Mexican with 40 raiders. Steve McQueen and Yul Brynner get together 7 gunslingers to save the town. Lots of terra cotta pottery. Even in the bar, they are drinking out of terra cotta mugs. Some coloured slip application. 2.In the "Good, the Bad and the Ugly," there is a great scene at the beginning of the movie, where the "bad" is staring down the farmer over a big plate of salad and squash. Looks delish. They are eating with hand-carved wooden spoons. You know that the farmer is going to;"bite the farm", as it were, and he does. Nice big platters though. Eligh Wallack is the ugly in this one. Can we say; "type cast" Love that movie. A bit long though. TJR. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lgusten Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 I also like to see the props in the movies. Have you noticed that there are some deco style ceramics that make multiple appearances in many movies of the 30's. Mark, sorry I missed your bowl in Humboldt....I actually did see the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabama Posted August 5, 2015 Report Share Posted August 5, 2015 This is one reason I like this forum! For years I thought I was the only one who checked out the pottery being used and in the fore ground and in the back ground. I guess I'm not the only one!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcia Selsor Posted August 7, 2015 Report Share Posted August 7, 2015 No, you aren't alone. Marcia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph Fireborn Posted August 8, 2015 Report Share Posted August 8, 2015 My wife says I watch for neat and interesting pots more in movies than I watch the actual movie. I love looking for interesting forms in movies, so many kitchen stages have neat interesting pots in the background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rayaldridge Posted August 11, 2015 Report Share Posted August 11, 2015 One of the best movie genres for pots is Chinese films. We watched one tonight called, I think, Tiger Mountain, about the postwar battles between the PLA, the Kuomintang, and local warlords.. Lots of interesting pots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabama Posted August 19, 2015 Report Share Posted August 19, 2015 Hey, Last week I watched The Captain's Paradise starring Alec Guinness and they showed a cup that was being used for hot chocolate. Even though it was cast in a mold, it had a double trimmed foot, like mine, but double. The form was elegant, like it was made by rayaldridge with the subtle changes in form. It was used twice though out the movie. Another movie watched last week was The Ladykillers starring Alec Guinness and Peter Sellers. Not much on pottery but very funny. I think if you liked Dial M for Murder, you'd really like Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt with Joseph Cotton. There is the typical 1950s tea set used at the table but not much in the way of pottery. I gave away my Reefer Madness movie to my little brother, so I can't review it again for pottery. My brother has "bad movie" night where he and friends try to find the worst movies to play, comment on as they are the Sci-Fi 3000 theater channel and throw stuff at the screen,(mostly popcorn). I have a copy of VideoHounds Golden Movie Retriever so when I finish a movie dvd, I highlight it in the book and usually give the movie away. Any emblems or designs from movies and youtube videos are freeze framed and sketched to be incorporated on the side of a pottery vessel later. See ya, Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebekah Krieger Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 I have paused movies to look at pottery on shelves and end tables too! I don't recall which ones but my husband gets annoyed when I tell him "quick pause that" and when he realizes it's for a pot instead of me getting me up to pee or fill a glass of wine he will push play again hahahaaha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chilly Posted August 26, 2015 Report Share Posted August 26, 2015 he will push play again hahahaaha That's why I'm in charge of the remote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alabama Posted September 3, 2015 Report Share Posted September 3, 2015 I'm probably the last person on earth to know this, at least find this out, but my DVD remote control has a magnified button. It ranges from 1/2 size, 2x, 3x, and 4x the size. So I can freeze the frame, and bring an image of pottery from the background to the foreground. Its pretty helpful looking at the credits as well. See ya, Alabama Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mina Tanaka Posted March 13, 2016 Report Share Posted March 13, 2016 It might be a bit late to reply to this topic but anyway!If you like korean dramas, dramas about ancient Asia or korean ceramics... this one is definitely for you!Search online for "The goddess of fire". It is in its original language but english subtitles are included. It is the story of a child who aspire to become the best ceramist in Korea. Because it is a korean drama, friendships, betrayal and intense plot are to be revealed. And of course... Thousands of sublime ceramics. Hard to imagine but almost all characters are potters. Evil potters, potter heroes and potter friends in a beautiful, yet very dangerous adventure to become at any cost the #1 elite ceramist at Bunwon, the Joseon dynasty royal kiln.Enjoy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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