Enchanting forests by night..

[nandywell]

Possibly the most bizarre request to surface on this fab forum but here goes; I'm looking for films or TV dramas that contain scenes of beautifully lit forests by night.



I just like the eerie feel about coloured lights in forests, it's beautiful.



I'll start the ball rolling with this one:



YouTube - West Country Tales - The Wit to Woo (Sample)



West Country Tales (1983) episode: The Wit to Woo.

[batman]

The Emerald Forest is a good one.

[penfold]

Does it have to be colour?? Fritz Lang's Siegfried...

[batman]

name='penfold']Does it have to be colour?? Fritz Lang's Siegfried...

I have that still in a book that I have had since I was a kid, it always enchanted me .... I have not seen the film though.



Not quite a forest but this film has some marvellous night photography, I am sure penfold will agree ...



F W Murnau's Sunrise

[CaptainWaggett]

name='penfold']Does it have to be colour?? Fritz Lang's Siegfried...

I once saw this at the NFT with a two-minute interval before the sequel because they decided to show the longest possible version of Part Two (it was about 20 minutes longer than advertised). It's most fun though if you see it with someone translating the German titles because of the long gaps while the translator waits for verb. Even better if the translator decides to act it out and do a Hunnish accent for Attila.



I digress. There's some very nice trees in Listen to Britain and some chatty ones in The Wizard of Oz

[penfold]

name='batman']I have that still in a book that I have had since I was a kid, it always enchanted me .... I have not seen the film though.



Not quite a forest but this film has some marvellous night photography, I am sure penfold will agree ...



F W Murnau's Sunrise

Fabulous films, both...although Siegfried is a bit overlong and a bit politically suspect...the sequel that Captain W mentions, Kriemhild's Rache [Revenge] is the most unremittingly bleak silent film I've ever seen....but it does interestingly have sequences that remind me of Kurosawa....

[CaptainWaggett]

name='penfold']Fabulous films, both...although Siegfried is a bit overlong and a bit politically suspect...the sequel that Captain W mentions, Kriemhild's Rache [Revenge] is the most unremittingly bleak silent film I've ever seen....but it does interestingly have sequences that remind me of Kurosawa....

Siegfried is great despite the dodgy dwarfs and very Aryan hero (he even gets nekkid, IIRC) but the sequel is just one battle after another.

[suzepulcheria]

name='CaptainWaggett']Siegfried is great despite the dodgy dwarfs and very Aryan hero (he even gets nekkid, IIRC) but the sequel is just one battle after another.

Anyone seen the 1943 Danish film Day of Wrath? Girl With A Pearl Earring visually references it a lot, I think. I watched it on a DVD that had a commentary from some Danish professor. I didn't realise the commentary was switched on and jumped out of my skin when I heard this Scandinavian sing-song voice suddenly say "Hell-oooo". Then I started to laugh and scrabbled for the remote!