ASC: A Spectactle in CInematography

By: SaintAmour Brennan

" Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language. " ~ Conrad Hall

Whether you agree with the quote is irrelevant Cinematography is the language in which films communicate.
This my list of 25 Favorite films exhibiting spectacular elements of a Cinematographers craft. (Only the top 5 are in any order)

01

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick
02

Barry Lyndon

Stanley Kubrick
03

Black Narcissus

Michael Powell
04

Baraka

Ron Fricke
05

In the Mood for Love

Wong Kar-wai
06

Ran

Akira Kurosawa
07

Double Indemnity

Billy Wilder
08

Lawrence of Arabia

David Lean
09

2001: A Space Odyssey

Stanley Kubrick
10

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Andrew Dominik
11

Hiroshima, mon amour

Alain Resnais
12

Schindler's List

Steven Spielberg
13

The Red Shoes

Michael Powell
14

Citizen Kane

Orson Welles
15

Seven Samurai

Akira Kurosawa
16

Rosetta

Jean-Pierre Dardenne
17

The City of Lost Children

Marc Caro
18

Death in Venice

Luchino Visconti
19

Persona

Ingmar Bergman
20

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Julian Schnabel
21

The Man Who Wasn't There

Joel Coen
22

Blade Runner

Ridley Scott
23

Once Upon a Time in the West

Sergio Leone
24

Andrei Rublev

Andrei Tarkovsky
25

The Wizard of Oz

Victor Fleming
26

Cool Hand Luke

Stuart Rosenberg

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Uli Cain, Cinefidel¹³

16May10

Good list, we have a couple in common. Here's My List http://mubi.com/lists/8267

Tony McIntosh

29Dec09

Very diverse list, with many of my favorites on it -- and a couple I've never heard of. I will familiarize myself with those. Persona, Lawrence of Arabia, Citizen Kane, Days of Heaven and City of Lost Children jump out at me the most. Assassination of Jesse James -- the newest film here -- had this dreamlike, haunting beauty that just made me want to watch it with the sound off.