Andrei Rublev
Playtime
Crash – Cronenberg
Alice (Svankmajer)
Baraka (Fricke)
Fantastic Planet (Laloux)
Tokyo Story
The Darjeeling Limited
Marie Antoinette
Fanny And Alexander
Death In venice
In The Mood For Love
How could I forget Days Of Heaven?
Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The New World
The Passenger
Still Life
Don Giovanni (1979)
Richard Williams’ The Thief and the Cobbler
Russian Ark (It’s filmed in a famous art gallery, so I guess that’s a bit of a cop out!)
@IllJill – I love those picks.
I’m surprised no one mentioned David Gordon Green’s “George Washington”? I seriously think that is some of the most gorgeous cinematography I’ve ever seen. It was definitely filmed in the spirit of Malick. Vincent Gallo creates beautiful images too, heavily influence by Cassavettes. Whatever you want to say about “Buffalo ’66” and “The Brown Bunny”, you can’t deny how lovely some of those shots are. Cassavettes’ films for that matter, as slow as they can be, contain AMAZING images, perfectly aligned and sequenced for powerful emotional releases at the exact right moment. So cerebral. The dude was a master. Needless to say Tarkovsky’s has easily some of exquisitely shot films under his belt (if he didn’t I doubt half the people who have grown to admire him would ever have been able to sit through his movie the first time around.) I think his prettiest looking work is “Solaris” (most would say “Mirror” I guess.) Hirokazu Kore-Eda uses wonderful muted out tones. He consistently creates “visually amazing” films, as does Julian Schnabel (excluding “Basquiat”, which was good but kind of felt like he was only getting his feet wet in cinema.) I don’t know why, but I really loved the overall look of Korine’s “Julian-Donkey Boy”, he has such an imagination. Aerial M accompanying the camera’s jumpy movement around Herzog’s face was out of this world.
And I mean come on, anything shot by Sacha Vierny has blown at least a few minds wide open.
Innocence
Leave her to Heaven
Mes Petites Amoureuses
Thank you Roger Hayn!
Black Narcissus
Touch of Evil
Seven Samurai
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Leopard
Sansho The Bailiff
Chinatown
The Fall
Trois couleurs: Bleu – Kieslowski
Dreams – Kurosawa
City of the Lost Children – Jeunet
Other favorites:
Amelie – Jeunet
2001: A Space Odyssey – Kubrick
The Shining – Kubrick
Bladerunner – Scott
The Third Man – Reed
Stalker – Tarkovsky
Paris, Texas – Wenders
Avatar – Cameron
Fitzcarraldo – Herzog
barry lyndon
baraka
manhattan
I would say Dersu Uzala, Through the Olive Trees, Sansho the Bailiff, but that doesn’t mean these are my 3 top favorites in being visually beautiful; These are the bold ones in my head now.
only three ?
-zerkalo
-stalker
-Trois couleurs : rouge
-offret
-baraka
- la double vie de veronique
-koyaanisqatsi
-picture of the old world
-amelie
-2001: A Space Odyssey
Amelie was way stupid… Stalker was way beautiful, on the other hand.
A few American films not all of mine just a few that I have seen in the past two-three days.
The Godfather Part I & II (Coppola)The Kid (Chaplin)
The Lady from Shangahi (Welles)
The Life Quatic (Anderson)
inglourious basterds (Tarantino)
Vertigo
Hard Boiled
Samurai Trilogy
Blue
Marie Antoinette
Madame de…
The Mirror (Tarkovsky)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Weerasethakul)
Satantango (Tarr)
2001 – most visually pleasing film? wtf?
Pierrot Le Fou
Claire’s Knee
The Spirit of the Beehive
Along with most Wes Anderson movies and a few road movies (Kings of the Road and Two-Lane Blacktop)
its so hard to pick just three…
but i was really pleased with:
“a double life” milton r krasner shot this for george cuckor on the forties, saw it on dvd
“sie jie” rodrigo pietro shot this for ang lee, saw it on dvd
“robin hood” john mathison shot this for ridley scott saw it a the theater….
2001 Space Odyssey
Wall-E
Rear Window
The Mirror
Stalker
In The Mood For Love
2046
Europa
The Element of Crime
Red Desert
Kurosawa’s Ran by far is the best looking film I have ever seen, absolutely beautiful and awe inspiring
Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West
PT Anderson’s There Will Be Blood
Days of Heaven
Dreams(Kurosawa)
The Last Picture Show
JP
L’eclisse
Ugetsu
In the mood for love
all about lily chou chou