MOST BEAUTIFUL FILMS IN COLOR
My choices…
Artists & Models
Red Desert
Cabaret
Once Upon a Time in the West
Lawrence of Arabia
New York, New York
Suspiria
Fellini’s Casanova
Rebel without a Cause
I would have to say (regardless on whether or not you think it is actually a GOOD film):
Enter the Void
The Darjeeling Limited
The Fountain
The Lovely Bones
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Serious Man (for some reason, I just love the color and feel of the visuals in that movie.)
A Prophet (I like the grittiness of it.)
Brazil
Pan’s Labyrinth
Lost in Translation
The Beat That My Heart Skipped
The Social Network
There Will Be Blood
Some of those are definitely more visually beautiful than others. But visually, I think they all have unique qualities.
ju-dou
I chose one i’ve watched many film until now Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams
The Red Shoes
Suspiria
Vertigo
Blood and Sand
Black Narcissus
Leave Her to Heaven
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
“Fanny and Alexander”
“Barry Lyndon”
“2001: A Space Odyssey”
“Stalker” (the sepia shots are also breathtaking)
“The Double Life of Véronique”
“Raise the Red Lantern”
“In the Mood for Love”
“Hero”
“Amélie”
“The Spirit of the Beehive”
“Apocalypse Now!”
“2046”
“The Conformist”
“Three Colors: Blue, White, Red”
“Spirited Away”
“The Triplets of Belleville”
“Chungking Express”
“Eternity and a Day”
“Paris, Texas”
“City of God”
“Pan’s Labyrinth”
“Cries and Whispers”
“Contempt”
“Chinatown”
“Delicatessen”
“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”
and many many others…
All of Tarkovsky’s films
All of Malick’s films
Michael Mann’s last 3 films (Collateral, Miami Vice, Public Enemies)
Mishima
In no way the end-all list, but a few that stand out off the top of my head.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Fall
Days of Heaven
Paris, Texas
Anything by Terrence Malick
i don’t see it on this page so : ashes of time
i win :D
Loved the look of:
Casino
Taxi Driver (the grit of the streets of New York, amazingly captured)
The Naked City
Pastels:
Edward Scissorhands
Le Bonheur
Jeanne Dielman
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
You the Living
Meek’s Cutoff
Playtime
The Nutty Professor
La Double vie de Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)
Il Conformista (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)
El Espíritu de la colmena (Víctor Erice, 1973)
Stellet licht (Carlos Reygadas, 2007)
Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda, 1965)
In the Mood for Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000)
Giulietta degli spiriti (Federico Fellini, 1965)
Enter the Void (Gaspar Noe, 2009)
Farewell my concubine (Kaige Chen, 1993)
La Belle Noiseuse (Jacques Rivette, 1991)
Revanche (Götz Spielmann, 2008)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
There’s many beautiful color films out there but I think directors like Godard, Lewis made many great color films, for instance Godard’s Le mépris or Pierrot le fou, Lewis’ The Nutty Professor or The Ladies’ Man.
Other great color films would be Langs Indian Epic, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort, Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and many more but for some reason I can’t name them at the moment.
There’s many beautiful color films out there but I think directors like Godard, Lewis made many great color films, for instance Godard’s Le mépris or Pierrot le fou, Lewis’ The Nutty Professor or The Ladies’ Man.
Other great color films would be Langs Indian Epic, Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Demy’s Les demoiselles de Rochefort, Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon and many more but for some reason I can’t name them at the moment.
Floating Weeds (Ozu)
A Matter of Life and Death (Powell)
The Birds (Hitchcock)
Rebel Without a Cause (Ray)
Play Time (Tati)
Black Narcissus (Powell)
Paris, Texas (Wenders)
Blue Velvet (Lynch)
Of course these aren’t the best films that happen to be in colour. However, they are some fantastic films that make a vivid use of colour. I think the most “beautiful” film I’ve ever seen definitely has to be Floating Weeds. It’s so quaint, yet the mise en scene with the alluring use of primary colours make it unsurpassed.
The Time Machine (1960)
Shocked that it was only mentioned once (maybe twice) in the three year of this topic — Almodóvar’s Volver.
Though my personal favorite is The Red Shoes, which has an arresting color restoration on the Criterion Blu ray.
So much Suspiria love on this board, makes me happy.
Also can’t stress DOUGLAS SIRK enough. All That Heaven Allows Magnificent Obsession Imitation of Life Written on the Wind all excellent. All beautiful.
A film I used to leave on in the background because it is so nice to look at is Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Really striking.
Also someone earlier mentioned Buffalo ’66 and is one of my favorites. Would have to agree. And The Fall Someone mentioned that earlier too.
Paris, Texas I haven’t seen mentioned either.
Satyricon too.
The colours of Clouzot’s unfinished Inferno are fascinating.
Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno
Petulia
Petulia is interesting for both its editing and colours- an obvious influence on Roeg when turned director
Kaurismaki accentuates the fable quality of Le Havre with his bright pastels
Le Havre
Lola (Fassbinder)
@Kenji, Fassbinder does produce very beautiful films
I just finished Woyzeck and thought it was beautiful in it’s own way.
KWAIDAN (Masaki Kobayashi, 1965)
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
Bigger Than Life
Written on the Wind
Two-Lane Blacktop
Badlands
Novecento
Days of Heaven
Gummo
The Thin Red Line
Lost in Translation
Last Days
The New World
The Tree of Life
Menalque
The film that made me appreciate color was Aguirre: The Wrath of God.
Others that were good were:
Inferno
Amer
Salo
Stalker
Solaris
Letters from a Dead Man
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls