Visually, your favourite films

What films do you think are visually amazing?

I'll start with my nomination for visual, the greatest film ever made. blade runner.

 

Just one among many: the 1979 Carroll Ballard movie The Black Stallion, photographed by the great Caleb Deschanel (father of Zooey and Emily).

 

Blade runner, days of heaven, third man

 

2001, amazing looking.

 

Baraka and Samsara. Watch this in 1080p:

 

Blue (Kieslowski)
Blade Runner
The House of Flying Daggers
In the Mood For Love
2001
Barry Lyndon
Ida (2014 Polish film)
The Empire Strikes Back
The Black Stallion (the first half at least)
The Third Man (also my favorite black and white film)

 

At their best, the work of Powell and Pressburger; Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes.

 

The textures in The Sound of Music are really nice.

 

Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967).

A little bigger on the TV screen size, and this would be exactly what it looks like to walk down an urban street today.

 

Blade Runner
Alien
Brazil
The Thing
Batman 1989
Batman Returns

 

Australia

 

A Passage To India.
Lawrence Of Arabia.

jerol

 

The City of Lost Children

 

Koyaanisqatsi

Elephant Man

 

Werkmeister Harmonies
Raise the Red Lantern
(I can also agree with Blade Runner, 2001, and The Third Man)

 

I love the skyscaper views on Lost in Translation, based in a beautiful city.

 

I have to admit there is a lot of great film out there to list, shocked to see Jacques Tati's Play Time mentioned.
I would also add Trafic ('71) by Tati for a fun and visually stimulating ride...

but Playtime is definitely the visual masterpiece, of the two.

for B&W:
I really enjoy Deadman by Jim Jarmusch,
Wings of Desire by Wim Wenders,
and just about anything Kurosawa did.


I would expand to the smaller screens as the more creative money has been laid out for serialized storytelling.
Most recently there has been some great stuff that is very worthy of cinematic awe, like Breaking Bad and it's newer Better Call Saul incarnation. Boardwalk Empire had some very well done visual moments, and then there is this from the UK:

Very painterly in it's use of color, the cinematography is just one of the well done elements in this gem of a series.

 

Koyaanisqatsi
Hugo
Life of Pi

 

Lawrence Of Arabia
The Conformist
Apocalypse Now
Suspiria
Blood And Black Lace
McCabe And Mrs. Miller
2001

 

Mon Oncle
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Modern Times
The Sound of Music

 

Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast

 

GREAT call. Forgot that one, stunning

 

The Thin Red Line (1998) - Breathtakingly beautiful to watch on so many levels, even when the picture's clarity swarms with the ugliness of humankind's greatest folly.

 

A great movie but the greatest?

Great looking movies

Vertigo, Touch of Evil

 

Sleepy Hollow isn't much of a film, but it sure looks great.

Another vote for "Raise the Red Lantern"

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