2001: A Space Odyssey. Arguably the most beautiful movie ever made. All other Kubrick movies.
How can anyone miss BLADERUNNER!
The Cell (gorgeous movie!)
If you like City of Lost Children and Bladerunner then you have to see: Dark City
Brazil
And I would like to point out that if you want to see the glory of any “visually stunning” movie, you have to see it as the Director intended, which is the widescreen/letterbox edition.
I’m definitely increasing my netflix list with this thread. Great thread!
2001: A Space Odyssey. Arguably the most beautiful movie ever made. All other Kubrick movies.
How can anyone miss BLADERUNNER!
The Cell (gorgeous movie!)
If you like City of Lost Children and Bladerunner then you have to see: Dark City
Brazil
And I would like to point out that if you want to see the glory of any “visually stunning” movie, you have to see it as the Director intended, which is the widescreen/letterbox edition.
I’m definitely increasing my netflix list with this thread. Great thread!
Got to add another - “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors” - A Eurasian film, I saw it 30 years ago so can’t remember the country, or probably the correct title. But I still remember the stunning visuals.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is gorgeous. The saddest part is that there aren’t any extras on the DVD. I’m hoping they come out with a collector’s edition someday.
I came in to recommend Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (winning Oscars for Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration & Best Costume Design), but I see that The Scrivener already has, so let me 2nd that nomination. You have to like “period pieces”, though, as it’s set in 18th century Europe. And, you have to have a long attention span, as it’s a 3 hour movie. But it is gorgeous. As one viewer wrote: “It is in actuality a moving painting if there ever was one. This movies strongest point is its wonderful cinematography by John Alcott. With its pioneering lenses the movie is easily the most beautiful ever made.”
Ridley Scott’s The Duellists (1978).
Interesting story, spotty acting (Harvey Keitel, as always, is great, but Keith Carradine never seems believable saying most of his lines as a Napoleonic officer), but the photography is absolutely stunning. As a movie it’s a B, as a series of paintings an A+.
I have to second (or third?) the anime Metropolis. The computer generated art is not only stunning, but the handdrawn art is almost seamlessly integrated. It’s a wonder to behold.
If you like more traditional animation, I’d imagine that Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast would also be a treat. I know they knocked my socks off in the theater.
I realize this is way late…but…I can’t believe Pleasantville wasn’t mentioned…I can’t believe I didn’t mention it. Heh…beautiful with the colors and black ‘n’ white mixed like that…
Cant believe no one’s mentioned Titus! A remake of Shakespeare’s bloodiest (and worst) play, filled with strange anachronisms (Mussolini-esque fascist architecture, 1930’s era technology juxtaposed with Medieval culture, etc).
yeah i know these are already mentioned but they are WORTH repeating, if solely for reinforcement!
koyaanisqatsi
amelie
moulin rouge
william shakespeare’s romeo + juliet
pleasantville
run lola run
the matrix
the lord of the rings, the fellowship of the ring
the fifth element
what dreams may come
It’s a Soviet-Cuban coproduction that was banned by the Soviets immediatly after it was released for making all the stuff it was supposed to be condemning look too good, and it was not really seen anywhere until some movie star unearthed it in the eighties. Now they stock it at the local Blockbuster.
It is THE most beautiful use of black and white film ever. I watch well over a hundred movies a year in school, and I have never seen anything as stunningly perfect as I am Cuba. It took my breath away.
