What films come to mind when you think of superb cinematography?
Days of Heaven is so beautifully done that I wish I had a book of still photographs from it.
The Road to Perdition has some stunning imagery.
Tango. I can’t recall the director but he is also the one who did that fantastic version of Carmen about 20 years ago. The use of color in Tango is breath-taking.
Terrence Malick again, with The Thin Red Line. The man sure shoots a pretty picture.
What Dreams May Come had the most beautiful paradise i’ve ever seen 
The English Patient. The beautiful views of the desert and of rural Italy stayed with me, even though the twists and turns of the plot have long disappeared from my memory-like-a-sieve.
The Duellists, Ridley Scott’s first film, is absolutely gorgeous with astonishing landscapes and great use of light slanting through branches. Sadly, it’s also extraordinarily dull.
Far From Heaven is incredibly beautiful with its leafy suburban streets in autumnal colours. I don’t know where they got those trees, but if you hand-painted every leaf it couldn’t look any nicer (and I doubt Haynes had the budget for that).
Barry Lyndon
Tess
Kwaidan
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Fugitive (1947)
The Black Stallion
Gate of Hell
The Elephant Man
Dances With Wolves
As Walloon has already mentioned, Barry Lyndon. Every shot seems set up to mimic an 18th century painting. For the night scenes, Kubrick reported had a special lens made with a tiny f/# (which means a huge amount of light-gathering capability, yet providing excellent quality pictures – a really difficult combination to achieve) so that he could shoot the scenes entirely by candlelight.
I’d add The Natural as well – there was a very conscious decision to make those shots gorgeous. Watching the trailer for this film alone is an experience.
Princess Mononoke
The Pillow Book
and I’ll second The Thin Red Line. Overlong, IMO, but the first half was beautiful.
Daniel
What, no <B>Amelie</B>?
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My short list of the most beautifully shot films of the past few years would be:[list][li]Far from Heaven[/li][li]In the Bedroom[/li][li]Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and The Towers[/li][li]The Man Who Wasn’t There (damn, I’m glad I saw that on the big screen)[/li]The Pianist
Legend
The Last Emperor
The Mission
Koyaanisqatsi
Chariots of Fire
Witness
The Piano
Dreams
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Werner Herzog’s 1979 NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE
Toys
Sunrise (Karl Struss)
Pandora’s Box (Gunther Krampf)
Shanghai Express (Lee Garmes)
Citizen Kane (Gregg Toland)
Black Narcissus (Jack Cardiff)
Cat People (Nicholas Musaraca)
La Belle et la Bete (Henri Alekan)
The Third Man (Robert Krasker)
The Golden Coach (Claude Renoir)
The Big Combo (John Alton)
Night of the Hunter (Stanley Cortez)
Sweet Smell of Success (James Wong Howe)
Last Year at Marienbad (Sacha Vierny)
Doctor Zhivago (Freddie Young)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Vilmos Zsigmond)
Pennies from Heaven (Gordon Willis)
Fanny and Alexander (Sven Nykvist)
The Double Life of Veronique (Slavomir Idziak)
Dead Man (Robby Muller)
In the Mood for Love (Christopher Doyle)
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (Roger Deakins)
2001: A Space Odyssey and The Straight Story immediately come to mind as examples of beautiful cinematography.
What ArchiveGuy said.
But I’d add all the von Sternberg/Dietrich films from Paramount, and raise you La Dolce Vita, Broken Blossoms and the 1926 Ben Hur.