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Pitch Black, I saw this at the cinema and the visuals were sublime, just upgraded my dvd of the film to blu ray. It's mostly the filters and use of colour. It was incredibly bright in the cinema during the daylight scenes, really gave the planet they crash landed on a brilliant atmosphere.
Mmmhmm, completely agree. Underrated film with underrated photography. Absolutely beautiful to watch.
I like the visual looks of films by Wally Pfister and of course Roger Deakins. Love the look of Memento. Subtle yet stylish. The cool blues of Leonard's motel and inky blacks just gives off this vibe that's a little too hard to put into words right now. It's just an effective use of colour schemes. The wonderfully lit scenes of the motel room also compliment Patti Podesta's simple yet nice production design. The objective scenes in which Leonard is alone with his thoughts in the motel room has some of the best use of black and white I have ever seen as well as excellent use of camera shots. It's like a more prettier survelliance sequence or something. The exterior shots of the subjective colour scenes definitely give this cooler breezier feel to California than most films set there.
I've noticed that Nolan/Pfister has made use of silhouette's in many of his films, specifically silhouette's in hallways or narrow exteriors (Dormer trying to get rid of evidence in Insomnia, the shot of Leonard slowly walking his way to 'create a case he cannot solve' in the abandoned werehouse in Memento, Cobb getting stuck between to walls in Inception. These are minor observations but he has used them a good few times now so I thought it was worth pointing out.
You are so awesome for mentioning this 
