Best Use of Color

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The Sixth Sence - Red on things which signify danger i.e. The tent, the door knob....
American Beauty - Red especialy on the rose petals
Seven - Very dark with a green visualy motif
Schindlers list - The little girls red dress
The Wizard Of Oz - B&W to colour

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I loved the colour in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Powell and Pressburger again, the runner up being Peeping Tom.


Blimp


Peeping Tom

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I really love the dirty orange/yellow tint in the films Bad Boys and Con Air

And I like the colors in Dick Tracy

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Definitely Blade Runner.

Also, theres a colorized version of It's A Wonderful Life. Its Christmass and I'm planning to watch that!

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Three Kings

Do The Right Thing

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Haven't seen Three Kings, but Do The Right Thing? The whole movie was too yellowish and sterile, effective to serve its purpose but not a good example of maximising the use of colour in a movie.

Apart from the ones you've already mentioned:

Shame
Honey
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Red Psalm
Baraka
Dolls
Spirit of the Beehive
Passion of Anna
Banishment
And basically every movie by Tarkovsky and Angelopoulos

Mr Minio, have you seen The Travelling Players (1975)?

I've seen all Angelopoulos movies, so yes.

The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover

Now this is a very good movie that uses colour in such a vivid and expressive manner.

What's your opinion of that film? I'm intending to watch it.

What are you waiting for? Perhaps it's not a good idea to start from this one, but on the other hand all his movies besides two or so, are great, so it doesn't really matter, which one you watch first.

I'd add Mario Bava to the mix with particular regard to Black Sabbath and Planet of the Vampires.

Both of these films make an almost eerie and startling use of red/green and violet/blue hues to set the mood of the film(s).

Bava has become one of my favorites of late precisely because of his distinctive use of color.

In terms of color animated films always have the advantage over live action films, for the same reason that impressionistic paintings are more impressive than photographs*. And in visual terms IMO nothing beats Ghibli films:





*just compare photos with Van Gogh:


The use of color in fully artificial images can be much greater than in photographed images.

I though it was a too pretentious use of color: The director appears to be saying "Look at me, I am using color."

A Matter of Life and Death


Gone With the Wind


The Thief of Bagdad


The Red Shoes


Juliet of the Spirits

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