Favorite Visually-beautiful films

Hero-The amazing shots with thousands of extras. The Chinese government happily loans film makers the army.

Like every Micheal Mann film especially Last of the Mohicans. Shooting LA beautifully at night in Heat and Collateral.

Fellowship of the Ring-Shire, Rivendell, Moria, Lothlorian and all the sweeping shots of the Fellowship travelling through Middle Earth to the theme tune.

Sunshine

Rob Roy and Braveheart-the beautiful Scottish highlands shot in Ireland lol.

Inception

Just thought of L.A. Confidential , Farewell My Lovely, Ryan's Daughter and Cairo Time

Nice choice, wonderful use of colour in in the film.

Recently saw Inglorious Barsterds and, while I didn't care for the film, it is beautifully shot.

Obviously a mediocre film...but I loved the Baroque-inspired visuals:

"Immortals"

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^ Yeah, film was rubbish for the most part, but as usual with the director, some of the visuals are stunning, mostly with the Gods in Immortals.

I don't know how many of you have seen Cairo Time but that movie was visually stunning. I've been to Cairo and it doesn't really look half as good as the movie made it out to be. The cinematography was just amazing.
Luc Montpellier, best known for winning Best Cinematagropher from Canada's Society Of Cinematagrophers for movie Emotional Arithmetic (2007 ), just took all the right shots from all the right angles and created a visually stunning film.

BUT WAIT! THERES MYORE! Matthew LillardTM

MirrorMask

Sin City
Lord of the rings

This is incredible and stunning. Really,really incredible art

Could only be made in Eastern Europe.

What is the name of that movie?

It's:


The Hour Glass Sanatorium

Yep it is. How did you know?

Oh just floating about in my head... nah, I right clicked on one of the photos. And have now added it to my dvds to buy list, looks my kind of thing.

Watchmen and The Matrix films come to mind.

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The Fall(2006)-this film is so beautiful. Incredible awe-inspiring visuals. Underrated Masterpiece

Blade Runner-beautiful, the final cut version is the best looking however

Dark City-se7en+matrix+blade runner=dark city.

Pan's Labyrinth-beautiful looking film as well. Incredibly well shot.

Sin City- I love this film's comic book/noir art style and visuals. This movie looks absolutely stunning.

Days of Heaven
Dersu Uzala
The New World
The Assassination of Jesse James
Ugetsu
Gerry
Stalker
Mirror
Eyes Wide Shut
Fanny and Alexander
The Night of the Hunter
Ikiru
Picnic at Hanging Rock
The Return
Blade Runner


... And that's just a few off the top of my head!

Well, I would say that I give extreme precedence of visuals. I think they may be one of the most important parts of the film, together with the score.

All Miyazaki's films are visually stunning for instance. Kurosawa's films as well. Tarkovsky's also, Kubrick's films since 1968 also. Only Ozu's films may not be that impressive visually among my top 5 directors.