Favorite Visually-beautiful films

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I've read the movie club discussion on Days of Heaven, and i decided to create this thread to find out what your favorite visually spectacular films are.
Mine are:
Mulholland Drive
BladeRunner
The New World



Bright light. Bright light. Uh oh.
The Innocents
A Matter of Life and Death
The Red Shoes
Black Narcissus
Gone With the Wind
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea
Lawrence of Arabia
Summertime
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Excalibur
Walkabout
Manhattan
Vertigo
Macbeth
(1971)
Blood and Sand (1941)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Barry Lyndon
Days of Heaven
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The Conformist
Barry Lyndon
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
The Draughtsman's Contract
Night and the City (1950)
The New World
Apocalypse Now
In The Mood For Love
The Last of The Mohicans
Once Upon A Time In The West
Days of Heaven
The Night of the Hunter



Excalibur
The King Maker-stupid movie but stunning visual effects
She Wore A Yellow Ribbon
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
The Searchers
Lord Of The Rings
Footlight Parade
Golddiggers of 1933
Citizen Kane
The Killing Fields



1. 2001: A Space Odyssey
2. Stalker
3. The Conformist
4. The Mirror
5. Spirit Of The Beehive
6. Barry Lyndon
7. The Leopard
8. Blade Runner
9. Days Of Heaven
10. Cries And Whispers



There are a couple existing threads on the subject, HERE and HERE.



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Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond


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Cinematography by Michael Ballhaus

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I would definitely rank Amelie, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Saving Private Ryan, The Lord of the Rings, Inception and Black Swan amongst the most visually appealing films I've seen, along with the likes of Lost In Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Leon, Where The Wild Things Are, The Social Network, Oldboy, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Schindler's List, TRON: Legacy, The King's Speech, A Single Man, American Beauty, 300, Avatar, The Matrix, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and the majority of Disney/Pixar movies - The Lion King, Finding Nemo and Toy Story probably being the stand-outs.

The list could easily go on.



300
Sin City
Pumzi
Star Wars Episode 1
Milk



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.






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Saving Private Ryan is an obvious shoe-in to say here
Very very impressed with Casablanca
The obvious Inception as well
Man on Fire for me
Finding Nemo, Wizard of Oz, and Wall E spring to mind



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I wonder if I would agree here. I mean, it did have its collection of memorable images, and there was certainly nothing imprecise about Kurosawa's use of the frame, but I wonder if it really does rank among even the other films in just that post. I was a lot more impressed with the fluidity of the editing and the general presentation of the story than the images per se. Personally, I would be much more prone to bestowing the honor to Ran or Rashomon, say.
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