Best Use of Color

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Ah color! That wonderful thing filmmakers use nowadays.

What do you think is the best use of color in any film?

I say--and this just stnads out in my head---the dream sequence in American Beauty when rose petals drop from the sky and caress Mena Suvari's flesh.
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The Wizard of Oz and Amélie are two movies where the color usage is simply beautiful.
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Originally Posted by LordSlaytan
The Wizard of Oz and Amélie are two movies where the color usage is simply beautiful.
Yeah definetly The Wizard of Oz. It added so much to the movie. The first part while Dorothy is in Kansas and it's black and white made the film kind of drab and boring. The colors added later than made everything so vibrant and stand out.
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Blue,White, and Red(Trois Couleurs: Blue, Blanc, et Rouge.)

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg(Les Parapluies De Cherbourg.)
I don't like musicals, but everything seemed to be a beautiful pastel color.

My all time favorite for color is Ran.



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The movies that first popped in my head wereThe Wizard of Oz and the ballet sequence in An American in Paris.



Randomly...



Vertigo (1958 - Hitchcock)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964 - Jacques Demy)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968 - Kubrick)
Chinatown (1974 - Polanski)
Dreams (1990 - Kurosawa)
The Age of Innocence (1993 - Scorsese)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001 - Wes Anderson)
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Lost in Translation (d. Sofia Coppola, 2003)
Kill Bill Vol. 1 (d. Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
Down with Love (d. Peyton Reed, 2003)
City of God (d. Fernando Meirelles, 2002)
Punch-Drunk Love (d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2002)
Waking Life (d. Richard Linklater, 2001)
Amélie (d. Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
The Royal Tenenbaums (d. Wes Anderson, 2001)
Moulin Rouge (d. Baz Luhrmann, 2001)
Traffic (d. Steven Soderbergh, 2000)
Requiem for a Dream (d. Darren Aronofsky, 2000)
Eyes Wide Shut (d. Stanley Kubrick, 1999)
Run Lola Run (d. Tom Tykwer, 1998)
Boogie Nights (d. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997)
Happy Together (d. Wong Kar-Wai, 1997)
Romeo + Juliet (d. Baz Luhrmann, 1996)
Irma Vep (d. Olivier Assayas, 1996)
Shanghai Triad (d. Zhang Yimou, 1995)
Do the Right Thing (d. Spike Lee, 1989)
Monsieur Hire (d. Patrice Leconte, 1989)
Life Lessons (segment from New York Stories) (d. Martin Scorsese, 1989)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (d. Robert Zemeckis, 1988)
Blue Velvet (d. David Lynch, 1986)
Brazil (d. Terry Gilliam, 1985)
Paris, Texas (d. Wim Wenders, 1984)
Blade Runner (d. Ridley Scott, 1982)
Apocalypse Now (d. Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
Taxi Driver (d. Martin Scorsese, 1976)
Barry Lyndon (d. Stanley Kubrick, 1975)
Day for Night (d. François Truffaut, 1973)
Last Tango in Paris (d. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1973)
F for Fake (d. Orson Welles, 1973)
Armacord (d. Federico Fellini, 1973)
Bonnie and Clyde (d. Arthur Penn, 1967)
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (d. Sergio Leone, 1966)
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (d. Jacques Demy, 1964)
Contempt (d. Jean-Luc Godard, 1963)
North by Northwest (d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
Vertigo (d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)
The Searchers (d. John Ford, 1956)
Rear Window (d. Alfred Hitchcock, 1954)
Singin' in the Rain (d. Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen, 1952)
The Red Shoes (d. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)
Black Narcissus (d. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
Fantasia (d. Ben Sharpsteen & Walt Disney, 1940)
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Originally Posted by The Silver Bullet
Waking Life (d. Quentin Tarantino, 2001)
d. Quentin Tarantino?



Whoops. I was copying and pasting the basic tag structure, using the Kill Bill Vol. 1 entry, and must have just overlooked changing it to Linklater.

It's fixed now.



In the Beginning...
O Brother, Where Art Thou? used that golden color-wash to really make the film seem aged and timeless, and I love that.

Unbreakable used little bits of color amidst an otherwise drab color palette to focus your eyes on certain things (because the camera hardly ever cuts), which is unbelievably effective.

Schindler's List: The girl in the red dress. Unforgettable.



Rumble Fish

Great cast too
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does animation count?

if so, akira -

other than that,
'vincent & theo' [sorry i coulding find a better pic]
and
'black narcissus'
both come to mind.



Traffic comes to mind, with the use of blues and yellows to differentiate the locations.



When I think of colour it has to be animation films; which would have to be Fantasia of course the non animation film with colour being its most predominate attraction is Wizard of Oz or the King and I.
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The Sound of Music
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