Beautiful Shots in Movies and TV Shows

Hour of the Wolf (1968)
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There Will Be Blood has tons of great shots. It's a big part of the appeal of the movie. There's a few in the montage of the pipeline survey that were really great.

I also found the opera scene in Hannibal to be mesmerizing. Loved the use of light. I'm wondering if that was or at least was meant to be sunlight in the evening.

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This seems really lame to mention but on METV I watch Gunsmoke as often as I can, and I swear in season 11 it looks like they got a new director or a producer or someone else to supervise the visual production from previously. There are shots that are overtly influenced by Noir, (today it was guns being loaded in black against a light window) and camera movements that are subtly creative, following one person down a street for little reason then stopping on the dangerous figure they happen to pass. Once you realize there is a bit of clever manipulation there, it's fascinating.

Purple Noon (1960)
Henri Decaë's cinematography was exceptional in this film. Nearly all frames are beautiful, but I believe the image below encapsulates the film's theme of material excess and self-indulgence, where the protagonists ocean-cold eyes perfectly capture his dangerous, unsatiated thirst for life's superlatives; the devil personified.

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Heat (1995)
This opening shot has always lingered in my mind. The minimalist essence is depicted sublimely, and the subtext implying the protagonist is ready to turn his back on anything and everything at any given moment contrasts perfectly with the film's subsequent scene where, in a similar set-up, the character is facing sideways, illustrating how he is now, to an extent, tethered.

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Gattaca (1997)
The entire film is absolutely gorgeous. The use of color really enhances the film's themes of spiritual primacy and triumph.

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No Country for Old Men (2007)
I find this scene expresses a lot of symbolism within the film's theme of morality. The empty and barren landscape can be construed as a metaphor for spiritual and moral vacuity—or, the passage of time and the accompanying death of good.

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Ex-Machina (2014)
Rob Hardy did a wonderful job with Ex-Machina in depicting the visceral feeling of nature as it coalesces with the artificial. The gorgeous scenes of Nathan's home and nature highlight that although man, the creator, is certainly worth of praise—the machine is ultimately an imposition on nature, not a step above it.

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In the movie American Beauty, when the neighbor character showed the daughter (and us) his video about a wind blown plastic bag, I think he'd got a point there. It was indeed kinda... beautiful, while being a mundane object at the same time.

Lots of Stanley Kubrick - many shots in 2001, Spartacus, Barry Lyndon come to mind

Braveheart - the opening sequence