Does anyone know of a more beautiful movie? I have seen thousands of movies, and yet whenever I try to picture visual poetry, "Hiroshima Mon Amour" always comes to mind first. I just can't picture anything else taking it place as a mental prototype.
AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every mofo in the room, accept no substitutes.
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I didn't forget about that one, the no-close-up-ness of it all was definitely a different experience, but it still doesn't compare to Hiroshima Mon Amour. Both dealt effectively with desolation and detachment in their own rights: Ran with its cinematography, Hiroshima Mon Amour with its theme about human memory.
Their beauty is on two different levels...
AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every mofo in the room, accept no substitutes.
J'avoue qu'il est difficile de trouver un film plus majestueusement poétique que Hiroshima mon amour. Mais, je dirais tout de même que de mon côté, j'apprécie davantage l'aspect visuel authentique, onirique et hautement significatif du 'Chien Andalou' de Bunuel et Dali.
shareThat movie was pretty crazy, but I see what you mean: it was extraordinarily original and overly-dreamy.
AK-47. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every mofo in the room, accept no substitutes.
In terms of visual beauty I like Terrence Malick films.(in every terms, i like them).
I think, in Ran(Kurosawa, every frame, are beautiful and has individual standing. May be beacuse Korosawa lost 80% of his eye sight by the time and his associates accomplished according to sketches he had made. Every frame look like a painting.
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I think that "The Apu Trilogy" from Satyajit Ray and "Au hasard Balthazar" are among the most beautiful movies. Ray and Bresson accomplished to capture the whole beauty of life in singular shots. If you´re looking for the beauty of colours I would recommend Kieslowski´s "The Double Life of Veronique".
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L'Avventura was overly-impressive, but I prefer L'Eclisse much more.
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Unfortunately, I wasn't as impressed with Mon Amour as most of you were. I felt that the beginning 15 minutes, and the final 20 or so were spectacular, but the middle just came off as uninteresting for me, though I’m not sure why.
In terms of visual beauty in a film, I would definitely rank Landscapes In The Mist very high. I Am Cuba is visually amazing, and The Cranes Are Flying has some breathtaking scenes as well.
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More beautiful movies (if i have repeated from the previous list, it just means that it is one that I am still strong about)...
Shanghai Triad
The Pillow Book
The Road Home
Memoirs of a Geisha
Barry Lyndon
Brideshead Revisited
Monsoon Wedding
The Lover
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Farewell My Concubine
Henry & June
I think that the beauty of the film is more of a combined effort, the script by itself is an hour and a half poem, and resnais as far as i'm concerned always tried to emphasise the script aspect of the movie, resnais started on an aestethic and solid foundation to get the the poetic result in his movies, i think that the resnais part of the equation was to get the shots according to the scrip, thats the beauty of his movies. Its like a coreagraphed dance where the script and the image are 2 separated element that dance in harmony, they complement each other, something that in my perspective is really *beep* hard to accomplish.
share"Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love"
Visually ravishing perfection and an emotionally sumptuous story!
"A more beautiful movie?"
Yes, I have one:
BARAKA (1992)
There will never be a more beautiful film than that. EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honorable mentions:
The Bird People of China
Dolls
Akahige (close, very close)
2001: A Space Odyssey
I could mention also those movies like Wo hu cang long, Shi mian mai fu and Ying xiong.
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Barry Lyndon and The Thin Red Line are at least equal to this films beauty.
"Alright, Clarissa, explain it all!"
The New World, to me, like a poetry.
Picnic at Hanging Rock. It will haunt you.
shareTerrence Malick does have a knack for making spendid, aesthetically genius films. The New World and The Thin Red Line have become paradigms for supreme beauty, but still don't think they hit on the same level as this film...
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I found Fulvio Lucisano's "Goya In Bordeaux" near the top of my list of beautiful films .
shareI don´t like resnais in general because he likes to make films which are both very original and very boring in the same time.I am not a philistine.I like innovative films with an original voice ( cinema indépendant,"film d´auteur") as long as they don´t think that affected elitism ,inaccessibilty ,boredom and innovation are necessarily synonyms.Some people are highly inventive,highly intelligent ,modest and warm human beings while others are cold, condescendant pretentious creeps who thinks that anything they do is the summit of creation(ex:jeanluc godard).And in general,the originality of the last ones is often the product of a formal,sterile approach rather than the content affecting organically,naturally the form.In fact resnais have been the cinematographer of the pretentious "nouveau roman"(see LAST year in Marienbad).Exemple of innovative authors I like:chris marker(La jetée)or jean cocteau(Orphée).
shareI thought "Hiroshima Mon Amour" was anything but boring; rather, I think it to be highly engaging. I say, Resnais can drag a scene out occasionally, and sometimes I'll skip through some parts (that is rare, mind you), but my concentration can always drift to the absolutely wonderful (albeit desolate and distant) images this film endlessly presents.
I thought "Hiroshima Mon Amour" to be last a formal film along with the impression that "Hiroshima Mon Amour" was not attempting to be pleasant or "warm." Likewise, I do not think "pretentio[n]" and "cold" should be brought in such a negative stance, even if it is the character of the film and its auteur. When viewing "Orphée," a while back, I thought it to be quite in league with Resnais' "Last Year in Marienbad," though, apparently, we saw the both of them with different windows of intellect.
*beep*