Please help me expand this list:
Tarkovsky:
Stalker
Solaris
Sacrifice
Nostalghia
Parajanov:
Sayat Nova
Tati:
Play Time
Mon Oncle
Tarr:
Satantango
Karhozat
Kwaidan
Aguirre:Wrath of God
2001 Space Oddysey
Much appreciated!!
on a more commercial note, david lean's 'ryan's daughter' is a feast for the eyes.
shareSomebody mentioned Bergman's Winter light and it is stunning as is most of Bergman/Nykvist films. My visual favourites from there are Hour of the Wolf, Persona, Cries and Whispers, Seventh's seal and Through the Glass, Darkly. But it is safe to say that Sven Nykvist is real wizard when it comes to BW cinematography (well, Cries and whispers and Tarkovsky's Sacrifice are in color).
But I don't think anyone mentioned one of the greatest ever: Michelangelo Antonioni. His films I'l Deserto Rosso, Blowup and Zabriskie Point are full of mesmerizing cinematorgrapy. Maybe they are little slow at places but anyone who appreciate Tarkovsky is able to enjoy Antonioni's wandering camera and characters. They are not on a same level as a whole but visually they are astonishing. And thought-provoking too. Also his earlier BW films L'Eclisse and L'avventura are beautiful. The others are probably great too, but I haven't seen more...yet.
Funnily, I was just adoring the graphic design of this years Cannes poster. It turned out to be still frame from L'avventura. These films truly are full of poster quality frames ;)
Oh, and Last Year at Marienbad is also very beautiful film. The cinematographer Sacha Vierny later joined forces with Peter Greenaway, and they have made great visual spectacles together (practically all of Greenaway's films).
And to those who love Apocalypse, Now should check out Dario Argento's first film Bird with the Crystal Plumage, cinematographer Vittorio Storaro made both of them. And it really shows how important great cinematographer is to film.
"zoom back camera"
Am I the first to mention Jim Jarmusch's "Dead Man"?
shareSome that may not have been mentioned:
Chris Marker:
La Jetee (stills, but still stunning)
F.W Murnau:
Tabu
Sunrise
The Last Laugh
Jean-Luc Godard:
Pierrot Le Fou
Le Mepris
Week End
PT Anderson:
There Will Be Blood (not very original I know)
Magnolia
Martin Scorsese:
Raging Bull
Billy Wilder:
Sunset Boulevard
Akira Kurosawa:
Dersu Uzala
Kagemusha
Kenji Mizoguchi:
Ugetsu Monogatari
Werner Herzog:
Nosferatu (remake)
Wong Kar Wai:
Chungking Express
Carl Dreyer:
The Passion of Joan of Arc!!
But I would have to say it's between Barry Lyndon, 2001, Ran or The Passion of Joan of Arc or Andrei Rublev
Fran Kubelik: 'When you're in love with a married man you shouldn't wear mascara'- The Apartment
Tarkovsky
Zercalo
Nury Bilge Ceylan
Uzak
Fernando Meirelles
The Constant Gardner
Some that don't appear to have been mentioned (I might be wrong!)
Terry Gilliam's:
The Fisher King
Tideland
Ingmar Bergman's:
Fanny and Alexander (love his use of all things red)
Shinya Tsukamoto's:
Tetsuo
Mike Leigh's:
Meantime
Stanley Kubrick's:
The Shining
Todd Haynes':
Safe
Far From Heaven
David Lynch's:
Lost Highway
The Elephant Man
Blue Velvet
Olivier Dahan's:
La Vie en Rose
Michael Haneke's:
The Seventh Continent
Bernardo Bertolucci
The Last Emperor
The Dreamers
Julie Taymor
Titus
Frida
Wim Wenders
Wings Of Desire
Jean Pierre-Jeunet
Amelie
Tim Burton
Sweeney Todd
Julian Schnabel
Before Night Falls
Le Scaphandre Et Le Papillon
Stephen Daldry
The Hours
Federico Fellini
Satyricon
wow how come nobody has mentioned Alfonso Cuarón's CHILDREN OF MEN?
and also
The thin red line
requiem for a dream
time of the wolf
sin nombre
I would like to second The Holy Mountain and 2046 plus add Kekexili by Chuan Lu
shareThe Holy Mountain is a remarkably ugly film.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
I agree with most listed, but, wow, I can't believe no Ridley Scott films mentioned yet. The Duelists, Alien and Blade Runner are some of my favorite films to just watch. Luc Besson has some great moments in his early films. And, of course, Lynch's Dune.
shareYep, but Jodo manages to do that beautifully :) It is really visually stunning trip. It's my kind of ugly.
"You got to bleed for the dancer!"
-Ronnie James Dio
Rest in Peace, my Hero.
Finally saw the Clone Returns Home (2008)-- it's Tarkovsky-lite, but boy did I enjoy seeing another sci-fi film in the Tarkovsky mould!
That is to say, it's "visually beautiful" in the stark, still manner that Tarkovsky was so good at-- though it was nowhere as well-crafted/developed as Stalker... sigh, it reminded me of how much a still or slow-moving camera shot can "achieve/convey", and how much "thought/planning" it takes to make it "work".
Not astounding-- but definitely washes out the horrible taste that art movies wannabes (like the late Shymalan movies with deliberately "stilted" camera-work/cinematography) leaves in my mouth.
If you care enough to go around telling people you don't care... you obviously care.