I'm don't believe this has been posted recently. I've looked on google for similar lists but nothing. So...

What movies are visually stunning? In a surreal sense is moreso what i'm looking for...but generally visually stunning movies are acceptable lol.

I always thought the landscapes in Lemony Snicket's was pretty nice. The movie wasn't anything to write home about but it looked quite surreal. So post a movie that fits the guidelines and give a little bit of background on it and some reasoning for the choice.


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Requiem for a dream is visually very good. But not with landscaped but the way some shots are set. I don't know how to explain.

I will think and i'll let you know.

The 3 Lord of the Ring movies.

My favorite trilogy.

2001 is not only my favorite film, but also the one I consider to be the epitome of "visually stunning".

Black Narcissus
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
Sleepy Hollow
Fight Club
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Suspiria
A Clockwork Orange
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Third Man
Cat People (1942)
The Shining
Punch-Drunk Love
Once Upon a Time In The West
Porco Rosso
Spirited Away
My Neighbor Totoro
Princess Mononoke
Howl's Moving Castle
Doctor Zhivago
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
Pi
Sin City
Paths of Glory
Millions
King Kong (1933/2005)
The Deer Hunter
The Godfather/The Godfather Part II
Onibaba
Apocalypse Now
8 1/2
The Aviator
Band of Outsiders
Knife In The Water
Carnival of Souls (1962)
Citizen Kane
North By Northwest
Nosferatu
Throne of Blood
I Walked With a Zombie
Lost In Translation
The Bridge On The River Kwai

And I haven't yet watched L'Avventura (I probably will tonight), but what I've seen looks gorgeous.

The images in many silent films have yet to be topped. Try A Voyage to the Moon, The Crowd, Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages, and Metropolis. These are seriously just a very small sample of what silents can offer.

Michael Powell has made some of the most visually amazing movies of all timel try Black Narcissus, The Red Shoes, and Tales of Hoffman.

Dario Argento used colors, angles, and sets brilliantly, especially in Suspiria, Tenebre, and Inferno.

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Se7en
The Royal Tennenbaums
2001: A Space Oddessey
Empire of the Sun (most spielbeg movies)
Citizen Kane
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Being John Malkovich
Turtles Can Fly
Me and You and Everyone We Know

some of my biased favorite's in terms of look

Cries and Whispers

I agree 100%. If you're looking for great, surrealistic images, you can't go wrong with any early Bunuel film. Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or are both silent surrealistic classics.

As far as modern films go, One I would definitely recommend is Kurasawa's Ran. The colors, frame composition and landscapes are breathtaking; its as close to a visual masterpiece as you'll find.

i pimp this movie left and right, it seems, but...

the good, the bad, and the ugly

Any Bertolucci film is going to be visually gorgeous.

Mulholland Drive is great visually and feels very surreal.

You can't go wrong with Suspiria either, it's probably the first thing that comes to mind. Watching people die horrible deaths never looked so beautiful.

Charlie Kaufman scripts

casshern
immortal
sin city
hero
crouching tiger, hidden dragon
sky captain and the world of tomorrow
the city of lost children



^^^some of them are almost all about visual side. however, others are so much more than just something nice to look at.



and i agree 100% on metropolis

The Motorcycle Diaries
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Thin Red Line

Barring some already mentioned:

Aguirre: the Wrath of God
Delicatessen
City of God
In the Mood For Love
Audition
Sympathy For Mr. Vengeance
Hana-Bi

Actually, most of what I've seen by these directors (Werner Herzog, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Fernando Meirelles, Wong Kar-wai, Takashi Miike, Chan-wook Park, Takeshi Kitano, in order) has been visually terrific.

Hero.

What do I win?

That was my thought as well

I also thought The Village had some very nice shots.

i agree 100%.

also, Brotherhood of the Wolf. some fine cinematography in the fight scenes, and that scene where Monica Belucci's naked body morphs into a cloud.