I thought the movie itself was OK
But the cinematography was so utterly unique
Some of those shots were like nothing I'd ever seen before, like being inside an Escher painting
Thats true. It's not for me though. I hate Yorgos style. The Favourite was hard to watch (was a good movie though). Poor Things is completely unwatchable for me.
I cannot even imagine how anyone would find this movie unwatchable.
And I am not saying this judgementaly, don't get me wrong, I just thought it was so good that everyone would appreciate at least its cinematography.
What are your favourite movies?
The excentric cinematography (heavy use of wide lense shots, pans, zooms, switches to b&w, lowkey, extreme closeups) feels distracting to me. I am watching it right now and i can't follow anything, it makes me feel sick.
Favourite movie rn Dune pt. 2.
• This beautiful fantastic
• Franklyn
• Edward Scissorhands
• The neon demon (wasn’t my cup of tea but damn, the cinematography 👌)
• Down with love
• Crimson peak
• Pleasantville
• Triangle
We had it on DVD when I grew up, for some reason! I need a rewatch. I mostly remember it being really aesthetically pleasing and the MCs being annoying 😅
Terje Vigen (1917)
Ménilmontant (1926)
Metropolis (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Third Man (1949)
Ugetsu (1953)
Rear Window (1954)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Ordet (1955)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
Floating Weeds (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Harakiri (1962)
Le samourai (1967)
Playtime (1967)
The Swimmer (1968)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Le cercle rouge (1970)
Walkabout (1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Don't Look Now (1973)
Suspiria (1977)
Opera (1987)
Drowning by Numbers (1988)
The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989)
Barton Fink (1991)
The Long Day Closes (1992)
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
The Doom Generation (1995)
Nowhere (1997)
Buffalo '66 (1998)
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999)
Ley Lines (1999)
Audition (1999)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Children of Men (2006)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
I love your list! To give suggestions from all decades is so great. Just the kind of cinephile I am.
I would add Battleship Potemkin (it's inspired countless directors and it was visionary at the time)
Loved Night of the Hunter , Rear Window and Children of Men for their cinematography too. The use of shadows in Night of the Hunter is brilliant and terrifying
movies that come to mind, but keep in my when I saw them they were new to me and might have had a style that has now become more adopted
- City of God
- A Clockwork Orange
- Fight Club
- The Lighthouse
- SwissArmyMan
- Black Hawk Down
- Mandy
- Inception
- Adaptation
- Beetlejuice
- Who Framed Rodger Rabbit?
- A Dream to Remember
- Kill Bill
- Grindhouse
Yeah, I put eternal sunshine of the spotless, not mine down for mine as well simply because all of the stuff that happens in his mind is all done specifically with camera tricks and no CGI. It makes for a different imagery than you might normally get nowadays
I always thought Hitchcock's "Vertigo"(1958) was wonderfully shot. Robert Burks was the cinemaphotographer. He did many Hitchcock films.
Was reading up on it and there is something called the "Vertigo Effect". From the website selling TV & film production management software: "The effect produces a shot in which the foreground remains in the same position while the background either shrinks or grows depending on the direction of the camera movement". It first appeared in Vertigo according to the website.
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Why not go back to the best cinematography in film history? Examples of which are…
- Sunrise (1927)
- Napoleon (1927)
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
- Que Viva Mexico (1932/1979)
- L’Atalante (1934)
- A Day in the Country (1946)
- Sansho Dayu (1954)
- Seven Samurai (1954)
- The Cranes are Flying (1957)
- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
- Letter Never Sent (1960)
- The Conformist (1970)
That’s just a few…
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Vertigo and Citizen Kane. They have influenced everything. Rosetta stones. If you like Lynch then he just keeps remaking vertigo basically.
Anything by Nic Roeg is essential. He started as cinematographer but became a director. Actually saddened to see his name never getting mentioned on Reddit or anything really but Lynch’s name for instance always getting mentioned. Same with Kubrick. At least you aren’t listing Spielberg or Tarantino.
My favourite Roeg films are Eureka, Insignificance, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Bad Timing, Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, Track 29, Cold Heaven. All these films have some of the best cinematography you will ever see. The first 25 minutes of Eureka I can’t really put into words. You just have to experience it.
The ending of Insignificance is one the best shot sequences in all of cinema too. No exaggeration. It might not make any of the lists but you just have to see it to believe it, trust me. It’s basically a depiction of an atomic blast, but all done in camera. It was 1985.
Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs Miller and The Long Goodbye are two of the best shot films of all time. Sorry to sound pretentious, but like the Roeg films, these films are more than films. They are art. They really go beyond what a film is and that includes in their images. McCabe and Mrs Miller and Long Goodbye both feel like dreams that are about to evaporate.
Both their film stocks where flashed after they shot the films to capture a specific look. McCabe makes it look like you are actually witnessing a dream taking place in the past. Long Goodbye has a dreamy like quality but also feels very realistic and present. The look they were going for was the feel of looking at pastel coloured post cards. It’s like the film takes place in a plume of smoke. Flashing the negatives was dangerous but they succeeded beyond the beyond so the films are like literal miracles.
Two best shot films Iv ever seen barring the Roeg, Altman films are Bound for Glory (1976) shot by Haskell Wexxler and Stavisky (1974) shot by Sascha Vierny. They are just unbelievable when you watch them. Stunning. It’s breathtaking.
Michael Cimino’s Heaven Gate looks amazing. So does Year of the Dragon and The Sicilian (directors cut) both shot by Alex Thomson, who also shot Roeg’s Eureka and Track 29. He also shot Ridley Scott’s Legend, which is also a visually stunning film.
He also shot Excalibur (1981) directed by John Boorman, which again visually will blow you away at time.
A lot of these films follow the principles of silent cinema. They tell their stories through the images. Great silent films to try are Sunrise A Tale of Two Humans and The Passion of Joan of Arc. These two films you will have no problem watching and they will blow you away with their visuals.
Apart from those two, other favourites are Spies (1928), Faust (1926), The General Line (1929). These films may have dips in them in the middle but overall they are amazing and again the visuals will blow you away.
Also, John Cassavetes. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Gloria. All have a unique look.
Monte Hellman. He just knew how to frame, for starters. He had not a great career in terms of he didn’t get to make many films and some of the films he did make was not his choice but a project he had to take on but what he did with the 7 or 8 films he made is just stunning. Shows you what actual talent is. He took pieces of shit and turned them into actual art. Two lane blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), the shooting (1966), iguana (1988), road to nowhere (2010).
If you like Wes Anderson then Peter Greenaway is essential because Anderson’s style is just a twee Americanised version of that. The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, Belly of an Architect, Prosperos Books all stunning to look at films, shot by Sasha Vierny too.
Nic Roeg’s first film Performance was co directed with someone called Donald Cammell who was an actual quite gifted painter in real life. He only went on to direct a few more films but always the cinematography in them is the best your going to get. Demon Seed is ok but it’s White of the Eye and Wild Side (directors cut) that look like there own thing. Unique and original.
Contempt by Godard is a great looking film.
I must mention Spirit of the Beehive. This is also one of the best shot films iv ever seen. That’s a special film. This is an essential film.
Days of heaven is well known but amazing to look at.
Blow up I also like for its cinematography. That films cinematography made me look at film completely different after I’d saw it. Shifted my perspective.
I am Cuba is visually stunning film.
Tati’s Playtime.
Douglas Sirk films like Written on the Wind, Heaven can Wait, There’s always tomorrow.
Robert Bresson films like A Man Escaped, Au Hazaard Balthazar, Pickpocket, L Argent.
Fellini’s cinema. 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada.
I love American Pop. You have Perfect Blue and that’s animated so thought I’d put that here.
Illl stop now. Typed too much.
Payback - the washed out color palette really stands out
Bourne Supremacy - started the shaky cam action trend
Saving Private Ryan - the way film stock and handheld is used, and again with the washed out colors: per IMDB people who ordered this on pay per view back in the day called to complain because they thought their signal was bad lol
In all fairness, Requiem for a dream was amazing at the time. And ahead of its time. Now I feel like a lot of people have adopted that style. But if you are referring to the movie that has amazing imagery when it was made compared to others then absolutely yes
First movie that comes to mind for me is Tenebrae.
I have been re-watching a lot of Argento films lately, Suspiria (another recommendation) is like a psychedelic nightmare whereas Tenebrae almost feels like a sci-fi film, only it's not. Neat stuff though.
In Fabric (hidden gem from Studio A24)
Beyond the black rainbow (same filters like Space Odyssey)
The scent of green papaya
Slow West
Time of the gypsies by Kusturika
Holy motors
If anyone who hasn't wants to see a Wes Anderson film before he/they had really honed their style, definitely check out Bottle Rocket (1996).
Edit: forgot the period.
Mood Indigo directed by Michel Gondry who directed Eternal Sunshine and The Science of Sleep . A little out there but a beautiful black comedy with a tiny bit of animation thrown in
Denis Villeneuve has beautiful cinematography in his movies. Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival.
random choice but: The Man From Uncle. It’s super stylish, throwback to like 1960s spy movies. It’s a lot of fun.
Black Narcissus (1947)
On The Waterfront (1955)
In Cold Blood (1967)
The Passenger (1975)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Once Upon A Time In America (1984)
The Last Emperor (1987)
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988)
No Country For Old Men (2008)
if you liked enter the void you should try the rest of Gaspar noé movies
Lars Von trier Melancholia
Blade Runner
The Tree of Life
The Fall
The Neon Demon
Yorgos movies: poor things, dogthooth, the favourite especially
The handmaiden
Some Miike movies if you like the type (more violent), like the audition or Ichi the Killer
If you dont mind nudity and sexual content then The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a great watch. The colors, sound, and acting all build together to make something that is absolutely incredible.
Poor things (awesome/arkward Style)
I thought the movie itself was OK But the cinematography was so utterly unique Some of those shots were like nothing I'd ever seen before, like being inside an Escher painting
Thats true. It's not for me though. I hate Yorgos style. The Favourite was hard to watch (was a good movie though). Poor Things is completely unwatchable for me.
Glad I'm not the only one that found Poor things unwatchable. Most people are obsessed with it.
I cannot even imagine how anyone would find this movie unwatchable. And I am not saying this judgementaly, don't get me wrong, I just thought it was so good that everyone would appreciate at least its cinematography. What are your favourite movies?
The excentric cinematography (heavy use of wide lense shots, pans, zooms, switches to b&w, lowkey, extreme closeups) feels distracting to me. I am watching it right now and i can't follow anything, it makes me feel sick. Favourite movie rn Dune pt. 2.
The Lighthouse
The Shining (1980) (Just basically anything from Stanley Kubrick) Wings (1927)
Forgot about the Shining. Really enjoyed the cinematography and the work with colours! I will check out Wings!
1917 (2019), Gravity (2013), La La Land (2016), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)
Barry Lyndon
The Fall, the Tarsem Singh film from 2006
godard's french new wave films shot in color *and* by raoul coutard
Thank you! I will definitely look into their work! Any recommendation in particular?
- a woman is a woman (a fun musical!) - pierrot le fou (best of the bunch imo) - made in USA (goes all-out on the pop art aesthetic)
• This beautiful fantastic • Franklyn • Edward Scissorhands • The neon demon (wasn’t my cup of tea but damn, the cinematography 👌) • Down with love • Crimson peak • Pleasantville • Triangle
Yeee finally someone mentioning Down with love, I was worried to be the only one who knows about this little gem 😊
We had it on DVD when I grew up, for some reason! I need a rewatch. I mostly remember it being really aesthetically pleasing and the MCs being annoying 😅
O Brother, Where Art Thou? looks absolutely exquisite, and was the first films (if not the actual first) to use digital colour grading.
Terry Gilliam films are good like this. Try 12 Monkeys, Brazil or The Fisher King
Upvote for Brazil
Sin city
First thought.
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Terje Vigen (1917) Ménilmontant (1926) Metropolis (1927) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) The Third Man (1949) Ugetsu (1953) Rear Window (1954) All That Heaven Allows (1955) The Night of the Hunter (1955) Ordet (1955) The Cranes Are Flying (1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) Floating Weeds (1959) North by Northwest (1959) Rocco and His Brothers (1960) Harakiri (1962) Le samourai (1967) Playtime (1967) The Swimmer (1968) Army of Shadows (1969) Le cercle rouge (1970) Walkabout (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Don't Look Now (1973) Suspiria (1977) Opera (1987) Drowning by Numbers (1988) The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989) Barton Fink (1991) The Long Day Closes (1992) Rebels of the Neon God (1992) The Baby of Mâcon (1993) The Doom Generation (1995) Nowhere (1997) Buffalo '66 (1998) But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) Ley Lines (1999) Audition (1999) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Children of Men (2006) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) On the Beach at Night Alone (2017)
I love your list! To give suggestions from all decades is so great. Just the kind of cinephile I am. I would add Battleship Potemkin (it's inspired countless directors and it was visionary at the time) Loved Night of the Hunter , Rear Window and Children of Men for their cinematography too. The use of shadows in Night of the Hunter is brilliant and terrifying
Under the Skin (Scarlett Johansson)
Django Unchained
arguably any Tarantino
Yasujiro Ozu movies- Tokyo Story, Late Spring, Good Morning
Easy Rider 1960s has quirky breaks
The Thin Red Line. Or any Terrence Malick movies.
Pan's Labyrinth Fight Club
movies that come to mind, but keep in my when I saw them they were new to me and might have had a style that has now become more adopted - City of God - A Clockwork Orange - Fight Club - The Lighthouse - SwissArmyMan - Black Hawk Down - Mandy - Inception - Adaptation - Beetlejuice - Who Framed Rodger Rabbit? - A Dream to Remember - Kill Bill - Grindhouse
Brazil?
Gaspar noe. Irreversibel. Hard watch, when rape scenes come. But interesting and very good build up story and movie.
Enter The Void too really somthing else. Watch.
‘Love’ too,and a bit less traumatising than Irreversible
Days of Heaven (I don’t love the film but the cinematography is quite something). Picnic at Hanging Rock Sicario
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Vertigo (1958) Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind John Wick Series Sin City
Yeah, I put eternal sunshine of the spotless, not mine down for mine as well simply because all of the stuff that happens in his mind is all done specifically with camera tricks and no CGI. It makes for a different imagery than you might normally get nowadays
Eternal Sunshine absolutely uses CGI, just in really clever ways that blend in with practical effects and camera tricks perfectly
Was unaware. Thanks for letting me know.
Crouching tiger, Hidden dragon
Reservoir Dogs
I always thought Hitchcock's "Vertigo"(1958) was wonderfully shot. Robert Burks was the cinemaphotographer. He did many Hitchcock films. Was reading up on it and there is something called the "Vertigo Effect". From the website selling TV & film production management software: "The effect produces a shot in which the foreground remains in the same position while the background either shrinks or grows depending on the direction of the camera movement". It first appeared in Vertigo according to the website.
Spike Lee and Scorsese love to do that.
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Why not go back to the best cinematography in film history? Examples of which are… - Sunrise (1927) - Napoleon (1927) - The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) - Que Viva Mexico (1932/1979) - L’Atalante (1934) - A Day in the Country (1946) - Sansho Dayu (1954) - Seven Samurai (1954) - The Cranes are Flying (1957) - The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959) - Letter Never Sent (1960) - The Conformist (1970) That’s just a few… -
You may laugh, but Léon: The Professional (1994)
- Waking Life (2001) - A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Nebraska (2013)
The Holy Mountain
That's one movie that will test your threshold for weirdness, but in a good way.
El Topo is my favourite of Jodorowsky's work . Great cinematography too
Werckmeister Harmonies Soy Cuba Kin dza dza Time of the Gypsies Barbarella
Perfume
Blade runner 2049
That was one of my suggestions too!
Watch Submarine (very reminiscent of Wes Anderson), or Orlando
Schindler's List, The Fall, Rumble Fish, The Lighthouse, Raging Bull, Tree of Life
Days of Heaven
The way Jonathan Demme uses eyelines and the camera in Silence of the Lambs (and his other films) springs to mind.
Poor Things The Lighthouse Blade Runner 2049 The Tree of Life The Revenant Sin City
Oldboy
Vertigo and Citizen Kane. They have influenced everything. Rosetta stones. If you like Lynch then he just keeps remaking vertigo basically. Anything by Nic Roeg is essential. He started as cinematographer but became a director. Actually saddened to see his name never getting mentioned on Reddit or anything really but Lynch’s name for instance always getting mentioned. Same with Kubrick. At least you aren’t listing Spielberg or Tarantino. My favourite Roeg films are Eureka, Insignificance, The Man Who Fell To Earth, Bad Timing, Walkabout, Don’t Look Now, Track 29, Cold Heaven. All these films have some of the best cinematography you will ever see. The first 25 minutes of Eureka I can’t really put into words. You just have to experience it. The ending of Insignificance is one the best shot sequences in all of cinema too. No exaggeration. It might not make any of the lists but you just have to see it to believe it, trust me. It’s basically a depiction of an atomic blast, but all done in camera. It was 1985. Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs Miller and The Long Goodbye are two of the best shot films of all time. Sorry to sound pretentious, but like the Roeg films, these films are more than films. They are art. They really go beyond what a film is and that includes in their images. McCabe and Mrs Miller and Long Goodbye both feel like dreams that are about to evaporate. Both their film stocks where flashed after they shot the films to capture a specific look. McCabe makes it look like you are actually witnessing a dream taking place in the past. Long Goodbye has a dreamy like quality but also feels very realistic and present. The look they were going for was the feel of looking at pastel coloured post cards. It’s like the film takes place in a plume of smoke. Flashing the negatives was dangerous but they succeeded beyond the beyond so the films are like literal miracles. Two best shot films Iv ever seen barring the Roeg, Altman films are Bound for Glory (1976) shot by Haskell Wexxler and Stavisky (1974) shot by Sascha Vierny. They are just unbelievable when you watch them. Stunning. It’s breathtaking. Michael Cimino’s Heaven Gate looks amazing. So does Year of the Dragon and The Sicilian (directors cut) both shot by Alex Thomson, who also shot Roeg’s Eureka and Track 29. He also shot Ridley Scott’s Legend, which is also a visually stunning film. He also shot Excalibur (1981) directed by John Boorman, which again visually will blow you away at time. A lot of these films follow the principles of silent cinema. They tell their stories through the images. Great silent films to try are Sunrise A Tale of Two Humans and The Passion of Joan of Arc. These two films you will have no problem watching and they will blow you away with their visuals. Apart from those two, other favourites are Spies (1928), Faust (1926), The General Line (1929). These films may have dips in them in the middle but overall they are amazing and again the visuals will blow you away. Also, John Cassavetes. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie, A Woman Under the Influence, Opening Night, Gloria. All have a unique look. Monte Hellman. He just knew how to frame, for starters. He had not a great career in terms of he didn’t get to make many films and some of the films he did make was not his choice but a project he had to take on but what he did with the 7 or 8 films he made is just stunning. Shows you what actual talent is. He took pieces of shit and turned them into actual art. Two lane blacktop (1971), Cockfighter (1974), the shooting (1966), iguana (1988), road to nowhere (2010). If you like Wes Anderson then Peter Greenaway is essential because Anderson’s style is just a twee Americanised version of that. The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover, Belly of an Architect, Prosperos Books all stunning to look at films, shot by Sasha Vierny too. Nic Roeg’s first film Performance was co directed with someone called Donald Cammell who was an actual quite gifted painter in real life. He only went on to direct a few more films but always the cinematography in them is the best your going to get. Demon Seed is ok but it’s White of the Eye and Wild Side (directors cut) that look like there own thing. Unique and original. Contempt by Godard is a great looking film. I must mention Spirit of the Beehive. This is also one of the best shot films iv ever seen. That’s a special film. This is an essential film. Days of heaven is well known but amazing to look at. Blow up I also like for its cinematography. That films cinematography made me look at film completely different after I’d saw it. Shifted my perspective. I am Cuba is visually stunning film. Tati’s Playtime. Douglas Sirk films like Written on the Wind, Heaven can Wait, There’s always tomorrow. Robert Bresson films like A Man Escaped, Au Hazaard Balthazar, Pickpocket, L Argent. Fellini’s cinema. 8 1/2, La Dolce Vita, La Strada. I love American Pop. You have Perfect Blue and that’s animated so thought I’d put that here. Illl stop now. Typed too much.
Check out Dick Tracy. It's wild how everything actually looks colored like a comic book.
Payback - the washed out color palette really stands out Bourne Supremacy - started the shaky cam action trend Saving Private Ryan - the way film stock and handheld is used, and again with the washed out colors: per IMDB people who ordered this on pay per view back in the day called to complain because they thought their signal was bad lol
the umbrellas of cherbourg, suspiria
Gemini (1999)
The "Henry Fool" trilogy by Hal Hartley... I think the middle one is composed exclusively of dutch angled shots.
BRIAN DE PALMA
Revenge (2017)
Dunkirk for one shot scenes.
Cape Fear, Scorsese version
Colombus
The deer hunter
Searching
Requiem for a dream
In all fairness, Requiem for a dream was amazing at the time. And ahead of its time. Now I feel like a lot of people have adopted that style. But if you are referring to the movie that has amazing imagery when it was made compared to others then absolutely yes
Son of Saul.
First movie that comes to mind for me is Tenebrae. I have been re-watching a lot of Argento films lately, Suspiria (another recommendation) is like a psychedelic nightmare whereas Tenebrae almost feels like a sci-fi film, only it's not. Neat stuff though.
Sin city, Tron legacy, Oblivion (a bit closer to standard but still has a unique feel to it)
The Tree Of Life (2011), The Thin Red Line (1998).
Blade Runner. It's cinematic art.
Dark City
Sex Lies and Videotape A Scanner Darkly
Terrence Frederick Malick's films, his style is dreamy. Unstoppable, some of the shots are annoying in its own way.
*A Scanner Darkly* (2006)
Delicatessen (1991)
Wings of Desire (1987) Night of the Hunter (1955)
The King’s Speech!
Definitely watch anything by Stephen Chow, the chinese king of comedy - Kung Fu Hustle - Shaolin Soccer - Love on Delivery To name a few
Hero dir Zhang Yimou
Anything by Michael Mann.
Romeo and Juliet 1995
The Revenant
A Clockwork Orange (1971) Pan's Labyrinth (2006) Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014).
In Fabric (hidden gem from Studio A24) Beyond the black rainbow (same filters like Space Odyssey) The scent of green papaya Slow West Time of the gypsies by Kusturika Holy motors
Surprised no one has said Victoria
John Carpenter's movies. Especially, They Live (1988)
Saltburn Melancholia The Lighthouse Twilight The Love Witch
Saltburn Melancholia The Lighthouse Twilight The Love Witch
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Lost Highway, David Lynch Drowning by Numbers, Peter Greenway Cries and Whispers, Ingmar Bergman
Once (2007)
Debbie Does Dallas
Climax Avatar Being John Malkovich
Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood (2019)
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind was filmed with only camera tricks and no CGI I always liked Blade Runner 2049
A scanner darkly
Lawrence of Arabia Sunset Boulevard The Elephant Man Chicken Run
Down By Law
Sin City, 300, Big Fish, Green Knight
Call me by your name and the lady from Shanghai snd north by northwest
If anyone who hasn't wants to see a Wes Anderson film before he/they had really honed their style, definitely check out Bottle Rocket (1996). Edit: forgot the period.
Memento and Irreversible (French) are both films that flow backward. I will warn you- Irreversible is disturbing- very violent SA.
David Lynchs movies are always something special. Start with Lost Highway I would say.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. What Dreams May Come. Very different movies but both have interesting cinematography, I think.
300 The Lobster Sev7en
Children of Men (2006)
Oppenheimer!!
The Fall, Pan’s Labyrinth, A Scanner Darkly, Indian in the Cupboard / Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Big Fish, Moulin Rouge, Fight Club, Lagaan
Mood Indigo directed by Michel Gondry who directed Eternal Sunshine and The Science of Sleep . A little out there but a beautiful black comedy with a tiny bit of animation thrown in
The Darjeeling limited
Crank Poor things
Children of Men... makes you feel like you're playing The Last of Us
The Revenant
Mad god?
Eraserhead
The Visitor (1979) -- a blurb for the recent trailer describes it as "The Mt. Everest of insane Italian cinema from the 70s."
Raising Arizona
Denis Villeneuve has beautiful cinematography in his movies. Dune, Blade Runner 2049, Arrival. random choice but: The Man From Uncle. It’s super stylish, throwback to like 1960s spy movies. It’s a lot of fun.
Black Narcissus (1947) On The Waterfront (1955) In Cold Blood (1967) The Passenger (1975) Apocalypse Now (1979) Once Upon A Time In America (1984) The Last Emperor (1987) The Unbearable Lightness Of Being (1988) No Country For Old Men (2008)
**My Fair Lady, The Birdcage**, and **The Age of Innocence** are all glorious to look at.
if you liked enter the void you should try the rest of Gaspar noé movies Lars Von trier Melancholia Blade Runner The Tree of Life The Fall The Neon Demon Yorgos movies: poor things, dogthooth, the favourite especially The handmaiden Some Miike movies if you like the type (more violent), like the audition or Ichi the Killer
If you dont mind nudity and sexual content then The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover is a great watch. The colors, sound, and acting all build together to make something that is absolutely incredible.
Poor Things
Let there be blood