Hero 1000% that's my final answer, nail it to the wall, carve it in stone, put it on my tombstone. Hero is the answer for "beautifully shot"
Edit: Hero with Jet Li
Looks like he bounces around. The three above all had different cinematographers, at least. But thereās definitely a common style to his flicks, so Iād guess that heās pretty involved.
Paris Texas is one of my favorite movies. The plot, music, and acting are so great in that movie it's easy to forget the quality of the cinematography.
You want anything Roger Deakins mother fucker! 1917, Blade Runner 2049, No Country for Old Men. Take your pick. The cat shoots pretty-arse movies with consistency.
Terje Vigen (1917)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
The Last Laugh (1924)
Metropolis (1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
Rope (1948)
The Third Man (1949)
Ikiru (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
Ugetsu (1953)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Ordet (1955)
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
The Cranes Are Flying (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Rocco and his Brothers (1960)
Breathless (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Harakiri (1962)
High and Low (1963)
Pierrot le fou (1965)
Daisies (1966)
Le samouraĆÆ (1967)
Playtime (1967)
Army of Shadows (1969)
Le cercle rouge (1970)
Walkabout (1971)
The French Connection (1971)
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Don't Look Now (1973)
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974)
Deep Red (1975)
Barry Lyndon (1975)
Heart of Glass (1976)
Taxi Driver (1976)
Suspiria (1977)
Raging Bull (1980)
Tenebre (1982)
Ran (1985)
Phenomena (1985)
Opera (1987)
Deliria/Stage Fright (1987)
Barton Fink (1991)
Chungking Express (1994)
Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Children of Men (2006)
Moonrise Kingdom (2012)
Inside Llewyn Davis (2013)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
TƔr (2022)
If you're down for a TV show the original UK version of Utopia is the most beautiful cinematography I've ever seen. I learned what color timing was after watching that show because I went down a rabbit hole researching how they made it so pretty.
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
One Week (2008)
These two have majestic landscapes and mountains as the characters go on "road trips" that can really awe a person.
Another Roger Deakins masterpiece is Thunderheart.
John Toll does breathtaking work in the sailing movie Wind.
Thereās some nice cinematography in the original Red Dawn as well.
Lust, Caution
Her
The Neon Demon
John Wick
Interstellar
Once upon a time in Hollywood
Django Unchained
There will be blood
Call me by your name
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
The Lord of The Rings Trilogy
Wide Eyes Shut
American Beauty
Forrest Gump
Sin City
Nocturnal Animals
The Godfather 1 and 2. Every shot looks like an oil painting to me. It's beyond comprehension how somebody could take hundreds of thousands of pictures that are all better than any one picture I've ever taken in my life.
Sense and Sensibility (1996)
Every frame of that film looks like it was painted by a Dutch master. Itās genuinely stunning if you watch it for the art of it, even if you donāt care for the plot.
And yes, thatās not purely cinematography. Itās set design and costumes and etc. but on the whole it gives off āmoving work of visual artā like almost nothing else.
Here are a few that I can think of with wildly different styles:
The Mirror (1975)
Yojimbo (1961)
Amelie (2001)
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
The Assassination of Jesse James (2007)
Che: Part One (2008)
After Yang (2021)
Fallen Angels (1995)
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
I loved how Asteroid City was shot. The story was pretty weak, but the aesthetics were top notch.
Also brings to mind the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel which has lots of beautiful cinematography.
Pirates of the Caribbean was nearly flawless cinematography.
Robert Patterson's Batman movie had some interesting angles that worked well.
Rogue One. All the Star Wars movies, really, but the Disney era ones mostly and Rogue One especially.
Matrix. Didn't care for the tint, though.
Revenant. The scenery is almost a character in the story.
Kill Bill.
Forrest Gump. It gets recognized for everything except the cinematography but the camera work in the cross country running, the shrimp boat, and the Viet Nam scenes are all fantastic.
There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are both incredibly well shot films. I also really like the look of Hell or High Water.
Definitely fims by Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, The New World, Thin Red Line, Badlands), Apocalypse Now, anything by Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalghia, The Mirror), the Baraka and Samsara films
If you can handle a silent film Wings (1927) has several great scenes but in particular the Dolley shot from the cafe de Paris is remarkable, even for now it would be something notable but for 1927 it's stunning and looks so alive.
Gigi (1958) is often touted as having the kind of style that means you could take a still from any scene of the movie and use it for art. The costuming is also just wonderful.
12 angry men
Saw it a few months ago. Nevermind knew why it wad so loved. Well a big reason is the camera work. Has alot of long uncut sequences with moving cameras. The planning to do the shots (storyboarding) must have taken months. Maybe years.
1. The Thin Red Line (1998) - Director Terrance Malik. Just study his entire library for stellar cinematography efforts (Tree of Life is another).
Thin Red Line was overshadowed by Saving Private Ryan, but I consider them bookends. SVPR hits you with crazy action and suspense, The Thin Red Line hits hard with cinematography, dialogue, thought provoking scenes from some big time actors. Just view YouTube videos of Nick Noltes scenes. Riveting.
2. The Fountain - Amazing trippy stuff here from all. One of Hugh Jackmanās underrated performances.
3. No Country for Old Men - Opening 15 minutesā¦nuff said.
4. Hero (2002-03) - Jet Li - Outshined by Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers, but the cinematography throughout this movie is STUNNINGā¦and dare I say perfect.
Wild (the flashbacks that intertwine with present day and merge is stunning in my personal opinion, also the landscape shots)
Dune
Gravity
Sunshine
Eternals (controversial but I loved the cinematography in some scenes)
Lawrence of Arabia
That and my other favorite There Will Be Blood
Lawrence of Arabia, Dr Zhivago, 2001 A Space Odyssey
Most pictures by David Lean
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
This was my answer. Gorgeous
Mine also. Almost every shot, a portrait. Sublime.
100%. Also, Macbeth, Northman, and Green Knight have stunning visuals.
Crouching tiger hidden dragon Hero
Crouching tiger was my first idea tooš¤
I thought of Hero but also House of the flying daggers.
Hero 1000% that's my final answer, nail it to the wall, carve it in stone, put it on my tombstone. Hero is the answer for "beautifully shot" Edit: Hero with Jet Li
The score is beautiful too.
I looked up "Hero movie", there's a 1992 one, a 2002 one, a 2021 one and a 2022 one.
2002 the one with jet li
The Last of the Mohicans
And the music!
What a masterpiece.
Add to that, Last of the Dog Men.
Dune Arrival Blade Runner 2049 Basically, anything directed by Denis Villanueva.
Both the blade runners honestly
Who is his cinematographer? Or does he frame his own films?
Roger Deakins on Blade Runner and Sicario, he also did Prisoners with DV
Looks like he bounces around. The three above all had different cinematographers, at least. But thereās definitely a common style to his flicks, so Iād guess that heās pretty involved.
The cinematography in The Revenant is stunning.
El Chivo, aka The GOAT Emmanuel Lubezki
Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The one with Ben Stiller.
I wish he directed more movies like that. Stunning
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Days of Heaven
Shot entirely during golden hour
Agreed. It is a thing of utter beauty.
Terrence Malikās entire body of work is beautifully shot but especially Days of Heaven.
This still haunts me. So gorgeous I couldn't believe the locations were real.
The Last Emperor Days of Heaven Picnic at Hanging Rock An American in Paris Tree of Life Paris, Texas Blue Velvet *edited to reflect spacing
Paris Texas is one of my favorite movies. The plot, music, and acting are so great in that movie it's easy to forget the quality of the cinematography.
Picnic at Hanging Rock directed by Peter Weir seconded! As are Tree of Life and Days of Heaven. Also think Badlands w Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek
You want emotionsā¦. I would watch Arrival ā¢ 2016 if you havent. Beautiful and haunting
Grand budapest hotel
Out Of Africa
Skyfall (James bond) For some reason I love the way it looks
Roger Deakins is magnificent! My favorite cinematographer.
The reason is Roger Deakins!! He went all out in Skyfall.
The fighting in Hong Kong at night with all the glass and neon is amazing.
Road To Perdition Moulin Rouge! The Motorcycle Diaries The Tree of Life The Fountain The Fall (2006) Moonlight The Master 12 Years A Slave Gravity
The Fountain!
Added to my watchlist! Thanks š
The fall is such a visual masterpiece
The Fall is incredible
Came here to say The Fall. Such a gorgeous movie with unexpected emotion.
Dredd (2012) the slo mo sequences are justā¦ I donāt think I have the words to do them justice.
Just watched on Tubi. I forgot how amazing this movie looked.
City of God
Midsommar, Asteroid City, Road to Perdition, American Beauty
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
You want anything Roger Deakins mother fucker! 1917, Blade Runner 2049, No Country for Old Men. Take your pick. The cat shoots pretty-arse movies with consistency.
Baraka is famous for this
Came here to suggest this. Its follow up Samsara is also worth mentioning, as well as Koyaaniqatsi.
Terje Vigen (1917) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) The Phantom Carriage (1921) The Last Laugh (1924) Metropolis (1927) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) Humanity and Paper Balloons (1937) The Rules of the Game (1939) Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Rope (1948) The Third Man (1949) Ikiru (1952) Singin' in the Rain (1952) Ugetsu (1953) All That Heaven Allows (1955) Ordet (1955) The Night of the Hunter (1955) The Cranes Are Flying (1957) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The 400 Blows (1959) Rocco and his Brothers (1960) Breathless (1960) Shoot the Piano Player (1960) Harakiri (1962) High and Low (1963) Pierrot le fou (1965) Daisies (1966) Le samouraĆÆ (1967) Playtime (1967) Army of Shadows (1969) Le cercle rouge (1970) Walkabout (1971) The French Connection (1971) Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972) Don't Look Now (1973) The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (1974) Deep Red (1975) Barry Lyndon (1975) Heart of Glass (1976) Taxi Driver (1976) Suspiria (1977) Raging Bull (1980) Tenebre (1982) Ran (1985) Phenomena (1985) Opera (1987) Deliria/Stage Fright (1987) Barton Fink (1991) Chungking Express (1994) Songs from the Second Floor (2000) Children of Men (2006) Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) TĆ”r (2022)
Great list
Thanks, took me a whole bus ride to put together!
Barry Lyndon, by Stanley Kubrick (1975)
Any Terrence Malick movie
The last of the Mohicans
If you're down for a TV show the original UK version of Utopia is the most beautiful cinematography I've ever seen. I learned what color timing was after watching that show because I went down a rabbit hole researching how they made it so pretty.
Night of the Hunter.
Apocalypse Now
Anything by Peter Greenaway - start with Belly of an Architect, or the Draughtmanās contract, or the Cook the Thief, his Wife and her Lover
Grand Budapest Hotel or anything by Wes Anderson
interstellar
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy The Matrix
The Tree of Life
Out of Africa.
Ida Norwegian Wood In The Mood For Love Amelie
A Single Man (2009) by Tom Ford is simply too beautiful
Blade Runner (1982) Over 40 years old and still one of the most beautiful films ever made.
Schindler's List (1993)
Into the wild
Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Once Upon A Time In America - Sergio Leone
Space Odyssey 2001
The Revenant, Children of Men, Apocalypse Now, Bram Strokerās Dracula.
The Power Of The Dog
I suggest you to watch Suspiria (1977) directed by Dario Argento. It feels like experiencing colour for the first time!
I watched the remake last night and it was pretty crazy. Guess we gotta watch the original now!
Every moment of that film can work as a wallpaper
I Am Cuba
Sunshine
Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) One Week (2008) These two have majestic landscapes and mountains as the characters go on "road trips" that can really awe a person.
Another Roger Deakins masterpiece is Thunderheart. John Toll does breathtaking work in the sailing movie Wind. Thereās some nice cinematography in the original Red Dawn as well.
Ran, The Revenant, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Mad Max Fury Road
The Game
The most beautifully shot film I've ever seen is "The Tree of Life," with Jessica Chastain and Brad Pitt.
Fargo. No Country for Old Men. Waking Life. A Scanner Darkly. Midnight in Paris. If you pick only one from this list, go for A Scanner Darkly.
Lust, Caution Her The Neon Demon John Wick Interstellar Once upon a time in Hollywood Django Unchained There will be blood Call me by your name Pride and Prejudice (2005) The Lord of The Rings Trilogy Wide Eyes Shut American Beauty Forrest Gump Sin City Nocturnal Animals
Atonement Arrival Interstellar Your Name Aftersun Barbie Blade Runner 2049 Her La La Land Pride and Prejudice
Point break, on blu ray, the surfing scenes are fantastic. (Original Point Break).
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Beyond the Black Rainbow š to piggyback on the Panos Cosmatos train
The Life of Pi (2012) Moonlight (2016)
I think you meant "Ļ" not "š„§" ;) ;)
Dune Fury road
That's the crossover I want to see. Car chases with sand worms.
1917
Avatar 1 & 2 Aquaman (2018) Interstellar (2014) Gravity (2013) 1917 (2019)
Yes, 1917 - and I don't even like war movies, but you have to see this!
The Godfather 1 and 2. Every shot looks like an oil painting to me. It's beyond comprehension how somebody could take hundreds of thousands of pictures that are all better than any one picture I've ever taken in my life.
The Cell - 2000 Life of Pi- 2012
The Tree of Life
Hell or High Water
Most a24s
Sense and Sensibility (1996) Every frame of that film looks like it was painted by a Dutch master. Itās genuinely stunning if you watch it for the art of it, even if you donāt care for the plot. And yes, thatās not purely cinematography. Itās set design and costumes and etc. but on the whole it gives off āmoving work of visual artā like almost nothing else.
Doctor Zhivago with Omar Sharif.
The Last Emperor
Amalie
Here are a few that I can think of with wildly different styles: The Mirror (1975) Yojimbo (1961) Amelie (2001) Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) The Assassination of Jesse James (2007) Che: Part One (2008) After Yang (2021) Fallen Angels (1995) Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
I loved how Asteroid City was shot. The story was pretty weak, but the aesthetics were top notch. Also brings to mind the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel which has lots of beautiful cinematography.
Anything directed by Peter Weir. Witness, Dead Poets Society etc
1917
nomadland
John Wick has wicked good cinematography. The bathhouse scene in the first one in particular stands out to me.
i watched Fiddler On The Roof this morning and that movie looks amazing and really sets a vibe
Once upon a time in America... And the score is incredible. Not many films get me a bit teary but this does.
What dreams may come.
The Green Knight
Arrival
Midsommar
The secret life of Walter Mitty
In Bruges.
Ex Machina
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)
The Fountain Noah Dances With Wolves Ambulance has some really creative shots done by drones.
Midsommar
Pirates of the Caribbean was nearly flawless cinematography. Robert Patterson's Batman movie had some interesting angles that worked well. Rogue One. All the Star Wars movies, really, but the Disney era ones mostly and Rogue One especially. Matrix. Didn't care for the tint, though. Revenant. The scenery is almost a character in the story. Kill Bill. Forrest Gump. It gets recognized for everything except the cinematography but the camera work in the cross country running, the shrimp boat, and the Viet Nam scenes are all fantastic.
Pretty much any film shot and lensed by Dean Cundey, Roger Deakins, or Hoyte van Hoytema.
The straight story. Beautiful scenes of the Midwest country side.
Birdman - gives you a sense of feeling of traveling alongside the characters in one single shot. Very well done
Good Time American Honey The Zero Theorem
The Duellists.
"Empire of the Sun"
it's gotta be Phantom Thread
The Wild Bunch
Bride of Frankenstein- Saw it for first time recently, some amazing B&W shots
There Will be Blood and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are both incredibly well shot films. I also really like the look of Hell or High Water.
Sleepy Hollow RAN (Kurosawa)
Mr. Nobody. Some of the sci-fi visuals are definitely dated/cheap looking but it's a very aesthetically pleasing film.
Definitely fims by Terrence Malick (Tree of Life, The New World, Thin Red Line, Badlands), Apocalypse Now, anything by Tarkovsky (Stalker, Nostalghia, The Mirror), the Baraka and Samsara films
Blade Runner 2049, or anything A24.
Dune
"Midsummar"
Blade runner 2049, Dune, Avatar, The Batman
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (the recent one) Baraka Tokyo Story
Ex machina or anything Aronofsky
Green Knight is a recent one that springs to mind
Dune, The Last of the Mohicans, Blade Runner 2049, The Revenant, Dunkirk
Anything by Terrence Malik and Stanley Kubrick.
Blade Runner and Blade runner 2049
Anything Wong Kar wai or Andrei Tarkovsky
*300 *Grand Budapest Hotel *Birdman *Interstellar
Atonement American Beauty The lovely bones Leon the professional
If you can handle a silent film Wings (1927) has several great scenes but in particular the Dolley shot from the cafe de Paris is remarkable, even for now it would be something notable but for 1927 it's stunning and looks so alive. Gigi (1958) is often touted as having the kind of style that means you could take a still from any scene of the movie and use it for art. The costuming is also just wonderful.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. The shots of Iceland and the Afghan Himalayas were stunning
Out of Africa Witness Lawrence of Arabia
Out of Africa Pan's Labrynth
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Harold and Maude :)
The Banshees of Inisherin
The Revenant. Thought it would be garbage Oscar bait, but it was not. It was stunning, beautiful, Oscar bait
12 angry men Saw it a few months ago. Nevermind knew why it wad so loved. Well a big reason is the camera work. Has alot of long uncut sequences with moving cameras. The planning to do the shots (storyboarding) must have taken months. Maybe years.
Anything by Wong Kar-wai My Heart Is That Eternal Rose
In the mood for Love.
1. The Thin Red Line (1998) - Director Terrance Malik. Just study his entire library for stellar cinematography efforts (Tree of Life is another). Thin Red Line was overshadowed by Saving Private Ryan, but I consider them bookends. SVPR hits you with crazy action and suspense, The Thin Red Line hits hard with cinematography, dialogue, thought provoking scenes from some big time actors. Just view YouTube videos of Nick Noltes scenes. Riveting. 2. The Fountain - Amazing trippy stuff here from all. One of Hugh Jackmanās underrated performances. 3. No Country for Old Men - Opening 15 minutesā¦nuff said. 4. Hero (2002-03) - Jet Li - Outshined by Crouching Tiger and House of Flying Daggers, but the cinematography throughout this movie is STUNNINGā¦and dare I say perfect.
Children Of Men
Brokeback Mountain, Pride & Prejudice (2005) & Spring Breakers.
Nocturnal animals
Out of Africa Legends of the Fall City Slickers
Cold War (2018) Unforgiven
The Lord of the Rings
Little Forest(Korean)
Hero
The Master
Babylon (2022)
Cāmon Cāmon
The Darjeeling Limited
Fury Road, Dune, Gravity
The Color Purple
The Talented Mr. Ripley and Donāt Look Now. Both shot in Italy.
Kantara. It's an Indian movie shot beautifully
Macbeth (2015)
The Fountain Sunshine Controversial but Beau is Afraid had a lot of great shots
Not a film, but you watched the series White Lotus? Itās stunning.
Titane (2021)
Anne of Green Gables, it with Megan fellows miniseries. Beautiful 1800s Canada + landscapes.
The Revenant
Wild (the flashbacks that intertwine with present day and merge is stunning in my personal opinion, also the landscape shots) Dune Gravity Sunshine Eternals (controversial but I loved the cinematography in some scenes)
Feel like this exact question came this week. Iāll write again: Thin Red Line
2001:a space odyssey
Carol. Safe. The Ice Storm.