What Movie Has The Best Cinematography?

[AreaUnderTheCurve]

Originally Posted by lukes5858

Blade Runner, the Departed, Australia, Fight Club. Road to perdition and American beauty have the best cinematography in my collection. One of my current favourite directors “Joe Wright” films also comes to mind (Pride and Prejudice, Atonement and Hanna) all three are visually stunning in my opinion.

Yeah. Hanna is pretty awesome in that department. The entire breakout is amazing.

[Berek]

The Horse Whisperer.

[lilboyblu]

Agree with many on this list so far, and adding a few more.

Ben Hur
A River Runs Through It
To Catch A Thief
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
The Searchers

[witheygull]

As others have mentioned Barry Lyndon, Days of Heaven, and Tree of Life are all phenomenal. Another one of my favorites that no one else has brought up yet is the Swedish movie Everlasting Moments. That movie features some of the most amazing use of light ever captured on film in a sublimely subtle style.

[Duffy12]

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Boy! That's a VERY easy one-

[rkolinski]

Cleopatra
South Pacific
The Egyptian
The Robe
How the West Was Won
No Country for Old Men
Casablanca
Ben Hur
Psycho
Doctor Zhivago
The Sound of Music
The Sand Pebbles
Days of Heaven
Gandhi
The Killing Fields
Passage to India
Out of Africa
Dances with Wolves
A River Runs Through It
Schindler's List
Braveheart
The English Patient
Titanic
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
Pan's Labyrinth

[oldtexan]

Originally Posted by vertigo12314

It's all personal taste. Take your pick.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy...Cinematography

Jack Cardiff movies eg. The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus

I haven't seen Baraka yet. Barry Lyndon is close for me.

I agree that taste plays a major role in this, and I agree about The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus.

A few of the other films that I view as having great cinematography are:

Citizen Kane
Vertigo
La grande illusion
The Searchers
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
Fort Apache
They Were Expendable
How Green Was My Valley
The Grapes of Wrath
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Paris, Texas
The Four Feathers (1939)
Diabolique
Battleship Potemkin
The Bicycle Thief
Metropolis
The Last Laugh
Gone With the Wind
A Canterbury Tale (1944)
The Third Man
Zulu

Here's a list I created at imdb.com of my favorite cinematographers and their works: http://www.imdb.com/list/PSf182mVeZU/

[Deezer1986]

The Searchers

[toddly6666]

Originally Posted by Duffy12

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Boy! That's a VERY easy one-

Is that from the movie Battleship L.A.?

[Adam.C]

Originally Posted by toddly6666

is that from the movie battleship l.a.?

lol

[Mondo Bizarro]

A few of my faves in addition to many already mentioned...

The Crow
Sleepy Hollow
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Eyes Wide Shut
Deep Red
Batman (1989)

[CinemaScope]

There's far too many great looking films to just pick one, but I can't think of many films from the past twenty something years that stand out. When I think of great cinematography, I think of films from the 50's, 60's & some 70's. Far too many movies these days have the colour wound down (the two Sherlock Holmes films) or have that cyan look so beloved be film makers these days. The most recient film I saw that looked great was Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds.

[Rich Pure Doom]

Most of the people in this thread seem confused on what cinematography actually is. cinematography mostly relates to the movement and framing of the camera but most people in this thread are simply listing the most colorful or scenic films they can think of.

[Shanester]

Anything shot by Roger Deakins is going to look amazing

[ChichiriNoDa]

Leap Year's cinematography is superb. Luscious, gorgeous & vivid scenery of Ireland.

[nolfoc]

The Last Samurai.. just stunning!

[The Mad Kiwi]

For me, it's The Passion of the Christ. I know the graphic content of it might make it an odd choice, but Caleb Deschanel manages to film it in a way that's hauntingly beautiful and poetic. They set out to make a moving Caravaggio painting, and I believe they succeeded.

[Show spoiler]

[HD Goofnut]

Originally Posted by nolfoc

The Last Samurai.. just stunning!

Loving my HK disc as I've already watched it twice. The lossless audio wipes the floor with the US disc.

[SlickDamian]

Paris, Texas
Days of Heaven
The Thin Red Line
The Tree of Life
Road to Perdition

[AreaUnderTheCurve]

Originally Posted by AreaUnderTheCurve

The best I've seen in while has to be The Tree of Life.

64 reasons why.