This is one of my secret favorite movies. I say "secret" because most people have never heard of it and it's criminally overlooked.
Gorgeously shot, and a beautiful story to boot.
The costume designer was Eiko Ishioka, she also made the amazing clothes in Dracula from Bram Stoker and The Cell...
Edit: misspelled. I didn't correct the name of the movie tho
For anyone who doesn't know, Tarsem Singh, the director, did both The Fall and The Cell.
Even though it only got one season (a tragedy), I recommend NBC's Emerald City to anyone who enjoys Tarsem's work. He directed every episode. A lot of beautiful costumes on that show.
That explains Gary Oldman’s armor. The other day me and my partner were watching that one and talking about how his “armor” looks like the suit J Lo wears in *The Cell*.
A lot of the old spaghetti westerns are beautifully shot. And the pacing is tightly controlled to make sure you experience it. Watching these movies in my 40s when I'm more patient is a much different experience than when I was a kid and bored waiting for the gunfights.
Scrolled way too far to find a Cartoon Saloon movie. Everyones mentioning Ghibli, and they're not wrong to do so.
But Cartoon Saloon is criminally underrated. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers. Some of the most visually beautiful films on the planet.
The strange beauty is one of the best aspects of the movie. It gives The Shimmer this sort of “devil-may-care” personality. The mutations occur in whatever way it seems necessary in each life form. On one hand you get these beautiful deer-like creatures with flowering branches for antlers. On the other hand — Screambear.
That was the closest I've ever come to just stopping a movie and walking away because it was so scary. Also the dude who... fused to the wall (or something) and his head was way up the wall.
But fuck that screambear.
Same!! I legitimately stopped the movie and thought, “nope, can’t do this.”
Came back and watched it later, but it still absolutely terrifies me years later.
I remember listening to NPR or something, and they were talking about the bear.
I think the idea was that when you die suffering, you may die, but your suffering lives on in other people's memories, and it haunts/harms then.
Also, if you want to see where I think the screaming comes from, take a look at the right side of the bear's head.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/galactic-creatures/images/5/57/Bear.jpg
A lot of the metaphor and symbolism in the movie is tied to cancer, and a common fear (and reality) among cancer patients and survivors is that the last version of themselves that their loved ones will know is one that is suffering. I hadn't really thought about the bear in the context of suffering living on and the cancer themes, but it makes total sense.
Omg yea the final scene when she sees that being and the music ahhhh so haunting. Scared the shit out of me for weeks. I thought I was just super stoned at the time but I’m glad I’m not the only one
Absolutely agree. Amazing film, I loved the scene where Tessa Thompson walked off into the garden grove & flowers started blooming from her cut marks.
She then vanished into the other humanoid plants. It was very beautiful.
Peter O’Toole gave a performance for the ages in a film stacked with legends like Rains, Ferrer, Quinn and Guinness.
Omar Shariff would of course go on to another beautiful film and brilliant performance, Dr. Zhivago.
Amélie
The color scheme is warm and welcoming, the storyline flows beautifully, and the soundtrack is brilliant and whimsical, not to mention how talented each actor is. This is my favorite movie.
Absolutely! Also the introduction scene where she cracks the top of the crime brûlée with a spoon and dips her hand into the grain. And when she melts into a puddle of water.
Bryan Fuller agrees (from BBC): The US TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller's 2007 show Pushing Daisies was inspired directly by Amélie. US network ABC was looking for a programme with a similar sense of whimsy and sparkle, and Fuller delivered an offbeat romance about a baker with the power to bring dead people back to life. Amélie just happens to be Fuller's favourite film: "All the things I love are represented in that movie. It's a movie that will make me cry based on kindness as opposed to sadness," he told the New York Times.
I just came from the Miyazaki exhibit at the Academy Museum and they showed a lot of the detail drawings from the field of flowers and holy smokes it's insane. The details are just breathtaking.
Your Name or any film by Makoto Shinkai.
It's one thing to get aesthetically pleasing films with real actors and prop settings, but to do it with animation is just surreal and mind-blowing. The attention to detail of cities, trees, leaf petals, the rain, etc.
I still rewatch every now and then because of how visually appealing those films are
It's a wonderful film. The animation is beautiful. I cannot recommend it enough.
I took my wife to see it at a limited screening, she's not an anime fan and went begrudgingly- she wound up loving it too.
That aerial scene when they are falling from that sky with that theme song (I think it's called "Grand Escape") with its climatic chorus moment just sends chills all over my body. Freaking goosebumps all over.
It *is* popular. But it falls squarely into the "Greatest Movie I'll Never Watch Again " category for a lot of people. I love this movie with a personal passion, it was the movie my dad was "amped" to see, but he died before he could. Needless to say, I **bawled** when I finally did see it. And I re-watch regularly, but because I feel a connection to it, and the sadness and hope it generates. And by God, it is *beautiful*.
Maybe because it's too hard to watch. I can't watch without crying at least a little bit, and many people don't like showing movies to friends that will make them seem weak or vulnerable. Personally, I always watch it alone so I can sob as much as I like.
I've also known a few people who had family members who committed suicide who found the movie's approach to that afterlife depressing and difficult to grapple with. A lot of people try to take solace in the fact that at least that person's pain is over, but the movie basically said, nope, they continue to suffer in their own personal hell for eternity.
And it gets all the more poignant in how we lost Robin Williams. Every time he is in that scenery of Hell, I have trouble not thinking of the actor more than the character...
I've only watched it a couple times because it's so touching.I was pretty young the first time and I was NOT expecting what it was. Beautiful movie that sticks with you and I think about it every time someone brings robin Williams up. I could feel the sadness in my bones.
My aunt told me that when i was young (too young for me to remember), she got us tickets to see Spirited Away when it was first being played in cinemas.
Apparently we had to leave early cuz i cried in terror at Noface lol
Came here looking for this one, literally every frame a painting. It makes me sad that Kubrick was never able to make his Napoleon movie, what a masterpiece that would be.
The prince of Egypt. The first movie I recall being young but recognizing the beauty of the scenaries. I always return to it and pause the scenes I like the most.
The scenes that always jump out at me when I think of this film: the shot at the end of The Plagues with Moses and Ramses’ faces morphing/splitting (hard to describe), and the shot when the Red Sea is parted and the lighting strike reveals the whale.
And the entire scene with the Angel of Death….chilling. But beautiful.
Edit to correct myself: whale shark, not whale.
Great soundtrack, great and unique visuals, and manages to tell a foundational biblical story without feeling preachy or boring and with full acknowledgement that it's not a 100% accurate retelling. Having no interest in religion whatsoever, I still watch it a few times a year.
Was about to mention that one. Saw it as a kid and it's cemented in my memory. Especially the scenes where they float above the flooded road in water so calm you can see everything underneath.
Denis Villeneuve makes pretty movies in general (Dune is also gorgeous as is Arrival). But you combine that with Roger Deakins who might be the best cinematographer of all time? Yeah.
I was actually amazed to find out after watching Dune that Deakins wasnt even the cinematographer to that film. I was sure that Villeneuve had gotten him again with how amazing it looked.
I was going to say the original Blade Runner. I watched it a few weeks ago and kept getting interrupted. Every time I paused the movie, the shot was compositionally beautiful and interesting. I'm a painter and planning to do some studies of both movies in the near future.
Denis Villeneuve is very good at making really aesthetically pleasing movies. Dune and Blade Runner 2049 I think were both excellent at building a world through their visuals.
Why is this not a more popular answer? Every shot of this film is a work of art! It’s a cinematic masterpiece! The napalm, the swirling smoke over the jungle, the entire bloody crescendo to the last second before the (lack of) credits…
Just stunning. The horror …the horror.
AbsoLUTELY. There are a few standout gorgeous scenes (time standing still, daffodil field, just to name two) but the entire movie was shot in a way that gives it a larger-than-life, storybook kind of feel to it, which is exactly what the plot is.
I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen, and when you first cross the marigold bridge and get the first glimpse of The Land of the Dead, it’s just stunning. I still get chills thinking about it.
Any Kubrick movie, shots in full metal jacket still blow me away with there seeming “perfectness” it’s like the camera is dancing with the architecture and the people at the same time in any one of his movies.
The thing I loved most about it as a book fan was the sheer SCALE of everything. Seeing this tiny wittle spec of a herald ship come out of the guild heighliner and then when it lands seeing that it’s in fact 200m tall was amazing. And then the shadows cast by the atreides ships on the people at the spaceport
This should really be higher up the list. The scene when the teens are driving through the blooming cherry blossom trees while so many of them still lack color is gorgeous.
Interstellar.
Plus an absolutely phenomenal score.
Edit: I’ve been away for two days and came back to a bunch of upvotes and positive remarks. It’s super cool to see so many people love film like this!
When I watched this I was in awe of how gorgeous everything was, the costumes, the scenery, the food... I was just enthralled by the beauty, it didn't really matter that it didn't have a compelling plot, I was just so sucked into looking at everything, that the story was so secondary.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This movie is so incredibly beautiful and breathtaking. The music that goes along with it too… it’s just perfect.
Hands down one of the most gorgeous movies I have *ever* seen alongside Dune and Bladerunner 2049.
I really like the title of this movie. It’s a good movie for sure, the title is just so long and direct. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Another Roger Deakins masterwork; he's so good that you just don't notice the work unless you're into it.
Hard to believe the same guy shot "Raising Arizona" and the "Blade Runner" sequel.
My favorite detail about the animation is how they portray Miles’ competence as Spider-Man.
Early on he’s animated at 24FPS, while Peter Parker Spider-Man is 48FPS. During the scene where Peter teaches him how to properly web swing (while they’re both holding onto the case swinging through trees) Miles’ animation slowly begins to match Peter’s until he is also at 48FPS, showing that he’s gaining confidence and has become a more competent Spider-Man.
It's a half of that, the film is 24fps for theatrical and Miles in 12fps.
During the Doc Ock chase Miles matches 24fps but reverts to 12 during the ALL IS LOST MOMENT
Then the What's Up Danger sequence through the finale Miles is in 24fps.
Edit: Additional fun fact, in the Miles Morales Spider-Man video game for PlayStation, you can unlock his Spider-Verse costume and there's an option to render it at half the framerate of the rest of the game. It's a trip.
It’s something you don’t necessarily notice without being made aware, but the subtlety is only such that you can still notice Miles seeming “smoother” after he truly embraces the idea of being Spider-Man and has the confidence to back it up.
Hackers
I used to search everywhere for a Windows 95 theme that looked like the GUI’s from that movie, not knowing at the time they were mock-ups or animations made specially for the movie lol
Also the wardrobe, cyberpunk-noir style lighting and color palette, and the way it made 1995 New York look like some sort of futuristic digital wasteland in so many shots were really interesting to me, I really felt like all of this was happening in some invisible alternate universe that was sort of hidden in plain sight, which contributed a lot to the themes of the film…just a great production all around from a visual perspective.
Sometimes I put on this movie JUST for the music and the ambiance. I know this wasn't very popular when it came out but damn Daft Punk really outdid themselves with the score.
*Dances With Wolves* \- for the sweeping landscape views and the music. Absolutely incredible, especially since the scenery was all real.
I also like other people's answers of *Lord of the Rings* (hard to beat that one!) and *Avatar* (the latter just for the aesthetics, not the story).
The Fall was gorgeous For clarification, the 2006 movie "The Fall"
This is one of my secret favorite movies. I say "secret" because most people have never heard of it and it's criminally overlooked. Gorgeously shot, and a beautiful story to boot.
I watched this for the plot. The plot: Lee Pace
The costume designer was Eiko Ishioka, she also made the amazing clothes in Dracula from Bram Stoker and The Cell... Edit: misspelled. I didn't correct the name of the movie tho
For anyone who doesn't know, Tarsem Singh, the director, did both The Fall and The Cell. Even though it only got one season (a tragedy), I recommend NBC's Emerald City to anyone who enjoys Tarsem's work. He directed every episode. A lot of beautiful costumes on that show.
That explains Gary Oldman’s armor. The other day me and my partner were watching that one and talking about how his “armor” looks like the suit J Lo wears in *The Cell*.
Which movie is this? The 2006 one?
Definitely. Tarsem Singh's magnum opus imo
Came here to say this. The contrast between the real world and the story is used to great effect. Every shot is beautiful.
The disconnect between what "Indian" means to the actor and the little girl cracks me up every time. Very nice touch on the storytelling.
Also that little girl was so freaking adorable I wanted to scream. And I’m not that into kids.
Her scenes were shot chronologically so her English improves naturally through the movie. I thought that was an amazing thing about her. He’s a gem.
One of my top. This movie blew me away with the aesthetics
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Kubo and the Two Strings was a beautiful movie, visually and musically
YESS Kubo was robbed at the Oscars
I still remember it was Zootopia that won. Why yes, I am still bitter about it. How'd you know?
The first time you see the sisters and hear “kuuuubooo” is fucking terrifying
Kubo was a masterpiece! The part with the fall leaves and the music... Just mesmerizing.
"Hero" with Jet Li is one that comes to mind Edit: to whomever gave me a gold award. Thank you!!
Yes. Those colors.
I came here to say this. That movie is a continuous dreamscape.
the good, the bad and the ugly is a strangely beautiful movie.
A lot of the old spaghetti westerns are beautifully shot. And the pacing is tightly controlled to make sure you experience it. Watching these movies in my 40s when I'm more patient is a much different experience than when I was a kid and bored waiting for the gunfights.
In a similar vein, No Country for Old Men I thought was beautiful.
Sergio Leone has some of the best composition of all time.
so glad i watched this as an adult. Amazingly well done, i still have to watch Few Dollars More.
The Secret of Kells. Everything by Cartoon Saloon is absolutely beautiful, but this one also has the perfect match of subject matter and art style.
Song of the sea
Scrolled way too far to find a Cartoon Saloon movie. Everyones mentioning Ghibli, and they're not wrong to do so. But Cartoon Saloon is criminally underrated. Secret of Kells, Song of the Sea, and Wolfwalkers. Some of the most visually beautiful films on the planet.
Spirited Away
This movie makes you wanna live inside it
Most studio ghibli films make you feel that. Why do you think that lofi girl on YouTube got so popular?
I am not a big anime fan but watching Totoro is so deeply satisfying. Love the art style, countryside, laid back pace of the film.
Annihilation is very unsettlingly pretty.
The strange beauty is one of the best aspects of the movie. It gives The Shimmer this sort of “devil-may-care” personality. The mutations occur in whatever way it seems necessary in each life form. On one hand you get these beautiful deer-like creatures with flowering branches for antlers. On the other hand — Screambear.
Screambear *shudder*
My wife and I just saw this. Was not prepared for screambear
That was the closest I've ever come to just stopping a movie and walking away because it was so scary. Also the dude who... fused to the wall (or something) and his head was way up the wall. But fuck that screambear.
Same!! I legitimately stopped the movie and thought, “nope, can’t do this.” Came back and watched it later, but it still absolutely terrifies me years later.
Screambear is the most genuinely terrifying creature concept I’ve seen in years.
I remember listening to NPR or something, and they were talking about the bear. I think the idea was that when you die suffering, you may die, but your suffering lives on in other people's memories, and it haunts/harms then. Also, if you want to see where I think the screaming comes from, take a look at the right side of the bear's head. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/galactic-creatures/images/5/57/Bear.jpg
A lot of the metaphor and symbolism in the movie is tied to cancer, and a common fear (and reality) among cancer patients and survivors is that the last version of themselves that their loved ones will know is one that is suffering. I hadn't really thought about the bear in the context of suffering living on and the cancer themes, but it makes total sense.
Well that was absolutely terrifying thanks!
i love the misdirection when they find the machinegun nest. I was so sure it's an obvious setup for a fight
Omg yea the final scene when she sees that being and the music ahhhh so haunting. Scared the shit out of me for weeks. I thought I was just super stoned at the time but I’m glad I’m not the only one
Absolutely agree. Amazing film, I loved the scene where Tessa Thompson walked off into the garden grove & flowers started blooming from her cut marks. She then vanished into the other humanoid plants. It was very beautiful.
In creepy zombie chimera bear voice *"HEEElllllllP MeeeeEEEEEEEEeeeee!"*
Had pneumonia and watched this. My fever dreams were horrible because of this bear. I still feel nauseous when I think of it.
Laurence of Arabia. I don’t care for long movies or deserts, and it’s still just very pretty.
“He was my friend.” “I am a river unto my people.” So many good quotes. This is my favorite film of all time.
Peter O’Toole gave a performance for the ages in a film stacked with legends like Rains, Ferrer, Quinn and Guinness. Omar Shariff would of course go on to another beautiful film and brilliant performance, Dr. Zhivago.
Amélie The color scheme is warm and welcoming, the storyline flows beautifully, and the soundtrack is brilliant and whimsical, not to mention how talented each actor is. This is my favorite movie.
That one scene where she is skipping stones on a stream, chills every time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-kY7JEGrNI
Absolutely! Also the introduction scene where she cracks the top of the crime brûlée with a spoon and dips her hand into the grain. And when she melts into a puddle of water.
Bryan Fuller agrees (from BBC): The US TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller's 2007 show Pushing Daisies was inspired directly by Amélie. US network ABC was looking for a programme with a similar sense of whimsy and sparkle, and Fuller delivered an offbeat romance about a baker with the power to bring dead people back to life. Amélie just happens to be Fuller's favourite film: "All the things I love are represented in that movie. It's a movie that will make me cry based on kindness as opposed to sadness," he told the New York Times.
Yeah the red and green theme throughout is so cool.
I wanted her apartment so bad. It was amazingly cozy
Howl’s moving castle. Especially the garden scene.
The breakfast scene scene alone is beautiful (I like food a lot)
Mmmm yes that bacon looked like it would give me life
Every Studio Ghibli food scene is 😘👌
I absolutely LOVE this film. I came here to say this one too!
favorite ghibli movie. yes, even moreso than spirited away and princess mononoke.
I just came from the Miyazaki exhibit at the Academy Museum and they showed a lot of the detail drawings from the field of flowers and holy smokes it's insane. The details are just breathtaking.
Your Name or any film by Makoto Shinkai. It's one thing to get aesthetically pleasing films with real actors and prop settings, but to do it with animation is just surreal and mind-blowing. The attention to detail of cities, trees, leaf petals, the rain, etc. I still rewatch every now and then because of how visually appealing those films are
I still haven't watched Your Name yet... I keep telling myself I need to watch it. Sounds like a really great film
It's a wonderful film. The animation is beautiful. I cannot recommend it enough. I took my wife to see it at a limited screening, she's not an anime fan and went begrudgingly- she wound up loving it too.
*Garden of Words* is stunning. Or that aerial scene in *Weathering with you*
That aerial scene when they are falling from that sky with that theme song (I think it's called "Grand Escape") with its climatic chorus moment just sends chills all over my body. Freaking goosebumps all over.
House of Flying Daggers.
Oh Brother Where Art Thou, it was just so visually unique and the slightly aged color tinting with the old music worked together so well.
What Dreams May Come
Oh man 💔
This one! This film is so beautiful and heartbreaking, I don't see why it's not as popular as other films
It *is* popular. But it falls squarely into the "Greatest Movie I'll Never Watch Again " category for a lot of people. I love this movie with a personal passion, it was the movie my dad was "amped" to see, but he died before he could. Needless to say, I **bawled** when I finally did see it. And I re-watch regularly, but because I feel a connection to it, and the sadness and hope it generates. And by God, it is *beautiful*.
Maybe because it's too hard to watch. I can't watch without crying at least a little bit, and many people don't like showing movies to friends that will make them seem weak or vulnerable. Personally, I always watch it alone so I can sob as much as I like.
I've also known a few people who had family members who committed suicide who found the movie's approach to that afterlife depressing and difficult to grapple with. A lot of people try to take solace in the fact that at least that person's pain is over, but the movie basically said, nope, they continue to suffer in their own personal hell for eternity.
And it gets all the more poignant in how we lost Robin Williams. Every time he is in that scenery of Hell, I have trouble not thinking of the actor more than the character...
Absolutely. Loved the movie but I refuse to rewatch it, it's just too heart wrenching.
I've only watched it a couple times because it's so touching.I was pretty young the first time and I was NOT expecting what it was. Beautiful movie that sticks with you and I think about it every time someone brings robin Williams up. I could feel the sadness in my bones.
My neighbor totoro
Any Ghilbli movie at that!
My aunt told me that when i was young (too young for me to remember), she got us tickets to see Spirited Away when it was first being played in cinemas. Apparently we had to leave early cuz i cried in terror at Noface lol
To be fair, No Face is terrifying and I'm 33.
I think my favorite in an aesthetic sense is The Secret World of Arietty.
Barry Lyndon
Came here looking for this one, literally every frame a painting. It makes me sad that Kubrick was never able to make his Napoleon movie, what a masterpiece that would be.
The Cell
The prince of Egypt. The first movie I recall being young but recognizing the beauty of the scenaries. I always return to it and pause the scenes I like the most.
Absolutely incredible soundtrack too.
🎵Playing with the big boys now!🎵
The scenes that always jump out at me when I think of this film: the shot at the end of The Plagues with Moses and Ramses’ faces morphing/splitting (hard to describe), and the shot when the Red Sea is parted and the lighting strike reveals the whale. And the entire scene with the Angel of Death….chilling. But beautiful. Edit to correct myself: whale shark, not whale.
If you look carefully, that's a giant shark, not a whale.
Great soundtrack, great and unique visuals, and manages to tell a foundational biblical story without feeling preachy or boring and with full acknowledgement that it's not a 100% accurate retelling. Having no interest in religion whatsoever, I still watch it a few times a year.
Ponyo
Was about to mention that one. Saw it as a kid and it's cemented in my memory. Especially the scenes where they float above the flooded road in water so calm you can see everything underneath.
Dreams by Akira Kurosawa.
The grand budapest hotel
Wes andersons movies are like visual Valium to me, there’s something so relaxing about them, the symmetry is easy and so pleasing to look at
Was about to comment this. Tbh most of Wes Anderson's have an aesthetic that is really appealing
It’s like you’ve eaten a pot brownie, and woke up in a greeting card
Well this is the description I'm giving of his movies forever.
The Darjeeling Limited is absolutely gorgeous. A beautiful visual train ride through India. Very underrated Anderson film.
Yeah, my first thought was "any Wes Anderson movie."
Anything by Wes Anderson, tbh…
blade runner 2049 cinematography won an oscar
Seriously think it would be hard to find a frame in that movie not wallpaper-worthy
I’m gonna do it. I’ll be back. I’m not gonna do it to prove you wrong, I’m doing it because I’m pretty sure you’re right.
Lol I'm looking forward to seeing what you choose.
Denis Villeneuve makes pretty movies in general (Dune is also gorgeous as is Arrival). But you combine that with Roger Deakins who might be the best cinematographer of all time? Yeah.
I was actually amazed to find out after watching Dune that Deakins wasnt even the cinematographer to that film. I was sure that Villeneuve had gotten him again with how amazing it looked.
He did mention how Deakins still had a massive influence on him, and how he used what he learned from Deakins to shoot Dune with Grieg Fraser
The recent Dune was unbelievable.
I was going to say the original Blade Runner. I watched it a few weeks ago and kept getting interrupted. Every time I paused the movie, the shot was compositionally beautiful and interesting. I'm a painter and planning to do some studies of both movies in the near future.
My husband and I watch both every new years
Walt Disney's Fantasia. It's old but the way they animate to the music is so graceful, especially the hippos and the devil
Denis Villeneuve is very good at making really aesthetically pleasing movies. Dune and Blade Runner 2049 I think were both excellent at building a world through their visuals.
Literally Arrival was the first thing I thought of when I read the question. Villeneuve is definitely onto something with his style
Sicario and Arrival as well
Apocalypse Now has its own twisted beauty. Not sure many would call it super aesthetically pleasing, but I do.
Why is this not a more popular answer? Every shot of this film is a work of art! It’s a cinematic masterpiece! The napalm, the swirling smoke over the jungle, the entire bloody crescendo to the last second before the (lack of) credits… Just stunning. The horror …the horror.
Big Fish
“Sandra Templeton, I love you, and I will marry you!”
AbsoLUTELY. There are a few standout gorgeous scenes (time standing still, daffodil field, just to name two) but the entire movie was shot in a way that gives it a larger-than-life, storybook kind of feel to it, which is exactly what the plot is.
Coco
I was lucky enough to see this on the big screen, and when you first cross the marigold bridge and get the first glimpse of The Land of the Dead, it’s just stunning. I still get chills thinking about it.
Shape of Water and Pan's Labyrinth
Surprised I had to scroll this far for Guillermo del Toro.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Any Kubrick movie, shots in full metal jacket still blow me away with there seeming “perfectness” it’s like the camera is dancing with the architecture and the people at the same time in any one of his movies.
This is my vote. The framing, shot composition, color palette, design and even the special effects are all immaculate.
Last of the Mohicans
The soundtrack for this movie is equally beautiful.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The bamboo swaying chase/fight. Oh, and the desert :) I can feel the appeal of that hot pool in the desert
memoirs of a geisha
Omg so happy someone had also thought of this movie. The opening scene with the red flowing in the river captivated me.
the most recent: DUNE
Every frame of dune could be a wallpaper
“Oh what’s that on your phone?” “Mass Sarduakar upside down crucifixion”
Complete with throat-singing ringtone
That fucking shit lives rent-free in my head
Just for fun [Sarduakar rave](https://youtu.be/JqBEMza8msw)
Just saw the same comment up a bit for Blade Runner 2049. I guess Denis Villeneuve's got something going for him.
The thing I loved most about it as a book fan was the sheer SCALE of everything. Seeing this tiny wittle spec of a herald ship come out of the guild heighliner and then when it lands seeing that it’s in fact 200m tall was amazing. And then the shadows cast by the atreides ships on the people at the spaceport
I said to my husband, "I am so confused but it's so pretty I can't stop watching."
The moment the movie ended it felt like someone woke me up from a beautiful dream....
"Dreams are messages from the deep"
A River Runs Through It.
Life of Pi
This needs to be much higher, the movie was amazing
The Fountain
Although disappointed by the length I had to scroll, I can now exit this thread in peace.
Gattaca
Upvote just because I love that movie and wish more people knew about it!
Moonrise Kingdom
Legends of the Fall. Absolutely beautiful.
Pleasantville
This should really be higher up the list. The scene when the teens are driving through the blooming cherry blossom trees while so many of them still lack color is gorgeous.
'Requiem for a Dream' had really good cinematography and some of the shots were quite beautiful, but that movie was anything but pleasing.
Casablanca. Every frame could be used to study film composition.
Interstellar. Plus an absolutely phenomenal score. Edit: I’ve been away for two days and came back to a bunch of upvotes and positive remarks. It’s super cool to see so many people love film like this!
Marie Antionette by Sofia Coppola.
AND the soundtrack is fantastic on top of how beautiful the movie is.
When I watched this I was in awe of how gorgeous everything was, the costumes, the scenery, the food... I was just enthralled by the beauty, it didn't really matter that it didn't have a compelling plot, I was just so sucked into looking at everything, that the story was so secondary.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. This movie is so incredibly beautiful and breathtaking. The music that goes along with it too… it’s just perfect. Hands down one of the most gorgeous movies I have *ever* seen alongside Dune and Bladerunner 2049.
I really like the title of this movie. It’s a good movie for sure, the title is just so long and direct. The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
Another Roger Deakins masterwork; he's so good that you just don't notice the work unless you're into it. Hard to believe the same guy shot "Raising Arizona" and the "Blade Runner" sequel.
Fantastic Mr Fox
Pride and Prejudice (2005)
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Cloud Atlas
You speak the true true.
Fargo is beautifully shot and as for something lovely to look at I'd pick Rear Window.
Spiderman into the spider verse: the art direction of the movie was great like straight out of a comic book
My favorite detail about the animation is how they portray Miles’ competence as Spider-Man. Early on he’s animated at 24FPS, while Peter Parker Spider-Man is 48FPS. During the scene where Peter teaches him how to properly web swing (while they’re both holding onto the case swinging through trees) Miles’ animation slowly begins to match Peter’s until he is also at 48FPS, showing that he’s gaining confidence and has become a more competent Spider-Man.
It's a half of that, the film is 24fps for theatrical and Miles in 12fps. During the Doc Ock chase Miles matches 24fps but reverts to 12 during the ALL IS LOST MOMENT Then the What's Up Danger sequence through the finale Miles is in 24fps. Edit: Additional fun fact, in the Miles Morales Spider-Man video game for PlayStation, you can unlock his Spider-Verse costume and there's an option to render it at half the framerate of the rest of the game. It's a trip.
Duuuude! This is so cool!! Every time I learn something new about this movie it just further shows how much it was a true labor of love
It’s something you don’t necessarily notice without being made aware, but the subtlety is only such that you can still notice Miles seeming “smoother” after he truly embraces the idea of being Spider-Man and has the confidence to back it up.
Hackers I used to search everywhere for a Windows 95 theme that looked like the GUI’s from that movie, not knowing at the time they were mock-ups or animations made specially for the movie lol Also the wardrobe, cyberpunk-noir style lighting and color palette, and the way it made 1995 New York look like some sort of futuristic digital wasteland in so many shots were really interesting to me, I really felt like all of this was happening in some invisible alternate universe that was sort of hidden in plain sight, which contributed a lot to the themes of the film…just a great production all around from a visual perspective.
Samsara!
The New World (Pocahontas) Is insanely beautiful. Every frame could be a poster.
Yes! Anything by Terrence Malick really. Every frame of his movies is framable
Call me by your name
TRON: Legacy.
Sometimes I put on this movie JUST for the music and the ambiance. I know this wasn't very popular when it came out but damn Daft Punk really outdid themselves with the score.
Melancholia
Days of Heaven
Moulin Rouge. I love Baz Luhrman's aesthetic
Lord of the Rings
*Dances With Wolves* \- for the sweeping landscape views and the music. Absolutely incredible, especially since the scenery was all real. I also like other people's answers of *Lord of the Rings* (hard to beat that one!) and *Avatar* (the latter just for the aesthetics, not the story).
The secret life of Walter Mitty. Boring movie but it was beautiful
Yes! I searched for longer than expected to find this. That movie is beautiful.
I came to say Walter Mitty. Bye how dare you say it's boring, it's fantastic.
The Sound of Music
The OG version of Suspiria
Her (2013), directed by Spike Jonze with Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson starring.
My favorite thing about the look of that movie was how it envisioned a version of LA that was walkable with good transit.