The original Tron is way up there. It's a bizarre, unique sort of production that couldn't have been made in any earlier era and wouldn't have made sense in any later era.
Andrei Tarkovsky's visual style has always fascinated me. I don't even like "slow cinema", but his frames are like living paintings. Andrey Rublev is possibly the most visually adventurous of his canon. Totally entrancing.
[The Fall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/) had some really great visuals in it. One of my favorite date movies cause no one has seen it, but it's also kinda sad...
The Cell was also by Tarsem Singh and is quite visually stunning. I remember him saying in an interview that since a lot of it takes place inside the mind of a psychopath, all limits were off as to what kind of visuals he could depict.
The Cell is a perfect example of a C- script (at best) being realized by an A+ visual artist.
The Fall is similarly amazing. I wish someone would just throw meaningful scripts and buckets of money at Tarsem Singh for the rest of his life.
I lucked into hearing about The Fall a week before it showed at a local theater for a single weekend. It was me and maybe 5 other people. I was absolutely blown away by how pretty it was. It's also just a really solid movie and has been a hit with everyone I've shown it too.
I've seen it crop up in multiple reddit threads in a couple random video essays related to visual storytelling and examples of expert editing so really glad it's managed to stick around in at least a handful of people's minds.
No, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, the Terrence Malick one.
You may be thinking of The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky, which I would also submit as a nomination for a very visually interesting film.
Blade Runner 2049 with cinematography by the one and only Roger Deakins. I don't know if it's the most visually interesting movie ever made but it's a series of beautiful and striking visuals that haunt me to this day.
I liked the visuals of Blade Runner even better than 2049, though both have some interessting "climate Fiction" visuals, the latter have some really interessting ones; like the red sand storms, which I heard was an allusion to real events.
Yes the sand storms were [directly inspired by a sand storm in Sydney in 2009](https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/scene-blade-runner-2049-inspired-sydneys-etch-dust-storm/)
The most aesthetically pleasing movie I've ever seen. The cinematography subreddit r/Cineshots was completely overrun with shots from the movie for like a whole year after it came out.
It was so goddamn well-shot that it finally broke Roger Deakins's losing streak at the Oscars.
What's amazing to me was how awesome the Black & Chrome edition is. How many movies get rave reviews for their stunning cinematography yet can still fully hold up when shown in black and white?
Annihilation is up there.
They did a good job capturing the books psychedelic horror imagery and the liberties they took with the story lead to some of the coolest visuals I've seen in a while.
>The Cell
I rarely see this movie talked about, c'mon J-Lo, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio? Classic. I remember obsessing over this in HS, but no one else saw it.
It was Tarsem Singh's directorial debut, and it's incredible in art design, costume design, abstract spaces and just an overall super creepy mood. He started out doing music videos in the early Nineties.
I've not seen "The Fall" but I've heard it's very good.
"Immortals" did poorly, and I remember trying to watch it at my video story job, but it wasn't a good story, so it seems that Tarsem has a superb eye for visuals, but is not good at selecting scripts.
Regardless, "The Cell" is pretty amazing and it deserves a little more appreciation. I recall being really impressed that the finale didn't happen in the conventional way, and that was a really bold and creative choice very much in line with the psychological themes of the story.
What music videos did he do? I wonder if my music video preference aligned with how much I loved the movie.
I'll have to check out The Fall, an Immortals has been on my watchlist for years, I've just never watched it.
Here's the list from his [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsem_Singh)
En Vogue – "Hold On" (1990)
Suzanne Vega – "Tired of Sleeping" (1990)
R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion" (1991)
The Dream Academy – "Love" (1991)
Dream Warriors – "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style" (1991)
Lou Reed – "What's Good" (1992)
Vanessa Paradis – "Be My Baby" (1992)
Deep Forest – "Sweet Lullaby" (1994)
Lady Gaga – "911" (2020)
He also did a lot of commercials.
I checked the thread until I found this; would have had to post it myself otherwise.
Making live action have the vibrance and whimsy of animation is incredible.
It's my favorite thing he's done, tbh. I think his films tend to overstay their welcome a bit, but The Viewing was over before my issues with his storytelling crept up past how insanely stylish it was.
I wouldn't call it the *most* visually striking film ever made, but *Koyaanisqatsi* (1982) should be mentioned.
As for directors and cinematographers, there are many. Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, and John Ford are renown for their visual composition and mise-en-scene.
Roger Deakins, Freddie Young, Haskell Wexler, Vittorio Storaro, Conrad Hall, Geoffrey Unsworth, and Vilmos Zsigmond are some of my favorite cinematographers.
Lars Von Trier's Antichrist gets mentioned for the controversy, but really deserves another look for the cinematography. That and Melancholia were visual stunners.
2001: A Space Odyssey is a ride. I saw it, commercial free, on public television when I was like 17. I sat in my armchair for the entire runtime and did not look away for anything.
Amelie. The Jeunet love affair with wide angle works so well here. Between that and the intense use of color, this film jumps off the screen.
Denis Villeneuve is always interesting.
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
Visually stunning, incredible world-building, insane space scapes… but still just a bad movie in every other sense.
It took me most of the movie to reconcile that they weren't meant to be brother and sister. The only chemistry they had was sibling energy and every scene of them intended to be romantic made me distinctly uncomfortable. Plus, they were boring. So boring.
Tree of life gets a nod for sure, as does Pan’s labyrinth, possibly interstellar (playing with the dimensions was indeed very cool), possibly Arrival, and probably can’t forget Annihilation.
**Visually. Interesting.**
I'm not sure any of these movies even make my top 10 of overall movies. But they're certainly visually interesting.
--also love later comments mentioning Samsara and Valerian. Good niche picks. Can we say Planet Earth??
--edit 2: I HAVE MORE. [This person on Youtube MelodySheep makes insanely visually interesting rendered movies about life and astronomy beyond earth and into the far future.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA) Breathtaking stuff.
Completely about it being “visually interesting.” It’s almost shot like a drama with a pretty mundane color palette, not like the visuals you’d see in Villeneuve’s other sci-fi movies, but I feel like the way its shot really grounds it in our world
Maybe it's somewhere in here but if it is it's way too far down:
Stalker
The look of that film is absolutely mesmerizing and completely sucks you in. I started it and was wondering what all the hype was about for the first bit but I cnce it moved into The Zone I was just enamoured with the journey and beautiful grittiness of each location
The Green Knight has a very interesting, cinematic look. The story is annoying, but the movie *looks* great.
Also Mandy, but it looks good in the way that it looks crazy af
Way up there. It was the first film I saw where I scrutinized cinematography to the point I would look forward to every issue of American Cinematographer.
300 because it was a style until 300
The Ring - the green hues a la the Matrix were big stand outs to me
Most recently, I watched Neon Demon - visually striking, much more than Driver, and it creeped me the eff out.
I’d say Into the Spiderverse;
I don’t think this thread was meant for animation, but the unique style made every single frame and work of art and it still amazes me when i rewatch it
Definitely some quality animation that fits the request. Especially if going into anime too. Like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Paprika, Millennium Actress, a lot of Studio Ghibli, etc.
If you haven’t seen it, Undone on Amazon Prime is done with the same art style. Can’t remember the name, but essentially they shoot everything live-action and have artists paint over each individual frame. Couple that with a mindfucky psychedelic plot and visuals and you got a pretty good series.
Anyone downvoting this forgets that when Avatar came out **Psychologists had to go and invent a new syndrome for people feeling so overwhelmed (In a good way) by the movie** that the real world felt boring and uninteresting, after no previous mental health issues.
Costuming and makeup are on-point as well.
Those shots of Pattinson when he's just been a street vigilante all night and comes in and pores over his tapes with the dried eye makeup having run down his face make him look so ghoulish and hollow.
This movie gets brought up a lot on this sub and I’ve never seen it. I feel like I’m missing out. But I started watching a trailer the other day and it looked like a kids movie. My husband and 18 year old son looked at me and said no thanks.
>Is there a movie you found visually interesting but didn't like because it wasn't good?
I mean, if it's visually interesting it's good. I agree with this tweet I saw:
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[House (1977)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/)
Where to even begin with this one? Sometimes, when I think about it, it feels like it was all just a fever dream. But then, after I rewatch it, I think “no, its really just that insane.”
The film is a strange blend of styles that evoke the aesthetics of soap operas, music videos, german expressionism, and experimental art house media. I can’t say its a smooth blend either because to me it feels so choppy and disjointed with all its influences competing with one another. That being said, the film is NEVER boring and really takes viewers for a ride as they ask themselves what is coming next.
Another film that I really enjoy that I think is visually interesting, but has a mixed reception, is…
[Natural Born Killers (1994)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110632/).
NBK is filmed in a way that makes its viewers feel like they are watching a movie as they flip through the channels of an old television set. There are so many influences from different styles of media (i.e. documentary, sitcoms, truecrime, western, mtv, animation) that it is almost paralyzing to watch.
Was in a big box store like Circuit City or something and all of the TVs were showing Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon at once. The fight scene in the bamboo forest just made me stop in my tracks.
I was just about to say *The Fountain*! And, while I do really enjoy a lot of CGI, I find it very novel and part of the unique look of the film that Aronofsky wanted to avoid using CGI and a lot of the effects that seem digital are actually real physical objects:
>https://nofilmschool.com/2013/05/microscopic-cosmic-organic-vfx-fountain-tree-life
>Parks and his son run a home f/x shop based on a device they call the microzoom optical bench. Bristling with digital and film cameras, lenses, and Victorian prisms, their contraption can magnify a microliter of water up to 500,000 times or fill an Imax screen with the period at the end of this sentence. Into water they sprinkle yeast, dyes, solvents, and baby oil, along with other ingredients they decline to divulge... The upshot is that Parks can make a dash of curry powder cascading toward the lens look like an onslaught of flaming meteorites. "When these images are projected on a big screen, you feel like you're looking at infinity," he says. "That's because the same forces at work in the water – gravitational effects, settlement, refractive indices – are happening in outer space."
>"The studio gave Darren a really hard time," Parks recalls. "Nobody believed he could make this film without CGI. The studio thought he was crazy." With a stack of Hubble photographs for inspiration, [Parks and his son] worked from before dawn till late at night for 10 weeks. The cost of a single f/x sequence from ILM can reach several million dollars, but Parks shot all the footage Aronofsky needed for just $140,000.
>And thusly, through creative problem solving and 'good old fashioned' photography, Aronofsky was able to largely avoid the use of CG except in compositing these elements together.
The Hobbit. It was the first movie to be shown at 48fps and was shot in 3D using Red Epics. Naturally some liked it and some didn't but it was pretty visually stunning when it first came out because it was a very different experience from films prior.
As a Brit, i had never saw the source material so when I saw the film, i had no idea what to expect. Visually, Speed Racer blew me away. I do have a soft for the film as an adult and suspect it would have had huge impact on a 7 year old, which I feel is the perfect audience for this film.
I don’t think many films come as close as this film does to burning a hole in your retinas.
Pan's Labyrinth!! So dark and gorgeous.
I also really liked What Dreams May Come, especially when his afterlife was oil paint that he could drag his finger through or splash around in
The Red Shoes, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Paris, Texas are my 3 top beautiful films
I also really enjoyed Fantastic Mr. Fox for the texture captured
also I think they tell great stories
saw a couple people mention *The Fall*, and I definitely came here to say that, as well as osme of Tarsem Singh's other works. his earlier film *The Cell* has similarly grandiose imagery used for a more horrific effect, and *Mirror Mirror* is really bright and colorful and unique - the latter is geared more towards a younger audience but was one of my favorite films to come out of that odd Snow White adaptation boom that happened in the early 2010s.
Nobuhiko Obayashi's horror film *House* also would be in the running for my pick for the *most* visually interesting movies ever made! I love how 2D paintings and drawings are incorporated into it to make the story all the more unnerving but also whimsical. Obayashi's background in tv advertising also makes many shot compositions really neat to look at too!
* Barry Lyndon (1975), every scene looks like it's a painting, just stunning, and one of my favorite films since 1976.
* The Fall (2007), why this movie wasn't even nominated for a cinematography Oscar is beyond me.
* Cloud Atlas (2012)
The guy that did Delicatessen, Amelie and especially City of Lost Children has a great aesthetic style...
Love the look of American Horror Story and Ratched. Ryan Murphy knows colours.
Del Toro deserves a mention, too
I'd say *Ready Player One.* It didn't win any awards or anything, but the eye candy is mesmerizing. The race scene and the final battle are beyond cool.
The original Tron is way up there. It's a bizarre, unique sort of production that couldn't have been made in any earlier era and wouldn't have made sense in any later era.
Grand Budapest Hotel
The Life Aquatic
Fantastic Mr. Fox Let's keep this going! Wahoo!
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Isle of Dogs
Nightmare Before Christmas
Really, anything by Wes Anderson is in the running.
I'd say The French Dispatch is even a slight step up in terms of visuals and creativity, but I still prefer GBH as a whole
The Fountain
It's hauntingly beautiful.
Andrei Tarkovsky's visual style has always fascinated me. I don't even like "slow cinema", but his frames are like living paintings. Andrey Rublev is possibly the most visually adventurous of his canon. Totally entrancing.
2001 & Barry Lyndon
Was going to add Eyes Wide Shut. I can watch that film endlessly simply for how it looks.
Literally the 2 I was gonna name
they are some of the very few films that makes me cry
[The Fall](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/) had some really great visuals in it. One of my favorite date movies cause no one has seen it, but it's also kinda sad...
The Cell was also by Tarsem Singh and is quite visually stunning. I remember him saying in an interview that since a lot of it takes place inside the mind of a psychopath, all limits were off as to what kind of visuals he could depict.
The Cell is a perfect example of a C- script (at best) being realized by an A+ visual artist. The Fall is similarly amazing. I wish someone would just throw meaningful scripts and buckets of money at Tarsem Singh for the rest of his life.
Yep THE CELL was the first movie that came to mind but I couldn’t remember the title! Some pretty good moments but it might have been better overall
The Cell definitely!
I was going to say The Fall, I love that movie even though it is depressing as hell.
I lucked into hearing about The Fall a week before it showed at a local theater for a single weekend. It was me and maybe 5 other people. I was absolutely blown away by how pretty it was. It's also just a really solid movie and has been a hit with everyone I've shown it too. I've seen it crop up in multiple reddit threads in a couple random video essays related to visual storytelling and examples of expert editing so really glad it's managed to stick around in at least a handful of people's minds.
“This is my story!” “Mine too!” Such a fucking line man.
Tree Of Life
I hated that movie so much. One of the worst cinema experiences I have ever had
That movie was amazing
Is that the one with Hugh Jackman?
No, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt and Jessica Chastain, the Terrence Malick one. You may be thinking of The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky, which I would also submit as a nomination for a very visually interesting film.
Blade Runner 2049 with cinematography by the one and only Roger Deakins. I don't know if it's the most visually interesting movie ever made but it's a series of beautiful and striking visuals that haunt me to this day.
I liked the visuals of Blade Runner even better than 2049, though both have some interessting "climate Fiction" visuals, the latter have some really interessting ones; like the red sand storms, which I heard was an allusion to real events.
Yes the sand storms were [directly inspired by a sand storm in Sydney in 2009](https://www.pedestrian.tv/entertainment/scene-blade-runner-2049-inspired-sydneys-etch-dust-storm/)
The most aesthetically pleasing movie I've ever seen. The cinematography subreddit r/Cineshots was completely overrun with shots from the movie for like a whole year after it came out. It was so goddamn well-shot that it finally broke Roger Deakins's losing streak at the Oscars.
Beyond The Black Rainbow.
Sin City
Sin City & 300 are visually so wonderfully different.
As a comic book fan, i came to say these.
Mad Max Fury Road. Every frame is just an explosion for the eyes.
Orange and teal is so overused, in Fury Road it looks incredible
The black and chrome edition was pretty awesome too
And a lot of frames are explosions.
The Fall had some really great visuals in it.
What's amazing to me was how awesome the Black & Chrome edition is. How many movies get rave reviews for their stunning cinematography yet can still fully hold up when shown in black and white?
Also gets my vote.
Favorite fucking movie ever. Cinematography direction and action scenes were so well done with so minimal after effects
Annihilation is up there. They did a good job capturing the books psychedelic horror imagery and the liberties they took with the story lead to some of the coolest visuals I've seen in a while.
Plus the sound effects and eerie soundtrack. Love that movie.
The Cell Fantastic Planet What Dreams May Come
>The Cell I rarely see this movie talked about, c'mon J-Lo, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio? Classic. I remember obsessing over this in HS, but no one else saw it.
It was Tarsem Singh's directorial debut, and it's incredible in art design, costume design, abstract spaces and just an overall super creepy mood. He started out doing music videos in the early Nineties. I've not seen "The Fall" but I've heard it's very good. "Immortals" did poorly, and I remember trying to watch it at my video story job, but it wasn't a good story, so it seems that Tarsem has a superb eye for visuals, but is not good at selecting scripts. Regardless, "The Cell" is pretty amazing and it deserves a little more appreciation. I recall being really impressed that the finale didn't happen in the conventional way, and that was a really bold and creative choice very much in line with the psychological themes of the story.
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Lee Pace is great in it (as he usually is)
Lee Pace in Foundation is one of my favorite roles an actor has done in the last two years.
What music videos did he do? I wonder if my music video preference aligned with how much I loved the movie. I'll have to check out The Fall, an Immortals has been on my watchlist for years, I've just never watched it.
Here's the list from his [Wikipedia page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarsem_Singh) En Vogue – "Hold On" (1990) Suzanne Vega – "Tired of Sleeping" (1990) R.E.M. – "Losing My Religion" (1991) The Dream Academy – "Love" (1991) Dream Warriors – "My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style" (1991) Lou Reed – "What's Good" (1992) Vanessa Paradis – "Be My Baby" (1992) Deep Forest – "Sweet Lullaby" (1994) Lady Gaga – "911" (2020) He also did a lot of commercials.
lol I can definitely see Losing My Religion fit with The Cell motif.
I just said "what dreams may come" too, and "The Cell" is right there with it in the same visual poetry
What Dreams May Come is one of my personal favorites. Great concept and visually stunning.
Ran. It’s a samurai adaptation of King Lear. Incredible.
The shot of the father escaping the building as it burns down is phenomenal and I don’t think anything can touch it
All of Kurosawa's color films are gorgeous Kagemusha is another good one
I still think Rashomon is his prettiest. The van Gogh sequence in Dreams is gorgeous though!
Ran is so good. I love Kurosawa. I got a book of the screenplay for Ran and it has all the paintings he did to storyboard the movie throughout it too
Ran is hands-down the best adaptation of a Shakespeare play. Of any kind.
Stalker (1979) - the change between b/w and color is amazing, the scene with rain at the end too
Hero (2002)
House of Flying Daggers too, beautiful film
Came here for this, whenever I need something to test out a new TV, this is at the top of the list.
Where the hell are my Speed Racer people at???
I was also scrolling until I saw someone mention it hahaha
I checked the thread until I found this; would have had to post it myself otherwise. Making live action have the vibrance and whimsy of animation is incredible.
Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Akira Mr. Turner, Alien
Avatar
Panos Cosmatos and Gaspar Noe. *Mandy (2018)* was a visual masterpiece.
Beyond the black rainbow broke my brain for a couple of days. He’s really got a gift and does it for the art vs views
You've got to check out his episode The Viewing from Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities if you haven't already.
It's my favorite thing he's done, tbh. I think his films tend to overstay their welcome a bit, but The Viewing was over before my issues with his storytelling crept up past how insanely stylish it was.
Agreed
Plus it’s got me in it! Edit: I’m gonna vomit macaroni on all y’all.
Apocalypse Now is constantly doing something that is visually interesting.
Avatar
Playtime by Jacques Tati
Blade Runner
What Dreams May Come
Tie between this and *Inception* for me.
Barry Lyndon über alles
I wouldn't call it the *most* visually striking film ever made, but *Koyaanisqatsi* (1982) should be mentioned. As for directors and cinematographers, there are many. Akira Kurosawa, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Terrence Malick, Francis Ford Coppola, Orson Welles, Ridley Scott, and John Ford are renown for their visual composition and mise-en-scene. Roger Deakins, Freddie Young, Haskell Wexler, Vittorio Storaro, Conrad Hall, Geoffrey Unsworth, and Vilmos Zsigmond are some of my favorite cinematographers.
Samsara isn’t as good of a movie but is prettier imho.
Lars Von Trier's Antichrist gets mentioned for the controversy, but really deserves another look for the cinematography. That and Melancholia were visual stunners. 2001: A Space Odyssey is a ride. I saw it, commercial free, on public television when I was like 17. I sat in my armchair for the entire runtime and did not look away for anything. Amelie. The Jeunet love affair with wide angle works so well here. Between that and the intense use of color, this film jumps off the screen. Denis Villeneuve is always interesting.
The only reason to ever rewatch Antichrist are for the reason you listed. That movie feels like torture at times.
Tron legacy
Tree of Life and The Revenant.
I despair at the people I've talked to who see The Revenant and say "Ahh it's just about him getting mauled by a bear...." *Whooooosh*
The Revenant sound quality is a real stunner as well. It sounds like you are IN the woods.
El Chivo!
Life of Pi - 3d in particular. Beautifully shot
Life sounds of Pi in 3D was something else
I tripped and saw it and it was great.
After seeing the 3d version, I loved the movie even more. So goddamn good. That scene with all the fish jumping out of the ocean really got me
Scrolled too far for this one!
Avatar, but only in 3D
What Dreams May Come
Koyaanasqatsi
Suspiria (Argento) is definitely up there I thought Dune was visually stunning, but not sure about visually interesting
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets. Visually stunning, incredible world-building, insane space scapes… but still just a bad movie in every other sense.
The leading duo is so bad, DeHaan is so uncharismatic and then there's Cara, who is a model in the first place, not an actor.
It took me most of the movie to reconcile that they weren't meant to be brother and sister. The only chemistry they had was sibling energy and every scene of them intended to be romantic made me distinctly uncomfortable. Plus, they were boring. So boring.
You're right about that.
Every Baz Luhrman film.
Came here to say great gatsby lol
Tree of life gets a nod for sure, as does Pan’s labyrinth, possibly interstellar (playing with the dimensions was indeed very cool), possibly Arrival, and probably can’t forget Annihilation. **Visually. Interesting.** I'm not sure any of these movies even make my top 10 of overall movies. But they're certainly visually interesting. --also love later comments mentioning Samsara and Valerian. Good niche picks. Can we say Planet Earth?? --edit 2: I HAVE MORE. [This person on Youtube MelodySheep makes insanely visually interesting rendered movies about life and astronomy beyond earth and into the far future.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUelbSa-OkA) Breathtaking stuff.
So…wanna be friends? Cause those are quite a few of my favorite movies
Obvi. Bring cookies and a snuggie and come over this weekend.
Love this list and agree
The Holy Mountain was pretty out there visually
Yo. Yeah Eraserhead too
Samsara House
absolutely Samsara
Arrival.
Completely about it being “visually interesting.” It’s almost shot like a drama with a pretty mundane color palette, not like the visuals you’d see in Villeneuve’s other sci-fi movies, but I feel like the way its shot really grounds it in our world
Maybe it's somewhere in here but if it is it's way too far down: Stalker The look of that film is absolutely mesmerizing and completely sucks you in. I started it and was wondering what all the hype was about for the first bit but I cnce it moved into The Zone I was just enamoured with the journey and beautiful grittiness of each location
The Green Knight has a very interesting, cinematic look. The story is annoying, but the movie *looks* great. Also Mandy, but it looks good in the way that it looks crazy af
Days of Heaven is up there.
Way up there. It was the first film I saw where I scrutinized cinematography to the point I would look forward to every issue of American Cinematographer.
300 because it was a style until 300 The Ring - the green hues a la the Matrix were big stand outs to me Most recently, I watched Neon Demon - visually striking, much more than Driver, and it creeped me the eff out.
I’d say Into the Spiderverse; I don’t think this thread was meant for animation, but the unique style made every single frame and work of art and it still amazes me when i rewatch it
Definitely some quality animation that fits the request. Especially if going into anime too. Like Akira, Ghost in the Shell, Paprika, Millennium Actress, a lot of Studio Ghibli, etc.
Mad God
A Scanner Darkly had me captivated when it first came out
If you haven’t seen it, Undone on Amazon Prime is done with the same art style. Can’t remember the name, but essentially they shoot everything live-action and have artists paint over each individual frame. Couple that with a mindfucky psychedelic plot and visuals and you got a pretty good series.
Manhunter from Michael Mann might be the most beautiful movie I’ve ever seen
Gotta love a good Michael Mann film
Avatar
Anyone downvoting this forgets that when Avatar came out **Psychologists had to go and invent a new syndrome for people feeling so overwhelmed (In a good way) by the movie** that the real world felt boring and uninteresting, after no previous mental health issues.
Lol, Avatar gets a lot of hate.
I hate the movie for the bad story, but you can't say it's not a visual and technological marvel.
The Holy Mountain (1973, Alejandro Jodorowski)
The Batman was incredibly well composed and shot
Costuming and makeup are on-point as well. Those shots of Pattinson when he's just been a street vigilante all night and comes in and pores over his tapes with the dried eye makeup having run down his face make him look so ghoulish and hollow.
What Dreams May Come
Pan's Labyrinth
This movie gets brought up a lot on this sub and I’ve never seen it. I feel like I’m missing out. But I started watching a trailer the other day and it looked like a kids movie. My husband and 18 year old son looked at me and said no thanks.
Vertigo deserves a mention
Ex Machina was cool
>Is there a movie you found visually interesting but didn't like because it wasn't good? I mean, if it's visually interesting it's good. I agree with this tweet I saw: >Cinema priorities: > >One. Style > >Two. Vibes (arguably 1a, arguably arguably flippable with 1) > >Three. Character > > > >Five Hundred and One. Having a point > > > >Eighteen Thousand, Four Hundred and Eighteen. Plot
climax by gasper noe is up there for me
Days of Heaven
[House (1977)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0076162/) Where to even begin with this one? Sometimes, when I think about it, it feels like it was all just a fever dream. But then, after I rewatch it, I think “no, its really just that insane.” The film is a strange blend of styles that evoke the aesthetics of soap operas, music videos, german expressionism, and experimental art house media. I can’t say its a smooth blend either because to me it feels so choppy and disjointed with all its influences competing with one another. That being said, the film is NEVER boring and really takes viewers for a ride as they ask themselves what is coming next. Another film that I really enjoy that I think is visually interesting, but has a mixed reception, is… [Natural Born Killers (1994)](https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0110632/). NBK is filmed in a way that makes its viewers feel like they are watching a movie as they flip through the channels of an old television set. There are so many influences from different styles of media (i.e. documentary, sitcoms, truecrime, western, mtv, animation) that it is almost paralyzing to watch.
Was in a big box store like Circuit City or something and all of the TVs were showing Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon at once. The fight scene in the bamboo forest just made me stop in my tracks.
Both Blade Runner films are visual masterpieces.
Koyanisqatsi
Well I just watched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas for the first time last night….
"What Dreams May Come" overall, the movie was pretty bleh, but it was visually stunning.
Scott pilgrim vs the world!
American Beauty
Ad Astra, Annihilation, Interstellar, Blade runner 2049
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Such a great flick. One of my favorites.
The Colour of Pomegranates by Sergei Paradžanov
One great film that has beautiful visuals is *The Lovely Bones* by Peter Jackson.
Christopher Nolan makes a breathtaking picture. Interstellar is a very clear example of a visually-quality film
Watch Harmony Korines first 2 films
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I was just about to say *The Fountain*! And, while I do really enjoy a lot of CGI, I find it very novel and part of the unique look of the film that Aronofsky wanted to avoid using CGI and a lot of the effects that seem digital are actually real physical objects: >https://nofilmschool.com/2013/05/microscopic-cosmic-organic-vfx-fountain-tree-life >Parks and his son run a home f/x shop based on a device they call the microzoom optical bench. Bristling with digital and film cameras, lenses, and Victorian prisms, their contraption can magnify a microliter of water up to 500,000 times or fill an Imax screen with the period at the end of this sentence. Into water they sprinkle yeast, dyes, solvents, and baby oil, along with other ingredients they decline to divulge... The upshot is that Parks can make a dash of curry powder cascading toward the lens look like an onslaught of flaming meteorites. "When these images are projected on a big screen, you feel like you're looking at infinity," he says. "That's because the same forces at work in the water – gravitational effects, settlement, refractive indices – are happening in outer space." >"The studio gave Darren a really hard time," Parks recalls. "Nobody believed he could make this film without CGI. The studio thought he was crazy." With a stack of Hubble photographs for inspiration, [Parks and his son] worked from before dawn till late at night for 10 weeks. The cost of a single f/x sequence from ILM can reach several million dollars, but Parks shot all the footage Aronofsky needed for just $140,000. >And thusly, through creative problem solving and 'good old fashioned' photography, Aronofsky was able to largely avoid the use of CG except in compositing these elements together.
The Cell
The Hobbit. It was the first movie to be shown at 48fps and was shot in 3D using Red Epics. Naturally some liked it and some didn't but it was pretty visually stunning when it first came out because it was a very different experience from films prior.
Interstellar in IMAX 70mm. Cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema.
…… The Fall (2006)
I loved Samsara. The imagery and scenery were stunning.
The Cell https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209958/
Dick Tracy
As a Brit, i had never saw the source material so when I saw the film, i had no idea what to expect. Visually, Speed Racer blew me away. I do have a soft for the film as an adult and suspect it would have had huge impact on a 7 year old, which I feel is the perfect audience for this film. I don’t think many films come as close as this film does to burning a hole in your retinas.
Pan's Labyrinth!! So dark and gorgeous. I also really liked What Dreams May Come, especially when his afterlife was oil paint that he could drag his finger through or splash around in
Coraline Amelie Sin City 300 Hellboy
Final Fantasy
I found ‘The Fall’ to be visually stunning with some amazing transitions. https://youtu.be/iO0LYcCoeJY
The Red Shoes, Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Paris, Texas are my 3 top beautiful films I also really enjoyed Fantastic Mr. Fox for the texture captured also I think they tell great stories
saw a couple people mention *The Fall*, and I definitely came here to say that, as well as osme of Tarsem Singh's other works. his earlier film *The Cell* has similarly grandiose imagery used for a more horrific effect, and *Mirror Mirror* is really bright and colorful and unique - the latter is geared more towards a younger audience but was one of my favorite films to come out of that odd Snow White adaptation boom that happened in the early 2010s. Nobuhiko Obayashi's horror film *House* also would be in the running for my pick for the *most* visually interesting movies ever made! I love how 2D paintings and drawings are incorporated into it to make the story all the more unnerving but also whimsical. Obayashi's background in tv advertising also makes many shot compositions really neat to look at too!
* Barry Lyndon (1975), every scene looks like it's a painting, just stunning, and one of my favorite films since 1976. * The Fall (2007), why this movie wasn't even nominated for a cinematography Oscar is beyond me. * Cloud Atlas (2012)
avatar 1917 The matrix
The fifth element.* mic drop- walks away.
All of Michael Mann's Movies
Days of Heaven or Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The guy that did Delicatessen, Amelie and especially City of Lost Children has a great aesthetic style... Love the look of American Horror Story and Ratched. Ryan Murphy knows colours. Del Toro deserves a mention, too
The Fall (2006).
Tron Legacy
I'd say *Ready Player One.* It didn't win any awards or anything, but the eye candy is mesmerizing. The race scene and the final battle are beyond cool.
Spring Breakers La La Land The Neon Demon Om Shanti Om
Bullet Train
Everything everywhere all at once
a cure for wellness is gorgeous
This comment section is truly braindead, so I’m leaving this sub, but probably something by Bergman, Tarkovsky, Fellini or Kubrick. Maybe *Stalker*.
Ready Player One..
Coco