Please help me expand this list:
Tarkovsky:
Stalker
Solaris
Sacrifice
Nostalghia
Parajanov:
Sayat Nova
Tati:
Play Time
Mon Oncle
Tarr:
Satantango
Karhozat
Kwaidan
Aguirre:Wrath of God
2001 Space Oddysey
Much appreciated!!
Krzysztof Kieslowski (Tremendous layering and cinematography):
Bleu
Blanc
Rouge
Ron Fricke:
Baraka
Tarsem Singh:
The Fall
The Cell
Jean Luc Goddard:
Le Mepris (gorgeous shots of Capri and Brigitte Bardot)
Ridley Scott (nobody ever did dark with more beauty):
Blade Runner
Alien
David Lean:
A Passage to India
Ryan's Daughter
Great Expectations
Martin Bell:
American Heart
Zacharius Kunuk:
Atanarjuat
Dziga Vertov:
Chelovek s kino-aparatom
William Wyler:
Friendly Persuasion
Akira Kurosawa:
Rashomon
Rhapsody in August
Aleksandr Ptushko:
Kamennyy tsvetok
Ridley Scott:
Legend
It's what I can remember now.
practically amything by Peter Greenaway...
(especially Prospero's Books, Z00, Cook-Thief-Wife-Lover; basically everything between 1982 and 1993, and his early pseudo-documentaries)
Il Conformista(1970,Bernardo Bertolucci)-Maybe the most beatiful film I've ever seen.Storaro's cinematography is out of this world.I once read that commenth about this moive:"Every single scene of this movie,could be a painting of extreme beauty".Completely agree.
In the Mood for Love & 2046(2000 & 2004,Wong Kar-Wai)-Kar-Wai's style is unique and incomparable.The slow-motion scenes in "In the Mood for Love" is some of the most beatiful scenes ever filmed.Bow to the great cinematographer Christopher Doyle.Check also:Almost anything by Kar-wai,especially Ashes of Time(easily the best martial-arts film).
Other ones:
Fanny and Alexander-Bergman
Le Double Vie de Veronique-Kieslowski
Barry Lyndon-Stanley Kubrick
Ah,I almost forgot:
The Spirit of the Beehive & The South(1973 & 1983,Victor Erice)-Two of the most betiful and moving films ever made.Erice's use of lighting is unbelievable.Erice has made only 3 films in a period of almost 40 years,but these two are undoubtly masterpieces.
The New World(2005,Terence Mallick)-One could speak negatively about the story or themes of this film,but noone can disagree about its great visual beuty.Maybe the most beatiful american film of the last many,many years.
The Return(2003,Andrei Zvyagintsev)-The closest a Russian director has ever come to the heritage of the master Andrei Tarkovsky.
Pierrot Le Fou & Contempt(1965 & 1963,Jean-Luc Goddard)-The use of colours in these two films,is beyond description.
Army of Shadows-Jean-Pierre Melville
The Mirror,Stalker,Nostalghia,Solaris(Andrei Tarkovsky)-Words are not enough to describe the work of the great Master.
Morning Patrol-Nikos Nikolaidis
2001:A Space Odyssey-Stanley Kubrick
The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford-Andrew Dominik
Vertigo-Alfred Hitchcock
Mulholland Drive-David Lynch
A City of Sadness-Hou Hsiao Hsien
Spring,Summer,Fall,Winter and Spring-Kim Ki-Duk
Aguirre,the Wrath of God-Werner Herzog
Ran-Akira Kurosawa
Oh,and I haven't listed Black & White yet:
Andrei Rublev-Andrei Tarkovsky
L'Avventura,La Notte,L'Eclisse-Michelangelo Antonioni
Marketa Lazarova(1967,Frantisek Vlacil)-This Czech masterpiece is the only film that can be compared with Andrei Rublev,in terms of cinematography.
Jules et Jim-Francois Truffaut
Sansho the Bailiff,Ugetsu-Kenji Mizoguchi
Harakiri-Masaki Kobayashi
La Dolce Vita-Federico Fellini
And this list could go on and on and on...
TOO bad this thread is just people namedropping the most popular movies by sacred cow directors.
shareSome titles not yet mentioned:
8 ½ (Federico Fellini)
Amélie (Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola)
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)
Chungking Express (Wong Kar-Wai)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
City of God (Fernando Meirelles)
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura)
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman)
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick)
El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Godfather: Parts I & II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Manhattan (Woody Allen)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
Persona (Ingmar Bergman)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders)
Kukushka
Baraka
Samsara
The Fall
Long Live the Republic
Carriage to Vienna
Empire of Passion
The Last Continent
Adelheid
The Banishment
Memoirs of a Geisha
Times and Winds
Hugo
Last Year at Marienbad
The Tree of Life
for starters
interesting to see Damnation on your list. I love that film, and see it as beautiful in its way, but wasn't sure if others see it as beautiful as well
I'm proud to say my poetry is only understood by that minority which is aware.
Any given sunday
Koyaanisqatsi
Cronos
Russian Ark
Drive
Only god forgives
Citizen Kane
Thor: The Dark World
Hero
What Dreams May Come
300
The Fountain
Since you mentioned Sayat Nova, I would recomend you to watch Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, by him as well. Yuri Ilyenko's photography is absolutely stunning.
I'm going to watch Play Time this Tuesday, my expectations are high.
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