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#52

re: The most beautiful-looking films you've ever seen

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#53

re: The most beautiful-looking films you've ever seen

Amadeus tops the list for me.

Honoroable Mentions (for various reasons):

Footlight Parade
The Crowd
Safety Last
Metropolis
Barry Lyndon
Moulin Rouge
A Passage to India
Empire of the Sun
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Kagemusha
City of Lost Children
Rebecca
Wizard of Oz
Citizen Kane
What Dreams May Come
Wuthering Heights
The Sound of Music
The King and I
Lawrence of Arabia
Doctor Zhivago
Fiddler on the Roof
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Raiders of the Lost Ark
The Mission
A Room With a View
Farewell My Concubine
Schindler's List
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Amelie
Brokeback Mountain
Joy Luck Club
Memoirs of a Geisha
Beauty and the Beast (both Disney and Cocteau)
Finding Nemo
The Incredibles
Fantasia and Fantasia 2000
Blade Runner
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Wars
2001: A Space Oddysey
Batman
Topsy Turvy
Gladiator
Sense and Sensibility
Songs From the Second Floor
Delicatessin
Blue Velvet
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#57

re: The most beautiful-looking films you've ever seen

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Washington Square (the 1997 incarnation with Jennifer Jason Leigh, Albert Finney and Maggie Smith)
The Europeans (while stunningly gorgeous, its 90 minutes feels like 90 hours)
Pretty much any Ivory-Merchant film

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#58

Some of "The most beautiful films I've ever seen" no particular order:

Fellini Satyricon / art direction, sets, lighting
Lawrence of Arabia / cinematography and locations
Farewell, My Concubine / art direction
Tabor Ukhodit v Nebo / locations and cinematography
Latcho Drom / locations, cinematography
Dr. Zhivago / sets
Das Boot / sets
The Last Emperor / art direction
Voyna i Mir / art direction, locations
Korol Lir / b&w, art direction
High Noon / b&w, cinematography
Jean De Florette - Manon des Sources / art direction, cinematography
La gloire de mon pere - Le chateau de ma mere / art direction, locations
Carlos Saura's Flamenco - lighting
Devdas / art direction
Love and Anarchy / art direction
Zhestokiy romans / art direction
Kwaidan / art direction
Dersu Uzala / locations
Stalker / cinematography, art direction, locations
Andrei Rublev / cinematography, b&w and color
Pirosmani / art direction
Gharibeh Va Meh / art direction
Gabbeh / art direction
Heart of Glass / cinematography
Kozijat rog (1972) / b&w cinematography
Les Enfants du paradis / art direction, b&w
O Thiasos / locations
Chikamatsu monogatari / b&w cinematography
Ugetsu monogatari / b&w cinematography, lighting
Seven Samurai / b&w cinematography
Rembetiko / art direction
Underground (Kusturica) / art direction

...I could go on...

Updated On: 5/22/08 at 02:33 AM

#62

Some of 'The most beautiful films I've ever seen' no particular order:

Terry Gilliam's THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN has some of the most jaw-droppingly gorgeous art direction, costume design and cinematography EVER.
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