Pick ONE movie for cinematography excellence

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If you'd asked this question 30 or so years ago, I could give you a clear answer. With todays post production tools, you can add and subtract shadows, cheat sun light, etc......Vilmos Zigmond was pissed when asked about today's post production tools. He said they're trying to take our jobs away................ I would go with Harold and Maude
 
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If relating it to the story/story telling process i would say both City of God and The Royal Tenenbaums (or any of Anderson's pictures for that matter). The cinematography of these movies completely drives their stories. BRILLIANT!
 
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"Dumplings", a hong kong horror post feminist movie, not recommended for pregnant women, camera chris doyle....!
it appears also as a short, part of a trilogy named "three... extreme"
i watched the full version at the berlin film festival.. was definitely the highlight of the fest.

"Julian donkey boy" is to me the best DV cinematography ever made. very much pushed to the limits... director Harmony Koraine, camera Anthony dod Mantle. not an easy film, quite disturbing one.. there were also some film involved in the process, blow ups to blow ups, but natively, was all shot on DV. amazing how much texture he got there.
 
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Alright, Im gonna have to agree that Amelie is probly one of the most amazing looking films i have ever seen, hes right every scene and shot is a piece of art, so colorful and just a amazingly beautiful film, if you havent seen it definatly check it out, its very halarious, and all around well made film.

I'm also gonna have to say apocalypse now is definatly up there.

I cant really say just 1 , cause i havent seen every movie ever made, if i had then mabee i could pick 1,

Im also gonna have to throw in

Fear and Loathing in Las vegas, that was an amazing looking film, allong with Terry Gilliam's Brazil was very good too.



I am going to have to disagree with the lord of the rings.... I cant explain to you why, well i can, it isnt anything that special, watch it like 5 times, and you might see why, Im not saying it was a bad film , i just wouldnt rank it any where #1 for best cinematography
 
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I've gotta throw a new one in there Wicker Park. I watched it again , every scene... and some of them were really hard to get... nice stuff!
 
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It sure is a let down to see some of those posts. So many of you pay attention to the most recent work that has come up with a (supposedly) new photographic trick. You'd see such different answers on a film related/pro cinematography board.

Amelie, Flying Daggers, Fight club? Are you kidding? Interesting stuff, but the best? Far from it.

Watch a film like Kubrick's/Alcott's "Barry Lyndon" if you want to see one the top three examples in history. Thankfully someone mentioned "Days of Heaven".

Images aren't all about some new trick or some new post technique. Craft.. story.. remember those? Seems not.

(and I'm a youngin too)

::)
 
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CineCell ... we weren't asked to name the best ever cinematography made.. classic is classic, you can find the list of those everywhere, and there's always a consensus around this list.. and with all the respect, it is sort of boring imo. and there's probably more of this "new-school" spirit on this board, being a forum more oriented to digital cinematography....
 
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How about The Cell? The movie sucked, but the cinematography and art direction were great. It's not my favorite, but it's worth mentioning.
 
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Check out the older films, Humphry Bogart's stuff was all super well done. To pick two that I think are far above anything ever done, Grapes of Wrath and Gone With The Wind. Or anything done by Hitchcock. Expecially the early stuff like "The Lady Vanishes", "Sabotage", "Secret Agent", stuff back that far.

I don't think anything done since 1970 comes anywere close to what those early masters have done. It's all blow stuff up now. It's all hip language and blatant sex and gimmicky garbage.

Don't get me wrong, I love lots of new stuff. I just don't see the creativity and envelope pushing that those old classics had.
 
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Here, here....City of God!! Just watched the Motorcycle Diaries. Very Nice also. A Clockwork Orange. Farenheit 451. I love that *style* of late 60's & early 70's filmmaking. Even being a young punk whipper-snapper...I can appreciate it very much, as I'm sure those types of films have influenced many of us here!!
 
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How about "Oh Brother Where Art Thou" - the DVD extras also talk about the post side of things. Really beautifully done film (though I don't care for the story)
 
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Aw....come'on Craig!! Now Madonna's not gonna' come on da' show!!

~reservoir~
 
EDWARD SCISSOR HANDS
ED WOOD
AMERICAN BEAUTY
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE(remake)
FIGHT CLUB
SEVEN
THE DEER HUNTER
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
KILL BILL VOL. 1
 
Kill Bill was good. I think its DP won the Oscar this year for The Aviator (well shot, though I sort of object to such a ridiculously strong use of black lights.)

The Matrix, anyone? Bill Pope is a master...(Spiderman II also solid works of his.)

City of God is pretty excellent.

Clockwork Orange? I don't see it. It was shot mostly with natural light. Had a nice look to it, but not aesthetically pleasing so much as fitting with its tone.
 
Road To Perdition. Everything in that movie was beautiful; the composition, the color, the lights, the rain, the snow.... absolutely everything. Conrad Hall was a goddamn genius. RIP, man. RIP.
 
For camera angles and scene setup I really always liked Luc Besson movies, especially The Professional. I like the closeup tracking from above the actors heads and the action shots.
 
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