Does a more visually striking film exist?

Captain America: Civil War

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>>80874699
Isn't the sky pink because it was a bad scan?

Fast 8

His other films are visually as nice.

>>80874719
Fucking retard.
>>80874699
Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

barry lyndon

Smokin' Aces (2006)

>>80874750

I haven't read anything about it. I know Stalker's scan has been shit for a long time prior to the recent Mosfilm restoration, but I don't know if there's anything similarly wrong with The Mirror.

>>80874750
Who cares your image looks comparatively worse

>>80874787
>Batman v. Superman

thats 100% CGI. fuck off

>>80874800
kino to end all kino

>>80874699
La planète Sauvage

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>>80874699

close but no cigar.

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Unsurpassed.

>>80874800
and 2001
and The Shining
Kubrick is peerless as a visualist

>Tree of life
>Knight of cups
Easy

>>80875124
stills look really good.

one of the rare circumstances where stunning visuals can't save a fucking shitty movie, and one of the rare circumstances where the book is better than the movie

>>80874699
Days of Heaven

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>>80875091
When you think about it is pretty awesome that the diretor actually got his massive lens by NASA itself to shoot the movie.

Also Picnic at Hanging Rock

>>80874750
Maybe but It looks better that way

>>80875650
>rare circumstances where the book is better than the movie
>rare
you really belong here

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>>80874750
No you absolute yotta-retard. Sky looks pink because it was made to look pink intentionally or shot in pink/red skylight

>Have to click through 15 captchas on average to post

Fuck you fucking faggot Kimmo fag

>>80874699
Maybe The Night of the Hunter

>>80877132
settings -> legacy captcha
Fucking faggot.

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Probably the best looking found footage movie. Not a hard thing to do, though. I haven't watched The Mirror yet, but Stalker is a beautiful movie.

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>>80877836

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>>80877953

>>80874699
In The Mood For Love looks fantastic

Samsara and Baraka are visually some of the best things I've ever seen.

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>>80878076
no
>>80877227
are you retarded?
>>80875544
no
>>80875124
no
>>80875091
no
>>80875062
weeb
>>80874775
only offret

>>80874699
yeah i'd say plenty of films challenge and surpass zerkalo's visual challenges, but none of them have been posted so far itt

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>>80874699
>>80874800
>>80875091
>>80875124
>>80875152
>>80876126
>>80876348
>>80877206
>>80877836
>>80878016

So many plebes in this thread. Ozu was the master of framing. His visuals are second to none. Dreyer comes next.

>>80882198
literally who.

>>80882198
Literally most boring images I've ever seen

>>80882198
But are the movies actually worth watching or is he just making moving postcards?

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>>80874699
Suspiria?

>>80882198
not in the least comparable to tarkovskys visual poetry and mise-en-scene
>>80882423
yes ozu is the essential silent japanese filmmaker

>>80882301
( )

>>80882414
Yea, his early ones like Tokyo Story get all the press, but his later movies (in colour) are still quite interesting.

>>80882530
>silent
So I guessed correctly. Moving postcards.

Excalibur

>>80882641
nah
unless you categorize all silent films as "moving postcards", if you do so you are a retard

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Il deserto rosso is pretty incredible visually

>>80882641
He made 20 or so talkies in his career.

>>80882761
finally someone posts an actual contender, antonioni

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I don't know. The way the red jackets pop out against everything else in this is pretty stunning though.

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>>80882761
You could probably nominate most Antonioni films desu

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>>80874750
>no chem trails

>>80881998
t. pleb

>>80881998
>Calling it zerkalo to try to impress people

*Tips fedora*

>>80884157
t.has only seen 1000 films

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The vistas in this remain unbeaten.

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>>80884484
>mfw watching the 8k scan at 4k in 10bit colour
Looks like it was shot yesterday.

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>>80875091
Came here to post this.

>>80884723
if only stuff shot yesterday looked as good m8

>>80884745
quite possibly the greatest few frames shot in colour ever.

>>80874750
This looks like a terrible vhs quality with those colors.

>>80884922
agreed, it looks like it was reshot through a bottle of 7-UP.

>>80884922
>he doesn't like the vintage warmth of VHS

kill yourself capefag

>>80885046
>Children now think VHS is "vintage" and somehow isn't complete shit
Kill yourself. Apart from film all analogue video tech looks like garbage.

>>80885162
It is vintage now, you retard. I grew up on VHS and didn't watch a DVD until I was 13, but it's vintage now.

DVD is for capeshit. VHS is for kino.

>muh rule of thirds is good cinematography

yuck

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>>80885223
"Vintage" actually means a time when something of high quality was produced. So no, retard, VHS isn't and will never be "vintage".

>>80885224
>muh shakey cam and atom bomb whites and green hue is so progressive and modern and really is the highest quality aesthetic in cinematography and everything other than this is totally "dated" and "cheesy" and "campy" and is just wrong

get over it dude

>>80885325
It is you retard.

Digital film will never look as good as analog. Go back to watching your grown men in spandex you pleb.

>>80885223
I think the word you are struggling to seek is "retro".

>>80885224
Rule of thirds cinematography is the best cinematography. Name a better style.

>>80874699
grand budapest hotel

/thread

>>80885779
I bet you enjoy the films of Wes Anderson

>>80886558
just moonrise kingdon tbqh

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Offret's the best I can think of when it comes to visuals, but there's a lot of really good ones. Kar Wai Wong films are another amazing one, but that's more for the camera movement than any single shot.

>>80881998
>only offret
Nostalghia is VERY underrated and I don't really know why.

My choices would be El Sur and Welles' Process. Ming Liang's last film is also fantastic.

>>80875650
the book was awful
the movie is a masterpiece (critical consensus)

>>80882530
>not in the least comparable to tarkovskys visual poetry and mise-en-scene
no, just better

Barry Lyndon is shit. Atrocious. A completely emotionless series of still paintings. All the characters are robots and the narrator tells us what will happen before it happens. Kubrick is a better photographer than a filmmaker.

>>80886872
Their approach is diametrically opposite. They're not comparable at all.

>>80886920
Curiously, it's Kubrick's most emotional film besides A.I. :^); and I kind of see your point, though its use of narration is more interesting to me, since it gives quite some nuance to the "period of grace" shown in the film. It's also not as prevalent as you paint it.

>>80874699
Hard To Be A God.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn83z339XWw

>>80882641
>shitting on silent movies

literally no reason to listen to your opinion now. thank you.

>>80882530
>ozu is the essential silent japanese filmmaker
Yet his style is at its peak in sound.

>>80874699
Yes, plenty
Antonioni's alienation trilogy and deserto rosso
Hitchcock's vertigo
Ozu's color films (and late spring)
Douglas Sirk's melodramas (all that heaven allows, imitation of life, written on the wind)
John Ford's the searchers, stagecoach, how green was my valley and plenty more
Ophüls' madame de...
All the good Dreyer's
Kubrick's Barry Lyndon and Visconti's the leopard
Fellini's dolce vita and 8 and a half
The Archers' the red shoes and black narcissus
the night of the hunter, the man with the movie camera and dozens more

>>80887094
>Yet his style is at its peak in sound.
how does that affect the previous assertion?

>>80887173
Ah, nothing, just a bit of nuance. I don't think his mute era is as good, to be frank.

>>80887148
What's the reasoning behind omitting the Satyricon within your list?

Pardon my plebbiness but I have a question. How much of a films visuals can be credited to the director and how much goes to the cinematographer? Is it 50/50? Could a shitty director make a good looking film if he had an amazing cinematographer? Could an amazing director still make a good looking film with shitty cinematographer?

>>80874699

Colossal Youth

>>80887345
>Could a shitty director make a good looking film if he had an amazing cinematographer?
Yes, but they wouldn't have anything behind it. Lubezki is a master of making pretty shots for shitheads haha

Now, in all seriousness, the director and cinematographer usually work closely together and discuss everything regarding the film's process into form. More closely than with scriptwriters and editors, which are as essential to the film, even.

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>>80887216
>video length is 18 seconds
>loops after 4 seconds

>>80887345
A good cinematographer definitely helps a director convey his vision. But a good director can still make use of a mediocre or even bad cinematographer if they know what they're doing.

A bad director has far more of an impact. Look at Lubezki's work with Inarritu. A fantastic cinematographer, particularly with Malick, but wasted on Inarritu's schlock and beauty-less movies. He has no eye for visual poetry or beauty beyond the "Windows HD Background" kind of images.

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why is /tv/ so pleb?

>>80887216
whats this?

>>80887345
>Could a shitty director make a good looking film if he had an amazing cinematographer?

Of course, the entire filmography of
Robert Richardson for instance

>>80887442

Also Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

>>80874699
>Does a more visually striking film exist?
>striking
not really. they are beautiful but not bold.
striking implies they are dynamic which is kind of anti-tarkovsky.
striking visuals, i'd say was any eisenstein film and maybe most of kubricks films.

inb4 i dont like tarkovsky.
nope.

>>80887741
>Hugo
>Shutter Island
>Hateful Eight
>Inglorious Bastards
>Django
Ohhh, that explains some things

>>80887345
In a best-case scenario, the director & cinematographer have common taste in what looks good and what fits the project, and every shot is a conversation/collaboration between them.

In a textbook sort of way, the director is responsible for the "vision" and the cinematographer is responsible for the execution. As in, the cinematographer takes charge of the camera & lighting crew to find the best way to get the director's ideas across with the space & equipment given. But of course, the specifics of this relationship can vary from one film shoot to the next, from one day to the next

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Dunno if this is considered plebbish here or not, but I really love Ran. True masterpiece of color and frame.

>>80887710
>Torrent fag
>Calling others plebs

LMAO

>>80887912
what happened in that scene?

>>80887216
What is this? Looks like a Malick film

>>80887923
what's torrent got to do with it? you're still a pleb

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>>80889171
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8to5vOkkXI

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>>80889243
dang, kurosawa has some skill

>>80882761
I don't understand this film

>>80889569

dude modernity is suffocating lmao

>>80889569
>In this film, machines, with their intrigue of power, beauty and squalor, have an enormous effect and they have taken the place of the natural landscape. But machines are not the cause of the crisis of anguish that people have been talking about for years. I mean that we must not long for the more primitive times, thinking that they were a more natural landscape for man. I prefer to believe that man must struggle to try and mold and restrict the machines to man's measure, not try to negate technological progress.
The Antonioni trilogy+Red Desert are (broadly speaking) about what he sees as a situation where there is massive dissonance between the realities of modern life and the moral code by which society is governed. This dissonance is what leads to societal and personal breakdown. Antonioni believes that people are either predisposed to being adaptable, and as such will survive in this new age, or are fundamentally unable to do so and will not. In Red Desert, Giuliana (Vitti's character) is the latter, her husband Ugo is the former and Corrado (Smith's character) occupies a sort of middle ground - he is moving towards Giuliana's neurosis but tries to escape it by fleeing to Patagonia.

>>80887863
>Implying Scorsese's a bad Director

>>80888819
>>80887736
Post tenebras lux, I think

>>80890819
>implying Scorsese has made anything good since the turn of the century

>>80891188
Popular pleb parroting. Scorsese never made anything bad, only a couple of mediocre films, and in this century he made some of his best work.

>>80891188
You don't even like The Aviator?

>>80891188
Whoever says Wolf of Wallstreet is a bad film is autistic, it's a fun watch

>>80891472
No

>>80891695
Good, it's important to keep coherence when you're a shitposter pleb

>>80887710
Help a pleb out, what movie is that?

>>80891926
Iklimler

>>80874699

Nearly all of Bresson's films.

>>80892466
Utter and absolute garbage.
The (pseudo)intellectual film for dummies.

But yes, there's nice visuals in some parts

hello

i am gay

>>80892440
hahahahahahahahahahaahaahahahahahpffttt
hahahahahaha

>>80884888
Disagree, the use of a gradiated neutral density filter int that shot really sticks out like a sore thumb (the upper portion of the frame is made darker by a glass filter in front of the lens) it causes an unnatural darkening of certain foreground elements like the tree while the intent was to not overexposed the sky in the background. A limitation of its time but it's distracting as he'll if you know anything about photography.

>>80892783
Besides shitposting, what's your point? None?

Days of heaven, plebes

>>80892986
bresson's films weren't about striking imagery, but melodramatic plots and dead acting
absolutely incomparable to the mirror in any visual sense

>>80887710
>vlc
>calling anyone pleb
Your opinion is worthless if you can't even bother to use a good player.

>>80874699
i love russian cinema but its a shame they cameras/processing/film stock are such shitty quality.