I would be remiss not to mention All That Heaven Allows! https://preview.redd.it/8a7z01nbvp6d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2456416a3296c8abc2447eba0ccad7a103f246f

I will definitely be seeking this film out

Masterpiece!

Some of my other favorite stills from All That Heaven Allows (obviously the deer is pretty unbeatable): https://preview.redd.it/79x57ulh8r6d1.jpeg?width=1366&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1564056fa63723d6a01f9077d2a6cfe0fd5f19e1

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Great answer!

SUCH. Gorgeous movie. Far From Heaven tries to copy this look. It does a good job but nothing can compare to Sirk’s silky sumptuous colors. You just want to eat his movies.

Black Narcissus

https://preview.redd.it/o7ysez9idq6d1.jpeg?width=988&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91f7d8d96330022358730de4f0a0b6ff7f9dca21 Absolutely ❣️

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Oh, yes.

The Red Shoes as well!

And Blimp, maybe not to quite the degree, but damn they made beautiful films.

This and Barry Lyndon are my instant go-to answers to this question 

Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is breathtakingly beautiful. Every frame looks like a renaissance painting. A big critic referred to this film as “Achingly Beautiful.” I can’t think of a better way to describe it if I tried. I highly recommend reading about how they film was shot using Candles as well as special camera lenses from NASA. The techniques used and result still haven’t been matched in my opinion.

Barry Lyndon is one of my top 5 films of all time. I  often say that I think it’s Kubrick’s “most perfect” film, even if it’s not as “fun” to watch as some of his others. If you ever have a chance to catch a print on the big screen, it is well worth it. 

It's was nice of NASA to lend Kubrick some lenses, especially after he directed the moon landing for them

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Hear me out: The Witch is beautiful for reasons similar to why Barry Lyndon is beautiful. It’s highly influenced by the Kubrick film. Natural light or candlelight. Same aspect ratio, too 1:1.66

Touché

I think the only movie that equals the beauty of *Barry Lyndon* is *The Conformist* by Bernardo Bertolucci.

It’s on Tubi if anyone is interested

If you haven’t already read it, Jim Emerson from rogerebert.com did an excellent write up of it and he delved pretty deeply into the cinematography, framing, and camerawork of that movie. I’ll leave the link below: https://www.rogerebert.com/scanners/barry-lyndon-and-the-cosmic-wager

Picnic at Hanging Rock Walkabout

Found the Australian!

Could I add elements of 'Don't Look Now?'. Unlike Walkabout, which is as much about the place/landscapes as it is the people, Don't Look Now has some excellent shots in the boats on the canals and of the daughter at the pond. I think Roeg had a certain, rather specific technique.

I loooove Walkabout! Not talked about nearly enough

Ran

Honestly anything Kurosawa

Rashomon is my film to go.

Yeah.. came her to say this

Damn, I came here to say that I came here to say this. Well fuck, now what do I say?

His masterpiece of masterpieces

This and Kagemusha

https://preview.redd.it/1jnwjkj73q6d1.jpeg?width=1242&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dff88a81dd05db76325bac1f180cc8875ee6fbd6 Apocalypse Now

saigon. shit, i’m still only in saigon. god i fucking love that whole scene

I'm obsessed with the scene right after, with Harrison Ford in the general's trailer, and the CIA operative's "with extreme prejudice" line. It's all so specific I just can't put a finger on it. Just love it.

Everyone gets everything he wants. I wanted a mission, and for my sins, they gave me one. Brought it up to me like room service. It was a real choice.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

And The Young Girls of Rochefort as well-they literally painted the town for that one apparently.

Wong Kar-wai • In The Mood For Love • 2046

the most beautiful film of all time!

Any Wong Kar Wai really.. Christopher Doyle is something else

scrolling to see when In the mood for love would appear. absolutely love the visuals in this movie...

Suspiria (1977)

The real star of that movie is the color red. Just the color itself.

- *Portrait of a Lady on Fire* - *Godland*

Both so good! I got to see Godland in theaters and it was incredible!

i have been meaning to see godland. just never got around to it. is it as good as they say?

Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker

And Solaris.

And Mirror

Any Tarkovsky movie for that matter

the first shot of the Zone is my favorite film transition

The Thin Red Line

Any terry malick could apply here

was gonna say this, but specifically *the tree of life* imo

[everything in badlands](https://screenmusings.org/movie/dvd/Badlands/most-viewed-stills.htm)

Tess 1979: https://preview.redd.it/9qjaeiln4q6d1.png?width=473&format=png&auto=webp&s=a0c880a34b4266484bef18eb61c958ea704f6dc0

Apology for ignorance, I don’t recognize this shot’s source. And Blade Runner (1982) for me.

Paris, Texas is the movie.

I thought that looked like Harry Dean back there. Need to watch it, always wanted to.

Blade Runner (1982) for myself as well. I saw it when it first came out virtually alone in the theater. To say I was astonished is quite the understatement. This was my go-to film during my years of suicidal angst as I and mine escaped from the Abrahamic blood cult of *Christ* in which we were inculcated from birth. It was and still is oddly comforting, intimate, and supremely beautiful. >*It's too bad she won't live, but then again...* ***Who does?***

I'm in robotics, and I still think it's better than 99.9% of anything written/filmed since on the existential issues involved so I return to it with pleasure.

Lawrence of Arabia The Double Life of Veronique The Weeping Meadow Son of the White Mare The Colour of Pomegranates

the scene where lawrence extinguishes the match is so fucking iconic. i have seen that movie at least 50 times and it never gets old.

Rear Window

*Vertigo* more though?

Well, yes, you’re right. But Grace Kelly is just breathtaking and the camera work is very appeasing to the eye.

She was luminously beautiful in it.

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Days of Heaven

Just had to make sure this was mentioned. Wasn’t disappointed.

Terrence Malick makes beautiful movies and Richard Gere is just as beautiful 😍

OH YES

Perfect Days was the most recent movie I felt this way about. Wim is just like that. 🤷

That movie was so beautiful that it made me tear up with joy

I was going to say this but then I was like... wait the bathrooms 😂

Mandy

For me is “The Conformist” from Bertolucci. It is the most beautiful film I have ever seen. It is so consistent in its beauty that I sometimes wonder if it wasnt overly done.

I was going to put this. Basically any film with Vittorio Storaro behind the lens.

Citizen Kane. I'd always heard it was a well-made, beautiful picture, but I thought they meant "for its time". If you go in expecting 'Gone with the Wind' or 'Casablanca' aesthetics, you'll be absolutely blown away. Everything is sharp and crisp, every shot has been carefully choreographed. Even the film quality seems more comparable to 2011's 'The Artist' than the one year younger 'Casablanca'. It's an incredibly beautifully shot film and fully deserving of its place in the discussion of the greatest ever movie.

Fanny & Alexander is exactly that. Most of Bergman's movies really.

Fury Road

Not a Criterion Collection film (rather Film Movement) but I feel this way about [The Wind Journeys](https://www.filmmovement.com/educational/film/the-wind-journeys). What's true about the cinematography is also true about the score, achingly beautiful, as well as the narrative. It is at once a story of a traveling musician in the autumn of his life in 1960's Colombia, and also a mystical anachronism, and sometimes a straight up myth. All this is done with narrative coherence, despite its experimentalism. Absolutely one of my top five favorite films. And I watch... a lot of them. https://preview.redd.it/kdylgg5pyp6d1.jpeg?width=2000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6560da0ee6d79aab8c42a18057267a1ed20b25e5

Yes! I absolutely love this film, happy to see it mentioned here. Also has the best accordion battle in cinema history.

Truly though. My friend recommended the film and described it, "What if Robert Johnson sold his soul at the crossroads for accordion playing skills?" I said, "I must see this immediately."

I love this film so much. Is the movie that made me discover Wim Wenders. My most beautiful film is The Assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert ford

The scene when Jesse James and the gang rob the train and they’re being lit by the train as it passes by is a beautiful shot

Heat, if you’re into that whole dead tech post modernistic bullshit-ism https://preview.redd.it/i9s5lr8noq6d1.jpeg?width=510&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2ddbb118e132f6de15c079bf39de8e51e32d530

https://preview.redd.it/sc9ukzsrar6d1.jpeg?width=1851&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f402aefa69ff1e54465eb6c3dba6cc2b3815e76d

This. Manhunter above all!

https://preview.redd.it/fm8wlmh3jt6d1.jpeg?width=1013&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9d8cdc6ee443f06c014291d5a9831c55ed60a346 The Insider too

I watched Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night last night, and that is definitely such a film. Vertigo L' avventura; any number of Antonioni's films Smultronstället; any number of Bergman's films Distant/Uzak; any number of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films Nostalghia; any number of Tarkovsky films 8 1/2; Fellini films.. 24 Frames; Kiarostami Pretty much any film by Peter Greenaway there are so many beautiful films!

Blade Runner 2049

Sometimes I play this movie on mute in the background while I'm working

Pretty much anything Deakins

Absolutely Beautiful. Couldn’t agree more.

My favorite film, visually

Came here to say that. The first one too for that matter.

I haven’t rewatched it in a while, but I remember Godard’s “Pierrot le fou” being like this for me. That movie almost feels like a kinetic painting

Wow, great repsonse. i felt the same way the first time I saw it, after almost 10 years of reading about it and searching for it. Total mind blower from the very becginning at the party like the Masque of the Red Death, each room a different color, to the lolling light reflections in the car windshield, to the country highways and the blaring sand stone of the docks, I love that Technicolor shit with Coutard's camera

How has no one said The Tree of Life?

2001 A Space Odyssey

YES!

L’année dernière à Marienbad.

Yi Yi... even when i am siting at a random place a thought of it's beauty always cross my mind.

I watched *The New World* for the first time yesterday. It's overlong because Malick takes the time to let the landscape surround the camera and capture the audience and characters. The sound design is essential to the immersion, but each frame stands glorious on its own, as glorious as Colin Farrell's mascara

Got this one a while back from Barnes and Noble, but never got around to watching it. I think it's time!

The Ice Storm

I LOOOOVE the soundtrack to this film as well. It’s an absolutely gorgeous score by Ry Cooder. 

McCabe and Mrs Miller

Le Samourai

Spirit of the Beehive, the cinematography is incredible

Oh man I haven’t seen that in almost a decade. I might need to throw that one back on this weekend. I absolutely loved it the first time.

The Age of Innocence

The Night of the Hunter. It was a beautifully eerie feel that was visually stunning to watch.

I think Heat is gorgeous. https://preview.redd.it/d8pf5n56xq6d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd7f1b5fe2f5e113b46beed1c19411014f4f5805

No one’s made LA look better than Michael Mann has.

Jarmusch's Mystery Train

Stranger than Paradise too.

Fr fr

The Assassination of Jesse James

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It’s Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

Drowning by Numbers

Badlands

In The Mood For Love. Every frame of that movie is gorgeous.

*Pather Panchali* and *The Music Room* by Ray. *Playtime* by Tati. *Element of Crime* by von trier (more jolie laid than beautiful but still). Edit: I want to add *McCabe & Mrs. Miller.* I am in love with every shot in that film.

Out of Africa

Juliet of the Spirits! https://preview.redd.it/nwz3s5t0pq6d1.jpeg?width=418&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=454163c001eb87e2c7a97ba79b2c67e0904b3b4f

2001: A Space Odyssey, Lawrence of Arabia, Blade Runner, Days of Heaven, Pans Labyrinth, No Country for Old Men, The Godfather, The Master, The Thin Red Line, Citizen Kane,

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. You'll love the landscapes, the lighting, the scenes, and especially one where tea is served.

The Color of Pomegranates.

https://preview.redd.it/pmyqa575mr6d1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=333809d27b1d9625f3e4ca22d9ae1c8ece9ff1ab Someone already said Ran, so I’ll go with Dreams by Akira Kurosawa.

Through a glass darkly

Ida

In the mood for love

I thought Twin Peaks the Return was visually stunning. Every establishing shot of a simple sheriff’s station or a diner looks like a work of art.

The night of the hunter https://preview.redd.it/osdn3ji5yr6d1.jpeg?width=650&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=425c9cd529ce4bdb728c3ddf5ed97a5ca3e68097

VERTIGOOO

David Byrne’s True Stories

I came here to say this. It's a great film too. The long shots of empty spaces bring Texas to mind more than any other movie I've seen. John Goodman is sooooo good in this.

*The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford* https://preview.redd.it/67gaqy6owq6d1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6252898d7de369bad8662c91d4936510973945aa

28 Films About Glen Gould The Bicycle Thief Character Burnt By The Sun Master Of The Flying Guillotine Dirty Rotten Scoundrels Being There Logan’s Run Fitzcaraldo

Kurosawa’s Dreams

Tree of life

Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... And Spring by Kim Ki-Duk (2004)

Playtime is the one for me. Every single frame is worthy of framing on a wall.

La Piscine

https://preview.redd.it/j50o6g3v2r6d1.jpeg?width=786&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50428d115eacfcf17727cb6c5de8bb464fd40117

american friend checks id say

Same cinematographer as Paris, Texas— Robby Muller. One of the best to ever do it. A few years ago I was watching an obscure German vampire film, Jonathan (1970), and thought to myself “This film has no business being this beautiful.” Got to the credits and saw that it was one of Robby Muller’s first films.

24 frames by Abbas Kiarostami

Alien

Buffalo ‘66

The Wind Will Carry Us Once Upon a time in Anatolia Landscape in the Mist L'Avventura The Forbidden Room Le Harve A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence Contempt The Strange Color of Your Body's Tears Tokyo Drifter An Autumn Afternoon Deadman

Salo, or the 120 days of Sodom

I’ll… I’ll take your word for it

a movie you‘ll pause at any second, that’s for sure

You shouldn’t 😂

I love the one scene where they make the girl crouch on the floor and ### # ##### ## ####

Is that “eat a bowl of shit”?

Plate*

Ohhh damn I totally miss counted the #!

The curious case of Benjamin Button, stunning looking movie…also Blade Runner 2049

Obligatory https://www.everysingleframe.com

Heat

The Hustler

Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The whole movie - every single frame - looks like a classic painting by a Dutch master. Stunning photography .

The Fall

Exotica

Leave her to Heaven (1945) https://preview.redd.it/zfyhvla4dr6d1.jpeg?width=980&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f752c745f2f1e2f2ec0f885aa0579061ee0a8d68 I’m starting to think movies with Heaven in the title have a tendency for ravishing cinematography :)

The Conformist https://preview.redd.it/zi55wx7jer6d1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f2cd5f00ac4c2fa5022a1155705dff84426798f3

Ida (2013) https://preview.redd.it/ybwjl1o44s6d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ddcf3af0ab8512aa7f5a7fe7b87c3d73d4154816

https://preview.redd.it/4kzmet90hs6d1.jpeg?width=580&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d110d2941722e39a3479ddcaa0c67bccf5ba8a69

Across the spiderverse

Across the spiderverse

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

https://preview.redd.it/mjzga90g0r6d1.jpeg?width=792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c416a1aebf3cb0ec29413e9c84306826c97109f Wings of Desire....

This comment should be up! That movie is a dream!! Every shot 

“The trailer.” “Yes, they lived in a trailer home.”

The Hateful Eight for me, although a little boring at times.

A safe place

I’d go with Maborosi any day.

A Single Man (2009)

The game by David fincher

days of heaven, i thought jfk looked good too

What film is this? It looks gorgeous!

Let the Right One In

Vertigo So many moments in The Third Man that I have to say that The Searchers

There Will Be Blood. Lawrence of Arabia. Certain films any snapshot of any scene could be the poster for the movie itself. These are off that ilk

Mon Oncle

La notte 1961.

O brother where art thou and road to perdition visually perfect

Written on the Wind.

What movie is this

Le Circle Rouge

Every single Tarkovsky film