Favorite Cinematography?

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IWatchFilmsNotMovies wrote:
RomanM wrote:I like this thread. Saving Private Ryan, The Godfather, East of Eden, Kundun, Assassination of Jesse James, The Prestige, Children of Men, shit I can go on. I'm currently a little tipsy, much like you were yesterday lol. Will post more later.
The Prestige and Jesse James are two of my favorites as well.

This scene in particular from Jesse James just blows my mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWvvnn68iB8
Crazy Eight wrote:No particular order:

The Assassination of Jesse James
Saving Private Ryan
The Dark Knight
True Grit
The Prestige
The Social Network
Road to Perdition
Nice list! True Grit looked beautiful. Saving Private Ryan is a good one as well looks stunning on Blu-Ray.
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Yeah the train robbery is like godly. Ugh just a few kerosene lights and that 5K lighting the whole scene. Deakins=King

More films: Casino Royale, Bourne Ultimatum, Casablanca, Spiderman 1-3, The Matrix Trilogy (BILL POPE, ASC FOR THE FUCKING WIN)

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Dark Nolan wrote:LOTR
Which one?
2nd and 3rd mostly for those massive battle scenes

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Some of my favorites have already been listed but here is two more that have good cinematography.

Master and Commander
The Last Samurai

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This is easy... let's put it this way... my personal top 10...

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1. Blade Runner
2. Schindler's List
3. Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
4. The New World
5. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
6. The Godfather Part II
7. American Beauty
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day
9. There Will Be Blood
10. Children of Men

Runner-Ups:

1. A Clockwork Orange
2. The Assasination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3. Braveheart
4. The Shining
5. Alien
6. 2001: A Space Odyssey
7. The Wizard of Oz
8. Atonement
9. Amelie
10. Heat

Honorable Mentions:

Saving Private Ryan
Where the Wild Things Are
Chinatown
A Single Man
Volver
An Education
Pan's Labyrinth
Vertigo
Basic Instinct
The Last Samurai

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In no order:

Blade Runner
Apocalypse Now
Inception
No Country for Old Men
Heat
True Grit
Collateral

And anything by Roger Deakins... or any Nolan, Ridley Scott or Michael Mann films.

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Sunshine, Into the Wild, Blood Diamond.

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1.) 2001: A Space Odyssey
2.) Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
3.) Inception
4.) The Dark Knight
5.) LotR (in general)
6.) The Prestige
7.) Children of Men
8.) Apocalypse Now
9.) Blade Runner
10.) American Beauty

There's many others, gunna need to think more about this. Off hand, The Departed and Casino Royale, along with The Shining and basically any of Kubrick's films. Avatar, but that's kind of cheating. TWBB as well.

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Let's change perspective shall we?
How about Asian cinematography?
How about the cinematography of ZHANG YIMOU? House of Flying Daggers, Hero and Raise the Red Lantern
PARK CHAN-WOOK films - Oldboy, JSA and Thirst

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hoppity-kick wrote:Let's change perspective shall we?
How about Asian cinematography?
How about the cinematography of ZHANG YIMOU? House of Flying Daggers, Hero and Raise the Red Lantern
PARK CHAN-WOOK films - Oldboy, JSA and Thirst
Sure it's interesting and most of it dark and dirty but I still think that there are few asian good cinematographers... A high percentage of their films look less than mediocre.

If you want to talk about great cinematography then Eurpean films are incredible... so are some of the films made in South-America.

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