Wondering what people's ideas are as to the most beautiful film of all time. Photography, dialogue, acting, romance, seduction, costumes, location and so on.

For me there can only be one contender, no other film comes close. The most romantic film of all, timeless in its stunning beauty.

Kar Wai Wong's "In The Mood For Love":

In The Mood Of Love

It's between my two fav's

James Cameron's Avatar

Requiem for a Dream

For me, Avatar.  I watched it in 3D 3 times. The first time I felt like I had been on vacation. The acting isn't bad, for me its the absolutely stunning wildlife that took my breath away. especially during the night. Being a CG Artist myself, I usually watch a movie  with a lot of CG and break it down to it's elements, working out how the lighting was set up, camera settings, etc. But I couldn't do that with Avatar, or Transformers. the CG just left me with my mouth hanging open and my mind shut down as I took in all that visual eye candy.

Most beautiful character to me is Optimus Prime though. Seeing a Peterbilt 379 transform into one of my childhood heroes.. It made me want that truck.  So I built my own. ^_^

Dersu Uzala, Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East, The Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Wings of Desire.

That'll do for a start .

Quote from: Padma on September 14, 2011, 03:50:20 AM
Dersu Uzala, Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East, The Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Wings of Desire.

That'll do for a start .

Oooh! some good ones there! all of Miyazaki's movies are beautiful. And I love The Seven Samurai. I dont know the other two though.

Dersu Uzala is an amazing film by Kurasawa shot in eastern USSR as was, in the 70's, and in Russian. Filmed in 70mm (needs to be seen on a big screen, ideally) and is a story about friendship, and nature, and impermanence.

Why Has Bodhidharma is a Korean film with hardly any dialogue, about a young monk living with an old monk (and an orphan boy) in a rural monastery - and oddly enough, is also about friendship, and nature, and impermanence. Very slow moving and very, very beautiful.

I've not liked all of Miyazake's films - I didn't like Nausicäa, for example, but that's because <geek alert> the 7-volume graphic novel it was based on is approximately five million times deeper and more amazing </geek alert>. I love Princess Mononoke though, mainly for The Spirit of the Forest.

Quote from: Padma on September 14, 2011, 03:50:20 AMSpirited Away

Spirited Away is such an awesome film.  But in terms of looks, nothing can beat Avatar.

Avatar (IMAX 3D) was the most awesome movie experience I have ever had.  The screen was so big and the image was so detailed that you could see the imperfections in the actor's skin.  The animation in that movie is absolutely stunning.

As a beauty-in-everything film, Amélie may always be my fav.  Though Big Fish comes in a close second.

Quote from: Padma on September 14, 2011, 03:50:20 AM
Dersu Uzala, Why Has Bodhidharma Left For The East, The Seven Samurai, Spirited Away, Wings of Desire.

That'll do for a start .

Excellent taste

Never seen the second one but Wings of Desire (the original German film) is a wonderful film as is SS.

Sort of meant beautiful as films that are visually beautiful hence my initial choice. So in homage to magnificent photography and the breathtaking beauty of Zhang Ziya, Tony Leung and Li Gong I'll add the sequel "2046".

"Opera Jawa", "Devdas", "Caramel" and "L'Avventura" as visually exceptional films in their different styles as is "Amelie" mentioned by Zoe.

Korean films are amazing, loved "3 Iron", "Il Mare" and of course "My Sassy Girl". They always make me cry my eyes out.

http://www.youtube.com/embed/NbDb8yITvhI

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Ah, almost forgot to mention another of my favorites, the Saw series.  Though I always get strange looks when I refer to it with this thread's description... :\

The Color Purple for me.

Quote from: fionabell on October 18, 2011, 10:41:13 PM
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Think you just post the link, sometimes however it doesn't work. This is a great and weird film, will post it to test:

I don't know why it has taken me so long to watch this, I've had it for a while and heard so much about it but today I finally watched Tarsem's "The Fall". It's Tarsem's second feature after the Jennifer Lopez film "The Cell", an underrated film but not a patch on this.

It's unlike anything you have ever seen. It's reminiscent to something like "The Princess Bride" or "Pan's Labyrinth"  but so unique on many levels.

Apparently this film was made over a number of years and financed by the Director himself. Filming took place in 26 locations across 18 countries and it shows. There is no CGI in this film, all these locations are real and wow are they stunning. DoP  Colin Watkinson, who according to imdb has only been DP on a couple of films, lots of music videos and commercials and he's done lot's of Entourage. A show I like but this guy doesn't seem to be used in features anywhere near as much as he should be!

There are times when it reminds me of Ron Fricke's "Baraka", itself shot over a long period of time across many, many countries. In fact one scene must be an homage to Baraka!
It is at times hard to believe what you are seeing on the screen is actually real, and knowing that it is makes you even more in awe. There hasn't been a film in recent memory that can touch this for sheer visual spectacle, certainly not one without CGI. Its so easy these days to just dismiss stuff as CGI or even matte paintings...surely that's too beautiful to be real but it is!

I always get a lump in my throat watching "The Five People You Meet In Heaven", it's a great story.  The only place I could find a trailer for the movie was on Amazon. The book was great too.

"Second Hand Lions" is also one of my favorites in this category. 

Well how strange this even may sound I have to say the Alien movie (the first) and in my opinion it is also the best movie ever made. I love the dark surroundings and also the creature itself, it has that horrifying beauty in it.


But the "Lord Of The Rings" movies are also very beautiful. 

I think V For Vendetta would be one of my favourite films/one of the most beautiful films IMO.
There is also something about Pulp Fiction that is quite beautiful in the way that it's made. I love it.

I thought of another film that easily fits this category:

Jet Li's Fearless

That movie is so intense, and Jet Li is such a good actor.  This is a very emotional movie.

Hmm... As far as visual appeal goes, I really like movies with excellent special effects with all sorts of creatures. Van Helsing fits this category for me since it has the best werewolves ever in my opinion. 300 is an eye candy, too and I'm not necessarily talking about the yummy men of Sparta.

Plot-wise, I like Miyazaki's Spirited Away and Howl's Moving Castle, for example. Of course, they're visually amazing as well.

But I'd say the top movie in this category is Paprika. Great music, visual appearance and plot.