The way ‘Malick’ and ‘Lubezki’ use images to conjure memories is exactly how I have felt when I imagine my childhood.
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All the other movie-imageries in this list (or any other list) wowed or amazed me, but the only one movie where I “felt” the images was ‘The Tree of Life’. But for me, it was a pretty simple decision. I know many are going to question my judgement of placing ‘The Tree of Life’ at No.1. The Tree of Life (2011)ĭirector: Terrence Malick | Cinematographer: Emmanuel Lubezki Read More: Best Movies With No Plot or Storyline 1. What make the images of the film more beautiful are the two protagonist, who are genuinely beautiful human beings, and the beautiful love story between them (Read more). You can take out any frame from the film and hang it on your wall it will adorn your wall better than all your other paintings. ‘In the Mood For Love’ is truly a “poetry in motion”. In The Mood For Love (2000)ĭirector: Wong Kar-wai | Cinematographer: Christopher Doyle, Mark Lee Ping Bin Read More: Coolest Movie Villains of All Time 2. The images that this film leaves you with transports you to another era. YoungĪgain, just like space/sci-fi movies, countless war and period films have come and gone, but none have been able to manage the scale and grandeur of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’. Read More: Best Love Triangle Movies of All Time 3. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)ĭirector: David Lean | Cinematographer: F.A. That it itself speaks a lot about the genius of Kubrick. One wonders why even 50 years after the release of ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, no space or sci-fi film has managed to achieve (except to an extent ‘Gravity’) the same levels of brilliance in creating the images of spacecraft, space and galaxy. Read More: Best Historically Accurate Movies of All Time 4. 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967)ĭirector: Stanley Kubrick | Cinematographer: Geoffrey UnsworthĪ spectacular film with a spectacular cinematography. I can’t name a single film since the advent of color-films, where the black & white imagery suited as much as it did in ‘Schindler’s List’. Of course, ‘Schindler’s List’ wouldn’t be the film it is without its exceptional black & white cinematography. Schindler’s List (1993)ĭirector: Steven Spielberg | Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski Read More: Best Futuristic Movies of All Time 5. But the images of the wheat-fields and just the whole mood that Malick is able to create using those images will remain etched in your mind forever. ‘Days of Heaven’, a love story set in the early 20th century, is mostly shot around farmlands. There is something about Terrence Malick. Days of Heaven (1978)ĭirector: Terrence Malick | Cinematographer: Néstor Almendros, Haskell Wexler Read More: Best Movie Remakes of All Time 6. The greatness of the cinematography in this film is that it is moving, disturbing and beautiful sometimes all at once. The mood of ‘Apocalypse Now’ is set by its startling, often unconventional, images. Apocalypse Now (1979)ĭirector: Francis Ford Coppola | Cinematographer: Vittorio Storaro Read More: Best Sci-Fi Movie Directors of All Time 7. One of the many strengths of Citizen Kane, arguably the greatest film ever made, is its dynamic cinematography, which conveys the pain, the frustrations and the angst of Kane in the best way a camera can capture those emotions. Citizen Kane (1941)ĭirector: Orson Welles | Cinematographer: Gregg Toland Read More: Best Rewatchable Movies of All Time 8. This fantastical world that Amelie sees - in spite of the ugliness around - is what must have been the motive behind the extraordinarily beautiful, rich and colorful cinematography of the film. The world of Amelie in ‘Amelie’ is more based in fantasy than in reality. Amelie (2001)ĭirector: Jean-Pierre Jeunet | Cinematographer: Bruno Delbonnel Read More: Best Fantasy Movies of All Time 9. Usually, in Woody Allen movies, the city where story is set plays a character in itself, and this is especially true with, aptly named, ‘Manhattan’, where the anxiety and desperation of Isaac (Woody Allen) is perfectly complemented by city’s chaotic beauty. With its black & white imagery, New York never appeared as beautiful as it did in ‘Manhattan’. Director: Woody Allen | Cinematographer: Gordon Willis.
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