My personal opinion is that visually, after seeing this film a handful of times, I can't think of any other film where the visual images are more beautiful and appealing than this one. It still blows me away, time after time...
Thoughts??? Can any other film hold a candle to the visual images? I'm just talking about visually, and nothing else (plot, acting, etc.)
Just thought I'd mention a few more:
Angelopoulos and in particular this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366721/ (looks like he's shot Elegy II; just can't wait)
I see Satantango was mentioned, but I'd say the Werckmeister Harmonies is even more visually stunning http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0249241/ and also somewhat more accessible.
Three Times by Hou Hsiao Hsien http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459666/
Marketa Lazarova by Frantisek Vasil http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063278/
Chris Marker's "La Jetee" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056119/
Mother Joanna of the Angels http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055153/
On Greenaway, I'm more reserved about his entire production, but quite liked this one: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090366/
I think Herzog has done many films that belong to this category too.
Angelopoulos shouldn't even be mentioned. Theres nothing visually stunning about his overdone "cult" recycled-a-thousand-times films. Parajanov and all the others mentioned here are million years ahead.
Shuji Terayama made the most visually appealing films I've seen. I actually wasn't all that impressed with the visuals here.
You also know that we need close collaboration from the rabbits!
The visuals are clearly meant to evoke early medieval painting brought to life, and the effect is dazzling.
There, daddy, do I get a gold star?
I didn't read ALL the responses but The Fall or Baraka have by far the most beautiful images I've ever seen on film.
shareShuji Terayama made the most visually appealing films I've seen.
This film looks a bit like Holy Mountain at times, but way more amazing visually.
I'd highly reccomend Kitano's films -- he's made the best films of all time, and visually they're all brilliant.
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Amazing film. Visually, structurally, and even thematically it has a slight air and feeling of a mixture of Andrei Rublyov and The Holy Mountain (although of course Holy Mountain was produced several years after Sayat Nova).
It's truly a unique work…almost literally "poetry in motion" as Mohammad Ali might say.
just my pick, probably many of these have been mentioned by others
'street of crocodiles' by quay brothers
'damnation' by bella tarr
'vertigo' by hitchcock
'mirror' by tarkovsky
'au hasard, balthazar' by bresson
'la jetée' by marker
'spirit of the beehive' by whatshisnameagain?
'come and see' by klimov
personally i'm wild (visually and otherwise) about early polanski:
'knife in the water' and 'repulsion'
also, what is 'visually'? it is everything except the sound, so it's framing, editing, colours, lighting, costumes, design, rhythm, flow, sets, etcetcetc
'vampire' by dreyer
'le boucher' by chabrol (especially the last 10-15 minutes are visually stunning)
anything by lucrecia martel
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this is endless. i realise that your question is a bit absurd to me. any film that i like, i like visually. if i don't find it visually appealing, i don't like the film, because cinema IS first and foremost VISUAL.
some (often 'B'-)horror-movies have great visuals. demon seed, phase 4, ...
oh, of course: carlos reygadas! 'stellet licht' for example
and bruno dumont: 'la vie de jesus' and '29 palms'
'sunrise' by murnau!
Let's not forget The Fall by Tarsem Singh.
And yes, Jodorowsky for this same fierce bright surreal imagery.
Let's not forget The Fall by Tarsem Singh.
And yes, Jodorowsky for this same fierce bright surreal imagery.