Post good examples of cinematography.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

Good cinematography involves things like camera placement, use of proper lenses, depth of field, and most importantly (IMO) use of lighting.

It seems to me that many people tend to think it just involves pretty images. Sunsets and whatnot.

From The Night of the Hunter (it's the lighting, stupid):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N9LnkKQfuc&feature=related

[PassingFair]

1. I haven't seen it YET, but the new "Wolfman" looks EXCEPTIONAL!

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi297469209/

[kayakjohnny]

2. Three Kings

[kayakjohnny]

3. The Professional

[kayakjohnny]

4. Slumdog Millionaire

[edbermac]

5. Days Of Heaven, Barry Lyndon

[Patsy Stone]

6. Three of my favorites

[Mendocino]

7. The Apartment -1960

The stark b/w accentuates the darkness of the story. While funny this is no comedy.

[targetpractice]

8. Ridley Scott's 'Hannibal' — the opera scene...

Very creepy (and beautifully filmed and scored) scene where Inspector Pazzi and his wife encounter Hannibal Lecter at an open-air opera...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKVOLND7ZEM

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

9. David Lean's Oliver Twist

John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath

[begin_within]

10. Greatest cinematography of all time

I could not take my eyes off the screen for 2 hours and 21 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvwLZOpxAFQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBfbpJFts2g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eOCajj3fY4
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058604/
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19951208/REVIEWS/512080302/1023
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/i_am_cuba/
http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Cuba-Sergio-Corrieri/dp/B00003ETJT

[Bertha Venation]

11. there was a wonderful scene in Amadeus

Well, one of many. I won't try to describe it. Just see the movie.

[Duer 157099]

12. Boorman's Excalibur

That reminds me, I need to see that in HD.

[woo me with science]

13. Hitchcock's "Rear Window"

We are put in Jeff's shoes (or leg cast) with control of the filming through the apartment windows. For the most part, we see only what he can see, and so we are unsure at first, just like him, whether the suspicions of murder could be accurate. We are also as helpless as he is while watching Lisa confronted by the murderer in his apartment.

The apartments are colorful, varied, and busy, highlighting the everyday activity and lack of privacy in the apartments. Darks are used only as the story gets more sinister and we are drawn into Jeff's suspicions. I am still creeped out by the image of the glowing and fading cigar tip in the pitch black apartment of Thorwald, the murderer.

[blogslut]

14. The Elephant Man

Gorgeous film.

[rug]

15. 11 seconds

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsyRhRR5Iu4