Sunrise
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The Seventh Seal
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Manhattan
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This beautiful film is in dire need of restoration!!! One Austrian and one German director. Ironic, isn't it? The language of Goethe - and producing a wonderful film from a Shakespearean text!!norfious wrote: ↑June 26th, 2023, 8:34 pm A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is probably the most visually stunning films I have ever seen. The soft focus and the exaggerated sparkles used in the scenes in the fairy forest give the setting an ethereal quality and are just gorgeous. Apologies for the low-quality videos. These were the only ones I could find of these particular scenes.
Speaking of SFO, there's others, but I particularly like DARK PASSAGE (1947) look.Allhallowsday wrote: ↑June 26th, 2023, 9:15 pm D.O.A. (1950) San Francisco circa 1949 exteriors night and blazing white sunlight heatwave with the villain implausibly wearing overcoat, scarf, hat...!
It's evocative. Beautiful.
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"The Grapes of Wrath", John Ford/Gregg Toland. What a powerful film!! "....there's workin' it, and livin' and dying in it....!!"Swithin wrote: ↑June 26th, 2023, 9:50 pm When I went to buy a new Sony television about 12 years ago, a friend told me to take a DVD of a beautiful black-and-white movie to the shop, to test out how it looked, because many TVs don't show black well. Here are frames of the DVD I took, from one of the most beautiful black-and-white movies.
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