It's so pretty! One hundred of the most beautiful films in film history

Deciding whether a film is beautiful or not, photography, must be a very important part. And the film selected by the photographer must be, visually, very prominent.

ASC, the American Photographers Association, has just celebrated its 100th anniversary. For this special day of the year, their members, having chosen the 100 best films of the last century (as of 2000), the best cinematography in film history. By compiling this list, we also found that this is indeed a very noteworthy list of the best films in film history.

A large number of masterpieces that can be named in the history of film are in this list, especially in terms of photography, they are also more meaningful, in addition to excellent vision, among them, there are also many works in the history of film, photography is very innovative, and has influenced many filmmakers after that.

And such a list, is still very collectible, when the film is deserted, according to this list, pick a few movies that have not been seen, and then go to see, must be, is very enjoyable.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Photography: Freddie Young, BSC (Director: David Lean)

Blade Runner (1982)

Photographed by Jordan Cronenweth, ASC (Directed by Ridley Scott)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Photography: Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Director: Francis Ford Coppola)

Citizen Kane (1941)

Photographed by Gregg Toland, ASC (Directed by Orson Welles)

The Godfather (1972)

Photographed by Gordon Willis, ASC (Directed by Francis Ford Coppola)

Raging Bull (1980)

Photographed by Michael Chapman, ASC (Directed by Martin Scorsese)

The Conformist (1970)

Photography: Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC (Director: Bernardo Bertolucci)

Days of Heaven (1978)

Photography: Néstor Almendros, ASC (Director: Terrence Malick)

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

摄影： Geoffrey Unsworth, BSC with additional photography by John Alcott,BSC (导演：Stanley Kubrick)

The French Connection (1971)

Photographed by Owen Roizman, ASC (Directed by William Friedkin)

There are rankings in the top 10, 11th to 100th (in order of release year):

Metropolis (1927), by Karl Freund, ASC; Günther Rittau

Napoleon (1927), by Leonce-Henri Burel, Jules Kruger, Joseph-Louis Mundwiller,

Sunrise (1927), by Charles Rosher Sr., ASC; Karl Struss, ASC

Gone with the Wind (1939), by Ernest Haller, ASC

The Wizard of Oz (1939), by Harold Rosson, ASC

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), by Gregg Toland, ASC

How Green Was My Valley (1941), shot by Arthur C. Miller, ASC

Casablanca (1942), by Arthur Edeson, ASC

The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), by Stanley Cortez, ASC

Black Narcissus (1947), shot by Jack Cardiff, BSC

The Bicycle Thief (1948), by Carlo Montuori,

The Red Shoes (1948), by Jack Cardiff, BSC

The Third Man (1949), by Robert Krasker, BSC

Rashomon (1950) By Kazuo Miyagawa

Sunset Boulevard (1950), by John Seitz, ASC

On the Waterfront (1954), by Boris Kaufman, ASC

Seven Samurai (1954), by Asahi Nakai

The Night of the Hunter (1955), by Stanley Cortez, ASC

The Searchers (1956), by Winton C. Hoch, ASC

Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), by Jack Hilyard, BSC

Touch of Evil (1958), by Russell Metty, ASC

Ecstasy by Vertigo (1958), by Robert Burks, ASC

North by Northwest (1959), by Robert Burks, ASC

Breathless (1960), by Raoul Coutard

Last Year at Marienbad (1961), by Sacha Vierny

Eight and a Half, 8 1/2 (1963), by Gianni Di Venanzo

Hud (1963), by James Wong Howe, ASC

《奇爱博士》Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to StopWorrying and Love the Bomb (1964), 摄影： Gilbert Taylor,BSC

I Am Cuba (Soy Cuba; 1964), photographed by Sergei Urusevsky

Doctor Zhivago (1965), by Freddie Young, BSC

The Battle of Algiers (1966), by Marcello Gatti

《灵欲春宵》Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), 摄影： Haskell Wexler, ASC

Cool Hand Luke (1967), by Conrad Hall, ASC

The Graduate (1967), by Robert Surtees, ASC

In Cold Blood (1967), by Conrad Hall, ASC

Once Upon aTime in the West (1968), by Tonino Delli Colli, AIC

Butch Cassidyand the Sundance Kid (1969), by Conrad Hall, ASC

The Wild Bunch (1969), by Lucien Ballard, ASC

A Clockwork Orange (1971), by John Alcott, BSC

Willow Lane Yerba Buena ,Klute (1971), by Gordon Willis, ASC

The Last Picture Show (1971), by Robert Surtees, ASC

McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), by Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

Cabaret (1972), by Geoffery Unsworth, BSC

Last Tango in Paris (1972), by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

The Exorcist (1973), by Owen Roizman, ASC

Chinatown (1974), by John Alonzo, ASC

The Godfather: Part II (1974), by Gordon Willis, ASC

Barry Lyndon (1975), by John Alcott, BSC

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), by Haskell Wexler, ASC

All the President's Men (1976), by Gordon Willis, ASC

Taxi Driver (1976), by Michael Chapman, ASC

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), by VilmosZsigmond, ASC, HSC

The Duellists (1977), by Frank Tidy, BSC

The Deer Hunter (1978), by Vilmos Zsigmond, ASC, HSC

Alien (1979), by Derek Vanlint, CSC

All that Jazz (1979), by Giuseppe Rotunno, ASC, AIC

Being There (1979), by Caleb Deschanel, ASC

The Black Stallion (1979), by Caleb Deschanel, ASC

Manhattan (1979), by Gordon Willis, ASC

The Shining (1980), by John Alcott, BSC

Chariots of Fire (1981), by David Watkin, BSC

Das Boot (1981), by Jost Vacano, ASC

Reds (1981), by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

Fanny and Alexander (1982), by Sven Nykvist, ASC

The Right Stuff (1983), By Caleb Deschanel, ASC

Amadeus (1984), A biography of Mozart, by Miroslav Ondricek, ASC, ACK

The Natural (1984), by Caleb Deschanel, ASC

Paris, Texas (1984), photographed by Robby Müller, NSC, BVK

Brazil (1985), by Roger Pratt, BSC

The Mission (1986), by Chris Menges, ASC, BSC

Empire of the Sun (1987), by Allen Daviau, ASC

The Last Emperor (1987), by Vittorio Storaro, ASC, AIC

Wings of Desire (1987), by Henri Alekan

Mississippi Burning (1988), by Peter Biziou, BSC

The Assassination of Kennedy JFK (1991), by Robert Richardson, ASC

Raise the Red Lantern (1991), by Lun Yang

Unforgiven (1992), by Jack Green, ASC

Baraka (1992), by Ron Fricke

Schindler's List (1993), by Janusz Kaminski

Searching For Bobby Fischer (1993), By Conrad Hall, ASC

TroisCoulieurs: Bleu (Three Colours: Blue; 1993), Photograph by Slawomir Idziak, PSC

The Shawshank Redemption (1994), by Roger Deakins, ASC, BSC

Seven Deadly Sins (1995), by Darius Khondji, ASC, AFC

The English Patient (1996), by John Seale, ASC, BSC

L. A. Confidential (1997), by Dante Spinotti, ASC, AIC

Saving Private Ryan (1998), by Janusz Kaminski

The Thin RedLine (1998), by John Toll, ASC

American Beauty (1999), by Conrad Hall, ASC

The Matrix (1999), by Bill Pope, ASC

In the Mood for Love (2000), by Christopher Doyle, HKSC

How many of these have you seen? After sorting it out, I found that this list is indeed worth collecting.