What are your picks as the most visually stunning movies ever made? My totally personal list:

Faust 1926
The Scarlet Empress 1934
He Walked by Night 1948
Black Narcissus 1947
Kwaidan 1964
A Clockwork Orange 1971
Lisa and the Devil 1974
Barry Lyndon 1975
Suspiria 1977
La Belle Captive 1983

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The Devil is a Woman (1935), the last Josef von Sternberg film starring Marlene Dietrich. Based on Pierre Louÿs' superb 1898 decadent novel The Woman and the Puppet.

This film is an expression of von Sternberg’s uncompromising aesthetic principles. Substance doesn't matter, because the style IS the substance.

One of the greatest movies of all time.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-devil-is-woman-1935.html

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Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus (1932).

https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2022/06/blonde-venus-1932.html

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The Blue Angel (1930), the first Josef von Sternberg movie to star Marlene Dietrich.

Made in Germany with both the English and the much superior German language versions being shot simultaneously.

Dietrich is extraordinary as Lola Lola, a surprisingly complex and ambiguous femme fatale.

A true cinematic masterpiece.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-blue-angel-1930.html

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Is The Scarlet Empress (1934), the fifth of the six Paramount Josef von Sternberg-Marlene Dietrich movies, the greatest movie ever made? The answer of course is yes.

Von Sternberg described it as “a relentless excursion into style” and that's what it is. It's not style over substance - in this film the style IS the substance.

And the style is overwhelming and wondrous.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scarlet-empress-1934.html

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Marlene Dietrich stars in Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress (1934). If this is not the greatest motion picture of all time then it's definitely in the top five. Von Sternberg described it as “a relentless excursion into style” and he wasn’t kidding.

I like movies that offer style over content. In von Sternberg's case the style is the content. That's what movies are all about.

My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-scarlet-empress-1934.html

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Marlene Dietrich in Josef von Sternberg's Shanghai Express (1932).

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4 classic movies to get to know me
Lewis Milestone's Rain (1932)
Josef von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress (1934)
Fritz Lang's Moonfleet (1955)
Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
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