The glow in the dark NY skyline model from Escape from NY. It was too expensive to do CG, so they lined a for realsies cardboard massing and filmed it in the dark.
N.S. - neat site and feature on how they did it. This is better than CGI, more believable. Reminds me of Hitchcock's Mt. Rushmore scene in North by Northwest -
was executed so well by the production team.
Best Set Design(s) in Cinema History..........Worst?
What do you think? Favorite(s)? - Most Terrible One(s)?
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Rashomon?
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Decker is a Replicant?
Second place is Blade runner.
I've seem clips from EFNY - have to look that up.
This is not CGI:
N.S. - neat site and feature on how they did it. This is better than CGI, more believable. Reminds me of Hitchcock's Mt. Rushmore scene in North by Northwest - was executed so well by the production team.
I'm partial to the production design of Wes Anderson's films. I also love The Conformist!
The library/reference room from Desk Set.
All the necromonger stuff from Chronicles of Riddick was awesomely well tied together.
Almost any set in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
One of the all-time greats cinematically, architecturally and urbanistically: Rear Window.
Not bothering to link an image, but Hobbittown from Lord of the Rings. So many things right with it.
CQ directed by Roman Coppola
Also:
A Single Man by Tom Ford, Lots of mid century modern architecture
Metropolis, Fritz Lang
Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin
Forbidden Planet
War of the Worlds
Everything by Hitchcock
Das Boot
Alien
Gravity
Europa Report
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