The 26 movies every design lover should see

Any list of films, other than “Most Overhyped”, with Black Panther on it is not worth reading.

A few good choices, but so many bad ones in OP's list.

Offhand, any of these are better than the stupid, popular choices in the AD list:

The Graduate

A Room with a View

North by Northwest

Bell, Book, and Candle

Indiscreet

The Talented Mr. Ripley

A Single Man

Blade Runner

Auntie Mame

American Psycho

Interiors

The Wings of the Dove

Brideshead Revisited

I like the writing style despite some shitty choices.

A Single Man made the list, actually.

The Virgin Suicides and In the Mood for Love are good picks, but a number of entries could be swapped with something by Antonioni.

r2 Gets it, but I would add "a Summer Place" and even "Fargo" to that list of movies that capture a period of time in a specific place

I switch some out with Diva, Revolutionary Road and something by Derek Jarman. Glad to see Women on the Verge on the list.

Which should definitely NOT be on the list?

Well, two Tim Burtons is definitely overkill. And while there are a lot of things I like about The Harder They Come (starting with the fantastic soundtrack), it seems like a rather arbitrary choice for a list like this.

R7: I would definitely exclude Toys (WTF?); Beetlejuice; Batman; The Harder They Come; Star Wars. I love both Breathless and Do the RIght Thing, yet they are more about the visual mood of a time rather than architecture or interiors. Everything Wes Anderson looks like anything Annie Leibovitz to me, kitschy, korny, too "graphic," too easy (both always call to mind the photography scenes in Woody Allen's Starust Memories, 1980.)

Far from Heaven, The Virgin Suicides, and The Last Black Man in San Francisco, and Safe seem more notable mentions to me.

"Barry Lyndon"

"1900" or "The Last Emperor" though Visconti always get a lot of attention on these sorts of lists, and rightly; in some Bertolucci's films it's almost as if you can smell the spaces and feel the heat or the cool of a room.

"Cleopatra"

Yeah, Cleopatra really captured Hollywood circa 50 BC

TOYS is a tough sit, but it is absolutely a PoMo daydream and should be on a list like this.

Think the film was called The Dreamers? With Ava Green, Louis Garrel and Michael Pitt. That huge old Paris apartment was amazing.

That's it, R14, another Bertolucci film like the two in R10.

My choices:

The Party, with Peter Sellers (1967)

Ruthless People and Down and Out in Beverly Hills, mid 80s, both featuring Bette Midler

Blow Up (1967)

Performance, with Mick Jagger, 1970 but shot in 1968

Yes to Blade Runner and Diva -- both absolutely seminal films for their design.

So glad to see Women on the Verge (or indeed, any of Almodovar's earlier films) and American Gigolo made the list. Their design was really memorable.

Dangerous Liaisons and all Visconti's films are simply gorgeous, but in Ruthless People, only the scenes of Bette Midler's Memphis-inspired interiors really stand out for design.

I love the house in The Sandpiper on the beach. I would love to live some place like that.

Also the film Manhunter should be on the list for the home at the sea.

I agree with A summer place and the wings of the dove is a stunning film in some beautiful buildings

The High Note also features a beautiful house and the new version of Emma and Seberg - Jean seberg’s Cold Water Canyon home looked beautiful in that movie

I love the Art Deco sets in the 1930s pre code Female (1932) and the 1921 version of Camille is stunning too.

I forgot how cute and nerdy Banderas was in "Women on the Verge." I had such a teenage crush on him in that film.

It's a bullshit list written by some Millennial who's seen just two movies made before he was born.

"Dial M for Murder" - Hitchcock, 1954

All but 5 minutes of the film takes place within a small apartment of about 500 square feet in Mayfair, London. The sets, however minimal, are really masterful,, a great picture of the time and of the class friction the husband and wife at the center of the story.

Blade Runner

Wasn’t the architect in the Fountainhead based on FLW and they even approached him about doing sets, but he was too expensive? I’ve never seen it but it looks like it has potential.

I agree with about half that list. What about Blade Runner? L.A. Confidential? Those featured actual iconic L.A. buildings. I could name 10 or so films better than some on that list.

Has anyone mentioned the ultra contemporary house in the recent Invisible Man, and most importantly does anyone know if those walls were Venetian plaster or a highly polished cement?

How can they have Far from Heaven but not All That Heaven Allows?

Whoever complied the list has a Julianne Moore fetish.

[quote]two Tim Burtons is definitely overkill

Agreed, I think you need one because of the influence of his cartoonish style, but he doesn't exactly have more than one style or two periods of work or what have you.

Love to see the love for DIVA on here. My partner and I talk about the baguette scene ALL THE TIME.

R29 Who doesn’t have a Julianna Moore Fetish?

An article and a thread lauding brilliant production and costume design in which the designers' names are rarely if ever mentioned.

OUTRAGEOUS!

R32 And all this at the height of Oscar season, shameful!

The Black Cat, with Karloff and Lugosi.