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"Sin City" (2005): A comic-book adaptation that dares to do more than simply recreate the panels of a comic book; rather, it immerses you in a highly stylized world and makes you feel as if you're living inside of it. Robert Rodriguez took his inspiration from three of Frank Miller's books and even went so far as to share directing credits with the author. Together they've created a vivid dystopia of severe black and white with dramatic splashes of color. Created entirely on green screen, it features 1,800 effects shots, many of which are extremely, cartoonishly violent. But while "Sin City" is dark, it's also darkly funny, and certainly never boring. "Zentropa" (1991): The first Lars von Trier film I saw and one that wowed me with its bold visuals. But really, so many of the Danish director's films would fit into this category, from the minimalist "Dogville" and "Manderlay," which resemble plays on film, to the artfully cruel "Melancholia" and "Antichrist." "Zentropa," about an American working as a sleeping car conductor on a train line in post-World War II Germany, is constantly calling attention to its structure with bold juxtapositions
-- a mixture of stark German expressionism and flashes of color. An overhead shot reveals a wave of red blood swelling against a black-and-white door, for example. It's both hallucinatory and startling but always strangely beautiful. ___ Think of any others? Tell AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire through Twitter: http://twitter.com/christylemire.
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