What older movies made a good use of either side stepping special effects or have effects that somehow still hold up today? Why are they good movies?

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    11 hours ago

    Barry Lyndon.

    Kubrick managed to make every single frame look like a period painting, and used Zeiss 50mm f/0.7 lenses, originally built for NASA to photograph the dark side of the Moon, to film scenes by candlelight (granted, even with that lens he had to use lots of special candles with three wicks to get enough light; if I recall correctly some actors ended up with thermal burns from the radiated heat).