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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2022 3:55:54 GMT
Let's use this thread to post random still photographs that we think are particularly beautiful or evocative... I'll start with a shot from Albert Lewin's exquisite oddity from 1951, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - one of my favorite films! Your turn!
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Post by mhynson27 on Jun 16, 2022 5:09:09 GMT
Can't seem to find it, but recently I've been obsessed with the Shelob scene from ROTK, and in particular the first shot of her when she's slinked up against the wall behind Frodo and you can just barely make her outline out. Creepy as all hell.
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Post by themoviesinner on Jun 16, 2022 6:44:19 GMT
From City Of Pirates (1983) by Raul Ruiz From Alexander The Great (1980) by Theodoros Angelopoulos. A shot with great symbolic meaning.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 16, 2022 8:02:31 GMT
The first 2 that I thought of I can't find: * Spoorloos / The Vanishing (1988) where the hero looks on the villain in his car and his (the villain's) face becomes distorted in a rain storm in a terrifying way as the windshield wipers go back and forth. I love that shot. * The last shot in the greatest 1-2 punch of romantic film(s) ever made - along with de Oliveira's Francisca (1981) - the unforgettable closing scene in de Oliveira's Doomed Love (1978) But one film that has so many it must set some kind of record is Kieslowski's The Double Life of Veronique (1991) - with all its allusions to "mirrors" or perceptions and reflections and what we see and of course what we don't or can not:
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Post by ibbi on Jun 16, 2022 10:40:03 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Jun 16, 2022 16:20:55 GMT
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 17, 2022 12:17:41 GMT
Oh honey, this shot of Garbo in Anna Christie is so evocative of the way I feelz. It captures perfectly the long wait for my Oscar / limes n salt to go with Tequila.
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Post by ibbi on Jun 17, 2022 13:54:55 GMT
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Post by avnermoriarti on Jun 17, 2022 19:05:20 GMT
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Post by ibbi on Jun 17, 2022 19:30:03 GMT
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Post by MsMovieStar on Jun 18, 2022 8:26:40 GMT
Oh honeys... all the little twisted fantasies going through Catherine Deneuve's head.
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 19, 2022 18:52:35 GMT
Suspiria '77 is gorgeous from front to back but the single shot I remember most is Pat Hingle running through the woods as glimpsed from the back of a moving car. The way the camera is moving in tandem with her while she disappears and reappears behind the tree line combined with her hyperstylized gestures creates a really disorienting effect. Love it (I know this thread is about stills so I'm cheating, sorry @tyler !)
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Post by SZilla on Jun 19, 2022 18:56:35 GMT
Here's an all-time favorite shot from Werckmeister Harmonies, although it works even better in motion, but as a still shot it's great. Janos' loneliness and isolation is punctuated as the camera drifts farther away from him while he walks towards us, with the darkness surrounding the frame more and more.
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Post by SZilla on Jun 19, 2022 18:58:22 GMT
Here's another - Distant Voices, Still Lives has a lot of really wonderful shots (almost still-life portraits), but this one struck me in a really powerful way.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 20, 2022 5:13:55 GMT
This entire film looks stunning but this particularly shot will forever live in my head rent free.
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Post by cherry68 on Jun 20, 2022 11:44:20 GMT
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Post by rhodoraonline on Jun 20, 2022 17:37:25 GMT
Wait... Empire of the Sun?
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 20, 2022 18:53:43 GMT
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Jun 21, 2022 20:26:40 GMT
The Pawnbroker. Boris Kaufman uses the cage to illustrate how much Sol remains trapped by his trauma. He is perpetually behind bars.
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Post by stephen on Jun 21, 2022 22:00:45 GMT
I am obsessed with this film, it's my favorite movie of all time, and this shot is reason enough why Elswit was the deserving winner of the Oscar even over Deakins's heavenly twofer. Witnessing this scene is like seeing something out of the fevered mind of Dante, with Plainview and Fletcher looking like devilish imps dancing in the furnaces of Hell itself.
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Post by stabcaesar on Jun 26, 2022 14:51:16 GMT
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Post by TylerDeneuve on Jan 19, 2024 4:02:44 GMT
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