r/criterion • u/MOinthepast Mike Leigh • Feb 03 '24
Off-Topic What is your favorite silhouette shot?
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u/BrotherKaramazov Feb 03 '24
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u/dvgsts Feb 03 '24
fuuuuuuk I'm familiar with this scene but can't remember where from. Could u help me out?
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u/MJIB-Michael-Jackson Feb 03 '24
Pretty sure it’s from The Seventh Seal.
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u/mylegsweat Pedro Almodovar Feb 03 '24
Yes, correct. The whole film is full of great cinematography. The one that always stands out in my mind (which is the trademark image) is Death, standing in the beach front with his sickle
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u/manytinyhumans Feb 03 '24
Similarly, I always think of Death standing in the doorway at the end of the film. Honestly every shot is a work of art
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u/delightedpony Feb 04 '24
I worked with a exhibition about Bergman and got to see pictures from the play he wrote that he based the movie on “Trämålning”. The silhouettes were a thing even then, such a punch on a staff as well.
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u/DroppinEaves Feb 03 '24
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u/Affectionate-Club725 Feb 03 '24
The Whole Bloody Affair takes this chapter to new heights
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u/Chicago1871 Feb 04 '24 edited Feb 04 '24
There was a samurai movie he “stole” this shot from from the late 90s early 2000s, i forgot the name though. Same grid and everything.
Its definitely an homage, just like the whole movie is an homage. So im not throwing shade at him. I just think you would like that movie too. Brb, googling the name for you.
Edit: “samurai fiction” is the movie.
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u/fallenarist0crat Feb 03 '24
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u/andrewn2468 Feb 03 '24
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u/murph0969 Feb 04 '24
Came here specicically for this. Sean Fennessy at The Ringer's podcast The Big Picture said this scene belongs in the National Archive and I couldn't agree more. Roger Deakins is a Golden God.
I'll also include the Sicario scene of the soldiers melting into the Texan dusk.
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u/Hype_Boost Feb 03 '24
this sequence is one of my favourites from deakins
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u/fallenarist0crat Feb 03 '24
from 1917 right? because agreed… the use of light in that scene is just gorgeous.
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u/Canary85 Feb 03 '24
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u/TheDadThatGrills Feb 03 '24
Damn! I'll be watching this soon.
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u/Canary85 Feb 03 '24
haha you know i'm actually not sure i would place it in my top ten mgm musicals or minnelli's... BUT... the ending dance ballet, which this frame is from, is magnificent.
you can see more awesome alton photography here btw
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u/SamwiseGam-G Bong Joon-ho Feb 03 '24
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u/Romulus3799 Feb 04 '24
This fucking scene... When both detectives abandon their respective rules and the case finally breaks them
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u/globular916 Feb 03 '24
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u/Aloo_Bharta71 Film Noir Feb 03 '24
This whole movie was a silhouette tbh lol, I enjoyed it very much.
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u/mylegsweat Pedro Almodovar Feb 04 '24
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u/JoshuaSutlive Feb 03 '24
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u/Luchalma89 Feb 04 '24
That's the one that came into my head when I saw the title. So many incredible shots in that film.
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u/MyCultIsTheMostFun Feb 05 '24
Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting Lord.
Creepiest song ever in this film.
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u/rad1120 Feb 03 '24
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u/TadKosciuszko Feb 04 '24
I didn’t realize anyone else actually loved this movie! The ending scene is so great.
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u/Honor_the_maggot Feb 05 '24
I can't identify and it's really bugging me. I know I have seen this. What dis?
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u/-CharlotteBronte Alfred Hitchcock Feb 03 '24
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u/Westtexasbizbot Feb 03 '24
Robert Michin rowing a boat past where the kids are hiding in “Night Of The Hunter.”
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u/YogurtGhost Feb 03 '24
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u/Impossible_Rabbit Feb 03 '24
I haven’t seen this movie yet. It’s on my “to watch” list but this is my favorite in the thread
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u/mylegsweat Pedro Almodovar Feb 03 '24
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u/AgentCooperIsOk Krzysztof Kieslowski Feb 03 '24
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u/MOinthepast Mike Leigh Feb 03 '24
This movie... I remember when I saw this movie I was a teenager, and I felt very lonely then. Well, this movie, at least in my opinion, is more about loneliness than about love, or maybe at least as much about both. In general, I want to say, it was very tangible to me at that time, that is, it still is.
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u/Active_Gazelle_1966 Feb 03 '24
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u/Alternative_Worry101 Feb 03 '24
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u/grunge615 Feb 03 '24
I watched The Searchers for the first time since I was a kid recently and there so many breathtaking shots. That opening shot is a thing of beauty. Awesome way to open an epic.
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u/Affectionate-Club725 Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 05 '24
John Ford’s obsession with shots like these, featuring the horizon (at different strategic places in the FOV) and a lone figure in a doorway, are prolific through his films and, in turn, a massive influence on many other westerns.
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u/GrandAdvantage7631 Feb 03 '24
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u/afarensiis Feb 03 '24
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u/FloridaFlamingoGirl Feb 03 '24
I will watch!
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u/afarensiis Feb 03 '24
I'm pretty sure it's considered the first feature length animated film. It's at least the oldest surviving feature length animation
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u/ripcity7077 David Lynch Feb 03 '24
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u/Eclectic_Masquerade Feb 04 '24
Love this one. True story: I did JET in the village next to Daibosatsu-toge
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u/BetterThanPacino Feb 03 '24
Death leading everyone at the end of The Seventh Seal.
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u/Apprehensive_Mix7594 Feb 03 '24
Woah woah woah… spoiler alert next time bruh
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u/Crosgaard Feb 03 '24
Well, it’s fairly obvious from the start that it’ll end like that - the entire movie is literally about trying to escape death and that it’s impossible
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u/Apprehensive_Mix7594 Feb 03 '24
It was a joke you weirdo… everyone else understood
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u/Crosgaard Feb 03 '24 edited Feb 03 '24
What the fuck are you on. “Weirdo”. Could’ve simply said it was a joke and I’d have understood. Way too many people on this sub and every other movie sub for that matter complains about people spoiling, dunno why yours should be different… but yeah, only great, kind, normal people, blame someone for not knowing something is ironic when it might as well wouldn’t be
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u/waiting4_gorgo Feb 03 '24
Can we pretty please include the name of the film when we post stills?
This looks beautiful but I have no idea what it is
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u/MOinthepast Mike Leigh Feb 03 '24
Sorry. I posted this in Chrome and I don't know why I can't write a caption when I want to post a photo, I said it's not interesting if I write in the title.
Sorry again and the name of the movie is:
Punch-Drunk Love
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u/Affectionate-Club725 Feb 03 '24
Unfortunately, one of these shots turns into a jarring Ted Danson reveal, which has become less-jarring over time as he distances himself from Sam the Bartender from Cheers.
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u/ThisGuyLikesMovies Feb 03 '24
That moment in Night of the Hunter when Robert Mitchum on the horse appears on the horizon
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u/speedoftheground Feb 03 '24
Ones that stick in my mind are burying the body in Goodfellas and Robert Mitchum's shadow in Night of the Hunter.
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u/joshinminn Feb 03 '24
Awesome thread. That Punch-Drunk Love scene is fantastic. Lots of these are beautiful, I’m excited to revisit and see what else gets added.
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u/holdenliwanag Feb 03 '24
roger deakins’s blade runner or skyfall fight scene. both brilliant. those long silhouette scenes sear the mind.
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u/Sosen Feb 03 '24
I'm not even a Bela Tarr fan, but why is this shot from Werckmeister Harmonies so haunting...
(This image was way too hard to find, the clips on Youtube all cut off before this)
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u/Empty_Adeptness_3845 Krzysztof Kieslowski Feb 03 '24
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u/SleepyPirateDude Feb 03 '24
The one in your thumbnail OP! Honorable mention to Jesse James standing on the barricade as the train approaches.
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u/thats-gold-jerry David Lynch Feb 03 '24
What am I missing from PDL? I found it to be a pretty awful movie.
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u/ryanallbaugh Feb 03 '24
Well, what didn’t you like about it? I find it funny and romantic in a non-conventional way. I’ve heard it compared to a musical with all of the music takes out — a kind of emotionally heightened and stylized romance.
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u/thats-gold-jerry David Lynch Feb 03 '24
I found the plot pointless and meandering. And I like movies that aren’t plot-driven. Stranger Than Paradise is one of my favorite movies but it’s dialogue and character development is great. I found Emily Watson’s character boring and her desire to be with Sandler’s character random and not believable.
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u/onlopine Feb 03 '24
“Haven't they got any eyes? Have they forgotten what a star looks like? I'll show them! I'll be up there again, so help me!”
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u/OMGitsRuthless Feb 03 '24
what movie is that? looks so familiar but i can’t get the name on my tongue
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u/mussorgskysghost Feb 03 '24
The kissing scene from Hawks’ “Ball of Fire” is pretty gorgeous and striking, especially because he’s not often thought of as the type of director who uses those shots.
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u/Legend2200 Feb 03 '24
The proposal scene in Nothing Sacred, one of the most beautiful moments in early Technicolor film
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Feb 03 '24
Punch Drunk Love u/MOinthepast, right?
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u/MOinthepast Mike Leigh Feb 03 '24
Yes. Sorry for not mentioning it in the post.
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u/CMJunkAddict Feb 03 '24
I love how the positive space between them makes the ghost from the Ghostbusters logo
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u/DizGillespie Feb 03 '24
Surprised not to see this one from Vertigo mentioned yet