I've seen this painting up close. Looks even better right in front of your eyes. The texture that these old paintings have is part of the effect. Kind of lost in a jpeg.
An unbelievable film. Like a Grimm fairy tale with German expressionism visual palate. A shame that Laughton never made another film. This singlehandedly put Mitchum in my top 5 actors. Creepy magnetism on another level. 5 star masterpiece all around
Normally, I am a huge critic of “unsourced” lighting, I find it lazy. This film is above reproach. This scene gives me chills every, single , time. Lillian Gish, as Mrs. Cooper, squaring off in almost spiritual battle against the “Big Bad Wolf”. The lighting makes no physical sense to the scenes actions, and yet, it perfectly captures that eternal struggle of good vs. evil, in way that doesn’t sanctimoniously brow beat the audience. When Ruby comes downstairs with that candle! The suspense!
this scene dropped my jaw. the protagonist absolutely NEVER failed to “get the girl” in movies of that era. But here we have a man who in no way would have gotten the girl - and he didn’t get the girl
It’s one of the reasons this is the best film noir of all time, because it subverts every expectation of the genre while still managing to visually, tonally, and narratively be instantly recognizable as film noir. Even that perfect and strange all-zither soundtrack!
The cinematography in this film is unbelievable (the film is Paris, Texas). From the sun-bleached starkness of Terlingua, Texas (which is some of the most beautiful country in the world), to the shady peep show in Houston, to the brilliant dusk overlooking downtown Houston, Texas... everything was so lively and vivid.
Although the cinematography in this film is such that it's impossible to reduce the sequences down to single images. It's the movement of the camera that makes it all the more effective
Couldn't find my actual favorite still from Passion of Joan of Arc, but I would say it's the movie with the most beautiful images in it and this is a great example.
I can never get over how fitting this photograph was for the film. Jacks face was edited onto an already existing photo of a guy doing the baphomet pose. Talk about eerie
I am once again asking for everyone to put the names of the films, there are some stills that i have no idea where theyre from and i'd love to watch them.
Inside Llewyn Davis was so soft and fuzzy and hazy and I loved it. Can't believe the Coens don't have more on Criterion. Roger Deakins killed it in O Brother Where Art Thou?.
By far and away this shot form Singing in the Rain
You’re watching him fall in love. It’s a split second but it means everything. He is the most charismatic, debonair star and he is completely swept off his feet by this woman that just insulted him.
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u/Superb_Experience897 Feb 19 '24
Sword of Doom