What is (are) your favorite frame(s)?

This whole thread can be filled with shots from Mizoguchi and Kurosawa…two masters of composition!!

Here are two from Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu Monogatari:

And two from Kurosawa (showing he was a master at composing in both the 2.40 and 1.33 frames in Red Beard and The Lower Depths):

Wings Of Desire (Wim Wenders)

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter… and Spring (Ki-duk Kim)

Salmer fra kjøkkenen/Kitchen Stories (Bent Hamer)

The Seventh Seal (Ingmar Bergman)

Gummo (Harmony Korine)

Marnie

All the Baltimore street scene studio shots in it are kind of outrageously fun artifice.

In Bruges

Death by Hanging

if….

Ben-Hur (1959)

Grave of the Fireflies (1988) by Takahata Isao

This might be (are) my favorite thread(s)

I love taking screen shots!

Here’s from something I just watched last night:

“No matter how many movies you’ve done, you’ll still be known as Marky Mark from the Funky Bunch.”

Another one (figured out the resizing):

This is a lovely thread.
Is it legal to take screengrabs/photos and post them on non-monetized blogs or forums like the auteurs?
Question prompted by my mac dvd player, which refuses to allow screenshots. Is that part of the FBI warning at the start of films, or is it due more to apple covering their ass?

The Moon in the Gutter

From Soderbergh’s Kafka

test 23

Amarcord

Frank Gehry in The Simpsons, in the Seven-Beer Snitch episode…

alphaville:

mr freedom:

the eyes without a face:

rocky horror:

eraserhead: i would say my favorite still from eraserhead is when he “has sex” with the woman across the hall and all you see is them go under water and the hair floating on top but i can’t find a picture of that so i’ll settle for this guy

he always makes me laugh uncomfortably

Stray Dog:

The Naked City:

The Rules of the Game:

Lassie (left) and Elizabeth Taylor

All that Heaven Allows

Coeur Fidele (Epstein)