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

Syndromes and a Century

sakura killers

Love this thread. I’d like to contribute, when I have the energy.

how could I forget:

I could go on forever, I am being a little lazy, these are some I love.

Clive: Which film is the fourth frame up from the bottom from?

Hi Josh, it’s Pandoras Box by Pabst

Clive: I suspected it was a German. ;)

Thanks. :)

Every single frame in Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! is gorgeous.

Bela Tarr:

Alnis Stakle:

Lars von Trier:

Aleksandr Sukorov:

From Antonioni’s ECLIPSE. Notice that the woman (Monica Vitti) is cut in half by the pillar in the Roman Stock Exchange.

Here she’s visually trapped again…

Finally, even when she’s feeling free she’s trapped within the frame within the frame:

Compositions like this first gave me the idea about how to “read” a visual image in film.

Is there such thing as an ugly image? It’s all in the context I would say. A picture composed amateurishly could very well become beautiful in light of a larger story.

Sorry, had to play a bit of devil’s advocate here. I do love this thread, great to speculate about some of these images. Cheers.

Pierrot le fou

MEMORIAS DEL SUBDESARROLLO

the overhead shot of johnny depp laying with the dead baby deer in ‘dead man’

Suspicion

There are many great frames in this film, this just being one I found online.

A Clockwork Orange

There’s something very disturbing and also comical about Magee’s expression.

S., that always scares the shite out of me. ;)

Savvy

Rushmore

Zachary: Took me awhile to find a still that I could actually post, unfortunately the one from DVD Beaver wouldn’t do so.

I have many, ones that you see and are like, “Jesus that is beautiful.” But two of my favorites-

1) from In Cold Blood- It’s raining outside as Robert Blake’s character is talking about is relationship, water is running down the window and the streams are reflected on Blake’s face as if he is crying. Conrad Hall always claimed it was an accident, but I think he knew exactly what he was doing when he set the lights.

2) (Okay I am well aware of how is this not a good movie, problems all over the place, but…) from Waterworld- Just after Costner’s character drops the flare down the shute and into the hull of the Exxon Valdez and ignites the the oil. An old man has been stuck in the belly of the ship for years. As fire roars toward him, the old man turns, see the fire coming, the flames reflected in his glasses obscuring his eyes and he says “Oh, thank god.”

ok, lets see
from lovers of the arctic circle , ana waiting by the lake

some more
from the tin drum

from hedwig and the angry inch

from cinema paradiso

@Caleb