Jason Shulman has created a series of photographs by pointing a large format camera at a large monitor for the duration of a movie, effectively flattening down an entire film into a single image. The photographs end up looking like impressionist paintings with only small details and color schemes recognizable from the original work. I think they’re beautiful.
Tag: movies
A list Of The 100 All-Time Best Film Noir And Neo-Noir Movies
1920-1959
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1927
- The Lodger
1931
- M<
1938
- Port of Shadows
1940
- Rebecca
1941
- High Sierra
- The Maltese Falcon
1943
- Shadow of a Doubt
- Ossessione
1944
- Phantom Lady
- Double Indemnity
- Gaslight
- Laura
- The Woman in the Window
- Murder, My Sweet
1945
- Hangover Square
- Mildred Pierce
- Detour
- The Lost Weekend
- The Spiral Staircase
- Leave Her to Heaven
1946
- Gilda
- The Postman Always Rings Twice
- Notorious
- The Big Sleep
- The Killers
1947
- Body and Soul
- Nightmare Alley
- Out of the Past
- T-Men
- The Lady from Shanghai
1948
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
- Call Northside 777
- They Live by Night
- Force of Evil
1949
- Champion
- The Third Man
- White Heat
1950
- Gun Crazy
- Night and the City
- In a Lonely Place
- The Asphalt Jungle
- Sunset Boulevard
1952
- The Thief
1953
- Poison Ivy
- Pickup on South Street
1954
- Rear Window
1955
- Diabolique
- The Big Combo
- Rififi 366
- Kiss Me Deadly
- The Night of the Hunter
1956
- The Killing
- Foreign Intrigue
1957
- Sweet Smell of Success
1958
- Elevator to the Scaffold
- Touch of Evil
- Vertigo
- It Happened in Broad Daylight
- Murder by Contract
1959
- Odds Against Tomorrow
1960-2011
1960
- Purple Noon
- Peeping Tom
- Psycho
- Shoot the Piano Player
1962
- Cape Fear
1963
- High and Low
1966
- Blow-Up
1967
- Point Blank
- Le Samouraï
1971
- Get Carter
1972
- The Getaway
1974
- The Conversation
- Chinatown
1975
- The Passenger
1976
- Taxi Driver
1978
- The Driver
1981
- Diva
- Blow Out
- Prince of the City
- Body Heat
- Clean Slate
1982
- Blade Runner
1985
- To Live and Die in L.A.
1986
- Blue Velvet
1987
- House of Games
1992
- Basic Instinct
- Bad Lieutenant
1994
- Pulp Fiction
1995
- Se7en
- Heat
1997
- L.A. Confidential
- Hana-Bi
1999
- The Limey
2000
- Memento
2005
- Sin City
2007
- No Country for Old Men
2008
- The Dark Knight
2010
- Black Swan
2011
- Drive
2012: My Year In Movies
I didn’t track my movie watching in 2012 but below is a list of movies that I watched and enjoyed over the past year.
Marley (10/10)
Being Elmo (9/10)
True Grit (8/10)
Toy Story 3 (8/10)
Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (8/10)
Adventureland (7/10)
The Descendants (7/10)
The Avengers (7/10)
Rango (6/10)
21 Grams (7/10)
The Joneses (6/10)
Here were my favorites from 2011, 2010, 2008, and 2007 I have done a handful of posts over the past year that have to do with movies. Go explore them under the movies tag.
Faithful Friends Who Were Dear To Us, Will Be Near To Us No More
“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” is probably my favorite Christmas song simply because of its emotional ambivalence. It resonates closely with so many of the feelings I have around the Christmas season. The lyrics open up that uneasy longing for that unattainable ideal of Christmas that so many of us want. The holidays can be hard.
It may be your last
Next year we may all be living in the past
Have yourself a merry little Christmas
Pop that champagne cork
Next year we may all be living in New York
No good times like the olden days
Happy golden days of yore
Faithful friends who were dear to us
Will be near to us no more
But at least we all will be together
If the Lord allows
From now on, we’ll have to muddle through somehow
So have yourself a merry little Christmas now
My emotions during the holidays weigh heavily. Christmastime brings a contemplative melancholia that I actually revel in, and there is a wistful type of comfort in accepting this. In knowing that the season is steeped in nostalgia and want for a better time and place. In accepting that my memories will grow a little dimmer with the passing of the year. In acknowledging that our world can be unraveled, changed, and built back up with little of our own control. In understanding that friends, family, or loved ones are gone from our lives – for good. I feel akin with the folks who recognize that Christmas can be complicated, emotionally irresolute, and inherently blue.
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Total Film’s 50 Most Hated Movies Ever
Below is a list Total Films put out containing of the 50 most hated films of all time today. It’s really just a list a movies that people love to hate. It mostly consists of crappy remakes (Gus Van Sant’s 1998 remake of Psycho) and horrible sequels ( Joel Schumacher’s 1997 “Batman And Robin”). There aren’t really any surprises on the list but I thought it might offer you a little Schadenfreude for your Tuesday evening. The entire list is after the jump and the top ten contain Total Film’s reason for making the list. Enjoy.
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2011: My Year In Movies
I didn’t track my movie watching again during 2011. The fact is I didn’t really even watch that many movies over the last year (Much of my TV time was spent watching all of the Mad Men episodes). However, here are the five great movies I have seen over the past 365 days:
1. Herb & Dorothy (10/10)
2. Wrist Cutters: A Love Story (9/10)
3. Exit Through the Gift Shop (8/10)
4. Blue Valentine (8/10)
5. Young Adult (8/10)
I have done a few posts over the past year that have to do with movies. Go explore them under the movies tag.

The Most Expensive Shot Of The Silent Film Era
Gif Credit: Maudit
This gif is a clip from the single most expensive scene shot in silent film history. The film is Buster Keaton’s “The General” (1926) and had a total budget of $400,000 supplied by Metro.
It was filmed in a single take with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductor’s window). It looked so realistic that the townspeople who had come to watch screamed in horror. The looks of shock on the faces of the Union officers in the film were also real because the actors who played them were not told what was going to happen to that train. Rumor has it that a spectator even fainted.
The scene was filmed in a conifer forest near the town of Cottage Grove, Oregon. The production company left the wreckage in the river bed after the scene was filmed and the wrecked locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years. The metal of the train was salvaged for scrap during World War II.
On a side note, The Denver Silent Film Festival starts next week.
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Penny And The Quarters – You And Me
The song “You And Me”, featured in the new film “Blue Valentine”, is of mysterious origins. All that is known is that the archival label Numero Group (which is an absolutely brilliant label that researches, recovers, remasters and repackages obscure pop gems that are no longer distributed) discovered the rehearsal tape at an estate sale in Columbus, OH. It was labeled only as ‘Penny and the Quarters’,
Directors at Numero have played this recording to over 100 movers and shakers from the time and no one has a clue who originally sang it or where it came from.
Regardless of its unknown origins, or popularity from the movie, the song is gorgeous. I think you should give it a listen:
Penny and the Quarters – You and Me