The Random Screenshot Thread

[Lancemc]

I'm not terribly sure this will succeed here, since I know most posters don't typically download their films. Though a lot of DVD watching does happen, so I'd encourage everyone to capture and share images that way if they'd like. Anyway, pretty self-explanatory. Here's something to start.

A sequence.

The New World (2005) - IMDb

 

[Lancemc]

The Brown Bunny (2003) - IMDb

 

[lazarus]

Why stop at three shots on that last one?

But seriously, I don't see what's so great about Gallo's compositions.

 

[Lancemc]

I like his lighting. That sequence in particular does a very good job compositionally of expressing his character's psyche.

 

[Lancemc]

In continuing to go through some I already have on my account:

and Asian John Cusack

Outrage (2010) - IMDb

 

[Lancemc]

Spoiler

The Housemaid (2010) - IMDb

 

[Jive Turkey]

to this thread. I will contribute at some point

 

[Canadiens1131]

 

[lazarus]

I can't wait for the Money Shots thread.

 

[gump]

Not an entire scene (can't capture the blu-ray images), but a screenshot still:

 

[Lancemc]

Not exactly an exact grab from the film (aspect ratio is cropped at the very least) but it's certainly an iconic one. It doesn't have to be a full scene or exact sequence of shots either. I only did that for the first two anyway. "Random" and what not.

 

[gump]

Not exactly an exact grab from the film (aspect ratio is cropped at the very least)

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I've just noticed that - fixed (somewhat, given that the shadows are not as clear in this shot).

 

[Lancemc]

Just one more for today

Sansho the Bailiff (1954) - IMDb

 

[lazarus]

I prefer Ugetsu.

 

[Lancemc]

I owe that one a rewatch.

 

[LMP]

Thanks, Flash.

 

[cobl04]

immediately made me think of

 

[Lancemc]

Bal (2010) - IMDb

 

[Lancemc]

 

[Lancemc]

Might as well repost the ones from the review thread, and another favorite I left out:

 

[cobl04]

that's the factory from the cover of Animals, no?

 

[GirlsAloudFan]

Yeah, it is.

Battersea Power Station.

 

[Lancemc]

...

Shang Hai zhi yen (1984) - IMDb

 

[Lancemc]

 

[Lancemc]

Vive L'Amour (1994) - IMDb

 

[bono_212]

The Holy Mountain

I'm just grabbing what I can from various websites. It appears that most of the shots I wanted to post are out there in some form or another.

Really that entire sequence with the Chameleons and Frogs was probably my favorite part of the movie.

I wish I could find some good screen grabs of all of the great ways they used rainbows in this film. It was possibly the most gorgeous part of the film, and I can't find any one image that really sums it up the way I'd like.

 

[lazarus]

That overshot with the eye room was jaw-dropping, how they all file in and move in a circle around the table to take their seats.


And...THE MENORAH GUN!!

Something I couldn't stop saying to myself throughout most of the film was "HOW THE FUCK DID THEY BUILD ALL THIS SHIT??" It's one of the most creative and ambitious works of pre-CGI art direction I've ever seen, and I'm pretty sure Jodorowsky designed most of it. To think that this film came in way under-budget is mystifying.

 

[bono_212]

I couldn't figure out, when the scene started, if it was a small picture, or an overhead shot, and when it turned out to be an overhead, shot, I was quite impressed.


Travis told me half way through the film how much it cost to make, and I almost refused to believe it. I spent so much of the time prior to that moment wondering how on earth they could have received enough funding to make a film that looked this good. Not sure how they did it with the money they spent.

 

[Lancemc]

Woo, somebody's using the thread.

 

[Jive Turkey]

Lance, I always find your screenshot choices to be interesting. Some are gorgeous, but others just seem like typical compositions. Could I be missing something by not having seen these scenes in motion?