Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Cassavetes/Romero

from the top:
John Cassavetes' Shadows (1959)
George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (1968)


Monday, October 20, 2008

Just another line in the field of time

from Dennis Hopper's Out of the Blue (1980)

American movies, 1970-1979

from Bob Rafelson's Five Easy Pieces (1970)

Friday, October 17, 2008

American Movies, 1970-1979


from Arthur Penn's Little Big Man (1970)

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Pairs

from the top:
Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)
Garry Winogrand's photograph "El Morocco" (1955)


Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Don't Touch the Axe

from Jacques Rivette's The Duchess of Langeais (2007)
I prefer the English translation of the French title, Ne touchez pas la hache ("Don't Touch the Axe"), to the actual English title, but what can you do?

Guillaume Depardieu, 1971-2008

Monday, October 13, 2008

I have seen dogs reason their way out of problems

from David Lynch's Inland Empire (2006)

I am a night bird. I am not much good in the daytime.

from Roman Polanski's The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967)

Thursday, October 09, 2008

A couple of vampires

from the top:
Tom Holland's Fright Night (1985)
John McCain's Fright Night Part 3: One Heartbeat Away (2008)


American movies, 1970-1979

from Mike Nichols' Catch-22 (1970)

Wednesday, October 08, 2008

Toby Dammit

from Federico Fellini's Toby Dammit (1968), a segment in the anthology film Spirits of the Dead
(The rest of the movie sucks, but Fellini's short is fanmotherfuckingtastic)

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Nosferatu x 2

from the top:
F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (1922)
Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)


Monday, October 06, 2008

Marfa milkshakes, friendo

from the top:
Joel & Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men (2007)
Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007)


Friday, October 03, 2008

It's a Good Life

from "It's a Good Life," Joe Dante's segment from Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Images of the Day




from David Lynch's Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)

Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Image of the Day


from Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982)

Monday, September 29, 2008

Images of the Day

































(from the top)
Robert Rossen's The Hustler (1961)
Sidney Lumet's The Verdict (1982)
Joel & Ethan Coen's The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Image of the Day


More like Image of the Night. I almost forgot.
from Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve (1941)

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Image of the Day


from Leo McCarey's Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008

(North) American movies, 1970-1979


from David Cronenberg's Crimes of the Future (1970)

Monday, September 22, 2008

Images of the Day



Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused (1993)
Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot (1976)
Part 1 of an irregularly appearing series, Movie Theater Marquees in the Movies.

Coming soon: Gas Stations and Convenience Stores in the Movies

Friday, September 19, 2008

Image of the Day


from Jacques Rivette's Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Image of the Day


from Robert Wise's The Haunting (1963)

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Image of the Day


from Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life (1956)

Monday, September 15, 2008

Image of the Day


from Jean-Luc Godard's La Chinoise (1967)

American movies, 1970-1979


from John Cassavetes' Husbands (1970)

Thursday, September 11, 2008

American movies, 1970-1979


from Robert Altman's Brewster McCloud (1970)

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Image of the Day


from William Klein's Mr. Freedom (1969)

Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Image of the Day


from Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972)

Monday, September 08, 2008

Image of the Day


from Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Tropical Malady (2004)

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Image of the Day


from Fritz Lang's Spies (1928)

Friday, September 05, 2008

Image of the Day


from Frank Tashlin's The Girl Can't Help It (1956)

Thursday, September 04, 2008

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Image of the Day


from Joseph Losey's These Are the Damned (1963)

Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Image of the Day


from George Romero's The Crazies (1973)

Monday, September 01, 2008

Images of the Day: Labor Day Edition

From the top:
Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967)
Ermanno Olmi's Il Posto (1961)
Luc & Jean-Pierre Dardenne's The Son (2002)
Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep (1977)
Mike Judge's Office Space (1999)





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