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from Charlie Chaplin's Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

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from John Ford's Donovan's Reef (1963), which includes one of my favorite lines in any movie: "The fact of the matter is that neither of you remember what started this ridiculous annual birthday brawl."

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from Vincente Minnelli's The Band Wagon (1953)

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from Noel Black's Pretty Poison (1968)

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from David Cronenberg's Scanners (1981)

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Carpenter/teacher/critic/painter Manny Farber died this week at the age of 91. Here are five stills from movies he admired and one of his paintings. From the top:
Howard Hawks' The Big Sleep (1946)
Werner Herzog's Fata Morgana (1971)
Samuel Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)
Preston Sturges' Sullivan's Travels (1941)
Farber's My Budd (1978)

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from Harmony Korine's Mister Lonely (2007)

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from David Gordon Green's Snow Angels (2007)

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from Luis Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

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from Elaine May's A New Leaf (1971)

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Joan Crawford and a "half-man, half-ape with the strength of twenty demons" play with a doll in Crawford's final film, Freddie Francis' Trog (1970)

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from Tsai Ming-Liang's Goodbye Dragon Inn (2003)

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from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's In a Year with 13 Moons (1978)

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from Robert Altman's California Split (1974)

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from Jacques Tourneur's I Walked with a Zombie (1943)

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Two meals, from Ulu Grosbard's Straight Time (1978)

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from Alan Rudolph's Trouble in Mind (1985)

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from Richard Quine's My Sister Eileen (1955)

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From the top, Jean-Louis Barrault as:
Himself
Baptiste in Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise (1945)
Dr. Cordelier in Jean Renoir's The Testament of Dr. Cordelier (1959)
Opale in Renoir's The Testament of Dr. Cordelier
Opale in action #1, #2, #3