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snowy
still from “snow jacket” / fox in snow / frayed edges / romantic (source unknown) / grizzly bear album art / window pane / vintage new yorker (march 1966)
[eat/drink] date: opulent bedroom picnic
caviar / baguette / vodka / “the leopard” / cutting board / sparkling wine / creme fraiche
(for when you’re feeling low-key, but fancy)
tense suspense
hitchcock teases with visuals and sound in “rope.”
books / vintage metronome / candelabra / wooden chest / cocktail glasses / champagne
long distance
[character pairings] dragon tattoo
the girl with the dragon tattoo (dir. david fincher) / cm tattoo dragon font / combat boots / the knife silent shout album / trish summerville and rooney mara quotes / lisbeth photo
sensitive
the opening shots of julian schnabel’s “the diving bell and the butterfly” put us with the protagonist, in literal visual perspective and feeling. the eye, the single part of jean-do that remains sensory, conveys acute, visceral details, showing us the vulnerability of his locked-in syndrome.
cinematography by janusz kaminski / screenplay by ronald harwood
saul bass: then and now
love this post from christian annyas on classic saul bass film posters re-designed for DVD packaging. something seems so lost in the translation.
rise and fall
the stairway scene in the bradbury building in “the artist” makes a perfect visual picture of its passings and ups and downs.
directed by michel hazanavicius
spectacles & smokescreens
[1970s glasses (top right) / gary oldman quote]
early emphasis on eyeglasses in “tinker tailor soldier spy” signals to the viewer the importance of observation in unraveling a dense mystery that the film’s look enhances; each shot is somehow artfully, visually obscured…
frames from tinker tailor soldier spy: directed by tomas alfredson / cinematography by hoyte van hoytema / art direction by tom brown and zsuzsa kismarty-lechner / production design by maria djurkovic / costume design by jaqueline durran
screenplay by bridget o’connor & peter staughan based on the novel by john le carre
