Blogger and prolific commenter MovieMan0283 has proposed an intriguing meme at his place, The Dancing Image. Taking a cue from the open gallery of reader-submitted film stills hosted by Stephen at Checking on My Sausages, MovieMan has proposed a bit of a free-form exercise, wherein participants assemble a collection of screen captures that follow a theme of their choice. MovieMan got the ball rolling with a stellar series of stills from opening shots. My own submission is below. I think the theme is self-evident, although in a couple of instances it is realized in an unconventional way. The films are identified at the bottom.
Throne of Blood (Kumonosu-jô) (Akira Kurosawa, 1957)
Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973)
Deep Red (Profundo Rosso) (Dario Argento, 1975)
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975)
Predator (John McTiernan, 1987)
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990)
Fight Club (David Fincher, 1999)
Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (Quentin Tarantino, 2003)
Hellboy (Guillermo del Toro, 2004)
Caché (Michael Haneke, 2005)
Sin City (Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller, 2005)
No Country for Old Men (Ethan and Joel Coen, 2007)
Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in) (Tomas Alfredson, 2008)
They may not even notice (or they may already have participated), but I’m tagging Tim at Antagony and Ecstasy, Troy at Elusive as Robert Denby, The Film Doctor, Bill at The Kind of Face You Hate, and Jason at The Cooler.
Tags: Memes
Great idea, excellent delivery, and, at times, oddly beautiful images. The Cache one is a favorite (here’s an idea for another theme if anyone’s reading this and hasn’t thought of one yet: images of drawings in movies - get to work!).
Beautiful images indeed.
There is something especially powerful (and disturbing) about the image from Don’t Look Now where the blood obscures the image rather than lying on a particular object.
The view of the world is haemorrhaging.
Stephen:
“…the world is haemorrhaging”
Very well put.
Thanks, Andrew.
I have my own themed selections up at my blog, if you’re interested.
If you want to contribute an image to my original gallery as well, you’re welcome.
[...] The Blue Vial (“Curiosity Killed”) Elusive As Robert Denby (“Visages of Horror”) Gateway Cinephiles (“A Study in Scarlet, and other hues”) Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies (“Eyeballing a Meme”) Lights in the Dusk (“In a Lonely Place”) Moon in the Gutter (“In Through The Mirror…”) Checking On My Sausages (“Passion and Resurrection”) Only the Cinema (“Five Sensual Shots”) Quiet Cool (“complimentary/contradictory themes/images”) Some Came Running (“Sleepers awake”) [...]
Great choices Andrew and beautifully laid out here. CACHE caught me immediately and I managed maybe half, but the answers showed me how behind teh eight ball I was here! Ha!