Your favorite still from any movie

wytch

What is your favourite image from a film. This is mine. I don't know why. But it is ace. Hope to get it for a wall in my house one day. Hope I can attach the image correctly.

For anyone who doesn't recognise it, ET is under the sheet.

Baze

God, have so many favourites, but the following would be one of 'em for sure:

Bipolar Joe

I "collect" stills of people just before they kiss. Not Hollywood Beautiful people. Like John C. Reilly, or Steve Buscemi, that sort of actor. It pleases my soul for some reason.

The Pheasant2

Basic instinct.

And that is all that will be said on the matter.

fluke

This springs to mind. Evokes a lot of memories.

Stand By Me for the uninitiated

MilanPan!c

Can't choose.

krudler

from Raiders

Corvo

Fantastic still - tried to find the stare he does in the resteraunt but couldn't find it

Baze

When I think back on the first time I was at the cinema (I was five) the following image is the first that comes into my mind:

TerrorFirmer

Mickeroo

There's precious few things more cinematic/photogenic than a Samurai, Seven Samurai has some great shots:





Also Harakiri has what most be one of the most beautifully shot sword fights ever:

p to the e

Always loved this one from Ronin.

dark crystal

Few of mine...


Gone With the Wind


The English Patient




Schindler's List

roanoke

googled eyes

krudler

You could pick dozens from Blade Runner









Can get all those in much bigger and nicer versions but don't want to overload the page

Sudden Valley

From the french horror "Martyrs" will stay with me for life



and from "The Prestige" Christopher Nolan film.

Mickeroo

krudler wrote: »

You could pick dozens from Blade Runner

Crazy how well that film sill stands up in the looks department nearly 32 years later.

scotchy

:cool:

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FunLover18

Die Hard



Toy Story 3

Alfred Borden

krudler

Mickeroo wrote: »

Crazy how well that film sill stands up in the looks department nearly 32 years later.

Isn't it, it puts most modern sci-fi movies to shame, Alien too, speaking of which:

krudler

Some random ones

Once Upon A Time In The West:


Once Upon A Time In America


The Exorcist (was gonna post the iconic street/window light beam one but I really like this one)


Sunshine

Zeek12

That Exorcist still is fantastic.
Reminds me its high time I watched that classic again

thebostoncrab

Dunno if it's the image or the power of the scene, but this jumped straight to my mind

Dozen Wicked Words

A shot of Marge and Norm discussing his stamp design. Mundane, but beautiful imo. Lot of lovely scenes in Fargo though.

FlashD

Stanley Kubrik movies always look amazing with some great stills from The Shining and Space Odessey 2001. This still from 'Eyes Wide Shut' is one of my favourites. The central spotlight, the macabre feeling with creepy robed figures and masks staring at the audience.

Alfred Borden

RobbingBandit

Dozens to pick from again, this is a happy one from when I was a boy.

haro124

Sunset boulevard

DaveR1000

another Kubrik

epic scene

The Royal Scam

Man bites Dog

rednik

Platoon for me, brilliantly filmed. Not easy to pick one from so many great stills.

Lamper.sffc

One of my favourites. I had no idea how much I would love this movie when I first seen it all those years ago

Seans_Username

Too many to choose from

Pulp Fiction - The adrenaline shot



La Haine - I was gonna choose the still of Vince in the mirror doing the Robert De Niro/gun bit, but then this just popped into my head...

(Le monde est a vous = The world is yours. Le monde est a nous = The world is ours)


Apocalypse Now - The napalm strike



A Clockwork Orange - Another Kubrick one. Scared me shitless the first time I saw it. Still resonates today

Doom

FTW. ..
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johnny_ultimate

I could pick any close up of Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc, but I have this one on hand. Her face is simply so incredibly emotive, transmitting the sadness, weariness and pride of the character. The close-up is one of cinema's key images, but Dreyer perfected it all those decades ago:



A different sort of close-up, the 'blended' faces of Ullman and Andersson in Persona is a startlingly visual representation of the film's themes and concerns.



Another from C.T. Dreyer, this haunting shot from Ordet has an almost spiritual quality about it that perfectly articulates what actually takes place during that astonishing closing sequence:



This pair of images from Miyazaki send shivers down my spine every single time. As iconic as cinema gets. Actually, when I put them side by side like this and see an accidental sort of visual balance and thematic harmony form (the relationship between the mundane and the surreal, the innocent and the mysterious), I think I love them even more





Or the unforgettable final shot from A Separation, a long take that is one of contemporary cinema's most utterly devastating moments, visualising the film's key relationship in one heartbreaking image. If it's less explicitly beautiful than many of the images cited above, what it communicates through such a simple scene is so wonderfully elegant.

mikom

e_e

Top to bottom: Red Desert, Dr Strangelove, My Neighbor Totoro, Punch-Drunk Love, The Big Lebowski, Sans Soleil

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

grohlisagod

The Third Man is a beautifully shot film.

thebostoncrab

For a film with such a high level of violence, Ichi The Killer has also given us some really beautiful shots

tunguska

The last scene in Traffic. My personal favorite ending to a movie ever........

MagicMarker

American Psycho has some classics...





Not to mention The Fall...

Reg'stoy

I posting this still as I have a framed copy that I got personally signed by Gary Lockwood and Keir Dullea a couple of years ago. "Rotate the pod please Hal"

The opening scene to Star Wars, still gets the heart going.

PirateShampoo

A few of my favorite films.

eviltimeban

Aidric

Great thread idea.

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

MagicMarker

Dark City

thebostoncrab

Another from The Exorcist, probably my favourite visual from the film





Then of course Requiem for a Dream is just full of astounding, yet heartbreaking, images.

Icaras

The usual suspects line up