CINEMA GALLERY: September 2011

Another unusual set of frame grabs for my ongoing CINEMA GALLERY (which you can visit in full here--by now there must be at least 400 entries!). As always, click on the frame you want to see writ large. As always (at least these days), see if you can guess the movies from which these frames hail. The answers, corresponding to the numbered photos, are at the end of the post.

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CINEMA GALLERY August 2011--25 New Frames

I tried to make a creepily unsettling entry here for the CINEMA GALLERY this month. These 25 frames just SHOULD NOT go together. But here they are. As always, click on the frame you want to see large-like. These make GREAT screen backgrounds. And remember to visit the entire gallery HERE. Have fun, film fans, and see if you can guess the movies these frames hail from. The answers are at

CINEMA GALLERY--July 2011: 50 New Frames

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CINEMA GALLERY: 30 New Frames

I'm taking a tip from a few other websites (including Only The Cinema and The Dancing Image) and avoiding commentary on the shots I've selected. I like how they look without the words splitting up the images. It also leaves the viewer to guess, at least initially, as to which movies these scenes hail from. And I believe that, subconsciously, these varied frames, shunted together, form a unique

CINEMA GALLERY: 50 New Frames

As always, click on the photo you love to see it full screen:

A telephone call rushes through the wires and connects two distant people at the beginning of Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 94).

The scam is on in Grand Slam (Giuliano Montaldo, 67).

Mrs. Dalton appears behind the movie screen, with Everett Sloan making a cameo via Orson Welles' The Lady from Shanghai, in Manhattan

CINEMA GALLERY: The ABCs of Cult Movies

In the interest of the recent worldwide blogger call to contribute the ABC's of any given category, I offer now a possible lexicon of cult movie magic:

A is for The Apple. (Menahem Golan, 80)

B is for Belle Du Jour. (Luis Buñuel, 67)

C is for Cutter's Way. (Ivan Passer, 81)

D is for The Devil Rides Out. (Terence Fisher, 68)

E is for Eating Raoul. (Paul Bartel, 82)

F is for The Fall. (

Cinema Gallery: 200 MORE Movie Images: DARKNESS (Part 3 of 5)

I have to admit: I love a blackened frame. These are some of my favorite hard-to-see moments from movies. I think I love the dark on film because that's where we can catch the most abstract images, if only for a brief moment. By the way, I just want to be clear: these are actual frame grabs and, in that way, they are completely unique. I say this only because these image-only posts of mine

Cinema Gallery: 200 MORE Movie Images, Part 2 of 5

For my 300th post on filmicability, I present the second part of my newest Cinema Gallery collection. As always, click on the photo to see it writ large.

Punk rock arrives in American Pop. (Ralph Bakshi, 81)

One unhappy army recruitment center. Drive, He Said. (Jack Nicholson, 71)

The chilling final image from Blue Collar. (Paul Schrader, 78)

The wrecked bus is raised to the heavens

Cinema Gallery: 200 MORE Movie Images, Part 1 of 5

I am doing this only because (a) I enjoy it and (b) Movieman over at The Dancing Image let me know that I had a particular talent at this frame-grabbing business (he said that my previous 200 images in my Cinema Gallery were among his favorite movie blog posts ever, which is quite a compliment, coming from him). So, for 2010, I'm contributing 200 more entries towards my CINEMA GALLERY. I hope

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 6

It took me a while to arrive at the last 30 screen caps for my CINEMA GALLERY series. I've been quite impressed with the other film bloggers that have joined in on this notion, and wish I could've lighted on as specific a set of themes as they did (their choices, linked to here at the end of MovieMan's piece, all look so swell together). However, in the end, I just had to go with "images that

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 5

We're nearing the end of my six-part series on great film images, and I've had a terrific time doing it! Anyway, with 29 more black-and-white images, and one in color, this makes 170. Have fun. Scratching for life in the sewers. Kanal. (Andrej Wadja, 57; PHOTOG: Jerzy Lipman) Hangmen Also Die! (Fritz Lang, 43; PHOTOG: James Wong Howe)The crone in charge, reflected in the mirrors of The Old

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 4

36 color additions to my gallery of 200 screen images! This far in, I strangely feel myself getting way more personal in my choices. There might be what're considered SPOILERS here. By the way, I'll tag five more film bloggers--as is my requirement--at the end of Part 6 in a few days. Arriving at 140 images this time, here we have: At the movies, a man seems to thank God for his true love in

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 3

Now, for part 3 of my six-part series following 200 landmark film images, we go all monochrome. Black-and-white is all the rage here with these 35 images (this makes 104 of the guaranteed 200, and no directors will be mentioned more than once):Is this real??? Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 33; PHOTOG: Henry Sharp)Our man amongst his treasured swings in Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 52; PHOTOG: Asakazu Nakai)

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 2

As promised, another 36 images of the 200 I've picked to exemplify great movie visage. This time, instead of trying to construct a narrative, I'm concentrating on color, trying to capture your eye. This'll make 69 of a promised 200. So here we go: Bob Dylan makes another mark via electricity in Eat The Document. (Bob Dylan, 71; PHOTOG: Howard Alk) One loser loses again, this morning at a

A Cinema Gallery: 200 Images, Part 1

I visited Ed Howard's lovely Only the Cinema the other day, and saw he'd been tagged in a meme by MovieMan at The Dancing Image. This meme, conversely started by Stephen at Checking On My Sausages, calls for film bloggers to create authentic screen captures from movie moments they felt best exemplified the visual magic of cinema. And even though I wasn't tagged by Ed (who had some nicely steamy