GALLERY OF FILM STILLS FOR CHAPTERS 2 TO 4 OF FILM PAST, FILM FUTURE 

March 2011

chapter 2: THE POTENCY OF SUSPENSE

2.1   Lord of the Rings: Gandalf faces the Balrog

   

2.2   Lord of the Rings
  

2.3   Hitchcock's Saboteur: sequence of Fry's death 

2.4

2.5

2.6

 

2.7

 

2.8

 

2.9   Survival strategy 1: Touching the Void

 

2.10   Survival strategy 2: The Pianist

 

2.11   Survival strategy 3: Un Condamne a mort s'est echappe/ A Man Escaped

 

chapter 3: UNLEASHING THE IMAGINATION: HORROR, SEX, VIOLENCE

3.1   Sensuality in Malle's Les Amants

 

3.2   Les Amants  

 

3.3   Les Amants  

 

3.4   Paul admires Bardot's backside 'totally, tenderly, tragically' in Godard's Le Mepris

 

3.5   Understatement in Dreyer's Gertud (camera: Henning Bendtsen)

 

3.6a Rue Campagne Premiere, Paris: Michel Poiccard's last moments in Godard's A Bout de Souffle / Breathless

 

3.6b

 

3.6c

 

3.6d   Rue Campagne Premiere in 1998 - in memoriam Michel Poiccard

 

3.7   Grandeur in Mann's Winchester '73 

 

3.8   Lockhart is shot through the hand in Mann's The Man from Laramie
  

 

3.8   Excess tamed by speed in Hawks's Scarface (1932)

 

3.9

 

3.10   Camonte's come-uppance in Scarface

 

3.11   Eastwood's Mystic River - Catholic criminals

 

3.12   It rains on the American flag in Eastwood's Unforgiven
  

 

chapter 4: LIGHTS CAMERA ACTION AND THE POOR BLOODY INFANTRY

4.1   Pabst's Westfront: the collapsing trench

 4.2   Westfront: the hand in the mud

4.3   Westfront 
 
4.4   Westfront: the hospital in the church
 
 
 		  4.4a-c   The Soviet War and Peace - the battle of Borodino: the religious procession before battle; the Raevski redoubt; the end of the battle
 
4.5  Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan
4.6   Saving Private Ryan: 'blurred static' 
4.7   One of Robert Capa's water-level photos on D-Day 
 
4.10  Milestone's A Walk in the Sun: Windy composing letters in his head
4.11   A Walk in the Sun: one of cameraman Russell Harlan's visual flourishes 		  
 
4.13   A Walk in the Sun: waiting		  
4.14   A Walk in the Sun: waiting and talking		  
 
4.15-17  In the landing craft: A Walk in the Sun . . .
 		  
        . . . Saving Private Ryan . . .		  
        . . . and Malick's The Thin Red Line
 
4.18   Thin Red Line: waiting		  
4.19   Thin Red Line: Witt dreaming