The Yellow Rubber Duck - The Stills Project

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The Film Stills Project

A collection of hand picked still frame grabs from the best shot films of all time.

Viewed without motion and sound the sequences reveal the beauty of the framing, lighting, and context.

12 Monkeys In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Roger Pratt	2001 A Space Odyssey Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Geoffrey Unsworth	A Beautiful Mind After a brilliant but asocial mathematician accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn to the nightmarish. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins
A Clockwork Orange In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem... but not all goes to plan. LIGHTING CAMERAMAN: John Alcott	All the Presidents Men Reporters Woodward and Bernstein uncover the details of the Watergate scandal that leads to President Nixon's resignation. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Gordon Willis	Amelie Amelie, an innocent and naive girl in Paris, with her own sense of justice, decides to help those around her and along the way, discovers love. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Bruno Delbonnel
American Beauty Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation for his daughter's attractive friend. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Conrad L. Hall	American History X A former neo-nazi skinhead tries to prevent his younger brother from going down the same wrong path that he did. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Tony Kaye	Amores Perros A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rodrigo Prieto
Annie Hall Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gordon Willis	Apocalypse Now During the U.S.-Viet Nam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Vittorio Storaro	Babel Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Rodrigo Prieto
Barry Lyndon An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's position in 18th Century aristocracy. CINEMATOGRAPHY: John Alcott	Being John Malkovich A puppeteer discovers a portal that leads literally into the head of the movie star, John Malkovich. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Lance Acord	Big Fish A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot
Black Swan A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Matthew Libatique	Blade Runner Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to Earth seeking their maker. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Jordan Cronenweth	Boogie Nights In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert Elswit
Born On The Fourth Of July The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid Two Western bank/train robbers flee to Bolivia when the law gets too close. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Conrad L. Hall	Casino Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Robert Richardson
Children of Men In 2027, in a chaotic world in which women have become somehow infertile, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubezki	Chinatown A private detective hired to expose an adulterer finds himself caught up in a web of deceit, corruption and murder. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: John A. Alonzo	Chocolat A woman and her daughter open a chocolate shop in a small French village that shakes up the rigid morality of the community. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Roger Pratt
Citizen Kane Following the death of a publishing tycoon, news reporters scramble to discover the meaning of his final utterance. PHOTOGRAPHY: Gregg Toland	City of God Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer. CINEMATOGRAPHY: César Charlone	Cool Hand Luke A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Conrad L. Hall
Eternal Sunshine... When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a procedure to have each other erased from their memories. But it is only through the process of loss that they discover what they had to begin with. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ellen Kuras

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