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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Annie Hall

Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Gordon Willis

Apocalypse Now

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

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

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

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

Big Fish

A frustrated son tries to determine the fact from fiction in his dying father's life. Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot

Black Swan

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cool Hand Luke

A man refuses to conform to life in a rural prison. DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Conrad L. Hall

Eternal Sunshine...

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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