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Not the best image, but the only one I can find. It's from the climax of "Armour Of God" and what you're looking at is Jackie Chan freefalling - without a parachute, IIRC - from the top of a cliff onto a hot air balloon. Which is pretty damn impressive, whichever way you slice it.
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- Mar 2008
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- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
Favourite scenes / stills from film
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Have you seen the restored version of 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' with the instrumental soundtrack by In The Nursery? It's fantastic! I went to see the premiere of it, in Sheffield Cathedral, with ITN performing the soundtrack live. After about 15 minutes I totally forgot they were there. It was mesmeric!
Their version of 'Hindle Wakes' was astounding too.
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- Mar 2008
- 14186
- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
Favourite scenes / stills from film
Some of my favourite images were in 'Paris, Texas', though I can't find images of the exact ones I want.
That film almost could have been a tourist board brochure for the south western United States. I particularly loved the use of skies in it: the scene where Travis and Hunter are in the car, emerging from a storm into vividly-hued clear skies; the scene where Walt stops the (freshly-escaped) Travis as he's striding down a railroad track. "There's nothing out there, Travis." The skies were just so huge in that film. Wenders knew that, of course and pretty much used them in place of conventional scenery for much of the film.
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- Mar 2008
- 14186
- The Deep South of England
- JPS Lotus
- Shortcake ...no, Custard Cream! ...no, Jammie Dodger...
Favourite scenes / stills from film
Heh! I was just looking at Herzog stills! I was trying to find a pic of the scene from Nosferatu where the ship carrying Dracula slowly bumps its way into Whitby(?) harbour, carrying the vampire and his plague rats. That's one of the most impressive scenes I think I've witnessed. Again no dice, in terms of stills, tough.
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I've got this on my desktop right now:
From Mizogushi's Ugetsu Monogatori (1953), a fable about the perils of social climbing and one of the greatest Japanese films ever made. This scene, a picnic near a river bank with a beautiful woman, is the epitome of what a perfect life is supposed to be.
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Goodness me, I'd forgotten that the following film ever existed (from Mumpo's great link). I must've watched it a dozen times during my early teens when skateboarding was de rigeur around here. I can't remember anything about the storyline.
I should've made it a requirement to state which film the stills were from, especially as I don't recognise most of the unnamed.
Mine in the OP is from Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress. It became much more popular in the 1970s/1980s after George Lucas admitted using the film as a basis for part of Star War, especially the C3PO / R2D2 relationship.
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