Monday, June 27, 2011

The West

Stagecoach (1939)
dir. John Ford


Duel in the Sun (1946)
dir. King Vidor

The Mirror

Class of 1984 (1982)
dir. Mark L. Lester


Twin Peaks Finale, Part 2 (1991)
dir. David Lynch

The Old Dog

The Simpsons "Homerpalooza" (1996)
dir. Wes Archer


Futurama "Jurassic Bark" (2002)
dir. Swinton O. Scott III

Sunday, June 26, 2011

The Borderland (2)

 The Outer Limits "The Borderland" (1963)
dir. Leslie Stevens



Prince of Darkness (1987)
dir. John Carpenter

Saturday, June 25, 2011

The Borderland

The Outer Limits "The Borderland" (1963)
dir. Leslie Stevens


Poltergeist (1982)
dir. Tobe Hooper

The Window Shot

Take Me to Town (1953)
dir. Douglas Sirk


All That Heaven Allows (1955)
dir. Douglas Sirk

The Femme

Blade Runner (1982)
dir. Ridley Scott


Tell-Tale (2010)
dir. Greg Williams

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The Booby Trap

Uncle Scrooge #7 "The Seven Cities of Cibola" (1954)
Carl Barks


Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
dir. Steven Spielberg

The Bridge

Manhattan Bridge Tower in Brooklyn, New York City, Framed Through Nearby Buildings (1974)
Danny Lyon


Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
dir. Sergio Leone

Monday, June 20, 2011

The Cyclops

The Atomic Submarine (1959)
dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet


Star Wars (1977)
dir. George Lucas

Sunday, June 19, 2011

The Minisub

The Atomic Submarine (1959)
dir. Spencer Gordon Bennet


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick

The Evil Eye (2)

White Zombie (1932)
dir. Victor Halperin


Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
dir. Francis Ford Coppola

The Pants

Seinfeld "The Wait Out" (1996)
dir. Andy Ackerman


Friends "The One with All the Resolutions" (1999)
dir. Joe Regalbuto

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The Audacious Fantasy Vessel


"An audacious fantasy vessel is to take us across still untraversable distances."

Our Heavenly Bodies (1925)
dir. Hanns Walter Kornblum


"We are going to explore the cosmos in a ship of the imagination, unfettered by ordinary limits of speed and size."

Cosmos "The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean" (1980)
dir. Geoffrey Haines-Stiles & Adrian Malone

The Tower of Babel

The Tower of Babel (1563)
Pieter Bruegel the Elder



 Our Heavenly Bodies (1925)
dir. Hanns Walter Kornblum



Metropolis (1927)
dir. Fritz Lang

The Microgravity

Our Heavenly Bodies (1925)
dir. Hanns Walter Kornblum


2001: A Space Odyssey (1968
dir. Stanley Kubrick

Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Star Child

 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick


Superman: The Movie (1978)
dir. Richard Donner

The Dustbowl

 The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
dir. John Ford


Superman: The Movie (1978)
dir. Richard Donner

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Anti-Hero

Throne of Blood (1957)
dir. Akira Kurosawa


Scarface (1983)
dir. Brian De Palma


from SMP

Monday, June 13, 2011

The Establishing Shots

American Landscape (1930) / Ford Plant, River Rouge, Criss-Crossed Conveyors (1927)
Charles Sheeler

If I Had a Million (1932)
dir. Norman Taurog