Posts Tagged ‘movie stills’
“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality”*…
“Enough of symbolism and these escapist themes of purity and innocence.” 8½ (1963)
From If We Don’t, Remember Me, “a gallery of living movie stills”…
“I just hate all these extroverted, obnoxious, pseudo-bohemian losers.” Ghost World (2001)
* Alfred Stieglitz
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As we find our inner stillness, we might recall that it was on this date in 43 BCE that Rome’s greatest orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero was executed (his head and hands were amputated) for his Philippics, a series of speeches attacking Mark Antony and calling for a restoration of the Republic. Sic semper prōtestor.
Hold still…
From Christian Annyas, “The Movie Title Stills Collection“– screen shots of the head titles, end titles, and trailer titles from hundreds of feature films dating from the 1920s to today.
As we fiddle with our fonts, we might recall that it was on this date in 1961 that Danish barbers’ assistants, who had begun a labor action in Copenhagen in 1938, ended their 33-year-long strike– the longest on record.
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