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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.

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Will McCrabb
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I will think about how they did this shot from The Empire Strikes Back on my death bed.
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Alien 3 rod puppet
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No one will ever say, "The Batman" like Cillian Murphy.
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23 years ago Ke Huy Quan was a fight coordinator on X-Men.
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Never forget how that first frame was filmed.
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cinesthetic.
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Eyes Wide Shut (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick
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Producer: We have no train. Wes Anderson: No problem.
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I saw someone on here say they don't get why wearing glasses disguises Clark Kent from being recognized as Superman. 1) Come on it's a comic book movie. 2) I present to you the genius of Christopher Reeve.
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James Cameron's illustration detailing the methodology used achieve this shot.
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THE TERMINATOR (1984)
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I love that Spike Jonze shot for two weeks in Shanghai to simulate a Los Angeles of the future in "her".
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It always bugs me when a character in a movie punches thru a window. The Nice Guys deals with this cinematic trope perfectly.
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Jed the wolf dog in John Carpenter's The Thing gives one of the greatest performances put on screen. Hits every mark, ignores the camera and crew and commits to the end. Genius film acting.
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The Empire Strikes Back The Shot & How it was done
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It's Wes Anderson's birthday and here's the amazing way he recorded the voices for The Fantastic Mr. Fox
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55 years ago The Graduate was released and we were given one of the greatest cuts in film history.
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I've shared this moment a million times but I'm sharing it again, sorry. Keep your eyes on the crew member who walks behind Michael Keaton and unhooks him from the wire rig.
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6 months
Thinking about the 46 takes it took to achieve this insert shot in Zodiac.
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1 year
I love that Paul Thomas Anderson was like, fuck it, we're changing the lens during the shot.
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A single image from a film that perfectly illustrates the obstacles the protagonist will have to overcome on her hero's journey.
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I love that Paul Thomas Anderson photographed the Licorice Pizza poster himself.
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Such a great photograph
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She is reacting to him like he just came too quickly.
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Drew Struzan painting the Phantom Menace poster.
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This shot in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is cinematic perfection. DP Daniel Pearl is lying on a flatbed dolly while hand holding the camera. The extreme wide lens and low angle creates the illusion of the house growing as she walks closer.
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When Oppenheimer's guilt begins to overcome him vfx supervisor Andrew Jackson utilized an ingenious technique. He photographed the background with a still camera and projected it behind Cillian Murphy while shaking the projector to unsettle the background all in-camera.
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Every year on his birthday I share John Carpenter's succinct response when asked if he ever thought about shortening the alley fight in They Live.
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Greatest couple in movie history.
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50 years ago The Exorcist was made before the invention of the Steadicam. This was the camera rig DP Owen Roizman and his Grips invented to follow characters upstairs. The real challenge was lighting the set to hide the shadows of the crew.
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Paul Verhoeven directing Robocop
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Producer: We don't have a train. Wes Anderson: That's why I make movies.
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2 years
Never Forget
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One of the greatest cuts in Steven Spielberg's career.
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John Carpenter's The Thing was Jake's first film. But he already had the chops of veteran. Look how he perfectly hits his mark, ignores the moving camera and crew, hits his second mark and takes a beat before entering the room in this single shot. Jake was an amazing film actor
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This shot in Amsterdam is amazing.
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1 year
The next time you watch The Insider know that this is where Michael Mann photographed this shot because the light was perfect.
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Jack Nicholson did this for Diane Keaton
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Steven Spielberg's design of this shot in Munich belongs in a museum.
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3 years
Gary Busey was asked, "what is Predator 2 about?" This is his answer
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Every actor after the strike should roll like Harry Dean Stanton did at 2012 Avengers premiere.
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The greatest moment from a David Fincher commentary.
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For this shot in Martin Scorsese's After Hours they didn't have the time or money to lay down dolly track for this shot. So they had Griffin Dunne run in a circle and the camera pans with him.
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I can never stop thinking about how ILM shot the mine car miniatures in Temple of Doom with a Nikon still camera refurbished with a small load 35mm film mag.
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This is such a cool cut.
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Top Secret! has the best underwater barroom brawl ever committed to film.
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Just a reminder that this film received zero Academy Award nominations in 1996.
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No one can design a shot like Steven Spielberg.
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The computer readouts of New York inside Snake Plissken's glider were shot practically with various sized models outlined with 3M reflective tape.
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Especially when you realize how it was shot.
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this is one of the best shots in the history of cinema
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This moment from 12 Monkeys where James Cole transforms from a middle aged man to an eight year old boy is amazing. Decades of pain and loss is in his eyes. This is genius film acting. This is the genius of Bruce Willis.
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Happy 25th to The Big Lebowski and to this camera rig. Today we Abide.
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Paul Thomas Anderson making a $115 million dollar action film is why I love movies.
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The complexity of this shot is mind blowing. That Mr. Spielberg sure knows how to direct movies.
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Let me drop this bomb for you.
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Robert Downey Jr confirms Christopher Nolan’s rule of no chairs on set was in effect for ‘OPPENHEIMER’. (via: )
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My favorite Texas Switch is in LOTR The Return of the King.
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It's Michael Mann's 81st birthday so please forgive me if I once again share this moment from The Insider and where he actually shot the close-up because the light was just right. He is a masterful filmmaker.
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One of the greatest photographs ever taken.
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The legend that is Michael Shannon watching the Academy Awards in a Chicago bar the night The Shape of Water won, "Best Picture."
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Keep your eyes on Joe Pesci's face and you will see the almost subliminal dissolve Thelma Schoonmaker used to merge two takes.
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Wim Wenders took this photo when he came across and gave a lift to Isabella Rossellini and Martin Scorsese after their car had broken down in Monument Valley.
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At the end of Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans when Burt looks at a photo of the love of his life Mitzi who left him for his best friend his shadow becomes her silhouette.
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I never get tired of seeing how they did this puppet gag in Evil Dead 2.
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I love that Wes Anderson had the actors stand motionless with the props suspended by wires (the fire extinguisher spray was cotton) so he could achieve a "freeze frame" dolly shot in The French Dispatch.
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The Exorcist The Shot & how they did it
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This Dolly-Zoom in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express is outstanding.
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This oversized suit on stilts to sell a Hobbit's scale in The Fellowship of the Ring is pretty sweet.
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Blocking a shot on the set of Saving Private Ryan.
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In the 1980s you could send in unsolicited pitches/outlines for Miami Vice episodes and receive a reply letter from Michael Mann. That letterhead is just awesome.
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David Lynch is brought to tears as he received a standing ovation for Twin Peaks The Return at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
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This moment in Raging Bull. It was the first time ever that an in-camera frame rate change was done.
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Which is your favourite 'slow motion' scene from a movie?
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On December 16th The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was released. After 14 months of principle photography and months of pick-up shoots this was the last scene shot for the trilogy.
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Old school effects on The Lord of the Rings.
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It took an entire day and half a night to light this shot. Remember, the camera pans the length of a block before ending on this iconic image. This was the cinematic gift from Owen Roizman, ASC and William Friedkin to all of us who love movies.
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Nothing is more iconic than this shot.
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32 years later and these visual effects still hold up.
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Never forget what Al Pacino is doing to his cigar in this moment from Dick Tracy.
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This is what Jim Henson did to create this shot in The Muppet Movie.
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One giant ring to rule the frame.
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I've seen The Shining over 100 times and only now realized she's holding a doll of Danny in this shot.
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James Cameron's conceptual painting says it all.
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@joerussotweets Here's a question I've asked ppl and I think the answer is yes but interested to hear your thoughts. Is The Terminator a Slasher film ?
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Death Becomes Her has one of the greatest designed and executed visual effects shots ever put on film.
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I'm fighting an ulcer due to horrific studio notes on a project I'm about to give up on. Then, I read this.
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There are shots in movies and then, there's this shot in Contact.
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David Lynch on the set of Dune.
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Were you ever concerned the alleyway fight in "They Live" was too long? John Carpenter:
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The greatest stunt in motion picture history.
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Harry Dean Stanton at The Avengers premiere in 2012 is why I still believe in Hollywood.
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Steven Spielberg's home movies from a 1975 party at Martin Scorsese's house.
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There is no CGI in this shot. Robert Patrick is a powerfully gifted physical performer.
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The camera blocking and use of mirrors in these two shots from Steven Spielberg's Munich are absolutely incredible.
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Isabella Rossellini with Martin Scorsese and David Lynch.
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This shot Holy shit How was this done
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This shot from Contact is mind blowing.
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29 year old David Fincher on the set of his $40 million dollar first feature sending a message to the studio.
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One of the great uses of a horizontal split-diopter lens is in Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express. Spielberg was 25 years old when he made this film.
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ONE TICKET FOR COCAINE BEAR
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Sorry, I've shared this a million times but I love this camera methodology for achieving a shot that lasts only seconds in The Big Lebowski.
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David Fincher camera blocking an entire scene in less than a minute.
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Happy 30th to Jurassic Park. The first and only film in the series to utilize "man in a suit" dinosaurs.
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An action beat that could only be directed by David Lynch.
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Martin Scorsese & Robert DeNiro writing the "Shooting Draft" of the Raging Bull screenplay on the island of St. Maarten. I want a writing partner like this.
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