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Tag: freeze frame

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Freeze Frame: THE BREAKFAST CLUB

You want others to see us as we want to see ourselves – in the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions. What if there’s a better way?

Posted on February 12, 2015June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: GREASE

“That ending” is less about caving-in than it is about shaping-up.

Posted on January 29, 2015June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: THE FRENCH CONNECTION

Quick and painless please…

Posted on January 22, 2015June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: WITNESS

What we hold can sometimes say a lot about who we are.

Posted on January 8, 2015June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: THE MUPPET MOVIE

Life’s like a movie; write your own ending…

Posted on December 10, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: TO BE OR NOT TO BE

What used to be a joke is now par for the course.

Posted on December 3, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

Watch a film a few times, and you start to notice foreshadowing that you’d never have picked up on before.

Posted on November 20, 2014June 30, 2015
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The 50th Freeze Frame: THE GODFATHER

For my fiftieth shot, I went to my favorite moment of my favorite classic.

Posted on November 6, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: 3 WOMEN

It’s amazing how much about a person can be kept hidden.

Posted on October 16, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: BRIEF ENCOUNTER

Much as I love to mine a film for a fleeting moment, sometimes it’s best to stick with iconography.

Posted on October 9, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

“Democracy” is seldom all that democratic.

Posted on October 2, 2014June 30, 2015
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Freeze Frame: THE NATURAL

Without heroes we’re all plain people, but we may want to be careful who we anoint as heroes.

Posted on September 25, 2014June 30, 2015

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