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freeze frame

visuals 1989, directors of colour, do the right thing, freeze frame, spike lee

Empire State of Mind: DO THE RIGHT THING

March 2, 2015

It’s ain’t all monochrome, especially when the temperature starts to rise.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1987, freeze frame, oliver stone, wall street

Empire State of Mind: WALL STREET

March 1, 2015

Greed is good; perspective is great.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 2008, freeze frame, james marsh, man on wire

Empire State of Mind: MAN ON WIRE

February 28, 2015

It takes a lot of guts to embrace a city with your entire life. If your lucky, the city embraces you back.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1933, freeze frame, king kong, merian c. cooper

Empire State of Mind: KING KONG

February 27, 2015

While I head to Gotham for a few days, allow me to touch on some of my favorite shots in my favorite New York stories.

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Ryan McNeil
outside, visuals cineplex, freeze frame

Elsewhere: Freeze Framing the Best Picture Nominees at Cineplex

February 18, 2015

I’m at Cineplex today breaking down the Oscar Class of 2014 into eight awesome shots.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1985, freeze frame, john hughes, the breakfast club

Freeze Frame: THE BREAKFAST CLUB

February 12, 2015

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?

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1978, freeze frame, grease, randal kleiser

Freeze Frame: GREASE

January 29, 2015

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

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Ryan McNeil
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