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freeze frame

visuals 1945, brief encounter, david lean, freeze frame

Freeze Frame: BRIEF ENCOUNTER

October 9, 2014

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

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1962, freeze frame, john frankenheimer, the manchurian candidate

Freeze Frame: THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

October 2, 2014

“Democracy” is seldom all that democratic.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1984, barry levinson, freeze frame, the natural

Freeze Frame: THE NATURAL

September 25, 2014

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

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1955, freeze frame, nicholas ray, rebel without a cause

Freeze Frame: REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE

July 16, 2014

What does it mean to be a man? What did it ever mean?

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1982, amy heckerling, fast times at ridgemont high, freeze frame, jess rogers

Freeze Frame: FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH

July 10, 2014

A few things have changed since Jess and I were teenagers…but not quite everything.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1974, chinatown, freeze frame, roman polanski

Freeze Frame: CHINATOWN

July 3, 2014

An image is worth one thousand words. The truth might require one thousand more.

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Ryan McNeil
visuals 1944, billy wilder, double indemnity, freeze frame

Freeze Frame: DOUBLE INDEMNITY

June 24, 2014

Seeking grace in the moments of our biggest mistakes.

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Ryan McNeil
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