Film Still Tuesday

Lost Highway, by David Lynch

2001: A Space Odyssey, by Stanley Kubrick

Magnolia, by Paul Thomas Anderson

Skyfall Art

The new James Bond film, Skyfall was probably the best Bond film I've seen in a long time. It was fun, self-conscious about it's own Bond movie conventions (with lines like, "somebody usually dies"), and probably more more beautifully filmed than any Bond film in recent memory. The dramatic lighting of the final showdown reminded me of some of the incredible shots in Apocalypse Now. For that matter - they also reminded me of Turner's paintings. This painting "The Fighting Temeraire" by J.M.W. Turner makes an appearance in the Skyfall scene pictured above:

There's also an incredible Friedrich-esque Scottish landscape in the film:

Caspar David Friedrich, "Evening Landscape with Two Men", 1830

My own photo of the Scottish highlands from August, 2012:

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 13 - Punch Drunk Love

Still from Punch Drunk Love - more here.
Ross Bleckner, Hands and Faces, 1994, Oil on Linen, 96x120"

Still from Punch Drunk Love
Dan Flavin, The Diagonal of May 25, 1963, 1963, blue fluorescent light

Still from Punch Drunk Love - by Jeremy Blake
Gene Davis, Royal Canoe, 1977, Screenprint
Paper Size: 37 1/2 x 43 inches, Edition of 100
Published by Pace Editions, Inc

Still from Punch Drunk Love

Brice Marden, "Grove IV". 1976, Oil and Wax on Canvas, two panels, 72x108" overall
Still from Punch Drunk Love
Edvard Munch, Kiss by the Window, 1892

Still from Punch Drunk Love
Brice Marden

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 12 - Paris, Texas

This clip is the opening scene from Wim Wender's Paris, Texas. I saw the 1984 movie for the first time last week and loved it. It's a rich and beautifully composed film - it was really fantastic and a visual inspiration.

Still from Paris, Texas
Still from Paris, Texas
Mark Tansey, Robbe-Grillet Cleansing Every Object in Sight, 1981, 72x72"

Still from Paris, Texas
Luke Barber-Smith, Grace, 2009, 43x34 inches, c-print

Still from Paris, Texas

Still from Paris, Texas
Jason Stopa, Untitled (Mirror Series) Oil on Canvas. 2009

Still from Paris, Texas
Robert Adams- from What We Bought - The New World, Denver, 1970-74 - from flickr user Jodan TateStill from Paris, Texas - this one already looks like a painting.
Still from Paris, Texas
Vija Celmins, Untitled Portfolio: Desert, Lithograph, 16x20", 1975

Still from Paris, Texas

Edward Hopper, Nightwawks, 1942 - photo of the piece in Chicago by flickr user Jing a Ling. I think a lot of the google photos of this work don't show the color accurately - this one is pretty close.Still from Paris, Texas
Phil Sims, Green Navigator, 2008

Still from Paris, Texas
Damien Loeb, Lolita, 2005, Oil on Linen, 36x84"

Art and Film Friday; Vol. 11 - Gerry

Still from Gus Van Sant's 2002 film Gerry

Jason Stopa, Untitled (Mirror Series), Oil on Canvas. 2009

Still from Gus Van Sant's 2002 film Gerry

Edvard Munch, Melancholy III, 1902

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James Everett Stanley, Two Figures, 2006, Oil on canvas, 72” x 84”

Still from Gus Van Sant's 2002 film Gerry
Nocturne Grey and Gold Snow in Chelsea by Whistler, 1876
Still from Gus Van Sant's 2002 film Gerry
Vincent Romaniello, Untitled 730, 54x64 inches, mixed mediums on canvas, 2007

Still from Gus Van Sant's 2002 film Gerry
Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960, via SFMOMA

Peter Allen Hoffmann, After A.D., 2008, Oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in, Courtesy Freight + Volume, NY