View image: To sleep, perchance to dream... View image: The dreamer awakes. View image: Meanwhile, on the other side of the world... (From the opening shot of "Lost in Translation.") Does this shot look uncannily familiar? A man asleep, or…
View image: The kind of thing that can ruin a childhood. From Robert Daniel, Birmingham, AL: "Deep Red" (Dario Argento, 1975): The scene opens a floor-level shot. We hear a stabbing sound and a loud scream. The knife falls in…
From John Hopkins, San Diego, CA:
View image: Waking into a nightmare. From Brad Damare, New Orleans, LA: "Dawn of the Dead" opens with an close-up of one of the lead characters, asleep against a blood-red carpeted wall. She seems both alone and surrounded by the…
Just think: Johnny Depp could have had the career of, say, Richard Grieco. In 1988, they were both break-out stars, young TV cops working undercover as high school students in the fledgling Fox network's first hit show, "21 Jump Street."
View image: What are we looking at/for? View image: Find one difference in this picture. From Jeremy Mathews, The Salt Shaker Magazine, Salt Lake City, UT: It may be a recent film, but I don't think it's too early to…
View image From Girish Shambu, Buffalo, NY: "Flowers of Shanghai" (1998), by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-Hsien, has an opening shot that lasts — I kid you not — eight minutes! Jazz bassist Marcus Miller once said about James Brown’s music…
View image From Jonathan Pacheco, Anna, TX: Seemingly too easy of a choice, this film's first shot meets your criteria perfectly. After a slightly creepy overture, we are blessed with shot of a barely visible moon. It slowly moves down…
From Pierre Pinard, Québec, Canada:
Steve Slaton, KZOK-FM, Seattle, WA:
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