The lovely Mses Griffin and Sweeney in "It's Pat: The Movie" (which has a helluva opening shot!) OK, I don't usually get into the tabloid "news" (that much) -- this is, after all, a site devoted to the in-depth appreciation…
Enlarge image: Sweeeeeeeet slow-mooooootion. From Mike Leto, Bethpage, NY: I agree with you about how opening shots are one of the most important parts in a film. If the opening shot is good then the movie takes hold of me…
Seven men from now: How many Chicagoans does it take to make up a phony terror cell? On Monday night's The Daily Show, Jon Stewart reported on the big press conference called by Attorney General (and Pillar of Integrity) Alberto…
It's really not that difficult. I'll be publishing your Opening Shots submissions all this week. And I'll provide the answers to both my Opening Shots Pop Quizzes (and further appreciations of the shots themselves) on Friday or over the weekend.…
From Nadia Aboufariss: "Aguirre, the Wrath of God" begins with a shot of a huge, wooded mountain side, shrouded in the mist. We can just barely make out the figures who are slowly descending the slope, little bigger than specks…
Enlarge image: Clink! Enlarge image: Gurgle. From Dave McCoy, Editor, MSN Movies: The Coen Brothers love to use objects as symbols for characters, especially before we actually meet them. Think of the tumbling tumbleweed that starts "The Big Lebowski" --…
Enlarge image: Newsroom hustle... Enlarge image: ... and bustle. Notice the emphasis on women at work in the very first moments. From That Little Round-Headed Boy: "His Girl Friday": Anybody who ever worked in the journalism business, or wished they…
View image View image View image "Altered States" opens with the image of a fluorescent, egglike shape surrounded by darkness. It is a window. From below, in comes a floating human figure (William Hurt as Prof. Eddie Jessup), who appears…
M. Nightmare Shyamalan: "Sometimes Night would close his eyes and see little oval black and white head shots of Nina Jacobson and Oren Aviv and Dick Cook floating around in his head, unwanted houseguests that would not leave. The Disney…
Q. Please help before it's too late! There is still time for the producers of the animated movie "Barnyard" to redub the soundtrack. No wonder Americans are becoming known as the world's stupidest people: apparently we don't even know that…
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