15 best shots of 2014

Welcome to the second Best of 2014 list! There were plenty of movies last year with absolutely stunning cinematography. But this list is a little bit more specific than this. It's about that one perfect image that showed up on screen that I won't be able to ever forget. Whenever thinking of these movies, it's impossible for me not to remember the best shots in them and they just appear in my mind instantly.

Autumn Gallery

Autumn - the time when leaves have warm, gorgeous colors as they fall from trees, when days are shorter and nights longer and when it rains for most of the time. For me it's usually the only time of year when I fall ill, but even that doesn't change the fact that it's a lovely season - one that has my favorite day of the year - Halloween. It's also beautifully depicted in movies - all the shots of leaves on the ground, creating this cozy surroundings around the characters, the rain falling from the sky and people walking outside, in their coats and with their umbrellas, not being discouraged by the days are becoming darker and colder with each moment.

Summertime!

Summer - heat, sunlight, ice cream and sand. There are several works of art that, for me, capture the season so well that you can experience them in the middle of snowy winter and you still feel as if you were standing on the beach, looking at the waves, feeling sunlight on your skin. In music it's Lana del Rey's songs - they really feel as if the sun, the heat and the desire to feel a little bit of wind on your face was enclosed in them. When I listen to her songs I feel as if I was in the apartment complex much like the one in "Leaving Las Vegas", next to the pool or in some diner, like the one in Twin Peaks seeing everything around me melting, while looking thankfully at the ceiling fan.

Same goes for certain movies (U Turn, The Rum Diary) where you can really feel the summer vibe in every single shot. Here is the collection of images from various films, that for me capture this season of the year perfectly:

Happy St. Patrick's Day! 16 drinking scenes from movies.

Valentine's Day Special - 15 memorable sex scenes.

I'll be damned If I sit here making a list of the most romantic moments in movies. Fuck it. In the time when in recent movies Scarlett Johansson has a bra in sex scenes (who does that?) and Justin Timberlake is dry humping (I don't even wanna know who does that...)  Cameron Diaz it is nice to remember that some movies actually have good, passionate and erotic sex scenes. Here we go:

(Warning: Contains explicit images, Ryan Gosling, Jake Gyllenhaal, Mila Kunis, Robert Downey Jr and others shirtless Clooney and Jean Dujardin, naturally. Viewing this post may cause severe salivation and sexual imagery suddenly appearing in the mind)

48 hidden images in "Black Swan"

I'm sure many of you who saw "Black Swan" clicked pause many times during the club scene. But did you guys know there are other times in the movie when watching it frame by frame can be quite rewarding? Since I can't exactly post all the moments of eerie laughter or flatter of the wings appearing in the background (because I don't know how to extract those, to be completely honest) - I leave it to you all to listen carefully. I can however provide you with screenshots I made today, using DVD, "e" button and movie player. Here we go:

1. In the subway scene in the beginning of the movie if you freeze frame you will see Nina is seeing herself and not Lily, although later on in the movie Lily is wearing exactly the same clothes and earrings.

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow - Christmas gallery

Sucker Punch

Edward Scissorhands

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NY Times stunning video gallery - Touch of Evil

Here you can find absolutely wonderful video gallery featuring Mia Wasikowska, Kristen Dunst, Jessica Chastain, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Rooney Mara, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Gary Oldman, Ryan Gosling, Juan Dujardin, Adepero Oduje and Michael Shannon in the roles of villains.

Jessica Chastain as the Fire Starter

Ryan Gosling as Invisible Man

Movie Poster Appreciation

Shame official poster

Black Swan by Vincent Gabriele

Saoirse Ronan...

...is absolutely gorgeous! 

Here is one of the photographs of her in "Vogue" with slight color and contrast edits made by me:

First picture of Helena Bonham Carter in "Great Expectations"

Good Lord <333

5 emotions, 15 movies, 15 pictures.

Desire Moulin Rouge / Atonement / Black Swan Love Love Actually / Solaris / Big Fish Joy Inception / Amelie / A Single Man Sadness The Hours / Brokeback Mountain /Hearry Potter and Deathly Hallows part 2 Fear Se7en / Repulsion / Mulholland Dr.

Just a random thing...

...that haunts me.