Comments on: Frame By Frame: The Best Shots Of 2013

By: ROBERT GASSAWAY

ROBERT GASSAWAY — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

"Berberian Sound Studio" – Gilderoy enters the film/becomes the film
"Leviathan" – disorienting, inverted birds flying overhead

By: TimParker

TimParker — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Pain and Gain? I have not seen it, but was Ben Seresin's work particularly good? Was Michael Bay's? What was it about that movie's framing that made it worth mentioning? Just curious.

By: serena

serena — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

There's a shot from Terence Malick's TO THE WONDER (seen in the trailer) where it's a wide interior shot on Ben Affleck on the ground floor, Olga Kurylenko on the second floor, and they both walk in the same direction off-camera. It quietly communicates that these two people are going in the same direction, but totally separate at the same time. It's one of the movies where any shot is a piece of art.

By: serena

serena — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Regarding the BLING RING shot, Sofia Coppola mentioned to Elvis Mitchell that she thought about cutting that sequence thinking it would be too technically difficult but Savides fought really hard to keep it in, so it's his handiwork entirely.

By: Lou

Lou — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

I'll echo the "Prisoners" love. I especially loved that last scene with Gyllenhaal driving the little girl to the hospital. Just flat-out beautifully shot by Deakins.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Although I didn't much like it either, half this list could have been filled up with Spring Breakers. Not since Tree of Life have I found a movie so simultaneously exasperating and gorgeous to look at.

By: mijo

mijo — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

That was the most boring fight scene ever filmed. Good thing i skipped on renting that.

By: Joss

Joss — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

– The slow zoom into the helmet until it becomes Bullocks POV shot from Gravity.
– The one take exterior shot of the robbery in Spring Breakers
– The final shots in the wood in The Hunt. Says so much through so little.

By: POBLANO_66

POBLANO_66 — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Almost anything in the sumptuous palette of director Andrew Dosunmu and DoP Bradford Young's Mother of George is worthy of inclusion on this list. From the luscious wedding sequence in the opening to the askew framing of the disintegration of the marriage 3/4's through. A must see for any true cinephile. Find the trailer and see for yourself.

By: Davide

Davide — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Love that you mentioned La Grande Bellezza and Pain & Gain. Those movies are gorgeous!

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

I know most people don't care for it, but 'Stoker' contains some truly impressive cinematography.

By: Gerard Kennelly

Gerard Kennelly — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

Dennis Quaid face during customer appreciation day –AT ANY PRICE

By: S

Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

The film came in for a hiding, but I do remember being impressed by the hotel penthouse break-in scene in THE HANGOVER PT. III, with the damaged fluorescent lights flashing as Black Sabbath's N.I.B. plays loud on the soundtrack.

Also Macon Blair lighting his own face by torchlight as two home invaders move around the house in Jeremy Saulnier's BLUE RUIN stayed with me.

By: Swaggy P

Swaggy P — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

the letter burning shot from 12 Years a Slave sticks out in my mind.

By: joel

joel — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:08 +0000

The shootout at the end of Spring Breakers is the worst part of that shit film. It's amazing how much you hipster douche bags have elevated what is one of the most predictable and pedantic films of 2013 into the cinematic equivalent of coconut water. The really funny part is going to be in three years when you realize you spent $25 on the blu-ray only to discover you never watched it twice and you can't sell it because your douche bag pals already tried to unload their copies onto Ebay. Enjoy your clams, cocksuckers.

By: Mercury

Mercury — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

Have you guys heard of Anyframe? It\’s an awesome tool that lets you extract still frames from movie videos. Can\’t stop playing with it. Saved all my favorite movie frames from Indiana Jones and Back to the Future.

By: james

james — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

The final shot of Beyond the Hills

By: Glass

Glass — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

That first shot in Place Beyond the Pines was so Vimeo-cliche I wanted to turn the movie off. Can we stop with the tracking shots from behind characters soon? It was stale in 2010.

By: Genga26

Genga26 — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

Nice list. I have to say my preferred shot in Grandmaster isn't the 'Kissing' scene between Zhang and Leung. Rather, I felt the scene with Leung and the old master lighting the cigarette scene later on to be THE scene of the whole film. It conveyed so much with such simplicity. Two masters without having to throw any punches who size each other up with a mere lighting of a cigarette. Beautifully poetic.

By: PhilipG

PhilipG — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

*harrumph* : How about the shot in Stoker where it fades from Nicole Kidman's hair to the wheat field……

By: Enrique

Enrique — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

this list has no credibility without Post Tenebras Lux on it.

By: Zach

Zach — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

If you're going to throw on a shot from "Pacific Rim" I think it's got to be the jaeger coming out of the mist towards the beginning of the film.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

Well, it took a while to read all of the reviews and I'm not sure I necessarily want to see any of these films, even Gravity. The little note on Before Midnight…I guess that film wasn't special enough to the reviewers to make the list but it is the only film mentioned here that I actually saw.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

As much as people hated it, I loved the Family and it had some really interesting camera work
Specifically, in the opening where the Assassin emerges from the smoke and also many of the stuff in the eerily yet enthralling yellow of the end shootout sequence.
The Tracking shot in Mama, so damn creepy…
Also most of the shots from Ain't Them Bodies Saints specifically at the beginning…

By: QG

QG — Fri, 13 May 2016 08:26:07 +0000

The opening of "American Hustle" with Christian Bale trying to paste a muffin on his head–so reminiscent of the ageless hope of mankind for immortality, bringing to mind the monolith in "2001" or the various efforts of Dr. Frankenstein through the decades. OK, I kid, but it's all I could come up with on short notice.