Did you favorite make the list?
When One Perfect Shot started, it was about one thing and one thing only: an appreciation for the singular moments of beauty within films. And though over the last few years, the last year especially upon becoming acquired by Film School Rejects, we’ve broadened our scope to include essays, interviews, film reviews, think pieces galore, listicles, columns, news and other articles, I like to think our purpose is still the same: sharing the love of cinema.
But for all the words we publish, still nothing draws you guys in like the shots we post on Twitter. We see the old idiom about pictures and their worth come true a couple dozen times every single day and that’s because, I believe, for all the analysis, exploration, dissection and verbal meandering we do, nothing communicates the grace, impact, and emotion-inducing power of film like film itself.
In that spirit, behold the following supercut from Ignacio Montalvo that collects the best shots of the 21st century from 70+ films including In the Mood for Love, Spirited Away, Big Fish, Children of Men, There Will Be Blood, and Inglorious Basterds. A complete list is below the imbed, but make a game of the video and try to identify as many of the clips as you can; they’re in chronological order. And share with us on Twitter any shots that didn’t make the list but you think deserve to.
Films (in chronological order)
-Unbreakable (2000, M.Night Shyamalan)
-In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai)
-Gladiator (2000, Ridley Scott)
-Cast Away (2000, Robert Zemeckis)
-American Psycho (2000, Mary Harron)
-Spirited Away (2001, Hayao Miyazaki)
-Mulholland Drive (2001, David Lynch)
-A.I: Artificial Intelligence (2001, Steven Spielberg)
-Donnie Darko (2001, Richard Kelly)
-A Beautiful Mind (2001, Ron Howard)
-Moulin Rouge (2001, Baz Luhrmann)
-Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001, Peter Jackson)
-Minority Report (2001, Steven Spielberg)
-Catch me if you can (2002, Steven Spielberg)
-Road to Perdition (2002, Sam Mendes)
-The Pianist (2002, Roman Polanski)
-Gangs of New York (2002, Martin Scorsese)
-25th Hour (2002, Spike Lee)
-Dogville (2003, Lars Von Trier)
-Mystic River (2003, Clint Eastwood)
-Big Fish (2003, Tim Burton)
-Lost in Translation (2003, Sofia Coppola)
-Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003, Quentin Tarantino)
-Old boy (2003, Park Chan-wook)
-Collateral (2004, Michael Mann)
-The Aviator (2004, Martin Scorsese)
-Life Aquatic (2004, Wes Anderson)
-Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, Michel Gondry)
-Sideways (2004, Alexander Payne)
-Before Sunset (2004, Richard Linklater)
-Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005, Shane Black)
-Brokeback Mountain (2005, Ang Lee)
-Sin City (2005, Robert Rodriguez)
-Match Point (2005, Woody Allen)
-The Squid and the Whale (2005, Noah Baumbach)
-The Fountain (2006, Darren Aronofsky)
-The Prestige (2006, Christopher Nolan)
-Children of Men (2006, Alfonso Cuarón)
-Little Miss Sunshine (2006, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Paris)
-Sunshine (2007, Danny Boyle)
-There Will Be Blood (2007, Paul Thomas Anderson)
-No Country for Old Men (2007, Ethan & Joel Coen)
-Atonement (2007, Joe Wright)
-In Bruges (2008, Martin McDonagh)
-Let the Right One In (2008, Tomas Alfredson)
-Slumdog Millionaire (2008, Danny Boyle)
-The Dark Knight (2008, Christopher Nolan)
-WALL-E (2008, Andrew Stanton)
-(500) Days of Summer (2009, Marc Webb)
-Enter the Void (2009, Gaspar Noé)
-Inglorious Basterds (2009, Quentin Tarantino)
-Moon (2009, Duncan Jones)
-UP (2009, Pete Docter)
-Inception (2010, Christopher Nolan)
-The Social Network (2010, David Fincher)
-Black Swan (2010, Darren Aronofsky)
-Blue Valentine (2010, Derek Cianfrance)
-The Tree of Life (2011, Terrence Malick)
-Melancholia (2011, Lars Von Trier)
-Drive (2011, Nicolas Winding Refn)
-Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Kathryn Bigelow)
-Spring Breakers (2012, Harmony Korine)
-The Master (2012, Paul Thomas Anderson)
-Her (2013, Spike Jonze)
-Interstellar (2014, Christopher Nolan)
-Mommy (2014, Xavier Dolan)
-Mad Max: Fury Road (2015, George Miller)
-Knight of Cups (2015, Terrence Malick)
-Carol (2015, Todd Haynes)
-Sicario (2015, Denis Villeneuve)
-Arrival (2016, Denis Villeneuve)
-La La Land (2016, Damien Chazelle)
-Moonlight (2016, Barry Jenkins)
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