I've been really getting into Movies In Frames lately. The concept is elegantly simple: four images from a given film to represent the whole. The series of frames pictured above for Stanley Kubrick's 2001 is a really sterling example of the form. Movies In Frames is essentially a photoblog shrine to the art of cinema. Selecting just four images to encapsulate a film in a hyper-abridged form often radically reshapes the meaning of a movie. It's a really fun and novel way of interfacing with film.
This is my series of frames for Point Break, the greatest movie ever made about bank robbing surfers disguised as former U.S. presidents.
Point Break was directed by Kathryn Bigelow, one of the extremely few female film makers working in the action genre. She obviously holds her own. She also directed The Hurt Locker, which is an amazing film, but which is great for very, very different reasons than Point Break. I don't imagine that people will be staging mock stage plays of The Hurt Locker in ten years time.
Since we're on the topic, here's a Cinemash tribute to Point Break featuring actors from Reno, 911 and Human Giant. Aziz Ansari, who plays the Keanu Reeves character, is really fantastic in pretty much everything that he's in.
"Why don't you get to the point.....the point break." The Cinemash tributes to Sid and Nancy (featuring Zoeey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, a tie-in promo for 500 Days of Summer) and Dirty Dancing (with Channing Tatum and Charlyne Yi) are also really excellent.
One last Point Break related item. I'm a huge fan of re-cut movie trailers, so it's no surprise that I'm impressed by this:
Selling Point Break as a turgid tale of homosexual awakening isn't that much of a stretch. At it's core, the movie is really about the fulminating tension and attraction between Johnny Utah and Bodi. So, well done to whoever made that.
