WAR GAMES (1983, Badham)
Man, I love this movie. It really holds up. This shot is more of a subtle, but very significant, moment. With War Games, the clever script and direction manage to stay on the believable side of far-fetched, no easy task. Matthew Broderick, Dabney Coleman, the hilarious Barry "I'd piss on the spark plug" Corbin are all at
THE SHINING (1980, Kubrick)
I can't get enough of The Shining right now - Jack Nicholson and Shelley Duvall's kabuki performances included - so much so that today's shot isn't even from the movie. I wanted to make a case study of it, so I recently read the novel, then watched the movie twice, which then led me to the fascinating
CASINO ROYALE (2006, Campbell)
All this talk recently of the new James Bond film, Skyfall, photos here, starting production with Sam Mendes at the helm, has me craving Casino Royale. That movie made me really fall in love with the Bond universe again. To me, not since I was a kid was the series this dramatic, exotic or fun. (The old
INDIANA JONES AND TEMPLE OF DOOM (1984, Spielberg)
UPDATE: 12/9/11 - Youtube yanked the sample video, so I was inspired to create my own, hosted by yours truly, to take advantage of Fair Use laws, and to maybe start expanding Shot4Shot into a youtube channel. Check out the video below and please let me know what you think. This is just a quick but very fun