Great scenes

  • Freeze Frame #1: Insomnia

    There’s a scene in Insomnia where Al Pacino tries to get some sleep in his hotel room, but since it’s daylight 24×7 in Nightmute, he can’t get any sleep. So he papers all the windows so the light can’t come in, but it still keeps streaming in through the gaps. Background: Pacino plays a cop

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  • Freeze Frame!

    This is going to be a series of short posts about specific moments in movies that I loved. Sometimes it’s the way it was set up in previous scenes, sometimes it’s the acting, sometimes it’s the unsaid stuff that speaks volumes… mostly, though, it’s me feeling kicked about what I saw in that scene, or

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