Island of Lost Pictures

There's a certain discipline, a certain art if you will, in laying out visual tributes and choosing which screen-caps will top a post. Often something must be sacrificed for the visual flow, and so many striking images - along with some fascinatingly random ones - get cast by the wayside (sort of like making a film, come to think of it). At other times, the post itself is abandoned or deleted, leaving the headers in limbo.

Recently, while browsing my web albums for other purposes, I noticed numerous pictures that had been uploaded but never posted on the blog. Here they are, lined up in reverse order of when they were supposed to be used - still a limited selection (if I put everything up there'd be thousands of castoffs swarming this column). Nonetheless there's quite a lot here (I stopped counting after the first hundred), including stills and screen-caps borrowed from others, but probably a majority (especially of the top half) were my caps.

Oddly enough, given their chronology, these pictures form a kind of alternate-universe historical overview of Lost in the Movies...

By request, here is a complete list of the films or other media featured above. Links are to the pieces these images were originally intended for, numbers represent how many pictures in a row are from a given title. E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, 24 City (2) (for unwritten review), Unknown Pleasures (3) (for unwritten review), Neon Genesis Evangelion (5), The Secret of NIMH (2), Savages, Tanner '88, Rosemary's Baby, Blight (for unwritten segment of the Avant-Garde series), Taxi Driver, Ugetsu, Wild Strawberries (2), E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (4), Farewell to the Summer Light (12), The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather, It's a Wonderful Life, Murder My Sweet (3), The Story of the Fox, Jaws, Breakfast at Tiffany's, End of Evangelion (3), Songs of Innocence and Experience (for unpublished visual tribute), What a Long Strange Trip It's Been, Egi barany, Amelie, The Public Enemy, L'Inferno, The Mistress of Shenstone, Cold Turkey, Reptilicus, L.A. Story (also-ran for Remembering the Movies), White Fang, unknown horror movie (part of Remembering the Movies), Cimarron, unknown black-and-white movie - maybe Psycho?, Lady and the Tramp, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2), Sleeping Beauty (2), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Sleeping Beauty, Help! (3), Fire in the Sky (2), Daisies (3), Faerie Tale Theatre: The Nightingale, Juliet of the Spirits (3), The Mascot, For All Mankind (5), The Wind in the Willows, The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Fists in the Pocket, The Wind in the Willows, The Company of Wolves (3), The Wind in the Willows (2), Dumbo, Hopscotch, Mole's Christmas, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Spartacus (2), The Wind in the Willows (2), Moolaade, The Wind in the Willows, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, ABC Saturday morning cartoons, The Godfather (4), Civilisation (33), Return of the Jedi (2), Revenge of the Sith (3), Star Wars (3), The Empire Strikes Back (3), The Good Fairy (for uncompiled "themed screen cap" follow-up, examining movies within movies), La Dolce Vita, Goodfellas, The World, Human Behavior, A Single Man, Up in the Air, Skywhales (for unwritten Sun's Not Yellow review), Barry Lyndon, Lost in Space, Dennis the Menace, Kindergarten Cop/Edward Scissorhands/Home Alone, Krysar, The Whispering Chorus, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Groundhog Day (for unpublished Sun's Not Yellow review), I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (for unwritten book review), Pierrot le fou, Syndromes and a Century (3), Balloon Land, The New World (2), Wings of Desire (for deleted Examiner piece covering retro screenings in Boston), Ballast, In Bruges, Manhattan, random photo of a sunrise (for deleted Dancing Image piece announcing my new blog, the Sun's Not Yellow), The Private Sea: LSD & the Search for God (for unfinished book review), random photo of movie-book collector, Gone With the Wind, Blue Velvet, Greetings, random picture of old automobile, Vertigo, Rear Window, Twin Peaks (3), The Trip, Red Hot Riding Hood, Ben-Hur, Frontline: The Al-Qaeda Files, The Devil Came on Horseback, Fahrenheit 9/11, Tom Jones, Funny Face, Contempt, The Small Back Room, The Round-Up, A Star is Born (2), Twin Peaks, random photo of termites, The Incredibles, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Update 2018: Several of these images were restored to the site at a later date.



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