Visual Showdown: Pan’s Labyrinth & On the Silver Globe

Visual Showdown:
Top: Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) 2006  dir. Guillermo del Toro.
Bottom: On the Silver Globe (Na Srebrnym Globie) 1988 dir. Andrzej Żuławski.

Check out Salvador Dali on set of Spellbound here

30_Bottom: Pan_s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) 2006 dir. Guillermo del Toro30_Top: On the Silver Globe (Na Srebrnym Globie) 1988 dir. Andrzej Żuławski

Visual Showdown: Valerie…& Daughters of Darkness

VISUAL SHOWDOWN:

Top: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Valerie a týden divů) / 1970 / dir. Jaromil Jireš.
Below: Daughters of Darkness (Les Lèvres Rouges) / 1971 / dir. Harry Kümel 

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Visual Showdown: Eric Rohmer / Amedeo Modigliani

Above: Love in the Afternoon, 1972 – Éric Rohmer
Below: Nude Looking Over her Shoulder, 1917 –  Amedeo Modigliani (private collection)

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Visual Showdown: Roses!

[VISUAL SHOWDOWN]:

Above: Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969).
Below: I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (Fernando Arrabal, 1973).

Check out Robert de Niro at the tender age of 7 right here

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Visual Showdown: Nude by Edward Henry Weston and Rohmer’s Pauline.

Top: Nude (through a window) | Photograph by Edward Henry Weston | 1945
Bottom: Pauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach) | Éric Rohmer | France | 1983

Thank you Mehdi Jahan for this contribution. 
Check out Michele Mercier on set of La Pupa here

26_Nude (through a window) | Photograph by Edward Henry Weston | 1945%0APauline à la plage (Pauline at the Beach) | Éric Rohmer | France | 1983

Visual Showdown: Dario Argento & Giorgio di Chirico

Visual Showdown:
ABOVE: Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (1975)
BELOW: Giogio de Chirico’s Melancholy of a Beautiful Day (1913)

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Visual Showdown: Quentin Tarantino & Hiroyuki Nakano

Visual Showdown:

“Kill Bill” (2003, by Quentin Tarantino)
AND
“Samurai Fiction” (1998, by Hiroyuki Nakano)

Check out our Visual Showdown of “Run for It” right hereKill Bill (Quentin Tarantino) and Samurai Fiction (Hiroyuki Nakano)

Visual Showdown: Run for it!

Visual Showdown: Run for it!
The 400 Blows, François Truffaut, 1959
Landscape in the Mist, Theo Angelopoulos, 1988
Ivan’s Childhood, Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962

Thank you Raju Roychowdhury for the submission / Collage by Trong Dinh
15TH)Raju Roychowdhury_faut, 1959