Screengem: The gnome in Amelie
Everyone dreams about travelling the world and seeing the sights, and in Amelie, as Georgina Guthrie tells us, a very…
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Screengem: Brandon’s porn collection in Shame (Steve McQueen, 2011)
In Steve McQueen’s Shame, sex addict Brandon (Michael Fassbender) sees his secretive, psychologically damaging affliction eat into his outwardly successful…
Screengems: ‘The Book’ in The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)
Forget put-upon, would-be journalist, Andy Sachs (infused with subtle innocence by Anne Hathaway), bitchy PA Emily Charlton (the wonderfully acidic Emily Blunt) or…
Screengems: C.C. Baxter’s bowler hat from The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960)
From the moment Jack Lemmon’s C.C. Baxter dons his new bowler hat in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment the film changes…
Screengems: The motion tracker in Aliens (James Cameron, 1986)
Directors often rely on composers to provide key signature passages in their film scores to aid the audience’s journey through…
Screengems: The rune parchment from Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957)
In attempting to scare the grey flannel trousers off its original 1950s audience, Jacques Tourneur’s deliciously dark little frightener Night…
Screengem: Charlie’s Golden Ticket
It’s not coincidental that the brilliant golden ticket needed to board the Polar Express is almost identical to the…
Screengem: Indiana Jones’s Hat
Indiana Jones is essentially a superhero: usually the bowtied and bespectacled Prof. Henry Jones Jr., he has only to climb…
Screengem: The Sled in Citizen Kane (1941)
Practically every notable bit of movie memorabilia has been bought for some obscene sum by some obsessive fan. But the…
