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Theo’s great inspiration, the American realist painter Edward Hopper, is a case in point. Hopper’s famous painting Nighthawks has often been referred to as cinematic. Which influence came first apps for photoshop? Does it even matter? These are two mediums intersecting and influencing each other creating wonderful moments for viewers to enjoy.

Joe’s hedonistic desire for physical pleasure without the trappings of emotional investment speaks to the void of humanity – the void of non-existence or death – being the only way to end the suffering experienced in the so called mortal coil. von Trier’s shots of Joe and Seligman closely resemble Zygmunt Andrychiewicz’s The Dying Artist – an image of what is probably meant to be a manifestation of Death playing violin at the bedside of a young man. Did von Trier look upon Andrychiewicz’s painting only to see a fellow artist reckoning with his own mortality?

The great art house filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni hated when his peers talked about “writing a film.” He preferred the term “painting a film”—telling a story not with words, but colors, camera angles, and meticulously composed frames.

Cinematographers don’t only recreate specific images, of course; sometimes, they turn to a broader group of paintings in search of a mood no movie has managed to capture. The period film Barry Lyndon (1975) was shot by John Alcott, the gifted cinematographer behind two science-fiction classics, 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. In fact, it can be useful to think of Barry Lyndon as an sci-fi adventure set in the 18th century. To convey an era at once familiar and “other,” Alcott immersed himself in the landscapes of Thomas Gainsborough, born in 1727, as well as the caricatures of William Hogarth, born in 1697.

It was Hopper’s project to convey, in plain, realistic images, the quiet desperation of American urban life. One of the chief marvels of Hall’s cinematography is the way he not only echoes that project, but also extends it far beyond Hopper’s original scope. In some of his most striking early work (the 1967 film adaptation of In Cold Blood, for example), Hall shoots spacious, drab public spaces that would seem empty even if they were swarming with people—not unlike the spaces Hopper depicts in Early Sunday Morning (1930) or Seven A.M. (1948). But in American Beauty, released when he was in his seventies, Hall turned his calm gaze to a suburban world that was still expanding when Hopper died in the 1960s, and found alienation beyond the artist’s wildest nightmares.

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