film.

a curated personal canon of films. criterion, but mine. every title earns its place.

currently 97 of 600 titles

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Still from Backdraft (1991) — tmdb backdrop (id 2924); genuine still of kurt russell and william baldwin in firefighter gear. pre-darkened source to 0.72 (source luma 106.3) and baked through scripts/bake_dark_photo.py at factor 0.45, 1200x675, on-disk luma 27.5

Backdraft 1991 · Ron Howard

Still from Boyz n the Hood (1991) — 16:9 still from letterboxd (1200x675 crop variant), baked through scripts/bake_dark_photo.py at default factor 0.45. source luma 91.8, baked mean brightness 32.5 (in canon daylight range). scene: furious styles (laurence fishburne) talking to tre (cuba gooding jr.) and ricky (morris chestnut) on a south central street corner. cross-checked against tmdb backdrops; the letterboxd still is a genuine film frame, not promotional photography.

Boyz n the Hood 1991 · John Singleton

Still from Dolls (1987) — tmdb backdrop (ralph and judy with mr. punch, surrounded by dolls), source luma 72.4, baked at factor 0.45, final mean brightness 27.5

Dolls 1987 · Stuart Gordon