Jacob Swinney compiled this supercut of the opening and closing shots of 55 films. It's accompanied by Thomas Newman's "Any Other Name."
Films used (in order of appearance):
- The Tree of Life 00:00
- The Master 00:09
- Brokeback Mountain 00:15
- No Country for Old Men 00:23
- Her 00:27
- Blue Valentine 00:30
- Birdman 00:34
- Black Swan 00:41
- Gone Girl 00:47
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 00:53
- Punch-Drunk Love 00:59
- Silver Linings Playbook 01:06
- Taxi Driver 01:11
- Shutter Island 01:20
- Children of Men 01:27
- We Need to Talk About Kevin 01:33
- Funny Games (2007) 01:41
- Fight Club 01:47
- 12 Years a Slave 01:54
- There Will be Blood 01:59
- The Godfather Part II 02:05
- Shame 02:10
- Never Let Me Go 02:17
- The Road 02:21
- Hunger 02:27
- Raging Bull 02:31
- Cabaret 02:36
- Before Sunrise 02:42
- Nebraska 02:47
- Frank 02:54
- Cast Away 03:01
- Somewhere 03:06
- Melancholia 03:11
- Morvern Callar 03:18
- Take this Waltz 03:21
- Buried 03:25
- Lord of War 03:32
- Cape Fear 03:38
- 12 Monkeys 03:45
- The World According to Garp 03:50
- Saving Private Ryan 03:57
- Poetry 04:02
- Solaris (1972) 04:05
- Dr. Strangelove 04:11
- The Astronaut Farmer 04:16
- The Piano 04:21
- Inception 04:26
- Boyhood 04:31
- Whiplash 04:37
- Cloud Atlas 04:43
- Under the Skin 04:47
- 2001: A Space Odyssey 04:51
- Gravity 04:57
- The Searchers 05:03
- The Usual Suspects 05:23
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