Sunday Night Movies

<p><b>Ethereal illustrations expand on a <i>New York Times</i> series by an acclaimed author and artist</b><br><br><i>Sunday Night Movies </i>features Leanne Shapton's watercolors of resonant moments in black-and-white cinema. Selecting a brief fragment of each chosen film, she creates an indelible image that is both a hand-painted movie still and a personal response to a fleeting celluloid moment.<br>Together, the seventy-eight paintings create a valentine to the world of cinema. Shapton's journey through film history becomes a wistful celebration of the subtle moments in stories, which can often slip by unnoticed. What could be a simple title, still life, or portrait of an actor becomes both illusive and allusive through the medium of these personal paintings.<br>Shapton's bestselling Petit Livre book <i>The Native Trees of Canada</i> took a decades-old government catalogue and reimagined it, employing bold colors and stark shapes to represent familiar trees in their majestic glory. The book was a sleeper hit and went through multiple printings. With <i>Sunday Night Movies</i> she brings her love of film to light, and the effect is restrained and fanciful, familiar and all new.</p>