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Highway 61 (1991)

Directed by Bruce McDonald · Cinematography by Mirosław Baszak

R102 min62 frames

Comedy

Where Else Would You Go To Bury Rock N' Roll?

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Stills, screencaps & shots from Highway 61

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Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — A residential room features walls densely covered in small square photographic prints. Two men stand in the…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: closeup — A single brown leather brogue shoe lies on a patch of wet grass. Water droplets are visible on both the…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: wide — A vast grassy field stretches toward rolling hills under a hazy, dim sky. A woman stands in the middle of the…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — A person sits inside a dimly lit passenger train car at night. The window reveals only darkness behind them…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: wide — A rural highway stretches past large conical industrial storage mounds under a sunset sky. A vintage car with…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — A bingo hall interior features a dark wall with a large illuminated numeric grid. A man stands behind a…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — Walls of an apartment are densely covered with hundreds of small square photographs. A young man wearing a…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — A rural road with utility poles and a chain-link fence in the background. A woman with long curly red hair…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: wide — A spacious formal hall features a round table draped with a green tablecloth. Five individuals stand or sit…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — The interior of a car at night seen from the front windshield perspective. A man and a woman sit side by…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: establishing — A quiet residential street in a small town sits nestled against a dense forest. The setting sun casts…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: medium — A man stands in front of a dense, dark forest at night. The man holds a brass instrument and looks off to…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: fullbody — A wooden coffin is strapped to the roof of a parked black sedan. A man stands beside the driver side door…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: closeup — A man stands in a dimly lit bathroom while looking down at his hands. White bathroom fixtures and wall…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: wide — An open green field contains a clothesline and large metal utility towers. A woman walks toward the laundry…Highway 61 (1991) movie still: wide — A grassy hill extends toward a blue sky with a single small bush present. Three people walk across the incline…
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Highway 61 — official trailer

What is Highway 61 about?

A naive Canadian barber who knows US popular culture inside and out meets a flamboyant roadie who needs someone to drive her and her "brother's" corpse from Thunder Bay, Ontario to New Orleans. Chaos ensues after the barber agrees to drive her, the corpse, and the drugs stashed within all the way.

Who stars in Highway 61?

Who made Highway 61?

What does the cinematography of Highway 61 look like?

Across 61 sampled frames, Highway 61 builds its coverage from medium shots (34% of the sample), with wide compositions (23%) carrying much of the rest. Cinematographer Mirosław Baszak keeps 66% of it in soft, naturalistic light. Anamorphic glass shapes the frame. Deep focus keeps foreground and background readable at once in 59% of the frames. The production design places the film in the 1990s.

What is the color palette of Highway 61?

The dominant colors across the sampled frames of Highway 61 (1991) are #32312e, #52514e, #0e0b0c, #8e8b77, #aca996, #77776d — measured from the per-frame color data FrameThrower extracts for every film.

  • #32312e
  • #52514e
  • #0e0b0c
  • #8e8b77
  • #aca996
  • #77776d

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