Gangsters, Designers, and all of our Furry Friends!
Hello, ShotDeck community!
Fall film season is here, which means we’ve got a bumper crop of this past summer’s biggest hit movies, as well as an amazing catalogue of artist spotlights, television series, music videos and commercials. We also have an amazing line-up of articles and interviews from September for you to check out:
- We interviewed cinematographer Brandon Trost about his latest film Coyote vs Acme
- Read our interview with Sundance, Berlin and Tribeca festival favorite Take Me Home‘s writer / director Liz Sargent
- Check out our conversation with the one and only Richard Linklater for the Criterion release of Nouvelle Vague
We dropped over 53,000 new shots into our library in September – read on for our curations!
FILM COLLECTION
New Releases
This month, we dropped tens of thousands of shots into our library from some of 2026’s biggest new releases. Add shots to your decks from The Death of Robin Hood, Blue Heron, Girls Like Girls, Power Ballad, Maddie’s Secret, Couture, The Wizard of the Kremlin, Her Private Hell, The Invite, Leviticus, and Toy Story 5.
FILM COLLECTION
Gangsters!
Street hustlers, gun slingers, mob bosses, and everything in between… in September, we curated a collection of gangster films from across countries, eras, time periods and classes.
A storied subgenre of the crime film, gangsters have been an obsession of filmmakers and audiences alike from the very beginnings of the medium, with films like Howard Hawks‘s Scarface (1932) and Mervyn LeRoy’s Little Caesar becoming landmark entries in the genre’s pre-Code era. After the introduction of the Hays Code in 1934, gangster films were more difficult to get made, but the genre was revitalized in the late 1960’s when the Hays Code was replaced by the Motion Picture Association of America rating system, which coincided with the dawn of the New Hollywood movement, giving us some of American and world cinema’s most indelible gangster masterpieces.
Our September collection of gangster films celebrates the international appeal of the genre, as well as its varied traditions across countries and filmmaking eras. Dive in!
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Barbara Ling
This month, we curated a collection ten films in honor of the late great production designer Barbara Ling, whose body of work is one of the most celebrated of any designer in contemporary Hollywood. An Academy Award winner for her work transforming Los Angeles in the 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Ling became known for the dazzling cinematic worlds she could create within almost any kind of story, showcasing period authenticity, contemporary realism, and stylized fantasy in equal measure.
Ling began her career in as a set and lighting designer for theater productions, before transitioning to screen work designing the lighting for the 1981 comedy special The Pee-Wee Herman Show. Her understanding of light’s relationship to material production design made her one of Hollywood’s most sought-after designers, and her body of work has profoundly influenced the look of modern movies.
Get inspired from our September curation of Ling’s body of work – from crime dramas Random Hearts (1999) and Falling Down (1993), romance films The Lucky One (2012) and No Reservations (2007), period piece Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) and contemporary comedy With Honors (1994), coming-of-age fantasy films Fallen (2016) and Hearts in Atlantis (2001), and superhero films Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Add shots from these films to your decks today!
TELEVISION SERIES
Spider-Noir
In September, we dropped thousands of shots into our library from both the original black and white and true-hue full color versions of Spider-Noir, the hit superhero television series created by Oren Uziel and starring Nicolas Cage. Also starring the likes of Lamorne Morris, Li Jun Li, Karen Rodriguez and Abraham Popoola, the series follows Ben Reilly (Cage), a down-on-his-luck private investigator whose latest case pulls him back into his former life as the city’s only superhero: The Spider.
In case you missed it , check out our July interview with series cinematographer Darran Tiernan, ISC and colorist Pankaj Bajpai. The duo sat down with Christian Hurley to discuss their collaboration on Spider-Noir, the process of shooting the series in both color and black and white, and the visual inspirations they drew from to bring one of the year’s most anticipated comic book adaptations to life. You can read their conversation in full here.
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT
Pablo Trapero
This month, we curated seven films from the work of Argentine editor, producer, writer and director Pablo Trapero. A defining voice in contemporary South American cinema, Trapero rose to prominence as part of the Argentine New Wave that included fellow directors Lucrecia Martel and Lisandra Alonso. Trapero’s work is characterized by its gritty realism and willingness to take on corruption in Argentine society, telling stories about family, crime, class, and institutional power.
Take a deep dive into our curation of Trapero’s work – political crime dramas El Bonaerense (2002), White Elephant (2012), family drama Born and Bred (2006), legal thriller Carancho (2010), prison drama Lion’s Den (2008), family comedy Rolling Family (2004), and class struggle drama Crane World (1999).
FILM COLLECTION
Our Furry, Feathered, Fishy Friends
From the farm to the fields, the ocean to the arctic, the home and even the big city, this month we curated a selection of films starring animals (both real and animated!) from the 21st century. Feast your eyes on shots from animated classics, documentaries, live action family films, and everything in between. Enjoy!
FILM COLLECTION
Music Videos & Commercials
In September, we dropped over 11,300 shots into our library from a selection of 50 music videos and 150 commercials. Check out music videos from rappers, pop stars and rock n’ roll legends, and commercials representing beverage companies, sportswear brands and jewelers. Dive in!
MUSIC VIDEOAdéla – “Superscar” (2025)
COMMERCIAL818 Tequila – “Kendall Jenner” (2021)
MUSIC VIDEOBad Bunny – “El Clúb” (2025) 
