Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’ – Lens

The five-exposure contact strip of 35-millimeter Kodak Plus-X film begins unremarkably enough. Frame 12: Helmeted policemen gather around a motorcycle. Frame 13: Pedestrians move one way or the other on the sidewalk. (Not bad. Some promise there.) Frame 14: A woman and children gaze up at something above them. Frame 15: Well-dressed shoppers appear to be peering into a store window.

And then, suddenly, there’s Frame 16.

Link: Must See: Last Days for ‘The Americans’ – Lens Blog – NYTimes.com