<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.