Showing newest posts with label _CINEMA. Show older posts
Showing newest posts with label _CINEMA. Show older posts

Wednesday, 13 October 2010

Art of the Poster - Jonathan Glazer's "Sexy Beast" (2000)





Shut up, c*nt. You louse. You got some f*ckin' neck ain't you. Retired? F*ck off! You're revolting! Look at your suntan, it's leather, it's like leather man, your skin. We could make a f*cking suitcase out of you. Like a crocodile, fat crocodile, fat bastard. You look like f*cking Idi Amin, you know what I mean? Stay here? You should be ashamed of yourself. Who do you think you are? King of the castle? Cock of the walk?





Gotta love this one!! Must've seen it a dozen times, every one a joy!

Yap, a true modern classic! ... Up there (almost) with the mighty, meditative majesty of "The Hit" in the "Brit Criminals Hit The Costa Del Sol" Gangster Sub-Genre!

Man, who the f*ck knew Gandhi was really such a crazy, wired, murderous, delusional, demented, psychotic, foul-mouthed motherf*cker!! ... No wonder India gained independence from Britland so soon after WWII!! 














Sunday, 10 October 2010

The Cinema - Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" (Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat) (2010)



Khum Apichatpong's "Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat", the big winner at the Cannes festival this year.

Mystical Buddhism, philosophy, rural superstitions and bizarre ghosts mesh wonderfully in this gorgeous piece of Thai cinema beautifully shot in Isaan, the poor rural heartland of Thailand.
















Art of the Poster - David Sullivans "Come Play With Me"















Saturday, 9 October 2010

Cult Cutie Jodie Foster does Street Queen







One of the many great shots from the gorgeous tome 'Steve Schapiro, Taxi Driver' - a collection of Previously unseen photographs from Scorsese's masterpiece.

Taxi Driver has long been regarded as a cinematic milestone, and Robert DeNiro's portrait of a near-psychotic loner gunman is widely believed to be one of the greatest performances ever filmed.

Time magazine included the film in its list of 100 Greatest Movies, saying: "The power of Scorsese's filmmaking grows ever more punishing with the passage of time."

Steve Schapiro - whose photographs were featured in TASCHEN's 'Godfather Family Album' — was the special photographer on the set of Taxi Driver, capturing the film's iconic moments and actors behind the scenes. This book features hundreds of images selected from Schapiro's archives, offering fans a trip back in time to witness the making of Scorsese's masterpiece.

Steve Schapiro is a distinguished journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced the covers of Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match, and People, and are found in many museum collections. He has published two books of his work, American Edge and Schapiro's Heroes. In Hollywood he has worked on more than 200 motion pictures; his most famous film posters are for Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver, Parenthood, and The Godfather Part III.

With a foreword by Martin Scorsese, the special Deluxe Edition is limited to 1,000 copies, numbered and signed by Steve Schapiro!



Details:

Hardcover: 328 pages
Publisher: Taschen; Limited edition edition (November 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3836500086
ISBN-13: 978-3836500081

tx johnthebaptist










Art of the Poster - Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" (Loong Boonmee Raleuk Chat) (2010)














Friday, 8 October 2010

The Film - Cristi Puiu's "Aurora" (2010)






A magnificent, stark, difficult meditation on the darkness in one dark troubled soul, all played out in Romanian maestro Cristi Puiu’s idiosyncratic rawest of raw cinema aesthetics. A film also written by and starring polymath Puiu.

Yap, a laugh-a-minute flim-flam flick for all the family! ... A yankee remake is alredy in the works starring Adam Sandler and helmed by Brett Ratner!










The Music - The Beatles' "In Spite Of All The Danger" performed in "Nowhere Boy"







Lennon does Hank Williams? ... A lovely video here specially-created using footage from the recent Lennon biopic "Nowhere Boy".

"In Spite of All The Danger" was written by Paul McCartney & George Harrison in 1958 and was originally sung by John Lennon - with vocal backing by Paul and George.

It was recorded at the first-ever recording session of The Quarrymen (the band that eventually became the Beatles) in a private Liverpool studio in summer 1958.

This version was recorded for the movie soundtrack by Aaron Johnson - who portrays the teenage Lennon in the film.

The video was directed by Beatles scholar Martin Lewis (whose many Beatles-related credits include producing the DVD edition of "A Hard Day's Night") and edited by Grammy-nominated editor Peter Shelton - working with extracts from the movie "Nowhere Boy" filmed by director Sam Taylor-Wood.

For more info about the film, check www.NowhereBoy.com
















Cult Cutie Akiko Wakabayashi does serene





Awesome Akiko as Aki in "You Only Live Twice" (1967.)













Art of the Advert - Elizabeth Taylor does Lux Lovely




 











The Shot - Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Life-size Doll turns out very Lifelike













Tuesday, 5 October 2010

Cult Cutie Danieal Bianchi is Locked n Loaded





Delightful Danieal does Tatiana Romanova in 'From Russia With Love' (1963).










Art of the Poster - Robert Clouse's "Black Belt Jones" (1974)"





The concept? Guess it's black Bruce Lee enters the ghetto and meets a forest of Afros, a dangerous doll, dastardly dark dudes and a few evil greasers!!

A flick so bad it's good ... well, almost!!

Anyway, it's got gorgeous Gloria as the dangerous doll ... and that's enough for me!!








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