Posters, when done right, are an art form. Sure, they're advertisements, but they're also such a great artistic challenge. Representing the identity of a movie - and getting people in the door - with a single image? That's tough. Rendering that image in a manner that resembles actual artwork (or something you'd hang on your wall)? Even tougher.
I get why it goes wrong sometimes. Whenever a sh*tty poster hits a lot of people blame the artist, but they're not the only ones at fault. Studio marketing departments emphasize their perception of the film's commercial assets - often sacrificing a compelling key art campaign in the process. Today we celebrate the posters that made it out alive, the ones with flair.
Wednesday, January 1, 2014
Cookie Chaos
As I mentioned in my FaceBook fan club the other day, my two leggers brought home a box thingy that read: "Super Gingerbread House Kit". The top of the box had a picture of an adolescent two legger and her mother looking with glee upon their lovely perfect creation.
Apparently, it was the intention of the two leggers to work together and create an entire gingerbread village. They had great plans of building several houses, a church, town hall, train station and the male even wanted to make a gingerbread outhouse (another of the male's strokes of genius that was wisely nixed by the female).
Apparently, it was the intention of the two leggers to work together and create an entire gingerbread village. They had great plans of building several houses, a church, town hall, train station and the male even wanted to make a gingerbread outhouse (another of the male's strokes of genius that was wisely nixed by the female).
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The 365-Day Movie Project: 2013
I challenged myself to see 365 movies in 2013, a 365-day movie project. I managed to get up to 346, which isn't bad if I do say so myself. It was wonderful to see some classics for the first time (like Citizen Kane, Dog Day Afternoon and Rocky) and it was also nice to see some things again after many years (like Easy Living, Rebecca and Play It Again,Sam). Here are all the titles, listed in groups counted by every five years.
1920-1924: Hot Water; THE MARK OF ZORRO; The Prisoner of Zenda; A Sailor-Made Man
1920-1924: Hot Water; THE MARK OF ZORRO; The Prisoner of Zenda; A Sailor-Made Man
The Good Things to Come
I began this blog in January of 2013. It seems I chose a good year to start because it's been a great year to write about movies. Though unevenly distributed -the good ones concentrate towards the end of the year--2013 was a great watch.I can truthfully say that I can't chose one movie as my favorite because there have been some really good films out there, but so very different and good in different ways, that it's hard to choose the top one, so I'm going for the Top Ten, like most movie sites.
The caveat to my top ten is that despite living in a fairly large city in the south, with some film festivals, technology and tools like the Internet, Netflix, Hulu, and Red Box, I haven't been able to see many non-English language films (" foreign films" in the US), or documentaries,so I guess I can't completely recommend the best films of 2013. But this is why I've created the chart that follows this commentary. The chart holds my picks, but also the Top Ten of 2013 for my favorite movie critics. I don't always agree with one or the other, but A.O. Scott of the New York Times and Peter Traverse of Rolling Stone magazine are usually my best guides; to a lesser degree Manola Darghis also of the New York Times. I've also included the French film magazine that was my guide in my more youthful days, Cahiers du Cinema, with which in more recent years I tend to agree with less, more on a feminist basis than anything (I dislike misogynistic films or films where actresses have been mistreated, which some critics overlook when analyzing films), but it will add the non-English films to the list.
The caveat to my top ten is that despite living in a fairly large city in the south, with some film festivals, technology and tools like the Internet, Netflix, Hulu, and Red Box, I haven't been able to see many non-English language films (" foreign films" in the US), or documentaries,so I guess I can't completely recommend the best films of 2013. But this is why I've created the chart that follows this commentary. The chart holds my picks, but also the Top Ten of 2013 for my favorite movie critics. I don't always agree with one or the other, but A.O. Scott of the New York Times and Peter Traverse of Rolling Stone magazine are usually my best guides; to a lesser degree Manola Darghis also of the New York Times. I've also included the French film magazine that was my guide in my more youthful days, Cahiers du Cinema, with which in more recent years I tend to agree with less, more on a feminist basis than anything (I dislike misogynistic films or films where actresses have been mistreated, which some critics overlook when analyzing films), but it will add the non-English films to the list.
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