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additional cast
glitter:
da brat
terence howard
eric benet
crossroads:
taryn manning
dan akroyd
kim cattrall
justin long
kool moe dee
December 16, 2009
which one is better
August 25, 2009
film poster paintings from ghana
http://assemblyman-eph.blogspot.com/2009/08/film-poster-paintings-from-ghana.html
In the 1980s video cassette technology made it possible for “mobile cinema” operators in Ghana to travel from town to town and village to village creating temporary cinemas. The touring film group would create a theatre by hooking up a TV and VCR onto a portable generator and playing the films for the people to see.
In order to promote these showings, artists were hired to paint large posters of the films (usually on used canvas flour sacks). The artists were given the artistic freedom to paint the posters as they desired – often adding elements that weren’t in the actual films, or without even having seen the movies. When the posters were finished they were rolled up and taken on the road (note the heavy damages). The “mobile cinema” began to decline in the mid-nineties due to greater availability of television and video; as a result the painted film posters were substituted for less interesting/artistic posters produced on photocopied paper.
The artistic freedom that these artists were given allowed for the creation of some very interesting and sometimes bizarre posters that, as screenwriter Walter Hill wrote, were quite often “more interesting than the films.”
August 17, 2009
August 13, 2009
http://ilovehotdogs.tumblr.com/
http://ilovehotdogs.tumblr.com/
from fader.com
I Love Hot Dogs is a very simple website: It is screenshots of movies. Run by a film obsessive, each individual post is a collection of shots from a single movie. The movies are of no particular unique plumage, though there is clearly a fondness for gore. But there are also routine pauses on characters’ faces—startled, sad or gleaming. There is a similar empathetic gaze for text, not simply of titles and credits—there’s already a blog just for that—but of signposts, notes and other natural language. Looking at the stills sometimes seems like it would be more entertaining than watching the entire film, like we then might be bothered by plot and dialogue. I Love Hot Dogs lets you glean, keep your high hopes. With Hot Dog’s blessing, we selected some of our favorite stills and they are after the jump. But for the full effect of beloved cataloging, check the site.
July 10, 2009
skatopia – documentary
this was a good article so i’d like to see the movie
“Skatopia” Film Premieres as Skate Park Owner Fights For Life
((((picture gallery from orig. rs article: http://www.rollingstone.com/photos/gallery/21896513/welcome_to_skatopia_eightyeight/photo/1 ))))
Last year, Rolling Stone took a visit to Skatopia, an 88-acre skate park outside of Rutland, Ohio where many of the sport’s greats have come to marvel at the skate paradise owned by Brewce Martin. (Revisit Rolling Stone’s journey to Rutland in Welcome to Skatopia: Eighty-Eight Acres of Anarchy in the USA.) Skatopia: 88 Acres of Anarchy, a documentary about the unique skater heaven, premieres this weekend, but the debut will be as much of a tribute as it is a celebration: Martin was nearly killed last month when he suffered massive head injuries from an exploding tire.
While a rep for the film tells Rock Daily that Martin is improving, it may be years before Martin is fully recovered, and until that time the extent of the brain injuries will remain unknown. Many of New York’s best skateboarders will be on hand July 11th when Skatopia debuts at New York’s Tribeca Cinema. For more info on the film, check out its official Website. Also, be sure to check out Rolling Stone’s exclusive footage of the film.
May 19, 2009
free dl: Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique audiobook
can sample there too
Description
Audio Length: 3 hours and 54 min.
This title has not been rated.
Version: Unabridged
The initial success of the Beastie Boys at Def Jam with the rude, crude, and multiplatinum 1986 debut Licensed to Ill had been unlikely enough; a trio of white Jewish kids and their white Jewish producer became hip-hop’s biggest stars overnight by offering a primal fusion of metal, rap, and teenage rebellion. But Paul’s Boutique abandoned the producer, the label, and the formula, instead smashing apart hundreds of old records and pop-culture references, then Scotch-taping them back together in unexpected new combinations. With a trio of unknowns at the production controls, it was a suicidal way to follow up a number-one hit.Not only did Paul’s Boutique transform the Beastie Boys from frat-boy novelty to hip-hop giants, its groundbreaking collage of rhyme and recycled soundbites made it one of those rare releases that forever alters the course of popular music.
Through interviews with Mike D, the Dust Brothers, and legendarily reclusive producer Matt Dike, among others, Dan LeRoy uncovers the story of this outrageous era in Beastie history.
Dan LeRoy writes regularly about music and politics for The New York Times, Rolling Stone, National Review online, Alternative Press, and Vibe, and he is the co-author of 20 Years of Mountain Stage (2003), a history of NPR’s musical variety show. His book The Greatest Music Never Sold was published in 2006 by Backbeat.
33 1/3 is a new series of short books about critically acclaimed and much-loved albums of the last 40 years. Focusing on one album rather than an artist’s entire output, the books dispense with the standard biographical background that fans know already, and cut to the heart of the music on each album.
May 17, 2009
May 14, 2009
May 2, 2009
10 Best Head-Scratching Stories, Explained
from the jj abrams edited wired issue
Monoliths instigate evolutionary leaps forward—monkey to human, computer to AI, human to hippie-dippy starchild.
Pink’s father dies. His teachers abuse him. His mom smothers him. His wife leaves him. He’s paranoid and isolated. Fame is no respite.
Two drunkards meander around Dublin like Odysseus in the Aegean. Bloom’s wife is cheating on him. Everyone poops.
Jimmy relives his granddad’s life. He finally meets his father, who then dies. Superman can’t save him.
Deckard is a replicant but doesn’t know it. Gaff knows but doesn’t retire Deckard. Even fake memories make us human.
Earth will be destroyed in five years. Ziggy is a Martian rock star who sings the news. He prophesizes the coming of a starman. Starman bad.
The first two-thirds are a masturbatory fantasy after Diane orders a hit on Camilla (the characters from the last one-third) and shoots herself.
Terrorists are chasing the world’s most entertaining movie. Addiction—to drugs, entertainment, tennis, whatever—is a bitch.
White dudes attack woman. Black man jailed. Witness Madonna prays to black Jesus and dreams he lives. She snitches. Prisoner freed.
Parallel universe opens. Its pending collapse threatens our own. Donnie sacrifices himself to save us.
April 20, 2009
imdbtrivia.David Lynch was offered to direct this 80s comedy
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David Lynch was originally offered the chance to direct before Amy Heckerling was chosen. He turned it down saying it was a funny script, but not really his thing.
