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Prometheus – win tickets to the London premiere!
Okay, peeps and fellow geeks, listen up, because we have a remarkable “money can’t buy it” type of prize up for grabs thanks to our friends arranging the screenings of Sir Ridley Scott’s much-anticipated ‘Alien sort-of prequel’ (Sir Ridley notes it started that way but ‘evolved into another universe’) Prometheus, starring Girl With a Dragon [...]
Continue reading...Movie posters re-imagined
Monday, January 16, 2012
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There’s a rich tradition of contemporary artists re-imagining classic movie poster artwork and we’ve posted up a number that have caught our eye over the years. Brandon Schaefer has several pages of reworked film and television poster imagery, often in a very minimalist yet clever style which captures a key aspect of the film, on [...]
Continue reading...Filmish 3 – technology and techno fear
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Filmish #3: Technology and Technophobia Edward Ross, self published Regular readers will know that I’m a bit of a cinephile and so it is no surprise that when Edward Ross started his Filmish series, combining film studies with comics, I was rather pleased to see two of my favourite things coming together. The brand new [...]
Continue reading...“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe…”
Monday, August 23, 2010
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Blade Runner is one of my all-time personal top ten favourite films; as well as being a remarkable film, based on the work of one of our most remarkable writers, it’s gone on to embed itself in popular culture as an amazingly influential piece of cinema, not least for it’s lavish visual splendour (even if [...]
Continue reading...Monsters on the Mexican border, comics vigilantes in York, lonesome cowboys in the West and George Lucas
Friday, July 2, 2010
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After reporting on Sylvain Chomet’s The Illusionist earlier this week, here’s a round-up of some of the other genre-related, geek-friendly footage I managed to cram into my annual bash at the Edinburgh International Film Festival (it wasn’t all poncing around in a beret watching black and white films about human tragedy from Hungary, you know), [...]
Continue reading...Animated Edinburgh: Chomet’s Illusionist at the Film Fest
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
I’ve spent the last week and a bit attending to one of my annual traditions: enjoying the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Among the many movies I managed to fit in there were, unsurprisingly a number from the comics and SF influenced end of films – mostly from the independent end of the pool -- and, [...]
Continue reading...From our continental correspondent – The Illusionist
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
When French comic genius Jacques Tati (born as Tatischeff) died in 1982, he left an unused scenario. The Tati family wanted to make a film of it, so as not let it go to waste, but they were rather hesitant to cast a real life actor as the title role, which Tati had written with [...]
Continue reading...George Romero interview from the Edinburgh Film Fest
Saturday, May 8, 2010
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In the run up to this year’s Edinburgh Film Festival (which these days is towards the end of June rather than the traditional middle of the Edinburgh Festival in August) the EIFF site has been cranking up, dropping tidbits about this year’s festival and also airing some highlights from previous years, including this short video [...]
Continue reading...Pitching Electric Man
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
You might recall recently that I mentioned Electric Man, a micro budget comics movie set in Edinburgh which indy movie makers Dugbus are planning to make. Last night they had a very well put together presentation for the project in the very cool and stylish environs of Blue, above the Traverse Theatre, with the team [...]
Continue reading...BAA – the British Animation Awards
Monday, April 12, 2010
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The winners of the British Animation Awards (which happen every two years) have been announced, with, perhaps predictably (but no less deserved for that), national treasures Aardman Animation picking up two major gongs, scoring in the Best Children’s Series for Shaun the Sheep and the Children’s Choice Award for Wallace and Gromit: a Matter of [...]
Continue reading...“You’ve done a man’s job, sir…” – Ridley Scott on casting Harrison in Blade Runner
Sunday, March 28, 2010
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The American Film Institute has posted up a short video of Sir Ridley Scott discussing casting Harrison Ford as Deckard in the seminal science fiction movie Blade Runner (he gets Ford’s Star Wars character wrong, amusingly). Xeni on BoingBoing (whence comes the link) comments on how she is constantly fascinated with the film and any [...]
Continue reading...Being Invisible at the Oscars
Friday, March 26, 2010
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Over in the Guardian Neil Gaiman writes about what it is like to be all but invisible at the Oscars – a strange concept for those of us who have had the pleasure of hosting signing events for Neil where people have been packed in like literary sardines and the lines of people waiting to [...]
Continue reading...Goofy meets Lynch
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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Its the cinematic collaboration we’ve all been waiting for: Disney’s Goofy working with master of the surreal, the auteur David Lynch. Apparently Goofy has been a huge admirer of Lynch’s work going right back to Eraserhead and Lynch has been keen to use the Hollywood veteran in one of his projects but has been holding [...]
Continue reading...British Animation Awards – exercise your choice
Monday, February 8, 2010
Valerie from the British Animation Awards (BAA – hence the sheep logo they use), kindly updates me to events relating to the 2010 BAA. The BAA happens every two years in the UK and again in the run up to the announcement of the winners in April the public will get their chance to view [...]
Continue reading...Annies announced, British Animation Awards to follow
Sunday, February 7, 2010
We really are in awards season right now and the latest this weekend were the Annies, the gongs given out to the year’s best animation works in many categories from Best Animated Feature to Best Animated Short to categories that celebrate the individual technical feats that create those animations, such as Best Animated Effects. There [...]
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