Cartoonist Guy Body’s take on Sir Peter Jackson’s knighthood for the New Zealand Herald.
Empire celebrates its twentieth anniversary by recreating some favourite movie moments. Portraits by photographers Sarah Dunn and Robert Gallagher. (via Todd Dominey)
What matters is not the perception, nor the fashion, not who’s up and who’s down, but what someone has done and if they meant it.
— A single line from a terrific email response by author Dave Eggers regarding creativity, criticism, selling out and “the unshakable need to reduce”. You’ll be glad you read this. (via Wilson Miner)
“Sashimi’s Revenge” by Serge Birault, created in Photoshop and influenced by Hajime Sorayama’s techniques. Reference of Scarlett Johansson was used for the face, more details here. (via Matt Allen)
Quentin Tarantino's Top 20 since 1992
Tarantino lists the 20 films he’d most like to have made since his directorial debut in 1992. Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale tops the list, with the remaining films listed alphabetically.
- Battle Royale (2000)
- Anything Else (2003)
- Audition (1999)
- The Blade (1995)
- Boogie Nights (1997)
- Dazed and Confused (1993)
- Dogville (2003)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Friday (1995)
- The Host (2006)
- The Insider (1999)
- Joint Security Area (2000)
- Lost in Translation (2003)
- The Matrix (1999)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- Police Story 3: Supercop (1992)
- Shaun of the Dead (2004)
- Speed (1994)
- Team America: World Police (2004)
- Unbreakable (2000)
Has Tom really dumped Katie? Went to the shop for a pie and it looks bad.
— Ha! Dave Sparks on Twitter.
Lynch and Rossellini photographed by Helmut Newton (1988).
The hype is too much to bear. (via Classics)
There’s an Oscar for pretty much every aspect of filmmaking, except one: the title sequences.
— Emily Oberman and Bonnie Siegler of design agency Number Seventeen NYC pick their nominees for Best Achievement in Film Title Design. (via Khoi Vinh)
Trailer for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. I like that Bay’s people are posting his stuff to Vimeo, but doesn’t this count as commercial content? From the Community Guidelines:
We do not allow you to upload videos that are commercial in nature…
