The poster/s and trailer for Spielberg/Jackson juggernaut The Adventures of Tintin (co-penned by Edgar Wright!) are out. Best comment: “Filmed on location in the Uncanny Valley.” (via Jason Kottke)
Too soon?
Upception by Frank Ireland, a mashup of scenes from Pixar’s Up with the trailer for Inception. Tidy work. (via Laura Serra)
Dennis Hopper dies at 74. Mark Cousins in The Guardian:
He read the screenplay of Blue Velvet and famously told David Lynch that he was Frank Booth. The rapist-fetishist Booth took the mania of Hopper’s 1970s characters up a gear but, set in Lynch’s Eisenhower-textured world, he looked like one of the most terrifying characters in the history of the movies.
Cool guy formula. (via Rachel Eakley)
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)
