Lots of links about poster art today

[cleolinda]

Two headlines that go together: Robbers net $4M in coin convention heist; U.S. warns about Canadian spy coins.

Yale barbershop singers recovering after ambush.

Suzanne Somers Loses Malibu Home to Fire.

Fla. trailer park OKs megabucks sellout: "Residents of this coastal trailer-park town sitting on beachfront property have voted overwhelmingly to sell their community to a developer for more than $510 million, which could make most of them millionaires. Some residents bought their homes for as little as $35,000."

Kansas tearing down BTK serial killer's home.

Man's wallet returned after 62 years.

Research Reveals Secret Causes of Sibling Spats.

Historic passenger lists of ships go online.

Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone name.

Walters calls Trump 'poor, pathetic man.'

Glitter may get early prison release.

Turtle thought extinct found in Thailand.

'Munsters' star Yvonne De Carlo dies.

Matthew Fox talks about his dark side.

Alternative Motivational Posters with gorgeous retro artwork.


Top five movie posters of the year (plus others, in one blogger's opinion). Includes the Illusionist poster that I loved, a fairly good Prestige poster I linked to a while back, and of course, the Little Miss Sunshine poster.

Posters for 300 that I... really kind of don't like. (Scroll down for all eight.) I mean, the style of the artwork, the color grading, that's fine and good. It's just the whole I WILL CRUSH YOUR BRAIN motif that I can't get into. I mean, these are from the people who brought you Sin City, which I loved, but was extremely violent--but at least had a neo-noir veneer over the whole thing, and they saved the actual decapitating, castrating, bind-and-torture violence for the movie. If the posters are like, COME CLOSER SO I MAY RAPE YOUR SKULL, I don't even want to know what the movie's going to be like.

That said, "You Will Not Enjoy This" cracks me up.

From Oscarwatch:

1. Children of Men, Illusionist, Good Shepherd, Apocalypto and Black Dahlia Earn Outstanding Feature Noms from Cinematography Society.

YAY! I definitely feel like Children of Men deserves this one for the all-in-one-shot first car chase alone, but like I said before, The Illusionist has some beautiful color grading going on. Children of Men has a fantastic palette of its own, but I can't do justice to the way the camera moves, which is the most innovative thing about it.

2. Costume Design Guild nominees from Variety:
>> Milena Canonero for "Marie Antoinette"
>> Sharen Davis, "Dreamgirls"
>> Chung Man Yee, "Curse of the Golden Flower"
>> Ngila Dickson, "The Illusionist"
>> Penny Rose, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"

Aww, yay! I'm pretty sure Marie Antoinette is a certain winner at this point, and if it's not, its only real competition is Curse of the Golden Flower. I think they said Kirsten Dunst had something like sixty changes of costume in MA, and they were all gorgeous and elaborate and reasonably period-accurate, as far as I can tell. I'm pleased for Penny Rose because I've always loved the way she dresses Keira Knightley in those movies (not to mention Naomie Harris/Tia Dalma), but also because tecno_fairy actually sewed some of the costumes--and for Ngila Dickson, because The Illusionist was (extreme understatement approaching) a much simpler assignment than Lord of the Rings, but she still managed to put Jessica Biel in some excellent outfits even though all she had to work with was, generally speaking, Edwardian blouses.

3. Writer's Guild nominees (just in):

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
>> Babel, Written by Guillermo Arriaga, Paramount Vantage
>> Little Miss Sunshine, Written by Michael Arndt, Fox Searchlight Pictures
>> The Queen, Written by Peter Morgan, Miramax Films
>> Stranger Than Fiction, Written by Zach Helm, Sony Pictures Entertainment
>> United 93, Written by Paul Greengrass, Universal Pictures

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
>> Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Screenplay by Sacha Baron Cohen & Anthony Hines & Peter Baynham & Dan Mazer, Story by Sacha Baron Cohen & Peter Baynham & Anthony Hines & Todd Phillips, Based on a Character Created by Sacha Baron Cohen, Twentieth Century Fox
>> The Departed, Screenplay by William Monahan, Based on the Motion Picture Internal Affairs, Written by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, Warner Bros. Pictures
>> The Devil Wears Prada, Screenplay by Aline Brosh McKenna, Based on the Novel by Lauren Weisberger, Twentieth Century Fox
>> Little Children, Screenplay by Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, Based on the Novel by Tom Perrotta, New Line Cinema
>> Thank You for Smoking, Screenplay by Jason Reitman, Based on the Novel by Christopher Buckley, Fox Searchlight Pictures

Speaking of Pirates, I grabbed a link from trailer_spot to some excellent new POTC3 posters. Outstanding. (ETA: Yes, that is Chow Yun-Fat.)

Comments

[reynardine.livejournal.com]

Wow, those POTC3 posters were incredible! Although that pose that Orlando Bloom takes in his single shot looks straight off some romance novel.

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

My first thought was "OMG HE SCALPED FABIO!"

[ohsobulletproof.livejournal.com]

Wow. What's with Asian!Keira? Its kind of hot.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure, but she may get kidnapped by Chow Yun-Fat at some point. That's an early synopsis I heard; suffice it to say, there's some Chinese piratage in there.

[shoukinkasegi.livejournal.com]

Why doesn't Capn Jack's solo poster fill out more of the frame like the others? :(

[lotusbiosm.livejournal.com]

Those motivational posters were gorgeous! I totally would love to work in an office with those on the wall.

[bigeyedrabbit.livejournal.com]

For some reason, TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL! is what cracks me up.

I'm beginning to wish I read the 300 comic...

[xander77.livejournal.com]

"We all known Miller has two sides. The good side... with all the violence, darkness, whores and nihilism. And the bad side. Which is pretty much the same, but not remotely interesting"

[edoraslass.livejournal.com]

1. Awesome PotC posters.
2. Where's the Norrington love, Disney?

Someone was gonna say it sooner or later. :)

[the-jackalope.livejournal.com]

I know, give me some scruffy. Please?

[lilgoala.livejournal.com]

Ugh, Keira's mouth bothers me so much.

[georgie21.livejournal.com]

GAH YES.

[sibilantwretch.livejournal.com]

Oooh Elizabeth's costume! I WANT one of those!

[robyn-ma.livejournal.com]

Maybe I'm a bitch, but when I saw Suzanne Somers being all like 'Maybe we can learn something' after her house burned down, and the ladies on The View were like 'ZOMG how amazing is she for being so chill about it,' I was like 'Well, it's easy for her to be all Zen about losing her house — she's a fuckin' millionaire.' Somehow I sympathize more with Joe Shmoe who loses his house in a fire and the insurance company screws him over and he ends up having to live in a motel, y'know?

[palmetto.livejournal.com]

...dude, who cares if Malibu Barbie's dream house burned down? She can take some of the plastic stored in her body and make a new one.

(err, I'm with you.)

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I can't wait for the inevitable Photoshopped 300 poster parodies.

Even better than the main V poster are the...well, I don't know if they were UK versions, or for street campaigns, or what, but the extra-retro posters included (among other places) as postcards in the deluxe DVD. Even more retro, and even more awesome.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I can't remember if my DVD has postcards or not. And I BETTER have the deluxe DVD, or I am going to be very, very angry. I'm already mad that the one I have doesn't have a commentary.

(And yeah, there were other V posters I liked better than that one, but I wasn't gonna argue with the guy.)

[nc-bookworm.livejournal.com]

I was thinking after seeing your icon, "when was Kiera Knightly in a sword-epic"? Great posters. I want to make the one of Orlando Bloom into an icon. :-)

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

I may go through and iconize all of them if I have a little time this afternoon. : )

[neveth.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm excited about 300 simply cause it's based on a semi-historic event, and WOO! SPARTANS! WOOOOOO!

that said I'm not sure I'm going to be able to handle the violence levels of the film but I'm damn sure gonna try.

[grand-marquis.livejournal.com]

Hello! I've been behind on your linkspam, so I don't know if you picked this up or not, but I thought you might find it interesting. It's more than a little ridiculous.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-210-2524408-523,00.html

In short: a method was devised to eliminate same-sex attraction between sheep. Though I can't imagine the gay sheep community was all that large, concerns of reproduction rates were raised and off they went. What's frightening is sneaking suggestion that this be tested on humans and I could just see some crazy like Jerry Fallwell or Pat Robertson paying for homosexuals to undergo this procedure en masse.
And as a side note: the very last paragraph mentions Simon LeVay who claims that gay men have different brain structure from straight men. Apparently throwing the scientific method right out the window, he ignored the fact that the bodies he tested were not only dead, but had suffered from AIDS, which is known to cause swelling and disfigurement in the section of the brain he was looking at.

[delurker.livejournal.com]

Actually, the article significantly misrepresents the research - they're not trying to eliminate same-sex attraction, they're trying to "understand the biological basis of behavior, including sexual behavior": see here (http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/01/a_wolf_in_gay_s.html).

[tecno-fairy.livejournal.com]

Woo! Thanks for the shout out! I'm so pleased that Penny's finally getting some recognition (and that my boss will be getting recognition for her hard work through that); she has got a pretty good portfolio but keeps getting passed over for really Oscar-worthy design contracts.

It's so strange to see those POTC3 costumes again - just went back to work at the old workshop for a month before I go off travelling; it's been about 18/19 months since I worked on those! It's a wicked poster of Keira though, and you can see all of Gavin's embroidery! I'm looking forward to seeing which of our costumes have made it through the final cut, I think the script's probably changed a couple of hundred times since we got a synopsis of it.

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Ooo, I couldn't remember if you'd worked on the POTC3 costumes or if you'd left before then. And honestly? I fully expect knockoffs of that embroidered jacket (jacket? tunic?) to hit stores in about six months.

[bakednudel.livejournal.com]

wow, Children of Men didn't get an adapted screenplay nom?

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Looks like not, but it also looks like a pretty tough year in terms of scripts.

[saint-kat.livejournal.com]

Hm. I'm not sure about the 300 posters. I mean, I like the style and design of the posters by itself, but the addition of the LOUD text just make the posters seem a bit too...creepy for my taste (not that the violent aspect of it would stop me from going to watch it in the theaters).

The Pirates promo ones, on the other hand? Awesome. I'm tempted to make icon versions of them, but it seems you beat me to it. :P

[thebratqueen.livejournal.com]

Glitter may get early prison release.

I can't be the only person who read that and thought "Oh those poor inmates." I mean I don't know about you, but I'd certainly qualify Mariah Carey as cruel and unusual punishment.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

Ditto.

[zrath.livejournal.com]

Much to talk about today!

Lily Munster is dead. Awwwwwww...
Man, we're losing a bunch of people lately!
Peter Boyle, James Brown, Iwao Takamoto, Joe Barbera, the Cup-A-Noodle guy, Yvonne DeCarlo, and I'm sure I'm forgetting a couple.


"Man's wallet returned after 62 years."
Wow.
Well, you know, better late than never! :D


I'm experiencing PMVSS (Post Movie-Violence Stress Syndrome).
I can't watch "Sin City" anymore, or "Kill Bill".
I didn't want to go see "Apocalypto" with the sibling.
And I'm not looking forward to "300".
Those "300" posters you linked to are NOT HELPING! :D
Frank Miller is getting on my nerves.


"Yale barbershop singers recovering after ambush."
The article utterly and completely fails to mention what they exactly did to the "Star-Spangled Banner" that would merit beatings at the hands of granola-chewing tree-hugging San Franciscans.
Guess I'm gonna have to dig deeper.


I rented and watched "The Illusionist" last night. It was faboo!
The sepia-toned cinematography was awesome. I really enjoyed the movie.
It's a smaller, quieter film compared to the gut-wrenching, mindblowing and excellent "The Prestige", and that's just fine.


And speaking of magic, it looks like I will be able to accept my friend's invitation to The Magic Castle. :)
I'm getting appropriate clothing with his help on Saturday.
I'm getting my hair cut on Sunday.
And I've got Monday off work, giving me plenty of time to prepare for an evening of fun and magic with "just another face in a red jumpsuit".

Why yes, I AM excited about this! My nipples explode with delight, even!

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

See, and I saw The Illusionist in the theater a good month before I saw The Prestige, so its being quieter didn't hurt--it didn't feel like a letdown after a more complex movie, if that makes any sense. I always think that it's so pretentious when people say that this or that film is a "tone poem," but literally, in the sense of color tones, I think you might be able to invoke that here.

[ironclad1609.livejournal.com]

So Jack Sparrow isn't dead after all, who would have thought, eh? :P Shiny posters though.

Not too crazy about the 300 ones either, but I also have a hard time looking forward to a movie with heoric deaths of everyone involved at the end.

I'd love Children of Men to do some Oscar damage, but somehow I doubt it. The camera work surely would deserve it.

[falco-conlon.livejournal.com]

Ooooh I really want the "Peace" and "Focus" posters, those are amazing

[twilight-echo.livejournal.com]

WOW, those POTC3 posters are AWESOME. The single ones of Orlando and Keira are my favorites--she looks like a super Amazon and he's like, "I'm a sexy star of a terribly written pirate romance novel."

I kinda wish that Capt. Jack wasn't even on the posters. I didn't ever think that he died, but it would have been nice to retain the suspense for those who did.

[bardintraining.livejournal.com]

My inner Freud started giggling at Barbossa's cannon.

*GUH*

[obigrrl.livejournal.com]

oh my good god, you have just made my day with those Pirates posters!!!!

*kisses cleo's feet*

[dramedy.livejournal.com]

So, 300 - "interesting" casting choices(See: Rodrigo Santoro as Xerxes), and bloody/violent advertising. Throw in Frank Miller(who's name alone makes me angry), and I wonder what about this movie is going to be good. Even Gerard Butler doesn't look pretty.

*anger not directed at Cleolinda, but at Frank Miller 300 in general*

[cleolinda.livejournal.com]

Well, Frank Miller wrote the graphic novel, so he's kind of part of the deal. But yeah--on paper I thought it actually sounded kind of good, and now we get visuals and... not so good.