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Japanese Poster Appreciation Month - January 2009

New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, January 1, 2009

We are now fully off and into Japanese Poster Celebration Month at Cinema is Dope with this minimal but perfect Japanese Poster artwork for Hayao Miyazaki’s Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (Gake no ue no Ponyo).

Japanese Poster Appreciation Month - January 2009 (Archive):
::: January 6 - Sisters (1973)
::: January 5 - Crime Boss (1972)
::: January 4 - White Lightning (1973)
::: January 3 - The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
::: January 2 - Rolling Thunder (1977)
::: January 1 - Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea (2008)
::: January 1 - Army of Darkness (1992)
::: Preview - Cannonball! (1976)
::: Previous Japanese Posters Featured @ Cinema is Dope

Japanese Cinema Sites I Highly Recommend:
::: Jason Gray
::: Mark Schilling’s Tokyo Ramen
::: Midnight Eye
::: Nippon Cinema
::: Outcast Cinema
::: Ryuganji
::: Toronto J-Film Pow-Wow

* If you don’t see your site listed here and it covers Japanese cinema please comment below so that I can review it and possibly include it in future lists.

About Japanese Poster Artwork Celebration Month:
To kick off 2009, I can think of no better way of doing so than celebrating Japanese poster artwork. The emphasis will be more of western films through the lens of Japanese poster artwork and of course some of my own personal all-time favorites. At a future date I’ll probably have a month devoted to solely Japanese films and their poster artwork. So be sure to tune in each day during the month of January as I have an incredible amount of incredible Japanese posters that will be on display. Hopefully at the end of this I can convert many of you into life long fans of Japanese posters!

Please help and spread the word on the January 2009 themed Japanese Poster Celebration Month here at Cinema is Dope. Tweet your friends. Mention it in your Facebook status or Friendfeed. Link to it on your blog. Any support is greatly appreciated!!!!!

You can follow along at these specific urls/web addresses:
::: www.cinemaisdope.com/category/movie-wallpaper-japanese-poster-celebration-month/
::: http://tinyurl.com/japanese-poster-2009

Starring in these posters will be: Antonio Sabato, Bruce Campbell, Burt Reynolds, Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, David Carradine, Dustin Hoffman, Ernest Borgnine, Gene Hackman, George Lazenby, Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Jack Nicholson, James Coburn, Jennifer Billings, Jim Brown, Jimmy Wang Yu, John Boorman, Kate Jackson, Lee Marvin, Lee Van Cleef, Michael Caine, Peter Fonda, Richard Pryor, Roddy McDowall, Sergio Leone, Sidney Poitier, Susan Strasberg, Warren Oates, William Devane and many more…

If you’re interested in Japanese cinema, I highly recommend the following Cinema is Dope picks for January 2009. For this months book selection we have Behind the Pink Curtain by Jasper Sharp. For video recommendation this month we have Linda Linda Linda.

Additionally fans of Japanese cinema will want to pick up this amazing Yasujiro Ozu tribute shirt from Mondo Tees!

As always when in Austin, Texas, be sure to check out Weird Wednesday (January/February 2009 lineup) or Terror Tuesday (January/February 2009 lineup) and of course Alamo Drafthouse Cinema.

My current favorite restaurants in Austin that are an absolute must visit are Clay Pit (be sure to place an order of naan bread) and Uchi. Be sure to tell them CinemaisDope.com sent you if you visit.

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New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, December 25, 2008

As the fire roasts around the world celebrating Christmas today, I thought these images would make for a great added gift and a definite must for marking your calendars to check this out in 2009 (hopefully US audiences will get to see the original in addition to the dubbed version Disney is putting together). I haven’t seen a lot of the earlier Hayao Miyazaki work and am just now going back through it. I’m starting with Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta ) and going on from there. If you have any suggestions on titles of his you think I should 100% check out please let me know in the comments below. I plan to watch them all but specific recommended titles would help me out for which ones to watch first!

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, November 6, 2008

John Harper (Billy Chapin) and Pearl Harper (Sally Jane Bruce) desperately try to escape the menacing Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) in The Night of the Hunter. The boat sequence I’ve always found to be fantastic with its nightmarish fairy tale realization. Laughton’s choice here to film it that way is quite remarkable to not play it entirely straight and matter of fact.

Related Coverage:
::: Previous Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope)

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Saturday, September 27, 2008

Seems about time to get start getting some images up from this classic family film.

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Babe’s new owners, Arthur and Esme Hoggett (James Cromwell and Magda Szubanski), proudly pose before their farm with their reliable sheepdogs Rex and Fly.

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This post marks the one thousandth post here at Cinema is Dope! Over the last year and four months that I’ve had this site up and going it has been quite a magical ride and journey so far. Thanks to everyone out there that has supported me and this independent site devoted to the celebration and preservation of cinema and its history. I hope you enjoy this image from one of the greatest fantasy films of all-time in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and you enjoy the next one thousand posts here. Onward and onward I plan to keep this site moving ahead and growing each and every single day!

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New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Nominated for a FIPRESCI Critics Award and playing at the upcoming Times BFI 52nd London Film Festival (October 15th-30th), Hansel and Gretel (film listing) is on my must see list for films released in 2008 (it came out in South Korea in 2007 but gets more of an international presence this year). The film marks the sophomore effort of Yim Pil-Sung who last brought us the divisive Antarctic Journal. Every image I’ve seen from the film bears an incredibly lush and stylish dark fairy tale theme and word of mouth has been nothing short of exceptional. I was hoping to catch this one on the big screen, but don’t see that happening anytime soon, so I will probably buy the DVD.

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