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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Such a historic day calls for a great historic image of cinema!

Related Coverage:
::: Previous Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope)
::: “Rediscovered”! Metropolis. (GreenCine Daily)

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, October 9, 2008

It’s the 10 year anniversary for Dark City this year. Hard to believe it has already been that long. For fans of Rufus Sewell I definitely recommend checking him out in one of my favorite films this year, Vinyan.

Related Coverage:
::: Read my Alex Proyas interview on Twitch

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Do you remember when you first saw this movie? I most certainly do. I vaguely remember the commercials drawing me in and seeing it open weekend. Immediately upon the first viewing I only had one choice… I immediately saw it again!

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Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Come out tomorrow (Friday) to the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, Texas, to see the original 1979 Mad Max blasted outdoors as part of early Fantastic Fest 2008 events celebrating the upcoming Magnet documentary Not Quite Hollywood (which recently screened at TIFF ‘08 Midnight Madness)! Not Not Quite Hollywood is a wildly entertaining and loving look at Ozploitation cinema. I imagine many people will be like me when watching it and madly writing down titles of films that look great that they never knew about before.

Related Coverage:
::: Mad Max Screening Info
::: Road Warrior Screening Info (also shown as part of Fantastic Fest)
::: Not Quite Hollywood Fantastic Fest Listing
::: Road Warrior Movie Wallpaper (Cinema is Dope)

Amazon.com Link:
::: Buy the Mad Max (Special Edition DVD)

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With this new still, Terminator Salvation keeps looking more and more promising (previous image)! Will it be more balls to the way post-apocalyptic robot fury or something more akin to sci-fi melodrama scored to Metallica? The film features a pretty long list of producers who should be able to rein in director McG to a tight and more terse narrative that hopefully has more bite than random stylish excess. Stylish excess to me is good when it fits and supports a film or reinforces what is going on at any given moment. Stylish excess falls dead in its tracks when it feels like what your watching onscreen, while interesting, might as well be a commercial break and work more to disconnect a viewer than immerse them. You can look at the works of say Melville and see immediately where excess style can be a good thing, where every single light, shadow and stylization works to further reinforce and better tell the story with cinema.

Synopsis:

Action/Sci-Fi. In the highly anticipated new installment of The Terminator film franchise, set in post-apocalyptic 2018, Christian Bale stars as John Connor, the man fated to lead the human resistance against Skynet and its army of Terminators. But the future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright (Sam Worthington), a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynet’s operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation of mankind.

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