[ View Image (1024×768) ] 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…
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Cinema is Dope: Book Pick of the Month January 2009
Behind the Pink Curtain by Jasper Sharp (Fab Press) For 2009, each month I will highlight one book that is currently out that I personally recommend. The goal is to highlight and promote books on cinema that you might have missed and definitely need to check out. Behind the Pink Curtain is a dense, rousing…
Cinema is Dope: Video Pick of the Month January 2009
Linda Linda Linda (2005) For 2009, each month I will highlight one movie that is currently out on video (DVD or Blu-Ray) that I personally recommend. The goal is to highlight and promote movies that you might have missed and definitely need to check out. To kick this off we have Linda Linda Linda, a…
ROBOROCK (2008) – New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day – Japanese Poster
[ View Image (1024×768) ] New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Along with Astropia, ROBOROCK marks one of my favorite indie film efforts I’ve seen in 2008. ROBOROCK is by far one of the most wildly entertaining films I’ve seen this year and in recent memory (and I do watch a…
Ikiru (1952) – Vintage Movie Wallpaper of the Day – Takashi Shimura
[ View Image (1024×696) ][ View Image (1280×870) ] Vintage Wallpaper of the Day Monday, November 17, 2008 Could the best movie of all-time be Ikiru? On any given day I might have it ranked as my all-time favorite, which obviously surprises many that have never even heard of this Akira Kurosawa classic at all….
R246 STORY (2008) – New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day – Tadanobu Asano
[ View Image (1024×768) ] New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day Thursday, October 9, 2008 Can’t wait to see this anthology film with Tadanobu Asano even directing a segement. Jason Gray (read here) mentions: “Asano is an alien named 246 that needs his drum kit or he’ll die” in R246 Story. Japanese Cinema: ::: Jason…
Tokyo! (2008) – New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day – Fantastic Fest
[ View Image (1024×768) ] [ View Image (1024×717) ] [ View Image (1024×768) ] [ View Image (1024×768) ] [ View Image (1024×768) ] [ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day Friday, September 12, 2008 Tokyo! finally hits Austin next Friday at Fantastic Fest 2008 (3:45…
Linda Linda Linda (2005) – Movie Wallpaper – Nobuhiro Yamashita
[ View Image (1024×662) ][ View Image (1280×828) ] [ View Image (1024×702) ][ View Image (1280×878) ] It seems to separate the karaoke masters from the karaoke neophytes to count how many times one has sung this song for karaoke. If you never have rocked out to this, then you surely have not lived…
Detroit Metal City (2008) – New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day – Ken’ichi Matsuyama
[ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] [ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] [ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] [ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] New Cinema Wallpaper of the Day Sunday, September 7, 2008 Leave it to Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes to…
Tokyo Sonata (2008) – Movie Wallpaper – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
[ View Image (1024×682) ][ View Image (1280×853) ] [ View Image (1024×683) ] [ View Image (1024×683) ] [ View Image (1024×683) ] [ View Image (1024×683) ] [ View Image (1024×683) ] One of the films I’m still eager to hit my doorstep is Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Tokyo Sonata. It features from what I…