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Movie poster artists are without a doubt some of the most vital yet overlooked contributors to cinematic history. Long before the invention of the television and the internet, filmmakers relied on movie posters to persuade audiences to watch their films. Ever since the late 19th century, posters (or then simple 8 x 10 inch lobby cards) enticed audiences to spend their hard earned dollars, and even today, a movie poster can go a long way in helping build excitement and anticipation for a film. Posters occupy a space between art and advertising and have a clear commercial purpose – to promote an event or product – but they also have artistic value and find clever and creative ways to include a sensational one line description of the films; these tag-lines acting much like a newspaper headline.
Over the years movie posters have found more value outside their initial purpose of promoting motion pictures. People now collect them and hang them on their walls and museums devote entire galleries to poster art. 2011, has been a good year for movie posters, and so we’ve decided to look back at tome o the best. Below are the 25 best movie posters released this year, analyzing each poster by evaluating both how well it fulfils its purpose, as well as its aesthetic value.
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Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If you’re (un)fortunate enough to live in New York, you had the opportunity to see around 600 new features come and go; the rest of us didn’t get that many fewer. That means that anyone who’s been put in a position to make a top 10 (or top 15, or top 20…) had to make some sad cuts. So we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the year’s most memorable individual moments, scenes, and sequences, from movies that may or may not have made our individual year-end lists. Some were from movies we didn’t love; some are from movies we didn’t even like, but all stood out. Which is no small feat considering just how insane the release calendar has become.
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http://www.soundonsight.org/2011-the-years-best-movie-moments-part-2/Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If... more
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Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If you’re (un)fortunate enough to live in New York, you had the opportunity to see around 600 new features come and go; the rest of us didn’t get that many fewer. That means that anyone who’s been put in a position to make a top 10 (or top 15, or top 20…) had to make some sad cuts. So we thought it appropriate to highlight some of the year’s most memorable individual moments, scenes, and sequences, from movies that may or may not have made our individual year-end lists. Some were from movies we didn’t love; some are from movies we didn’t even like, but all stood out. Which is no small feat considering just how insane the release calendar has become.
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http://www.soundonsight.org/2011-the-years-best-movie-moments-part-1/Most moviegoers can agree on one thing: there were way too many movies this year. If... more
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Tony D reviews a DVD with poetry.
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A review of both the Hobo with a Shotgun feature film and its special features on the two disc collector's edition DVD. Directed by Jason Eisener and starring Ruger Hauer.A review of both the Hobo with a Shotgun feature film and its special features on the... more
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”Hobo with a Shotgun” -- a fake trailer seen in the Canadian version of 2007's “Grindhouse” turned into a feature film -- is the gory, dystopian tale of a homeless man (played by “Blade Runner” icon Rutger Hauer) who finds himself the sole voice of reason in a town ruled by a madman and his sinister sons. The Hobo takes law and order into his own hands the only way he can think to -- with a shotgun.
Current's Daniela Capistrano spoke to Rutger Hauer about playing the Hobo, violence in the media, his upcoming projects, and what it was really like to kill William Sanderson in “Blade Runner.”
Daniela: I saw “Hobo with a Shotgun” at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and was both entertained and blown away by your stoic portrayal of the Hobo. How did you get into character?
Rugter: How did I get into character... I had Dave Brunt. He was the guy they based the story on, so I was able to talk to him, look at him, pick his brain. And the director, Jason [Eisener], had other good ideas [but] they didn’t all fit, so I couldn’t make it happen. He wanted me to be louder, but I couldn’t -- I lost my voice in two days from screaming so much... [It’s] funny, because I left stage acting for that very reason -- after too many performances I would lose my voice.
So after two days of shooting, I had to sit down with Jason and say, “I cannot do this for you.” The thing is, screaming in movies -- you cannot fake it. And I’ve always hated being too big. Jason wanted me to be grotesque big but to play it straight, and [for me] to be that big felt like a lie. It didn’t feel quite right, so I had to battle him on it and we found a better ground. We [looked] for a softer side of the character. [Beyond that] there wasn’t much to the character than the ideas that Dave Brunt had, so I made it my own.
Jason also recorded an interview where [Dave] comes up with the idea of bears and territory [which we used in a scene]. But the movie is not about Dave or Crazy Town. It’s about everybody else right now, it’s just taken to an extreme and more grotesque form.
D: The film is very violent but also touches on some profound themes like creating your own reality and evolving identities, such as how the Hobo is always telling Abby (Molly Dunsworth) that she is a teacher.
R: [The film] is going to piss a lot people off, but I don’t know.... Can we not be violent? What do you mean? I [see] all the [TV] programs and the interviewers, and all the same questions go round and round. “Oh the violence, we live in such a violent world.” The violence, to me, that we give them, even at our best, is baby food compared to what we live in.
What is this factor inside people's heads that you can’t see the beauty in the worst violence, in a movie? I think that the [real] "Hobo" people who watch will have no problems in realizing they are watching a movie and at the same time being pulled in. Everything is shrunk in this movie, the most limited edition of what it is. It’s saying, here’s the American Dream now, give me a couple feet of grass and a lawnmower and I’ll be a citizen, and I guess it’s also saying, “You’re in the wrong town, pal!”
D: I don’t want to spoil the film, but the ending is pretty intense.
R: We had to fight for that ending. We were trying to find a better way to end the movie, the way it always should have ended. Now it makes perfect sense.
D: You’ll be playing the Van Helsing character in Dario Argento's “Dracula 3D.” How does it feel to be in remake of this scale?
R: I think that “Bram Stroker’s Dracula” is really marvelous, and that is what this film is based on. I have a strong feeling that it might be really interesting to see what 3D does for it. This is my first experience with 3D, and it will be [almost like] research. I’ll have to think two cameras -- that’s all I know for now. My sense of it is that the wings of Dracula will be bigger and more scary. That goes for [the entire] piece as well -- that’s all I can say for now.
D: Before you go, I have to ask about your experience working with William Sanderson on “Blade Runner,” as he has a starring role as James in our new series “Bar Karma.”
R: I always felt that [Sanderson’s character] Sebastian appears -- he is such a possum of a man, so completely screwed over by his older skin. It’s his first layer of humanity where we all go, “Ahh, we’re getting old.” It’s so sad and sweet and primal in a way.
He was so gentle and what hurt me most was that in the first days of shooting it was decided we would not shoot the [Sebastian’s death] scene the way it was originally written, with the real Maker at the top of pyramid. In the script it was written that I killed the so-called Maker, but then found out he drops to the floor like a doll and we see wires and find out he’s just a clever toy.
In the original script, Roy goes up to Sebastian, and says, “Get me to the real Maker,” and Sebastian takes me to the top floor, and the real Maker is there in a big chunk of ice, frozen. And that would have been the secret -- that the Maker was dead for years. When Roy was born, the Maker died but here’s Roy trying to get more life from the Maker. It would have been a moment for Roy, who would have felt that fuse burn inside, saying, “OK, end game now.” That scene would have said that this was his last dance for life.
This whole idea of your father [in the film], your real father, it always moved me and made my skin crawl. When I found out we weren’t going to shoot that scene and were instead going to indicate that Roy killed Sebastian... in my mind, a warrior like Roy would never kill anyone he didn’t need to. He loved everybody. People are there to be loved, not to be killed, so I felt really bad in the first few days of shooting when that decision came from the higher gods. But many of those decisions were mistakes, and it made the film what is... but working with Sanderson was sweet. The whole scene with him and Pris (Daryl Hannah), when she tries to seduce him, is so funny, sweet and pathetic... talk about how you catch a fish slowly and see it struggle, that was Daryl. She was so good, funny!
”Hobo with a Shotgun” hits theaters Friday, and is available On Demand. Check your local listings for show times and the official website.”Hobo with a Shotgun” -- a fake trailer seen in the Canadian version... more
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AUSTIN, Texas — Hobo With a Shotgun, the outrageously bloody movie spawned by a gritty Grindhouse trailer, is about to blast its way onto iOS devices in the form of a retro-style game with a unique back story.
The trailer and screenshots above, debuting exclusively on Wired.com, offer a first look at the wicked side-scrolling game coming soon to iPad, iPhone and iPad Touch. It packs plenty of shotgun justice administered by the homeless guy played by Rutger Hauer in director Jason Eisener’s movie.
“You are the grisly hobo with a shotgun,” said Tim League, founder of Austin’s genre-film giant the Alamo Drafthouse, a driving force behind the project. “When you run out of ammo, you just have to bludgeon people with the shotgun.”
It’s all done up in 16-bit, NES-style graphics that give the game a vibrant old-school vibe. But the project could point the way toward future fertile collaborations between indie filmmakers and game developers. The Hobo With a Shotgun game resulted from a partnership between Eisener, indie gamemakers Perfect Dork Studios and Powerhouse Animation Studios, and Mondo, the Alamo’s collectible art boutique.
The seeds were planted at last year’s Fantastic Fest, an annual horror, sci-fi and action film festival put on here by the Alamo, with the addition of an indie game-development segment called Fantastic Arcade.
“We wanted to see the indie game world and the indie film world fused together,” said Alamo’s Tim League in a phone interview with Wired.com. The Hobo With a Shotgun game is the first such project to lock and load.
The collaboration, which finds all parties pitching in to shoulder development costs and sharing profit or loss, could point the way toward future partnerships between genre filmmakers and independent game developers. For example, Nacho Vigalondo, director of 2008 sci-fi movie Timecrimes, is working on a game with developers thanks to connections made at Fantastic Fest, League said.
The Hobo With a Shotgun game seems like a perfect project to test the concept. Director Eisener said he and writer John Davies looked to vintage videogames when dreaming up the hobo’s brutal world.
“Growing up playing videogames in the ’80s with my friends has attributed to a lot of my artistic tastes,” Eisener said in a press release. “Games like Double Dragon 2, River City Ransom and Final Fight all had worlds we wanted to explore. From their character designs, pumping soundtracks and color palettes, you can find all those inspirations in our film.”
The movie itself spun out of a fake trailer created by Eisener and colleagues. It won director Robert Rodriguez’ SXSW trailer contest for Grindhouse and was subsequently screened with the exploitation flick double feature.
The game-development process was steered by Eisener, with many characters lifted from the movie, including a pair of villainous brothers in bumper cars who make for a crazy boss battle, according to League.
“It takes a lot of firepower to knock ‘em out, and if you get cornered in the wrong part of the bumper car arena, you’re doomed,” League said. “It’s really not a fair fight.”
So, has the Alamo, which has tapped a winning combination for genre films, found the silver bullet for creating a killer movie game — a prize that has long eluded big studios, which usually partner with giant gamemakers to churn out boring games with big price tags?
League, who helped out with the Hobo With a Shotgun beta testing, said the game is fun, difficult enough to inspire repeat plays, and just as over the top as the movie.
“Everybody dies a bloody death,” he says, “but it’s a 16-bit, old-school death, so nobody’s going to have any nightmares over it.”
The $2.99 Hobo With a Shotgun game has been submitted to Apple and could be available for download as early as Friday, League said, but when Cupertino is involved, you never know.
The movie hits video on demand April 1 and will be released theatrically in May. League said as the release approaches, new levels will be added to the game. He promised that some of the deadliest villains will be saved for those free updates.
Let’s hope all the 16-bit gore doesn’t sully any of Steve Jobs’ pristine gadgets.
Hobo With a Shotgun screens at the South by Southwest panel film festival this year. Eisener, Mondo creative director Justin Ishmael, Magnolia’s Andrew McGraime, GameSalad’s Mark Chuberka, Badass Digest’s Moises Chiullan, Perfect Dork Studios’ Billy Garretsen and Powerhouse Animation Studios’ Brad Graeber will discuss the videogame project during a SXSW panel Monday titled “Hobo With a Shotgun The Game: A Case Study.”
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Well Topless Robot reminds all that with the film Machete out soon, there are some more Grindhouse styled films on the way. Like Hobo With a Shotgun, with its neon lighting, classic title font and insane amount of comic-like violence. In the teaser the hobo tells babies about the world.Well Topless Robot reminds all that with the film Machete out soon, there are some... more
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NSFW due to violence. A Grindhouse film, which I wouldn't put it past Tarantino to pick up this film for his own. It's a simple concept, Hobo with a shotgun fights crime and it a film that's won over the hearts of the internet.
"officially confirmed as being in production, with filming scheduled to start today in Halifax. According to AICN, Dutch badass Rutger Hauer has been cast in the titular role."-Daily WhatNSFW due to violence. A Grindhouse film, which I wouldn't put it past Tarantino... more
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“I’m gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!”
In 2007 there was a contest at SXSW that invited filmmakers to create their own fake grindhouse-style movie trailers to go along with the promotion for the Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez film Grindhouse. The winner, by a great margin, was Hobo with a Shotgun, from Nova Scotia director Jason Eisener.
The young director, who worked in a comic book store when his film won the contest, saw Hobo with a Shotgun attached to Canadian prints of Grindhouse, and immediately started talking about the possibility of a feature-length version. It’s taken a while to make that happen (Eisener has made the very popular short Treevenge in the interim) but now the feature version of of his grindhouse trailer is about to begin production. In the lead role, he’s got a new hobo: Rutger Hauer. Is there any better casting choice than that?
AICN has the news, saying that the film starts shooting tomorrow. Neither AICN nor Twitch, which also reports the news, has any further detail on the film, other than the fact that original hobo actor David Brunt will appear as a cop.
Read more: Rutger Hauer to Star in Feature-Length Version of Hobo with a Shotgun | /Film http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/18/rutger-hauer-to-star-in-feature-length-version-of-hobo-with-a-shotgun/#ixzz0lVm3RCfy“I’m gonna sleep in your bloody carcasses tonight!”
In 2007 there... more
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