Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)dir. Mervyn LeRoy
Starship Troopers (1997)dir. Paul Verhoeven
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
The Tiger Cage
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)dir. Werner Herzog
Apocalypse Now (1979)dir. Francis Ford Coppola
The Semiotic Standard and the Creature's Lifespan
Ron Cobb's design for Alien's spaceship, the Nostromo, incorporated pictogram utility signs which he referred to as "Semiotic Standard". These symbols, stick figures wrapped in red boxes, lurk in the background of scenes. Two examples:
The Auteurs posted a wonderful article about the foreshadowing in one of these designs.
Original designs for the derelict alien spaceship called for hieroglyphics explaining the creature's lifespan. I submit that this idea materialized in Ron Cobb's signs, and that this Semiotic Standard anticipates the whole film.
Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
The Hitchcock Profile
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Saboteur (1942)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Rear Window (1954)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Psycho (1960)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Marnie (1964)dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955-1965)dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Sunday, October 17, 2010
The Soldiers
The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)dir. Allan Dwan
Saving Private Ryan (1998)
dir. Steven Spielberg
Friday, October 15, 2010
Thursday, October 14, 2010
The War Face
"The shout is the most important part."If... (1968)
"Let me see your war face. Ahh! That's a war face."
dir. Lindsay Anderson
"Let me see your war face. Ahh! That's a war face."Full Metal Jacket (1987)
dir. Stanley Kubrick
The Prairie Fence (2)
dir. Frank Borzage
Stagecoach (1939)dir. John Ford
The Searchers (1956)dir. John Ford
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