Symbols of the end of the world: a clock, a book, and a bit of broken glass.
Symbols of the end of Henry Bemis' world: a clock, a book, and a bit of broken glass.
The Twilight Zone "Time Enough at Last" (1959)
dir. John Brahm
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
The Not-a-gun
The Iron Giant (1999)dir. Brad Bird
How to Train Your Dragon (2009)dir. Dean DeBlois & Chris Sanders
Friday, February 25, 2011
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
The City of New York
dir. Joseph Losey
Little Fugitive (1953)Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin, & Morris Engel
Do the Right Thing (1989)dir. Spike Lee
The Bottle
Little Fugitive (1953)dir. Ray Ashley, Ruth Orkin, & Morris Engel
Floating Weeds (1959)dir. Yasujiro Ozu
The Arial Attack
The 39 Steps (1935)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
North by Northwest (1958)
dir. Alfred Hitchcock
There's a little detail that announces Northeast by Northwest [sic], it's in the country when the policemen are hidden behind the rocks, there's a helicopter that passes and that heralds the plane later on in the other picture.
Francois Truffaut, Hitchcock/Truffaut tapes
The Sewer Dweller
C.H.U.D. (1984)dir. Douglas Cheek
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)dir. Steve Barron
Monday, February 21, 2011
Sunday, February 13, 2011
The Incredibly Bad Writer
The moonlight shone down on the place, unhindered. The gnarled parapets jagged upwards, like a bony hand of icy indifference. In the background there was a pigeon.
Garth Marenghi's Darkplace "The Apes of Wrath" (2004)
Matthew Holness & Richard Ayoade
The Lost Symbol (2009)
Dan Brown
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The Little People in Jars
Le Spectre Rouge (1907)dir. Segundo de Chomón & Ferdinand Zecca
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)dir. James Whale
Monday, February 7, 2011
The Camera Crew
Apocalypse Now (1979)dir. Francis Ford Coppola
Full Metal Jacket (1987)dir. Stanley Kubrick
The Monolith
Rothko Chapel (commissioned 1964)Mark Rothko
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)dir. Stanley Kubrick
To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks. We favor the simple expression of the complex thought. We are for the large shape because it has the impact of the unequivocal.
Mark Rothko, 1943
The Alka-Seltzer Metaphor
Taxi Driver (1976)
dir. Martin Scorsese
Simon Schama's Power of Art "Rothko" (2006)
dir. Carl Hindmarch
Sunday, February 6, 2011
The Princess
Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)dir. Werner Herzog
The New World (2005)dir. Terrence Malick
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