ALL the Presidents Men

Ace in the Hole

400 Blows

8 1/2

100 Movies

So I am was board and made a list of my Favorite films. I am gonna go though alphabetically and do a design for each. Make me focus and force me to and make stuff even if I don't have an idea.

1) 400 Blows
2) 8 ½
3) Ace in the Hole
4) All the Presidents Men
5) Amarcord
6) Amoros Perros
7) Andrei Rublev
8) Ashes and Diamonds
9) Assignation of Jessie James
10) Band of Outsiders
11) Battle of Algiers
12) Bicycle Thief
13) Blade Runner
14) Blazing Saddles
15) Brand Upon the Brain
16) Brazil
17) Breathless
18) Brick
19) Brief Encounter
20) Bottle rocket
21) Casiblanca
22) Citizen Kane
23) City of God
24) Charade
25) Children of men
26) Clockwork Orange
27) Closer
28) Come and See
29) Conformist
30) Curious Case of Ben Button
31) Days of Heaven
32) Devils
33) Dog Day Afternoon
34) Dogville
35) Don’t Look Now
36) Dr. Stranglove
37) Exorcist
38) Fire Within
39) Fountain
40) Gangs of New York
41) Gommorah
42) Great Escape
43) High and Low
44) Hunger
45) I heart Huckabees
46) Inglourous Basterds
47) Kind Hearts and Coronets
48) La Haine
49) La Samurai
50) La Strada
51) Lady Vanishes
52) Last Detail
53) Last Year at Marinbad
54) Lolita
55) Long Goodbye
56) Lord of the Rings(all 3)
57) M
58) Mishima
59) Missing
60) Naked
61) Naked Prey
62) Network
63) Night to Remember
64) Notorious
65) Oldboy
66) Opening Night
67) Paths of Glory
68) Pickup on South Street
69) Pulp Fiction
70) Raging Bull
71) Ran
72) Rashomon
73) Rear window
74) Requiem for a Dream
75) Rififi
76) Rope
77) Rosemarys Baby
78) Rules of the Game
79) Science of Sleep
80) Seven
81) Seven Samurai
82) Seventh Seal
83) Shinning
84) Snatch
85) Stalag 17
86) Stalker
87) Straw Dogs
88) Sunset Blvd.
89) Sword of Doom
90) There Will be Blood
91) Third Man
92) Trainspotting
93) Virgin Spring
94) Viridiana
95) Vertigo
96) Watchmen
97) Wages of Fear
98) Winter Light
99) Wrestler
100) Z

Snatch

Big Sleep

Same cover 2 text ideas bottom one text is all my buddy Neal the top one text is half and half and half if that makes sense a little my idea a little Neals idea and a wonderfull Raymond Chandler book cover.

Rage Against the Machine

I was watching Rage videos and felt inspired to make something in honor of there greatness. Rage posters are always super political and really striking so thats what I was going for with is. The truth is I know nothing about the images I used what there from historically politically which is sad but why lie. I found the original images of the tanks that I love made that my base. I painted over it like dripping blood (which I use way to and need to change up but the visuals it is always so nice) when i put a color burn on the blood it magically turned into the yellow/red overlay that gave me the idea for the rest. the yellow made it look like sunlight so I went with it. Added some orange and the sun which is actually a bullet hole. The rest of the texture in the sun is from a photo I found of a mass grave it subtle but its there and adds another texture and further content to the piece.

Mars Volta

So I have been doing all movie stuff but I figured I would do some music stuff, expand my horizons a bit.

This is just craziness the base image is a famous M.C. Escher print but the rest of layered insanity is kinda hard to explain. Regardless I am totally stoked about how it turned out so here it is.

memento

Memento is a fantastic little piece of cinema so interrogate and complicated but ultimately so simple. I went for simple with this design one image of Guy Pierce chopped it up and flipped parts of it so its half backwards and half forwards as is the film and thats that.

28 days later

All I did here was to make the background black and white wile keeping the flames and Cillians charcter in color it separates and focuses the image a bit compared to the original.

Come & See

Come and See is one of those pieces of cinema that will never leave me. Very few have ever seen this russian film but is is the most powerful antiwar film I have ever seen. Come and See dose not romanticize war it shows it for what it is dirty and horrible. We watch the loss of innocents of Kravenko a child whose life is forever changed by Nazi occupation in Russia during WWII everything is taken from him and he is just trying to survive. I love this image it is so raw and you can see his pain and anguish grinding his teeth and holding his head like it is about to split in half it is captivating in every sense of the word. I took this image and tried to make it look caked in blood and dirt layers caked on top layers of the filth of what is happening. The image also lends itself because of Kravenko arm that he is trying to shield himself from it all but he cannot and he will never be the same.

Funny Games

So here is two covers for two different versions of the same movie the original 1997 german release and the 2007 American one. Both versions are directed by Michael Haneke and are essential shot for shot to each other. These films are horrifying and yet comical they make you shiver and close your eyes in anticipation of what is about to happen. The thing is throughout these films you never see the actual act of violence is all in implication and that is far worse your mind takes over and you imagine what isn't visually there, this is far more effective than the approach of films like saw or hostile. With these covers I wanted them to do a bit of the same you really are not sure what is going on but in you mind you know it isn't good you can kinda find yourself filling in the blanks which can lead your mind to dark places. I find these images to have a very unsettling effect even though they are really showing you nothing and that is how the films are. I did one for each version of the film figured it would make a nice criterion collection box set.

king of comedy

I loved the image from the film of DeNiro performing in front of the black and white audience pasted on the wall. It is a great scene in the film showing his psychotic obsessive delusions of grandeur, but the shot by itself does not pop enough. It feels muddy as a poster so I took a front color shot of DeNiro and replaced the silhouette.

Barfly

With this cover I wanted to try and make something out of nothing, which is not my forte. I have never seen this film though I want to, and there are very few images online, most of which are tiny. This is what I came up with.

Tale of two sisters

I just made this one... not sure how I feel about yet, but I figured I would share it. To me, even though A Tale of Two Sisters is a horror film it is also a very dramatic film so I tried to portray it dramatically while still giving it a ghostly eerie feel. This is another design that has about 6 layer overlays of texture to accomplish the feel I wanted.

2001 a space odyssey

When I think of 2001 I think of the mysterious black object. Provided, there were several shots of this I could use but this one is my favorite, so sterile. Thank you to Kubrick's brilliance; perfectly framed and flawlessly symmetric. After that all I did was place the equally beautiful image of HAL's reflection on the astronaut's mask.

Conformist

So The Conformist is one of the most visually breathtaking films I have ever seen. Trying to find good images was so easy. Trying to find appropriate ones was a little harder. I took a shot I adore of Marcello about to sell his soul because he is weak because he is afraid. The shadow overlay symbolizes Marcello's regret and hatred of himself for his weakness.

Pulp Fiction

In honor of the release of Inglourous Basterds I decided to make a cover for the Tarantino classic, Pulp Fiction.
This movie is hard to pin down in an image; there are just way to many story lines and characters so I went for the pulp side and just tried to give the design a kind of oldschool pulp comic feel with the halftones and beat up grainy overlay. Plus, nothing says Tarantino like people talking. He is famous for his dialog so big red juicy lips talking into a mic just makes sense.

Oldboy

This cover is inspired by the "A Clockwork Orange" book jacket (shown below). It's an image that I love and it was in my view when I was trying to figure out what to do with this cover. It just made sense. Provided, Old Boy is not A Clockwork Orange, but nothing is. There is something about the content in Old Boy that gives me the same feeling I get watching Clockwork. Therefore, it is a bit of a tribute to one of my favorite classic films within one of my favorite new ones that carries on the spirit of great fearless filmmaking. (Side note: I hate you, Steven Spielberg and Will Smith, for having the audacity to try and remake Old Boy)