February 27, 2008

The Illusionist and 27 Dresses Movie Poster

I really love movie posters. Although i do not have a single movie posters on my wall, for me a movie posters is a form of art. Its the fastest way for telling the viewers what the movie is all about. I saw many movie posters and there were times that when i saw one another movie posters will pop on my mind.

Here's an example:



27 Dresses Movie Poster and The Illusionist Movie Poster, you see the difference?

February 26, 2008

Blogger now in Filipino

Hurray! Blogger is now in Filipino, blogger.com announced it last February 19. This is a good sign for the fanatic Filipino blogger who is still using blogspot

X-Men Origins: Wolverine Movie Poster

For me the best Movie Poster this year

The mutant known as Wolverine breaks off into his off spin-off film from the successful X-MEN! franchise. Hugh Jackman (X1, X2, Van Helsing) returns as Logan/ Wolverine-A mutant with regenerative powers, three claws on each hand and a skeleton all laced with the rare metal known as adamantium. Logan struggles to find the secrets to his past. After learning little information through the help of Charles Xavier (X2's Patrick Stewart), Logan takes his search even further by learning the full truth of his origin, while also heading in a bold, new direction imdb

February 25, 2008

Oscar 2008 Winners

Here are some of the winner


Best Picture: No Country for Old Men

Oh well my bet JUNO came in short.


Animated Feature Film: Ratatouille

For me this one is for Best Picture.


Documentary Feature: Taxi to the Darkside

3 out of 5 Nominees for Best Documentary Feature is about Iraq war.


Honorary Oscar to Robert Boyle


Oh, thank you all. That's the good part of getting old. I don't recommend the other. It's not possible for me to express my appreciation to the countless people who helped me on this great trip, this wonderful journey of being in the movies. But I can thank the members of the Board of Governors of the Academy and to Nicole Kidman who so graciously introduced me. I would like to remember some of the old folk, like Hans Dreier who took a chance and gave me my first job in the movies, and to "Hitch" who also took a chance and gave me my first big film. And I also would like to remember that Hitch introduced me to the screenwriter Bess Taffel, who became my wife and my companion throughout this wonderful journey. I also would like to thank my children and grandchildren who supported me with their love and support, thank them. To Norman Jewison who made moviemaking fun and much laughter while dealing with real subjects. And to Don Seigel, who cut to the chase and gave us truth. And with all of these, there was my beginning at the USC School of Architecture and my great colleagues in the Art Directors Guild who supported me, and, finally, to Jean Firstenberg who introduced me to the American Film Institute and the opportunity to give back to the next generation of storytellers. Since I've been around here for almost a century, I've noted a lot of conflicts, but there was one bright image in this whole life of ours, and that was the arts, and particularly the art of the moviemakers, of the moving image that we all love. So I have, I have had the good fortune to be a part of this and I thank you all for being there for me. Thank you. link here

February 20, 2008

Wings and Sunrise 1927 Oscar Most Outstanding Production and Most Artistic Quality Production Movie Poster

On 1927 the first year of Academy award there was no Best Picture award instead there were two separate awards, the Most Outstanding Production and the Most Artistic Quality Production. The Most Outstanding Production won by Wings and the Most Artistic Quality Production won by the art film Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans


WINGS

In 1917, Jack Powell (Charles 'Buddy' Rogers) is a young man with passion for cars. His next door neighbor is Mary Preston (Clara Bow), who is in deep love for him, but Jack does not notice her. Jack indeed loves Sylvia Lewis (Jobyna Ralston), but she is in love with the rich David Armstrong (Richard Arlen). When USA enters in World War I, Jack and David join the Air Force to fight in France and become pals. Mary joins the Women's Motor Corp, trying to be close to Jack. But it is war, and a tragedy happen between the two friends. imdb










SUNRISE: A SONG OF TWO HUMANS


In this fable-morality silent film masterpiece (which is subtitled "A Song of Two Humans"), the "evil" temptress (Margaret Livingston) is a city woman who bewitches farmer George O'Brien and convinces him to murder his neglected wife, Janet Gaynor. After O'Brien comes to his senses - just as he is about to kill Gaynor - the married couple renew their love in the city. Directed by F.W. Murnau. imdb

February 13, 2008

Oscar 2008 for Best Animated feature Film Movie Posters

The award for Best Animated Film is the one we should look for in this year's Oscar Award. Many film critics said that Ratatouille deserve the Best Picture Nomination and i should say.. why not.

Persepolis

Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution. imdb
















Ratatouille

A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. imdb


Surf's Up

Cody Maverick (LaBeouf) is a penguin who has a passion for surfing. Hitching a ride to Pen Gu Island, Cody and his chicken friend, Joe (Heder) attempt to participate in the Big Z Memorial Surf Off. This documentary tracks his steps from leaving his home, training with Big Z (Bridges) and attempting the big challenge. imdb

February 12, 2008

Oscar 2008 for Best Documentary Movie Posters

Here are the nominees for Best Documentary

No End In Sight

Chronological look at the fiasco in Iraq, especially decisions made in the spring of 2003 - and the backgrounds of those making decisions - immediately following the overthrow of Saddam: no occupation plan, an inadequate team to run the country, insufficient troops to keep order, and three edicts from the White House announced by Bremmer when he took over: no provisional Iraqi government, de-Ba'athification, and disbanding the Iraqi armed services. The film has chapters (from History to Consequences), and the talking heads are reporters, academics, soldiers, military brass, and former Bush-administration officials, including several who were in Baghdad in 2003. imdb



Sicko

Documentary look at health care in the United States as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free, universal care in Canada, the U.K., and France. Moore contrasts U.S. media reports on Canadian care with the experiences of Canadians in hospitals and clinics there. He interviews patients and doctors in the U.K. about cost, quality, and salaries. He examines why Nixon promoted HMOs in 1971, and why the Clintons' reform effort failed in the 1990s. He talks to U.S. ex-pats in Paris about French services, and he takes three 9/11 clean-up volunteers, who developed respiratory problems, to Cuba for care. He asks of Americans, "Who are we?" imdb


War Dance

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival imdb
















Taxi to the Dark Side

An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002. imdb















Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience


A unique documentary about troops' experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, based on writings by soldiers, Marines, and air men. Some writings were published in the New Yorker in summer 2006. A larger assortment was published as a book by Random House last September. The film drew upon the submissions by soldiers for the book. It's a remarkable portrait of troops at war - the complexities, doubts, and fears - written with honesty. The 81-minute version of the film (which will be in theatres) includes 11 pieces of writing, with different visual strategies, along with interviews with the writers, and with more established American writers who are also veterans. In the latter group are Tim O'Brien, Yusef Komunyakaa, Tobias Wolff, Joe Haldeman, James Salter, Anthony Swofford, Richard Currey, and Paul Fussell. The visual approaches range from poet Brian Turner reading directly to camera, to archival footage, to an animated "graphic novel," to a still photo sequence shot by photographer Antonin Kratochvil. It's rooted in a program by the NEA that created a series of writing workshops at military bases. After those workshops, the writers submitted pieces for consideration in the book, edited by Andy Carroll. From those writings were selected 11 for inclusion in the film. There is also a 53-minute version of this film which will be airing on PBS as part of the series "America at a Crossroads" in April, 2007. Both of these are different from the other film 'Operation Homecoming" from 2007, directed by Lawrence Bridges. That piece was produced by the NEA as a documentary about their writing workshops.

February 10, 2008

No Country for Old Men Movie Poster

Oscar 2008 Best Picture Nominee


Violence and mayhem ensue after a hunter stumbles upon some dead bodies, a stash of heroin and more than $2 million in cash near the Rio Grande. imdb

February 09, 2008

There Will Be Blood Movie Poster

Oscar 2008 Best Picture Nominee


A story about family, greed, religion, and oil, centered around a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.

February 07, 2008

Michael Clayton Movie Poster

Oscar 2008 Best Picture Nominee

Michael Clayton is an in-house fixer at one of the largest corporate law firms in New York. A former criminal prosecutor, Clayton takes care of Kenner, Bach, & Ledeen's dirtiest work at the behest of the firm's co-founder, Marty Bach. Though burned out and hardly content with his job as a fixer, his divorce, a failed business venture, and mounting debt have left Clayton inextricably tied to the firm. At U/North, meanwhile, the career of litigator Karen Crowder rests on the multi-million dollar settlement of a class-action suit that Clayton's firm is leading to a seemingly successful conclusion. But when Kenner Bach's brilliant and guilt-ridden attorney Arthur Edens sabotages the U/North case, Clayton faces the biggest challenge of his career and his life. imdb

February 04, 2008

Juno Movie Poster

Oscar 2008 Best Picture Nominee

Faced with an unplanned pregnancy, an offbeat young woman makes an unusual decision regarding her unborn child. imdb

February 03, 2008

Atonement Movie Poster

Oscar 2008 is just around the corner, nominees were announced, who deserve to win the gold?

Nominee for Best Picture:

A British romance that spans several decades. Fledgling writer Briony Tallis, as a 13-year-old, irrevocably changes the course of several lives when she accuses her older sister's lover of a crime he did not commit. imdb

Funny Games Movie Poster

In this exploration of our violent society and how depictions of violence reflect and shape our culture, a middle-class housewife Anna tells the story of how she and her husband George and their 10-year-old son Georgie submitted both physically and mentally to the torture, violence, and death foisted upon them by two young, unexpected, white-gloved visitors at their weekend vacation retreat near a lake. imdb

visit the Funny Games Official Website

February 01, 2008

Jumper Movie Poster


A genetic anomaly allows a young man to teleport himself anywhere. He discovers this gift has existed for centuries and finds himself in a war that has been raging for thousands of years between "Jumpers" and those who have sworn to kill them. imdb


visit Jumper Official Website