1000 dominoes designed by students and artists  where placed along where the Wall used to be in Berlin. They will be tipped over on the 20th anniversary of the Wall coming down on Monday, Nov 9th.

More images here.

New series, if you want. Last flowers before winter.

More to be updated here.

Looks like Hollywood needs new film poster designers. Rip-off or homage?

Anatomy of a Murder (1979, Preminger) vs. Clockers (1995, Spike Lee)

Stylized dismembered body? Check!

Colour red? Check!

Okay, let’s add some bullet holes and call it an homage to the brilliant Saul Bass? Check!

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Casablanca (1942, Curtiz) vs. The Good German (2006, Soderbergh)

B/w? Check!

Current movie hunk? Check!

Fedora? Hoo-yah!

Similar font? Check!

Okay, let’s add some red colour and make it totally unique!

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Scarface (1983, De Palma) vs. Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002, Soderbergh, again)

B/w? Check!

Divided by half? Check!

Add dashes of red? Check!

Add gun? But, of course!

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Basic Instinct (1992, Paul Verhoeven) vs. Betrayed (2005, Landsburg)

B/w oldschool so add a lil blue? Check!

Red is eye catching? Check!

Lascivious hand on shoulder? Check!

Sultry look? Oh yeah!

Surely, no one will notice!

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The Breakfast Club (1985, Hughes) vs. American Teen (2008, Burstein)

Just… fuck it! Use different font, no one will notice.

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True Blood (TV, 2008, Alan Ball) vs. Jennifer’s Body (2009, Kusama)

Lips? Check!

Blood? Check!

Red? Hell yes.

Surely, the nose is diff, so no one will see it.

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The Bourne Identity (2002, Liman)  vs. 88 Minutes (2007, Avnet)

Lead in heroic pose? Check!

Gun in right hand? Oh yeah!

Gun sights? Never done before!

Shit, looks too close to another one? Make Pacino look to the right not left? Check!

New reviews up.

Michael Mann’s Public Enemies and Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds.

Enjoyed this one a lot – great follow-up to Michael Clayton.

Review here!

Just had a chance to view Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut Synecdoche, New York.

Review can be found on Europefront.

New review up here!

Must say, I enjoyed this one way more than expected. It might not be pulling in the BO numbers that were expected, but I think the Comedian will have the last laugh in the end…

Slavoj Žižek attended a screening of his docu The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema on March 6th, including a one-hour Q&A.

My article on it can be found here.

New review up on EuropeFront, to be found here.

So far, this week will have me see The International at the cinema, Psycho at a special screening for the current Hitchcock exhibit at Berlin, as well as a screening of The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema by and with Slavoj Žižek, who will also attend the screening on Friday (me excited).

Furthermore, The Arsenal Cinema in Berlin will screen a couple of films in March under the heading of Magical History Tour. Some films I’d love to see include: Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon for John Ford, The Killing by Kubrick, The Killers by Siodmak, some Douglas Sirk (including All That Heaven Allows), and – last but not least – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and The Red Shoes by Pressburger (who, I just been told, I gotta see).

All that doesn’t even include the Gerard Depardieu Retrospective also going on, which includes the awesome Chanson D’Amour, and the short film festival The United States of Mind at the Babylon, Berlin.

Quite clearly, there need to be at least 30 hours in the day or I’ll go insane and approach this level of mental unhinged-ness…