criterionforum.org

The Elegant Dandy Fop wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 10:17 pmHer arrival to America with Morricone's perfect cue makes me cry each time. You're not alone in feeling that way with that particular performance.

beamish14 wrote: Thu Sep 25, 2025 3:20 am Henry Jaglom

hearthesilence wrote: Wed Sep 24, 2025 5:32 pm Danny Thompson, great bass player who was a founding member of Pentangle and has recorded with Nick Drake (Five Leaves Left), John McLaughlin, not a relative but frequent collaborator Richard Thompson (Hand of Kindness, Amnesia, Mock Tudor among many others), Kate Bush (The Dreaming, Hounds of Love among others), ABC, Tim Buckley, The Blind Boys of Alabama, Donovan, Graham Coxon, Marianne Faithfull, Peter Gabriel, the Incredible String Band, Bert Jansch, John Martyn, Alison Moyet, Rod Stewart (on Every Picture Tells a Story no less), David Sylvain, Talk Talk, Loudon Wainwright III, and many others.

Tony Harrison in Prometheus wrote:What my boss Zeus long planned to do, was melt man down and mould anew.
Smelt the old stock and re-cast a better mankind from the last and "better" was his way of saying "Man with a bent for more obey"
Zeus would have fulfilled his dreams but for Prometheus and his schemes, whose theft of fire first blurred the line dividing Mankind and Divine
By letting lower challenge higher. By giving mere Men Zeus's fire.

___

We've got knowledge; we've got fire / We've raised ourse'ns up out o' th'mire
Diso-bloody-bedience got us over / the barbed wire fences of Jehovah
But when they'sens "bring back barbed wire / round bramleys and round bakehouse fire"
There's not one joy that some bloody berk'll / want it ringed with a red circle
Gods - or men who are summat similar / Hermes or some downhill Himmler
Those in power would like t' red ring / round almost bloody everything

I was at the cinema to see a film almost every day [as a child]. As well as enjoying the films themselves, I fell immediately in love with the posters that were displayed when a new film was showing. I used to go by the cinema every day to see if they were changing the posters and when they were I would ask if I could take them home. I was usually in luck and would run home with the poster and go into my bedroom to study it before attempting to paint a copy of it. I always did this because it helped me to understand how the artist had achieved the finished result.

Gregory wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:32 pm Renato Casaro, 89, Italian artist known for his posters for films such as: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), My Name Is Nobody (1973), Quadrophenia (1979), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Tenebrae (1982), Octopussy (1983), Never Say Never Again (1983), Dune (1984), Flesh and Blood (1985), Red Sonja (1985), Over the Top (1987), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Fire, Ice and Dynamite (1990), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Dances With Wolves (1990), and Army of Darkness (1992).

jbeall wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:13 pm

Gregory wrote: Tue Sep 30, 2025 4:32 pm Renato Casaro, 89, Italian artist known for his posters for films such as: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), My Name Is Nobody (1973), Quadrophenia (1979), Conan the Barbarian (1982), Tenebrae (1982), Octopussy (1983), Never Say Never Again (1983), Dune (1984), Flesh and Blood (1985), Red Sonja (1985), Over the Top (1987), The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), Fire, Ice and Dynamite (1990), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Dances With Wolves (1990), and Army of Darkness (1992).

The Guardian has a nice gallery of some of his posters here.