Tuesday 1 December 2015

December 2015

'Legend' (2015)
Dir: Brian Helgeland


'The Force Awakens' (2015)
Dir: JJ Abrams


'Spotlight' (2015)
Dir: Tom McCarthy


'Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery' (2015)
Dir: Arne Birkenstock


'A Bigger Splash' (2015)
Dir: Luca Guadagnino


'Listen To Me Marlon' (2015)
Dir: Stevan Riley


'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' (2015)
Dir: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

'Diary of a Teenage Girl' (2015)
Dir: Marielle Heller

'PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: ART ADDICT' (2015)
Dir: Lisa Immordino Vreeland

'The First Film' (2015)
Dir: David Wilkinson

'3 ½ minutes 10 bullets' (2015)
Dir: Marc Silver

'Trainwreck' (2015)
Dir: Judd Apatow

 'The Lobster' (2015)
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos


'Top Five' (2015)
Dir: Chris Rock

'Trumbo' (2015)
Dir: Jay Roach

'The Revenant' (2015)
Dir: Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu

'Carol' (2015)
Dir: Todd Haynes

'The Hateful Eight' (2015)
Dir: Quentin Tarantino

'Everybody Street' (2013)
Dir: Cheryl Dunn

'Tangerine' (2015)
Dir: Sean Baker

'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) IMAX 3-D
Dir: George Miller

'In The Heart of the Sea' (2015) IMAX
Dir: Ron Howard

 'The Big Short' (2015)
Dir: Adam McKay


'Sicario' (2015)
Dir: Denis Villeneuve


'Anomalisa' (2015) IMAX
Dir: Charlie Kaufman


'Macbeth' (2015)
Dir: Justin Kurzel

Monday 2 November 2015

November 2015

'Home' (2015)
Dir: Tim Johnson

Mission Impossible Rogue Nation' (2015)
Dir: Christopher mcQuarrie

'The Good Dinosaur' (2015) 3-D
Dir: Peter Sohn

'Best of Enemies' (2015)
Dir: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville

'Soaked In Bleach' (2015)
Dir: Benjamin Statler

'A Little Chaos' (2014)
Dir: Alan Rickman

'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015) IMAX 3-D
Dir: George Miller

'The Black Stallion' (1979)
Dir: Carroll Ballard


'Bridge of Spies' (2015)
Dir: Steven Spielberg


'Southpaw' (2015)
Dir: Antoine Fuqua


'Infinitely Polar Bear' (2014)
Dir: Maya Forbes

Wednesday 7 October 2015

October 2015

'Grandma' (2015)
Dir: Paul Weitz

'The Walk' (2015)
Dir: Robert Zemeckis

'Black Mass' (2015)
Dir: Scott Cooper

'The Woman In Gold' (2015)
Dir:  Simon Curtis

'Beasts of No Nation' (2015)
Dir: Cary Joji Fukunaga

'Steve Jobs' (2015)
Dir: Danny Boyle

'Spinning Plates' (2013)
Dir: Joseph Levy

'Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal' (2015)
Dirs: Peter Pau & Tianyu Zhao

'Iris' (2014)
Dir: Albert Maysles

'The Martian' (2015)
Dir: Ridley Scott

'Everest IMAX' (1998)
Dirs: Stephen Judson & David Breashears

'Beyond the Edge' (2013)
Dir: Leanne Pooley

Friday 11 September 2015

September 2015

'Cowspiracy' 

'Vegucated' (2010)
Dir: Marisa Miller Wolfson
'Food Inc.' (2008)
Dir:Robert Kenner

'Hungry For Change' (2012)
Dies: James Colquhoun & Laurentine Ten Bosch

'Narco Cultura' (2013)
Dir: Shaul Schwartz

'Freeway'

'Straight Outta L.A.' (2010)
Dir: Ice Cube

'Pump' (2014)
Dirs: Joshua & Rebecca Tickell

'White God' (2014)
Dir: Kornél Mondruczó

'Byzantium' (2012)
Dir: Neil Jordan

'A Royal Affair' (2012)
Dir: Nicolaj Arcel

Tuesday 4 August 2015

August 2015

'Where The Trail Ends' (2012)
Dir: Jeremy Grant

'Thief' (1981)
Dir: Michael Mann


'Stories We Tell' (2012)
Dir. Sarah Polley

'Immortal Beloved' (1994)
Dir. Bernard Rose

'Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's Fantastic 4' (2015)
Dir: Marty langford

'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' (2015)
Dir: Guy Ritchie

'Straight Outta Compton' (2015)
Dir: F. Gary Gray

'One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich and the Lost American Film' (2015)
Dir: Bill teck

'She's Funny That Way' (2014)
Dir: Peter Bogdanovich

'Casting By' (2012)
Dir: Tom Donahue

'Winnebago Man' (2009)
Dir: Ben Steinbauer

'Stretch' (2014)
Dir: Joe Carnahan

'Pandora's Promise' (2013)
Dir: Robert Stone

'Monk With a Camera' (2014)
Dirs: Tina Mascara, Guido Santi

Friday 3 July 2015

July 2015


'Hawaiian: The Legend of Eddie Aikau' (2013)
Dir: Sam George

 'Slow West' (2015)
Dir: John Maclean


'The Aviator' (2004)
Dir: Martin Scorcese


'Bad Timing' (1980)
Dir: Nic Roeg

'Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau' (2014)
Dir: David Gregory

'Filming the Trial' (1981)
Dir: Orson Welles


'Dirty Wars' (2013)
Dir: Rick Rowley


'The Trial' (1962)
Dir: Orson Welles


'Welcome to Me' (2014)
Dir: Shira Piven

'Grace of Monaco' (2014)
Dir: Olivier Dahan


'What Happened, Miss Simone?' (2015)
Dir: Liz Garbus

'An Honest Liar' (2014)
Dir: Tyler Measom, Justin Weinstein


'To Live and Die in L. A.' (1985)
Dir: William Friedkin


'Me and Me Dad' (2012)
Dir: Katrine Boorman


'Excalibur' (1981)
Dir: John Boorman

'The Sicilian' (1987)
Dir: Michael Cimino


'Bullhead' (2011)
Dir:  Michaël R. Roskam


'Amy' (2015)
Dir: Asif Kapadia

Tuesday 9 June 2015

June 2015

'Paul Williams Still Alive' (2011)
Dir: Stephen Kessler


'On The Road' (2012)
Dir: Walter Salles


'Labyrinth' (1986)
Dir: Jim Henson

'Legend' (1985) American version
Dir: Ridley Scott

'The Cobbler' (2014)
Dir: Tom McCarthy


'Grindhouse' (2007)
Dirs: Robert Rodriguez & Quentin Tarantino


'Inside Out' (2015)
Dir: Pete Docter


'Testament of Youth' (2014)
Dir: James Kent


'Good Will Hunting' (1997)
Dir: Gus Van Sant


'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' (2014)
Dir: Any Lily Amanpour


'Jurassic World' (2015)
Dir: Colin Trevorrow

'Tomorrowland' (2015)
Dir: Brad Bird

Sunday 10 May 2015

May 2015

'All This Mayhem' (2014)
Dir: Eddie Martin


'Ex Machina' (2015)
Dir: Alex Garland


'My Life Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn' (2014)
Dir: Liv Corfixen


'The Real Blonde' (1997)
Dir: Tom DiCillo


'Dust Devil' (1992)
Dir: Richard Stanley


'Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston' (2010)
Dir: Whitney Smith


'Macbeth' (1971)
Dir: Roman Polanski


'Venus In Fur' (2013)
Dir: Roman Polanski


'The Giver (2014)
Dir: Phillip Noyce

'Dark Star: H. R. Giger's World' (2014)
Dir: Belinda Sallin


'Fruitvale Station' (2013)
Dir: Ryan Coogler


'Mad Max: Fury Road' (2015)
Dir: George Miller


'Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles' (2014)
 Dir: Chuck Workman

'Touch of Evil' (1958)
Dir: Orson Welles

'Othello' (1955)
Dir: Orson Welles

'Falstaff: Chimes At Midnight' (1965)
Dir: Orson Welles

'National Gallery' (2014)
Dir: Frederick Wiseman

'The Woman Chaser' (1999)
Dir: Robinson Devor

'Inside Out' (2015)
Dir: Pete Docter

Wednesday 8 April 2015

April 2015

'Ragnarok' (2013)
Dir: Mikkel Brænne Sandemose

'8 1/2' (1963)
Dir: Federico Fellini

'Force Majeure' (2014)
Dir: Ruben Östlund

'The Seven Samurai' (1954)
Dir: Akira Kurosawa

'Tracks' (2013)
Dir: John Curran

'The November Man' (2014)
Dir: Roger Donaldson

Sunday 15 March 2015

Exodus exhibition

The Art of 'Exodus: Gods & Kings' at LACDA, downtown los Angeles, March 2015. A small exhibition of digital prints and making of' featurettes looping on monitors, ostensibly promoting the imminent blu-ray release.











Sunday 8 March 2015

March 2015

'The Babadook' (2014)
Dir: Jennifer Kent

'Black Sea' (2014)
Dir: Kevin Macdonal

'The Look of Love' (2013)
Dir: Michael Winterbottom

'Sorcerer' (1977)
Dir: William Friedkin

'A Story of Children and Film' (2013)
Dir: Mark Cousins

'Welcome to New York' (2014)
Dir: Abel Ferrara

'Finding Vivian Maier' (2013)
Dir: John Maloof & Charlie Siskel

'Belle' (2014)
Dir: Amma Asante

'Alien' (1979)
Dir: Ridley Scott

'Alien' material sold at auction




'Director Ridley Scott’s personal script from Alien with notations, edits and numerous hand-drawn “Ridleygrams”. (TCF, 1979) This is Academy Award-winning director Ridley Scott’s 8.5 x 11 in. 127+ multi-color page, personal copy of the script for his breakthrough Sci-Fi/Horror film Alien. Bound in a 10.5 x 12 x 2.5 in. blue, 2-ring binder with 6.5 x 2.75 in. “ALIEN” title card affixed to the cover and 7 x 1.25 in. winged emblem sticker below it. The interior title page is printed with, “ALIEN / Revised Final Draft by Walter Hill and David Giler / Based on a screenplay by Dan O’Bannon / Story by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett / June 1978” and production company address. The 2nd page features the printed inspirational quotes, “Science fiction plucks from within us our deepest fears and hopes then shows them to us in rough disguise: the monster and the rocket. W. H. Auden” and, “We live, as we dream --- alone. Joseph Conrad”. A majority of script pages exhibit detailed production notes, script edits, strikethrough lines and passages – even a coffee cup ring stain from presumably long hours spent poring over scenes. In addition, 30 pages feature a number of remarkable sketches by Ridley Scott, himself. Educated at the Royal College of Art in England, the director is an accomplished visual artist. His spontaneous and visionary sketches and diagrams have become known as “Ridleygrams”. These Ridleygrams depict some memorable images and scenes from the resulting film, including: a sequence showing details of astronauts waking up from suspended animation, brilliant starscapes, interior Nostromo images, the discovery of the derelict alien ship on planet “LV-426”, a rudimentary sketch of the iconic “Space Jockey” and even the memorable drinking bird that was realized as an insert shot in the ultimate film. Includes 23 pages of shooting schedule dated, “28.6.78”. Last 2 pages of this schedule also include Ridleygrams of a spaceship on the verso. The binder remains in good condition and the content is in production-used very good condition. Comes with an LOA from 1st assistant editor, Leslie Healey, who rescued this script from the cutting room floor after Scott discarded it at the end of production. A profound, one-of-a kind piece of the Alien legacy, originating from one of the greatest cinematic minds of the past 30 years. '

-Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013 (The item sold for $90k)


















'Original Ron Cobb concept art of the “Narcissus” shuttle on the planetoid surface for Alien(TCF, 1979) Original concept art depicting the Narcissus, a satellite shuttle of the mothership Nostromo, for the sci-fi/horror classic Alien. Accomplished in pencil and acrylic paint on 30 x 18.25 in. artist illustration board. Illustration shows three astronauts standing outside the shuttle amid a barren extraterrestrial landscape. Features the handwritten notations “Alien”, “Black Ship and Cylinder” along lower border. Signed by artist, “R. Cobb” in lower right of image. Tape remnants and a sticker in the upper left corner of verso with typed inscription “26. Ron Cobb: Black Ship & Cylinder”.' --Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013






'Original concept art of the “Narcissus” shuttle from Alien. (TCF, 1979) Original concept art depicting the “Narcissus”, a satellite ship of the mothership “Nostromo”, for the sci-fi/horror classic Alien. Accomplished in ink, pencil and gouache on 16.5 x 23 in. artist vellum leaf. Illustration depicts the ship fleeing an explosion. Lower border features, handwritten: “Alien”, The Narcissus” and artist’s signature “R. Cobb” in the lower right corner of image. Handwritten “#697 Colour Neg.” and “A918 Blk + Wht” in pencil and ink on verso. With minor curling, pin holes from production display and exhibiting tape remnants on verso.' --Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013


Original Ron Cobb concept art of “Nostromo” bridge interior for Alien(TCF, 1979) Original concept art by Ron Cobb depicting the bridge of the spaceship Nostromo from the Sci-fi/horror classic Alien. Accomplished in ink, pencil and gouache on 19 x 24 in. artist leaf. The border of the piece exhibits light scuffing and wear, with pinholes in each corner from production display. A sticker in upper left corner of the verso reads, “27. Ron Cobb: Leviathan Bridge” [Leviathan was the early production name of the ship] with further handwritten notation, “h/11001 826” -Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013





'Vintage original “Crewman” sketch by Moebius for Alien(TCF, 1979) In Ridley Scott’s incredible Alien universe, supporting graphic artists were majorly responsible for bringing Scott’s futuristic vision to life. Aside from H.R. Giger’s incredible impact with his biomechanical monster and set pieces, Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) was also an early influence on the style of the production with his wildly creative illustrations, grounded in gritty reality. Here is an original, hand-drawn color sketch by Moebius. Accomplished in pencil, pen and artist marker on 8.5 x 11.75 in. heavy paper leaf. The sketch depicts three figures (front, back and side) of a crewman in deck uniform. ' --Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013



'Vintage original spacesuit sketches by Moebius for Alien(TCF, 1979) In Ridley Scott’s incredible Alien universe, supporting graphic artists were majorly responsible for bringing Scott’s futuristic vision to life. Aside from H.R. Giger’s incredible impact with his biomechanical monster and set pieces, Jean Henri Gaston Giraud (a.k.a. Moebius) was also an early influence on the style of the production with his wildly creative illustrations, grounded in gritty reality. Here are (2) Original, hand-drawn color sketches by Moebius. Both accomplished in pencil, pen and artist marker on 8.5 x 11.75 in. heavy paper leaves. Both sketches depict figures in spacesuits. One is signed “M” at the lower right.' -Profiles In History Auction Dec. 2013


Original Chris Foss concept sketch of the Derelict Ship interior for Alien(TCF, 1979) Original concept art by Chris Foss for the sci-fi/horror classic Alien. Image depicts a member of the Nostromo landing party descending into a vast and ornate sepulcher. The sketch shows Foss’ celebrated skill while markedly devoid of the later influence of H.R. Giger. Accomplished in pencil, ink and gouache on 29 x 18 in. artist leaf. Handwritten notations “Centre of the Tombe”, “Alien” and “Chris Foss F 77” at the lower border. Verso features a sticker in the upper left reading “Chris Foss – 7. Centre of the Tombe”.

Saturday 7 February 2015

February 2015

'Citizen Four' (2014)
Dir: Laura Poitras

'Robocop' (2014)
Dir: Jose Padilla

'The Butler' (2013)
Dir: Lee Daniels

'Dumb and Dumber Too' (2014)
Dir: The Farrellys

'The Possibilities Are Endless' (2014)
Dir: James Hall & Edward Lovelace

'The Voices' (2014)
Dir: Marjane Satrapi

'Lucy' (2014)
Dir: Luc Besson

'Horns' (2014)
Dir: Alexandra Aja

'The Interview' (2014)
Dir: Evan Goldberg

'The Double' (2013)
Dir: Richard Ayoade

'Frank' (2014)
Dir: Lenny Abrahamson

Friday 2 January 2015

January 2015

'American Sniper' (2014)
Dir: Clint Eastwood

'Fading Gigolo' (2014)
Dir: John Turturro

'The Judge' (2014)
Dir: David Dobkin

'Boyhood' (2014)
Dir: Richard Linklater

'Wild' (2014)
Dir: Jean-Marc Vallée

'The Theory of Everything' (2014)
Dir: James Marsh

'Road' (2014)
Dir: Michael Hewitt, Dermot Lavery

'Still Alice' (2014)
Dir: Richard Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland

'Unbroken' (2014)
Dir: Angelina Jolie

'Set Fire to the Stars' (2014)
Dir: Andy Goddard