We know who won our Twitpitch Challenge. But what does the poster look like?
You are Hollywood's top movie mogul. Infinite cash is at your disposal. Ditto stars – even the dead ones don't dare refuse your casting call. Now: what film would you most want to make? That's the question we asked readers for our Twitpitch Challenge as part of the Guardian and Observer's Film Season. We invited you to pitch your dream film, were death and cash and genre no obstacle, in 140 characters or less.
Our panel, including Jonathan Meades, Richard Eyre and Frank Cottrell Boyce, chose their favourites. And here we present thereddress's poster for the winning entry -@johnbodkinadams's "To the Manor Bourne: Jason Bourne retires to the countryside. With violent consequences". Note Penelope Keith, fleeing on the right, plus Timothy Spall on the left - the casting choice of judge Meades, who extrapolated the plot. "There's...
You are Hollywood's top movie mogul. Infinite cash is at your disposal. Ditto stars – even the dead ones don't dare refuse your casting call. Now: what film would you most want to make? That's the question we asked readers for our Twitpitch Challenge as part of the Guardian and Observer's Film Season. We invited you to pitch your dream film, were death and cash and genre no obstacle, in 140 characters or less.
Our panel, including Jonathan Meades, Richard Eyre and Frank Cottrell Boyce, chose their favourites. And here we present thereddress's poster for the winning entry -@johnbodkinadams's "To the Manor Bourne: Jason Bourne retires to the countryside. With violent consequences". Note Penelope Keith, fleeing on the right, plus Timothy Spall on the left - the casting choice of judge Meades, who extrapolated the plot. "There's...
- 10/13/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
All this week we've been asking you to tell us, in 140 characters or less, what your dream film would be. You replied in your hundreds; but for which pitch did our judges – Jonathan Meades, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Richard Eyre – choose to have a poster drawn and published in the Guide?
Brian Blessed was a recurrent theme; so was Leonard Cohen. Space featured heavily as a location; the rise in 3D was well represented. The dizzying breadth of ambition of some of the films you dreamed up is truly startling.
One of our judges, Frank Cottrell Boyce, said: "I was expecting this to be mostly amusing casting and direction ideas ("Schwarzenegger is Bach") but was amazed and overexcited to find some ideas on this list that I really would like to see filmed." Indeed, should @jahaniman's Quiet! ("An American aid worker and an Irish boxer enter a monastery but find...
Brian Blessed was a recurrent theme; so was Leonard Cohen. Space featured heavily as a location; the rise in 3D was well represented. The dizzying breadth of ambition of some of the films you dreamed up is truly startling.
One of our judges, Frank Cottrell Boyce, said: "I was expecting this to be mostly amusing casting and direction ideas ("Schwarzenegger is Bach") but was amazed and overexcited to find some ideas on this list that I really would like to see filmed." Indeed, should @jahaniman's Quiet! ("An American aid worker and an Irish boxer enter a monastery but find...
- 10/1/2010
- by Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
It looks like Criterion isn’t the only name in town when it comes to director centric runs of DVD releases.
According to Cinematical (via The Playlist), San Francisco based DVD distributor Microcinema International has announced that they are set to not only round up a collection of films from cult filmmaker Alex Cox, but are set to release them on DVD.
Best known as the man behind cult hits like the film Repo Man and the fantastic former Criterion release, Sid and Nancy, the series of releases are set to delve deeper into this filmmakers rather interesting canon. The series includes Cox’s sort of but not really sequel to John Ford’s legendary film, The Searchers, called Searchers 2.0, as well as Cox’s Highway Patrolman, Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger’s Tragedy, and Straight To Hell Returns, an update to Cox’s film, Straight To Hell.
According to Cinematical (via The Playlist), San Francisco based DVD distributor Microcinema International has announced that they are set to not only round up a collection of films from cult filmmaker Alex Cox, but are set to release them on DVD.
Best known as the man behind cult hits like the film Repo Man and the fantastic former Criterion release, Sid and Nancy, the series of releases are set to delve deeper into this filmmakers rather interesting canon. The series includes Cox’s sort of but not really sequel to John Ford’s legendary film, The Searchers, called Searchers 2.0, as well as Cox’s Highway Patrolman, Death and the Compass, Three Businessmen, Revenger’s Tragedy, and Straight To Hell Returns, an update to Cox’s film, Straight To Hell.
- 6/4/2010
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
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