This looks like fun.
This documentary looks at Bub’s rescue and rise to internet fame, and then at the world’s obsession with lol cats and internet virality more generally.
The film won at Tribeca and has had lots of media attention… Look out for a review soon…
Here’s the NEW UK trailer
And 2 clips for ya!
“She Stays On The List”
“Get All You Can From The Archive”
Vimeo’s first film exclusive, Some Girl(s), is now available through their on demand service.
This darkly comic look at (ex) relationships deserves your full attention. Here’s the trailer.
And to watch (after you’ve paid 5 bucks) here.
Paris used to be the home of some of the best art in the world. Some people think that this has been trumped by the impressive collections of New York. However, despite the naysayers there is still a glorious art scene in Paris. Whether you go to visit the art galleries or just to soak up the atmosphere, there are lots of things to seee and do to get you in the mood for art.
For the classic Parisian art experience, The Louvre boasts one of the world largest pre-twentieth century art collections, with paintings, sculpture and more. This museum is considered one of Paris’s finest. You can see famous pieces such as the Venus de Milo, or visit the painting featured in Dan Brown’s bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code with a peer at the Mona Lisa. The Louvre offers work by masters such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and many others. Not only that, but the building housing this collection is a beautiful palace.
For something a little more contemporary, the National Museum of Modern Art (MNAM) houses one of the world’s most vast collections of modern twentieth century art, with a whopping collection of 50,000 works of drawing, painting, sculpture, and various other media. The collection is also added to by curators every year with new acquisitions always in show. The museum has an extensive collection of the major art movements of the last century, with dedicated collections of surrealist, cubist and pop art pieces.
Another fine visit for arty types is the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. This museum is situated in the stunning Palais de Tokyo with wonderful views of the Eiffel tower. This gallery offers some of the best temporary contemporary exhibitions, including some of the world’s best photographers and painters working today.
Once you have booked your flights to Paris from your nearest UK airport, you can really start to get a taste for all of the other arty vibe that are going on in Paris. You might not be an art buff, but want to feel inspired. There are a myriad of ways to get your own creative juices going in Paris. Why not visit Le Pere Lachaise cemetery, the resting place of Oscar Wilde. Or take a walk down by the Seine. Visit the Marie curie museum. With hundreds of sightseeing opportunities, Paris is the perfect get away for those who want something beautiful from their holiday.
As well as entertaining us with motion pictures, the film industry has provided up with some of the finest popular art works of the last century in the form of billboard posters. These posters trade off the themes inherent in the film they support and their own artistic credentials. They draw us into a film and extract the films predominant themes in pictorial form. If you’d like these billboard classics for your home, visit a site like Instant Print posters.
The Exorcist poster is a prime example of film posters done best. With the title of the film and the hype which must have surrounded its release, the billboard rightly steered clear of vulgarity or overstatement; instead, the poster displays the silhouette of the priest outside a lonely brooding house with light gushing from one single window. This gives the picture a huge sense of curiosity and anticipation – what is that light? Why is it emphasised against such a lonely scene? We’re drawn into the intensity of that bedroom and fear it immediately.
The Alien poster from the hit Sci-Fi film uses similar tricks. It includes a giant egg with narrow cracks exuding an otherworldly light. Again, what is the light? It engages our preconceived notions of what the film is about and lets our curious minds do the running. It also includes the iconic tagline – in space, no one can hear you scream.
The poster for recent film Moon is a nice composition of a few related styles. It has that swirling spirograph type design which is similar to Vertigo with a bewildered man at the centre, and it has the effective Alien-like isolationist tag line ‘950,000 miles from home, the hardest thing to face… is yourself.’ The Moon poster is one of the most striking film posters of all time and a master class in movie poster design.
Vertigo is one of the greatest films of the 20th century and the poster fully does it justice. Saul Bass – the poster’s creator – designed much of the introductory sequence to the film and the swirling lines and falling men give rise to an intense feeling of confusion. The Vertigo poster is a hugely popular artwork and something of a must have for any self-respecting film buff. It is inherently minimal and at the same time hugely striking in that magical way that good art sometimes possesses.