If you’re a fan of Japanese cinema, you’re bound to have come across Midnight Eye at some point. Every year the editors of the site put together a list of what they consider to be the best films of the year, I tend to use this as a guideline of films to try and watch.
Spanish designer Hexagonal, has created a project of distilling film posters to their fundamental elements. Some of them are absolutely brilliant, unsurprisingly I’m quite a fan of his adaptation of Akira. I leave you with a selection of his work below.
This is kinda long winded and I don’t suppose it really matters but here’s how I came across 20th Century Boys. To begin with, I hadn’t ever read a manga before, I was far too much of a literary snob to take any interest in them in spite of my avid interest in Japanese culture.
On the three hour train journey back to Sheffield from London, I decided that I’d fill the time with a film. I’ve been sitting on “The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God” for a while now.
The Guardian report that Jonny Greenwood from my favourite band, Radiohead will make a return to film scoring. He’d previously worked on “There Will Be Blood”, for which he received a Grammy-nomination.
