Michael W. Freemanさんのイラストまとめ

Happy birthday to Alan Silvestri, one of my favorite film composers, particularly of horror and fantasy. He composes amazing horror scores: the loud and jolting Predator 2, the eerie What Lies Beneath, the sweeping Van Helsing. And I love his whimsical score for The Polar Express

March 17 1960 was the premiere of Breathless. Ou oui! Jean-Luc Godard made a classic with his tale of Michel, the young criminal who models himself after Humphrey Bogart; it made a star out of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Godard's most conventional film is still innovative and great fun

March 2 1933 was the premiere of King Kong, a movie that enchanted and terrified me as a little kid. Remakes have had bigger budgets and much better special effects, but to me watching Kong take a liking to Fay Wray and deciding he's tired of being a Broadway star is captivating.

Feb. 14 1991 was the premiere of The Silence Of The Lambs. Jonathan Demme’s brilliantly scary and haunting story of Dr. Hannibal Lecter was a horror tour de force, boosted by superb performances by Anthony Hopkins and Jodi Foster. Her final walk in the dark house is terrifying.

Jan. 17 1979 was the premiere of Nosferatu The Vampyre, Werner Herzog's gorgeous remake of the silent horror classic. Beautifully stylized, this is one of the best looking horror movies, and the most charming. Great performances by Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani and Roland Topor.

Aug. 21 1942 was the premiere of Bambi, Walt Disney's remarkable film about the life of a white-tailed deer. The film took a startling frank look at death, exploring the trauma of Bambi's mother being shot and the horrors of a fire blazing through the forest. Beautifully made.

On June 8 1949, George Orwell's novel 1984 was published, giving us the all-seeing leader Big Brother, who became a symbol for intrusive government where all citizens are watched constantly. The book inspired a movie with Richard Burton and David Bowie's rock opera Diamond Dogs.

@DarrellEpp @GregRozeboom @Lord_Azoth @GoldenAgeNerd @RealTarx9 @ScottMWest @MadDashiell @bloodofkirby @DallanB @realmarkrez Why should any comic book lover seek out the works of #JackKirby ? Ah, so many reasons ....

@larwoolf @JoelleLosfeld @holdengraber @LiteratiMagzine @Decervelage @Tribe_XX @josavigneau @RealSardonicus That's interesting, because Marquis De Sade wrote The 120 Days of Sodom (later the Pasolini movie Salo) on a scroll while imprisoned in the Bastille. He drafted it in tiny writing on a continuous roll of paper smuggled into the prison and glued together.

#BOTD: Ridley Scott (1937), a director with a stunning visual style that helped produced amazing films like the horror classic Alien, the neo-noir sci fi thriller Blade Runner, the fantasy adventure of Legend, and his great road trip adventure Thelma & Louise.