This was another hard one since Woody Allen‘s Annie Hall is mostly just people talking. Which while fun to watch is hell for the cartoonist looking for ideas. For me what I remember about it most (besides all of the great surreal bits) Was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I think I’m beginning to get into my grove at last here. So today, the slip of paper in the bag told me to draw Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. And what says Clockwork Orange better than Alec holding court with his droogs[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Having enjoyed Sweet Smell of Success so much I decided to continue with the works of Alexander Mackendrick and the comedies he made for Ealing Studios in England starring Alec Guinness. The first film, Man in the White suit had Guinness[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I saw first saw Amadeus performed at the Trinity Repertory Theater and loved it. So when the movie came out I was able to enjoy it not just as the tour de force by Miloš Forman, F. Murray Abraham and Tom Hulce but also as a brilliant[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Hmm… Two players in a row. I’m beginning to think it’s the films I like that are the hardest ones to do for this exercise but what can I say, Casablanca has so much stuff in it. There’s so many[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well this one was one I wasn’t looking forward to after all everybody does Wizard of Oz. On the plus side it helped me get over the “Has to say everything the movie the movie is about” problem. So going[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Damn I really phoned this one in. But really, while there are other great scenes and musical numbers in Singing in the Rain the only scene and musical number any of us would recognize is Gene Kelly singing in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well once again I pulled a name from the hat I wasn’t looking forward too. I confess I saw Rocky II before I saw any of Rocky… and to be honest I never saw all of it so all I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch I drew from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It’s odd, despite being mostly a fan of Miloš Forman‘s work I’ve only seen this once and I don’t really remember much about it beyond Jack Nicholson‘s antics…[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For today’s sketch I drew from Shawshank Redemption. This one was a challenge. After being indecisive of what to draw from it, without cribbing the posters. Ultimately I went with the side story about senior prisoner Brooks Hatlen and his[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
