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…
This one feels like phoning the whole thing in today. When the day’s scrap of paper told me I had to draw from Apocalypse Now, I suppose I could have drawn something with the patrol boat chugging up the river into[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Short of having a big shot of the queen of diamonds, or Frank Sinatra holding a handful of queens of diamond card, which really doesn’t make sense in context, I really couldn’t think of a really think of what image to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for today’s entry, Alfred Hitchcock’s North By Northwest, I figured it was either the scene with the crop-duster or Mt. Rushmore and after a few fruitless experiments with different angles of the crossroad in the middle of nowhere that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
