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9 Minimalist Black-and-Red Posters for Classic Movies

by Robert Quigley | 1:50 pm, July 31st

Artist Olly Moss is well known for his minimalist black-and-red movie posters. To promote a free summer movie series they’ll be running in August, Levi’s and the Alamo Drafthouse commissioned Moss to make posters for nine films in his signature style: He did not disappoint.

Below, see Moss’ reinterpretations of Dirty Harry, The Godfather Part II, Rocky, Convoy, RoboCop, On the Waterfront, Jackie Brown, The Blues Brothers, and There Will Be Blood. There are some clever references to the movies’ happenings in a few, like the stairs in Rocky and the Genco Olive Oil Company in Godfather Part II. But you don’t have to have seen the movies to appreciate these posters.

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Five Tarantino References Worth Catching in Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” Music Video

by Robert Quigley | 11:52 am, March 12th

So: After endless anticipation, Lady Gaga‘s music video for “Telephone” is here, featuring Beyonce. True to form and expectation, it’s really weird: In a good way, though, IMO.

For one thing, “Telephone”‘s nonmusic/music ratio rivals Martin Scorcese‘s 18-minute music video for Michael Jackson’s “Bad”: the thing is nine-and-a-half minutes long, with about three minutes of highly stylized female prison drama and Lady Gaga naked-making before you hear a single note.

But then… there’s the stylization itself. Lady Gaga told E! that “There certainly is a Tarantino-inspired quality in the video;” while there are other influences swimming around in there (we’d like to propose Twin Peaks), the Tarantino shines through the most.

You may recall that Beyonce’s “Video Phone” started off with a reference to the slow-mo walk in Reservoir Dogs; where’s the Tarantino in “Telephone”?

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