Krimi magazine

KRIMI! - The new magazine for central european crime culture out soon.

https://krimimagazine.blogspot.com/

https://boriscreamviii.blogspot.com/2024/09/krimi-new-magazine-for-central-european.html

Movie posters - formats & sizes

US

One Sheet : 27” X 41" — 69 X 104 cm — vertical 

Half Sheet : 22” X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal

Three Sheet : 41” X 81” — 104 X 205 cm — vertical

Insert: 14" X 36" — 35 X 91 cm — vertical 

Lobby Card: 11" X 14" — 28 X 10 cm — horizontal

UK

Quad: 40" X 30" — 101 X 76 cm — horizontal

One sheet: 27" x 40" — 69 X 101 cm — vertical

Half Sheet: 22" X 28" — 55 X 71 cm — horizontal

Lobby Card: 10" X 8 — horizontal

AUSTRALIA 

DAYBILL: 13" x 30" — 33 X 76 cm — vertical

BELGIAN

14" x 22”. horizontal or vertical. 

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https://movieposters.ha.com/poster-sizes.s

https://www.cinemasterpieces.com/cineamericanstyles.htm

https://www.mauvais-genres.com/en/content/45-movie-poster-size

https://postercollector.co.uk/articles/common-movie-poster-sizes/

Movie Watch

A few genre movies I watched recently:

It Conquered The World (1956)
Director : Roger Corman
Lee Van Cleef, Peter Graves, and Beverly Garland

Not Of This Earth (1957)
Director : Roger Corman
Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones
An alien agent from the distant planet Davana is sent to earth via a high-tech matter transporter. There he terrorizes Southern California in an attempt to acquire blood for his dying race, the result of a devastating nuclear war.

Monster from the Ocean Floor (1954)
Producer : Roger Corman
Julie, an American on vacation in Mexico, spots a giant, one-eyed amoeba rising from the ocean, but when she tries to tell the authorities, no one believes her.

The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959)
A doctor, a sheriff and a biologist pursue a creature hanging around a lighthouse.

Tormented (1960)
When Tom's ex-lover, Vi, threatens him to breakup with his current girlfriend, she accidently slips from the lighthouse and Tom leaves her to die. Soon, Vi's spirit returns to avenge her death.

The Flesh Eaters (1964)

The Terror of the Tongs (1961)

The Dark Eyes of London (1939)
Bela Lugosi. Based on a story by Edgar Wallace

Death Drums Along the River (1963)
Based on a story by Edgar Wallace
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river and ends up uncovering a plot involving diamond smuggling and the local indigenous tribe.

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Kaiju movie books

Mushroom Clouds and Mushroom Men by Peter H. Brothers

A book about Japanese monster film Ishiro Honda

http://encinostalgia.webs.com/

http://technicolordreams70.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/cine-tome-mushroom-clouds-and-mushroom-men/

Monsters are Attacking Tokyo by Stuart Galbraith

http://stuartgalbraithiv.wordpress.com/

Interview with Peter H. Brothers and Stuart Galbraith

http://projection-booth.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/episode-90-mothra.html

Eiji Tsuburaya: Master of Monsters By August Ragone

http://augustragone.blogspot.com.au/

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Boyamba Belgique

Boyamba Belgique

The day before the Congo gained independence, the saber of the Belgian king Baudouin was stolen by a young Congolese. Half a century later we embark on a quest for the sword and the thief and discover the deeper meaning of the symbolic act.

http://icarusfilms.com/new2011/bb.html

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839422/

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Movie documentaries

Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore

http://youtu.be/dctVt2pDXJg

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1683431/

Eurocrime!:The Italian Cop and Gangster Films that Ruled the '70s, 

https://www.facebook.com/eurocrime

http://vimeo.com/12131330

Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185371/

http://youtu.be/WzSD-qINVBM

Rewind This

Documentary about the VHS revolution

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/rewindthis/rewind-this

http://www.rewindthismovie.com/

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Farewell Ralph and Jean

Ralph McQuarrie - June 13, 1929 – March 3, 2012

http://www.ralphmcquarrie.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_McQuarrie

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/mar/06/ralph-mcquarrie?INTCMP=SRCH

http://dreamsandvisionspress.com/

Jean 'Moebius' Giraud - 8 May 1938 – 10 March 2012

http://www.moebius.fr/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Giraud

http://www.themarysue.com/jean-giraud-moebius-dies/

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Swedish cinema books

Scandinavian Blue: The Erotic Cinema of Sweden and Denmark in the 1960s and 1970s
by Jack Stevenson

http://www.filmsinreview.com/2010/07/02/scandinavian-blue-the-erotic-cinema-of-sweden-and-denmark-in-the-1960s-and-1970s/

Swedish Sensations films: A clandestine History of Sex, Thrillers and Kicker Cinema
by Daniel Ekeroth

http://www.bazillionpoints.com/swedish-exploitation-cinema-an-uncensored-guide-to-swedens-clandestine-film-history-by-daniel-ekeroth/
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Adieu Philippine

Adieu Philippine (1962)
Adieu Philippine is a 1962 French film directed by Jacques Rozier. Although obscure and difficult to screen, it has been praised as one of the key films of the French New Wave. (wiki)

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adieu_Philippine

film clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gpJG0MlzfA
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Zeppelin versus Pterodactyls

Zeppelin vs. Pterodactyls
An unmade high-concept from Hammer Films (early Seventies).
http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2007/08/02/zeppelin-vs-pterodactyls/