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Want to know which title sequences are being referenced in Google’s great Saul Bass Doodle? Here’s a list
On Wednesday, Google celebrated the occasion of what would have been graphic designer Saul Bass’ 93rd birthday with an outstanding animated, interactive graphic referencing some of the designer’s best-known opening credits. Bass, who was best known for his work with Alfred Hitchcock, also designed title credits and posters for West Side Story and Spartacus, among other films, but where do those titles (and others) fit into the Google animation?
Summer movie preview: From After Earth to World War Z, It’s the end of the world as we know it at cinemas this season: natpo.st/10jB1VY
Where could they be now? A theoretical look at Leia, Han and Luke (and the rest of the gang) will be up to in Star Wars: Episode 7 natpo.st/11ljY8L
Awesome illustration by Steve Murray.
Legendary film critic Roger Ebert dead at 70
Roger Ebert, the most famous and most popular film reviewer of his time who become the first journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for movie criticism and, on his long-running TV program, wielded the nation’s most influential thumb, died Thursday, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He was 70.
Ebert had been a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1967. He had announced on his blog Wednesday that he was undergoing radiation treatment after a recurrence of cancer.
He had no grand theories or special agendas, but millions recognized the chatty, heavy-set man with wavy hair and horn-rimmed glasses. Above all, they followed the thumb — pointing up or down. It was the main logo of the televised shows Ebert co-hosted, first with the late Gene Siskel of the rival Chicago Tribune and — after Siskel’s death in 1999 — with his Sun-Times colleague, Richard Roeper. Although criticized as gimmicky and simplistic, a “two thumbs up” accolade was sure to find its way into the advertising for the movie in question. (Illustration: Kagan McLeod/National Post)
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Disney plans to just keep swimming, will release Finding Dory in 2015: natpo.st/13OKgVo
Did you know that there are 14 novels in Frank Baum’s Oz series? To celebrate the release of “Oz the Great and Powerful” the National Post’s Steve Murray has illustrated 276 of them. Click through for annotations on who all of them are!
Meet the BatBerry, an all-Canadian V8-powered Batmobile replica
Restoring something along the lines of a Ferrari 308 GTS, preparing a 1989 Mazda Miata for the racetrack or building a replica of a Lamborghini Countach are all viable choices for a weekend project car from the 1980s. Meanwhile, cars used in movies are usually limited to scale models sitting on a bookshelf or in a display cabinet.
Very rarely are the two combined, yet that is exactly what Tim Neil is doing in his spare time. By day, he works for BlackBerry and application developers to deliver apps for the company.
By night the diehard Subaru fanatic works on a project more suited for the streets of Gotham City rather than Toronto. He calls it the BatBerry — an exact replica of the Batmobile used in Tim Burton’s Batman films. (Nick Tragianis/National Post)
Ben Affleck and producer Grant Heslov along with members of the cast and crew accept the Best Picture award for Argo. (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Oscars 2013: The great host debate
Our film critic and arts & life editor go head-to-head to discuss whether or not there ought to be an Academy Awards master of ceremonies. Arts editor Barry Hertz says the position should be nixed; critic Chris Knight disagrees. What do you think?
Here are five Star Wars spinoffs we hope aren’t part of Disney’s now-confirmed series of upcoming films focusing on single characters in the franchise. Yes, Jar-Jar Binks is one of them: natpo.st/XkaUOf
Movie based on Newtown shooting aftermath met with criticism, rage from residents
An independent film production based on events following the Newtown school shooting has been criticized by Conneticut residents and politicians – which may have shut down the production: natpo.st/Uu0ZsP
Let’s be adult about this: Ron Jeremy is in critical condition after the legendary porn star was hospitalized for a heart aneurysm. Read more: http://natpo.st/14wnGOI
Dazed and Confused actor Jason London arrested for — among other things — pooping in a cop car
He’s denying the whole thing, saying he’d “never say or do the crap they are reporting.” Wisely chosen words! You know you want the details: natpo.st/14vTnYv
The Oscars may be handed out in Hollywood, but the statuettes themselves are based in Ontario
Every year at the Academy Awards, the big question is: Who does the Oscar go to?
This year, there’s a new one to trip up trivia buffs: Where does the Oscar come from?
For the first time in its venerable history, Hollywood’s most prestigious accolade is being manufactured under the watch of a Canadian company. Find out more here: natpo.st/14sIYg4
Can J.J. Abrams handle both Star Wars and Star Trek?
Maybe not, if this analysis of the two franchises’ ongoing feud has anything to say about it: natpo.st/14aDEOh
