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Cloverfield [BLU-RAY] (Paramount Home Entertainment, 6.3.2008) Disguised under deliberately goofy, yet deliciously edible-sounding, aliases such as Cheese and Slusho, Matt Reeves' Cloverfield was produced and rushed into theaters under an equally appetizing shroud of secrecy. From last year's incredibly elusive Super Bowl ad to the film's viral marketing campaign, Cloverfield had everybody scratching their heads and drooling in anticipation. Aside from the as-yet untitled title and the Blair Witch-ian visual style, the film's biggest appeal was the enigmatic creature who was last (un)seen hurling the decapitated head of the Statue of Liberty onto the crowded streets of New York City. All we knew about the mysterious beast was that it was big and angry. Now that the highy-anticipated project has come and gone, one question has fortunately been answered: Cloverfield was a major success. (continued)

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Way They Felt It

A coffee-table book called Translating Hollywood: The World of Movie Posters was profiled yesterday by Boston Pheonix writer Chris Wangler. The poster images came from the collection of gallery owner Sam Sarowitz.


This Japanese-created, Roy Lichtenstein-ish Get Carter poster is far, far better than the one used for general U.S. release.

"Most of the posters come from the late 1950s and after, " Wangler writes. "Hollywood classics are the focus, but there'ss a nice selection of French New Wave, world cinema classics, and genre pictures.

"As movies began to gain worldwide attention, Hollywood studios tailored their marketing to specific geographic locations, allowing local distributors to create their own publicity campaigns. As a result, writes New York Times DVD critic Dave Kehr in the introduction, films 'were dressed up in native costumes for the different countries they happened to be visiting.'"


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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 2, 2008 at 11:15 AM

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Josh Massey says ...

I've always loved the Czech poster for The Terminator.

Posted by Josh Massey at August 2, 2008 11:57 AM

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btwnproductions says ...

The painted billboards that Hong Kong cinemas had up when I lived there 20 years ago were terrific. I wish I had more pix of them. I don't recall seeing any on my last visit early last year.

Posted by btwnproductions at August 2, 2008 12:43 PM

Posted by TheJeff at August 2, 2008 4:02 PM

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