SDCC 2015 Top 5 Cosplay Day 3

Interesting view on the SDCC 2015 event from a dedicated fan!

Have you seen my Photo Image Portfolio?

Well time for a new direction - and that is art photography.

Please feel free to visit my new website Image Library here at ZenFolio:

Photograph Art Gallery and Prints for Sale

Thanks once again and I hope you find something you would want to buy amongst the any hundreds of striking unique prints

If you prefer I also have another site that offers all types of prints, from sheet metal, acrylic, canvas as well as iPhone and Samsung phone cases...

Fine Art America - Johnnie D Williams Unique Prints for Sale

Always feel free to contact me either through this blog or through my Image Library websites. If you're looking for a particular image or style then let me know.

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Top 5 Foreign Films you Must See on Blu Ray including Monseuir Hulot!

Below you'll find my 5 recommended Foreign Films that you must simply watch. All of these are currently on Blu-Ray. You'll definitely want these in your Film collection!

Summer Wars

From the visionary directory of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2007 Japanese Academy Award winner, Best Animated Feature) comes the story of an ordinary family going to extraordinary lengths to avert the impending cyber apocalypse!

Kenji is your typical teenage misfit. He's good at math, bad with girls, and spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community known as OZ. His second life is the only life he has until the girl of his dreams, Natsuki, hijacks him for a starring role as a fake fiancé at her family reunion. Things only get stranger from there. A late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual word of OZ to destroy the real world, literally.

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As Armageddon looms on the horizon, Kenji and his new family set aside their differences and band together to save the worlds they inhabit in this near-perfect blend of social satire and science fiction. (AnimeNewsNetwork.com) First Press includes collectible art cards.

 

 

The Raid 2

Following immediately after the events of THE RAID, Rama (Iko Uwais) is forced to reinvent himself as an undercover cop in order to provide protection for his wife and child. Working for the anti-corruption taskforce led by the one person he can trust, Bunawar, he is given a mission to engage himself as an enforcer for a local mob boss, Bangun. 

Finding a way in through Bangun's son Uco, Rama must hunt for information linking Bangun with police force corruption. All the while, he harbors a dangerous and personal vendetta for revenge and justice that threatens to consume him - and bring both this mission and the organized crime syndicates crashing down.

 

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The Complete Jacques Tati

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION COLLECTOR’S SET FEATURES 

The Complete Jacques Tati [Blu-ray]

New digital restorations of all six feature films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks on Jour de fête, Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, Trafic, and Parade and uncompressed stereo soundtrack on PlayTime

New digital restorations of all seven short films

Two alternate versions of Jour de fête, a partly colorized 1964 version and the full-color 1994 rerelease version

Original 1953 theatrical release version of Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

My Uncle, the version of Mon oncle that director Jacques Tati created for English-language audiences

Introductions by actor and comedian Terry Jones to Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday, Mon oncle, and PlayTime 

Archival interviews with Tati

In the Footsteps of Monsieur Hulot, a 1989 documentary about Tati’s beloved alter ego

Five visual essays by Tati expert Stéphane Goudet

New interview with film scholar Michel Chion on the sound design of Tati’s films

“Jour de fête”: In Search of the Lost Color, a 1988 documentary on the process of realizing Tati’s original color vision for that film

Once Upon a Time . . . “Mon oncle,” a 2008 documentary about the making of that film

Everything Is Beautiful, a 2005 piece on the fashion, furniture, and architecture of Mon oncle

Selected-scene commentaries on PlayTime by Goudet, theater director Jérôme Deschamps, and critic Philip Kemp

Tativille, a documentary shot on the set of PlayTime

Beyond “PlayTime,” a short 2002 documentary featuring on-set footage

An Homage to Jacques Tati, a 1982 French TV program featuring Tati friend and set designer Jacques Lagrange

Audio interview with Tati from the U.S. premiere of PlayTime at the 1972 San Francisco International Film Festival

Interview with PlayTime script supervisor Sylvette Baudrot from 2006

Tati Story, a short biographical film from 2002

Professor Goudet’s Lessons, a 2013 classroom lecture by Goudet on Tati’s films

Alternate English-language soundtracks for Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday and PlayTime

New English subtitle translations

PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics David Cairns, James Quandt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, and Kristin Ross.

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The Raid Redemption 

Deep in the heart of Jakarta's worst to survive their mission. 

 

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The Grave of the Fireflies

As the Empire of the Sun crumbles upon itself and a rain of firebombs falls upon Japan, the final death march of a nation is echoed in millions of smaller tragedies.

This is the story of Seita and his younger sister Setsuko, two children born at the wrong time, in the wrong place, and now cast adrift in a world that lacks not the care to shelter them, but simply the resources.

Forced to fend for themselves in the aftermath of fires that swept entire cities from the face of the earth, their doomed struggle is both a tribute to the human spirit and the stuff of nightmares.

Beautiful, yet at times brutal and horrifying.

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