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Why did Jacques Demy make a Rose of Versailles movie

SIMPLY… THE FINEST!!

Garo: Demon Beast of the Midnight Sun (2006) pushes the look of the TV series fully into V-cinema hostility. Kind’ve repulsive to look at in the best possible way, incredible designs and Keita Amemiya’s impeccable special effects and action planning spilling over into hectic excess.

I spoke too soon 😂

Will you LOOK at this?? The staging and how the disparate mediums are interacting, the scattershot maximalist animation and the practical composites. PlayStation 2 game, music video, and Zeiram by way of The End of Evangelion all at once.

The Grou Dragon might be the Keita Amemiya singularity 😂😂😂

I find the CG in Garo so creatively fascinating. You see everything of Amemiya that you do in his practicals, the same designs and imagery that would have been puppetry or stop motion in Cyborg Ninja or Zeiram, but now rendered in abrasive CGI maximalism.

It reminds me a lot of Tsui Hark’s similar turn in the aughts, and predates Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi’s use of motion capture to sculpt an unsettlingly perfectionist spin on the Showa uncanny. This is so creepy and intangible in ways so tethered to Amemiya’s creepiest practicals.

Drew a Hound of Tindalos from a short story by Frank Belknap Long, released in a short story collection of his work in 1946. The hounds are creatures that exist outside of time and space. They can emerge in the form of smoke from any angle of a certain sharpness, like the corner of a room.

Garo: Demon Beast of the Midnight Sun (2006) pushes the look of the TV series fully into V-cinema hostility. Kind’ve repulsive to look at in the best possible way, incredible designs and Keita Amemiya’s impeccable special effects and action planning spilling over into hectic excess.

OMEGA

I spoke too soon 😂

The Cadaver’s Tale~ Some concept designs I did for the animated cadaver & props/keyframe from @realgdt.bsky.social incredible FRANKENSTEIN! Also collaborating with Mike Hill who sculpted and made the puppet (and puppeteered it to life) with the final screen performance digitally augmented by MRXFX!

The Flayed Man’s Tale~ another concept design for @realgdt.bsky.social incredible FRANKENSTEIN! Always a wonderful collaboration with Guillermo and the amazing Mike Hill, working over in-progress body sculpt pics & trying different head/ jaw designs (originally a screaming skull in early concept)!

The Grou Dragon might be the Keita Amemiya singularity 😂😂😂

I keep coming back to this one. I know it’s an unloved Tsui, but I find the timely CG maximalism so fascinating, rich in its uncanny edge, and the way it all interacts with the environment and with the same frantic energy of the practicals and martial arts… it’s just insane?

Like if you look deeper than how the CG has held up or not, this is just insane staging and editing?

The Legend of Zu (Zu Warriors) (2001), Tsui Hark

I find the CG in Garo so creatively fascinating. You see everything of Amemiya that you do in his practicals, the same designs and imagery that would have been puppetry or stop motion in Cyborg Ninja or Zeiram, but now rendered in abrasive CGI maximalism.

I’m still waiting on some phone calls and there’s some fines to deal with, but I think everything’s okay. I think. Fuck this is embarrassing.

I love that Zoisite would 100% be a homophobic stereotype of it wasn’t exactly how any sensible gay person would behave in his situation.

Uchuu Keiji Gavan Episode 1: The Strange Fortress Beneath Tokyo

Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) Director Lucio Fulci

FASCINATION (1979, Jean Rollin)

Phantom Of The Paradise (1974) Director Brian De Palma

🎨: Richard Nadler

New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!

Warner Bros.: Okay, Michael. You're going on a press tour for Batman Returns. During interviews, try to promote the movie a bit and ensure that people know it's gonna be the big hit of the summer. A real crowd-pleaser. Got it? Michael Keaton:

Martin Scorsese has been an invaluable force in an industry that has, since its inception, been utterly callous in its disregard for its own artists. Scorsese learned about what happened to Georges Méliès and vowed to not let it continue. His work as an archivist and advocate are unparalleled.

God flooded the world, but the rainbow never came. 🪽 The 4K restoration of Mamoru Oshii's ANGEL'S EGG screens nationwide November 19 & 20. Get tickets: brnw.ch/21wXv9V

Yuki Onna - Mizuki Shigeru

SIMPLY… THE FINEST!!

any single shot of Him when He is essentially an immovable still photograph is just about the best thing you can look at when using your eyes

This could not be more the lowest priority, it is so small and ridiculous I’m even sad about it, but I will obviously have to miss the Angel’s Egg screenings 😭😭😭 Go in my stead… see if for me… tell them Jayce sent you… 😭😭😭

Bit the bullet and dived into Keita Amemiya’s Garo. Its zeitgeist aesthetic loudly speaks for itself, Kamen Rider’s goth alley tryst with Devil May Cry. Inarguably sick n’ slick, incredible designs and scene stagings. Seeing Amemiya’s practicals experiment with CG like this is so creative and rich?

Familiar Heisei tokusatsu stylings and pacing in service of an actually quite dark and gruesome Demon Of The Week spookiness. Pretty phenomenal lo-fi J-horror in every episode, nasty and brutal stuff even before our Dante/Virgil Batman stomps his Square Enix boots into view and transforms.

Keita Amemiya’s Garo really is the tokusatsu equivalent of a Kingdom Hearts Simple and Clean music video. It rocks.

Brave and the Bold/World’s Finest but it’s Keita Amemiya’s Garo and Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare Detective

Hajime Sato’s Golden Bat (1966) is fucking incredible. A missing link between Warning from Space (1956) and Ishinomori’s Kamen Rider, Japan’s own crack at Fantômas as a time-looped Atlantean mummy who rises from slumber to cackle and throw violent hands with aliens, mutants, and alien mutants.

GMM! nw: shin godzilla (2016) dir: hideaki anno, shinji higuchi dp: kosuke yamada

Bit of a nightmare night, gonna be a stressful few days, if you see me nerd posting on here like normal just let me 😭

I’m okay.

Brave and the Bold/World’s Finest but it’s Keita Amemiya’s Garo and Shinya Tsukamoto’s Nightmare Detective

Ce qui nous fait une excellente transition pour la dernière ligne droite : c’est justement avec Amemiya qu’on va continuer, puisqu’il est temps d’aborder la façon dont l’horreur s'infiltre dans d’autres genres : le super-héros tokusatsu, avec la saga… Garo en 2005. (33/)

Demon swarm (colors altered)

I’m becoming well acquainted with Shaw Bros batshittery, but Bastard Swordsman (1983) is a picture perfect precipice of that batshit. Compelling characters with genuine arcs are sent sailing in some of the most gonzo stunts and fights I’ve ever seen in this genre.

It’s nothing short of sorcery, this stuff. Clockwork harmony between stuntmen, choreographers, and special effects artists. The mind races as to how you even come up with some of this, much less shoot and edit any of it? Fucking bananas and shenanigans.