Monday, August 25, 2008

Cult Art, Movie Style - Take 2

Just over a year ago, I posted about the way cool "Crazy 4 Cult" art showing at Los Angeles' Gallery1988, which inspired (and provided plenty of material for) the Film Art section here at Movie Dearest (of which, ironically, this is the 50th post). Well, they are doing it again this year (now through September 12), and it looks like the art on display is just as provocative and exciting as last year's selections.

An example is the piece excerpted above: a 39 x 12 inch cult film geek's dream line-up by talented San Diego artist Andrew Wilson. You can see the whole thing (and even order prints of it) at the gallery's site or visit this website to use an interactive feature where you can magnify the different characters to see them up close. This will come in handy if you plan to enter the gallery's contest to win a copy of the poster signed by the artist and film director Kevin Smith. All you have to do is correctly identify all 131 characters and the movie they came from ... that's all.

Just for fun, I've started a list of the ones I could figure out in the comments section below (movies only; if you want to enter the contest, you'll have to do a little work on the character names). Feel free to add the ones I missed or correct the ones I got wrong by leaving a comment.

3 comments:

Kirby Holt said...

1. Escape from New York
2, 3. Star Wars
4. Lara Croft, Tomb Raider
5. ?
8, 20, 21, 25, 27, 28, 127, 130. The Wizard of Oz
9, 116. Donnie Darko
10. Fantasia
11. Repo Man
6, 7, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 95, 96, 97. The Goonies
18, 19, 24, 26. The Wiz
22, 23. UHF
29. The Hudsucker Proxy
30, 31. Ed Wood
32, 33. They Live
34, 35, 36. Dazed and Confused
37. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
38, 39. The Last Dragon
40, 41. Harold and Maude
42, 43. Clerks, et al
44. ?
45, 46. True Romance
47. Re-Animator
48, 49. Friday
50, 51. Fight Club
52, 53, 61. The Rocky Horror Picture Show
54, 55, 56. This is Spinal Tap
57, 58. Napoleon Dynamite
59, 60. Heathers
62. Mallrats
63, 64. Freaks
65. Pink Flamingos
66. Half-Baked
67, 68, 69. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
70. Freddy Got Fingered
71. Shaft
72. Reservoir Dogs
73, 74. Mommie Dearest (duh)
75, 76. Better Off Dead
77, 78. Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
79, 80, 81. The Princess Bride
82. Showgirls
83. Rushmore
84, 85. Eraserhead
86. Blood Simple
87, 88. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
89. Psycho
90, 91. Point Break
92. Godzilla
93. The Cable Guy
94. A Clockwork Orange
98, 99, 100. Pulp Fiction
101, 102, 103. Strange Brew
104. The Evil Dead, et al
105. Edward Scissorhands
106. The Warriors
107, 108. The Big Lebowski
109, 110. Welcome to the Dollhouse
111, 112. Office Space
113. Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
114. ?
115. Monty Python and the Holy Grail
117, 118. Barbarella
119. ?
120. ?
121, 122. Léon: The Professional
123. Blue Velvet
124. The Fifth Element
125, 126. The Boondock Saints
128, 129. Big Trouble in Little China
131. Little Shop of Horrors

Anonymous said...

Some guesses that could be WAY off, but I'll share anyways:

5. The Big Lebowski
114. Dawn of the Dead
120. Tank Girl

Kirby Holt said...

Not sure about "Tank Girl", I never saw the movie and I can't find any pictures resembling those characters. They appear to be together ... are they from "Barbarella" too?

And #5 isn't "Big Lebowski" ... at first I thought it was Luke Wilson in "The Royal Tennenbaums", but he had a beard in that movie. Could the can on the ground next to him be any clue? And he could be with the girl I think is Lara Croft, not entirely sure on that one.

Thanks for helping! Hope all is well with you,

- kch