What is Cinema?: Alfonso Cuarón and the Cinematic Precipice

Here is a wonderful compilation of excerpts from seven wildly different movies which all share something in common – amazing and thought provoking visuals as well as the directorial talents of Alfonso Cuarón.  There are a number of my personal all-time favourites in here: Children of Men and Y Tu Mamá También.  The compilation has been lovingly put together by Jorge Gonzalez Diaz with Quartet for the End of Time as the soundtrack.

Alternative Movie Posters by Traumatron

When we came across these great alternative movie posters (which would even make fantastic book covers too) by Flickr User Traumatron Illustration then we had to share them with you.  They are a very cool take on what the posters for these movies might have looked like had a darker imagination been at work perhaps. If you would like to see more of Traumatron’s work then use this link to get to their Flickr Photostream. Oh and before you point it out, we know that The Prisoner was not a movie but it was so good we just had to slip it in here - for good measure!

Harry Potter and the Mystifying Maze of York

OK, JK Rowling has not decided to write another instalment in the Harry Potter saga, but no doubt the sight of this will put a smile on her face.  A farmer in the English county of Yorkshire has created what, simply put, is the largest spot the difference competition on the planet.

Tom Pearcy (pictured above) is a great fan of Harry Potter.  He also loves mazes.  So, it only seemed logical for the farmer to take sharp implements to his crop of maize and do something a little different with it. Situated a short distance from the historic city of York the maze offers visitors something a little different to say the least.

Each of the heads has a diameter of over fifty meters, so Daniel Radcliffe can be firm in the knowledge of exactly where the largest images of him ever created are. There were over a million maize plants in the fields and the process, needless to say, was painstaking.


Above, Louisa Maher from Minster FM pops down to the new Harry Potter themed York Maze for 2011. Altogether there are over 10 kilometers of pathways within the maze and it opened to the public last weekend.  It is by far the largest maize maze in Europe and one of the biggest in the world.

For details of how to visit, please visit the York Maze website. Top two pictures courtesy of Tom Pearcy.

Guess Which Movie I am Going to See this Week

All pictures courtesy of Clare's Cupcakes