Why We Need Cinema...

...because Life is thus described:

The look of the world's a lie, a face made up

O'er graves and fiery depths; and nothing's true

But what is horrible. If man could see

The perils and diseases that he elbows

Each day he walks a mile; which catch at him

Which fall behind and graze him as he passes;

Then would he know that life's a single pilgrim,

Fighting unarmed amongst a thousand soldiers

It is this infinite invisible

Which we must learn to know, and yet to scorn,

And, from scorn of that, regard the world

As from the edge of a far star

Death's Jest Book,

Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Cinema Heaven Via Toei

These wild and wonderful Toei posters evoke a time, place, and feeling that is pure cinema.

The world can go to hell in a fuckin' hand basket, but not even total obliteration will erase the beauty and magnetic pull of these provocative, life-affirming images.

The beautiful and the grotesque ride shotgun in Japanese cinema, a cinema not polluted by Christianity, political correctness, and shrill corporate dominance.

The best poster art captures the essence of a work, cloaking us in a subversive, tempting, eroticized euphoria that is the cinema experience.

The best art violates social norms and fucks polite society in the eye socket.

Enjoy, my friends, before enjoyment of such pleasures is taken from you under the well-worn guise of "protecting the children."