Today in Movie Culture: Akira Kurosawa and ‘The Avengers,’ Pixar’s ‘Up’ As a Horror Movie and More

Here are a bunch of little bites to satisfy your hunger for movie culture:

Watch a new video essay on Akira Kurosaw‘s composition of movement, with comparison to the same in The Avengers (via The Film Stage):

The wonderful Anne Ramsay is profiled in the first episode of No Small Parts, a series on character actors (via Reddit):

Scottish artist Demetria Skye likes to draw Baymax from Big Hero 6 as other Disney characters, like Snow White. See more at Bored Panda.

Speaking of reworked Disney properties, here’s a recut trailer to make Pixar‘s Up into a horror movie (via Geek Tyrant):

This is actually a very fluid and quick supercut of fight scenes from movies like Kill Bill, The Matrix and Scott Pilgrim vs. the World edited by Bailey Kalesti (via Live for Films):

With Interstellar now available on iTunes and other digital platforms, here’s a silly clip from the movie set to an alternate soundtrack (via Reddit):

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In honor of Deadpool starting production, here’s a video tutorial on how to make yourself look like Deadpool using makeup instead of a mask (via Fashionably Geek):

We’ve seen the professional version with the Lego Jurassic World video game trailer. Now here’s the fan-made Lego redo of Jurassic Park (via Gizmodo):

This weekend marks the 120th anniversary of the first showing of one of the most important movies of all time: Workers Leaving the Lumiere Factory. Before its famous public projection, it was screened privately on March 22, 1895. Watch the very brief actuality film below.

This infographic from Halloween Express shows the 100 most iconic movie and TV character costumes of all time (via Geek Tyrant):

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