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Tag Archives: posters
Great Movie Posters
A meme has been going around Facebook to post your favorite movie poster of “a great film.” It’s been a lot of fun to see all the different artwork posted by people. Figured I’d share some of them. First, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Badlands, Chinatown, Faces, Gilda, North by Northwest, Only Angels Have Wings, posters, Repulsion, Taxi Driver, Vertigo
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Now This Is a Movie Poster
This is the poster for Joachim Trier’s new movie, which will be premiering at Cannes shortly. I met Trier when he came to Ebertfest in 2013 to screen his haunting and beautiful (and sad) film Oslo August 31st. Wrote some … Continue reading
I Ask You, What Price?
My favorite movie poster. It’s even better because of the title of the movie.
Heads On the Horizon
Beautiful. Reminiscent of: (Of course they are similar. Both posters are by Steve Franfurt. I love his visual sense.)
Some Posters
… annoy with their literal floating-Photoshopped heads lack of creativity. Other posters completely misrepresent the film they are actually advertising, trying to draw in a wider audience, a fact that I, a member of that minority that actually likes deep … Continue reading
Movie Poster of the Week
Certainly one of my favorite movie posters of all time. I included her in my great mad women of cinema compilation.
Scorsese’s List
Martin Scorsese’s 10 essential movie posters. Heaven. He starts out with my second favorite movie poster of all time (the first being the poster for Chinatown). But boy, that Gilda poster is just glorious. Some really awesome posters there.