Io sono l’amore / I Am Love
Directed by Luca Guadagnino
2010
VIEW COMMENTS
Feb 26
Feb 17
Inglorious Basterds Poster
by Grotesk
Upper Playground x The Weinstein Company present Cool Stuff: The Lost Art of Inglorious Basterds on February 18th, 2010 from 6pm - 9pm at the Upper Playground Art Gallery in Los Angeles. Attendees will have the opportunity to purchase the limited edition prints for $300. Each print will be numbered and signed by Quentin Tarantino. Only six (6) of each amount will be made.
All proceeds from this program will be donated to The American Red Cross to help the victims of the Haiti Earthquake.
more info at slashfilm / upperplayground
Feb 05
The Phantom of the Opera Alamo Drafthouse poster
by Martin Ansin
via gabutto
Jan 25
I criminali della galassia / Wild, Wild Planet
1965
Case in point where the poster is soooo much better than the movie. God, I want this poster though.
via are2 / LJ: Retro Futurism
Jan 14
Jan 12
Is the Father Black Enough?
Directed by Joy N. Houck, Jr.
1972
Jan 01
2010: The Year We Make Contact poster
Directed by Peter Hyams
1984
Dec 19
Son de mar / Sound of the Sea Japanese poster
Directed by Bigas Luna
2002
Haven’t seen this. Don’t know what it’s about. But the colors, composition, layout, and image are all spot on. Plus girls wearing panties are a sure way to grab people’s attention. Sexual innuendo by way of eating fruit? Even better.
Blow
Directed by Ted Demme
2001
GENIUS. If you can’t tell, the poster simply says BLOW in white, with the billing block underneath, printed on reflective paper. You know. Cause it’s a movie about coke. This is a case of simplicity and a really good concept, plus a movie studio willing to spend extra money on marketing materials.
Wasabi
Directed by Gérard Krawczyk
2002
Not sure who designed this Italian/Japanese poster but this is what’s up. There’s another version which has some stills from the movie on the bottom of the poster, which is cool too, but the minimal approach on this one works so much better. Granted, this movie isn’t as artsy as this poster makes it out to be though. It’s really like a more slapstick version of Leon: The Professional, but set in Japan, and with a wacky hipster teen in place of Natalie Portman. So maybe this poster kind of fails in that respect, but as far as pure aesthetics go, this just looks really good. Plus they even designed a little logo silhouette thing to go inside the “A”. Details, people.
Chopper
Directed by Andrew Dominik
2000
Not sure who designed this, and it’s not particularly amazing or anything, BUT, you do have a chubby tatted up Eric Bana with two three guns looking bad ass with his handlebar mustache and aviator shades. Pretty simple poster actually. You got that, the title (Avant Garde is kind of a played out typeface but whatevs), a pretty good tagline, and a lot of negative space. Sometimes that’s all you need.
The Virgin Suicides
Directed by Sofia Coppola
1999/2000
Not sure who designed this, but it’s pretty much a giant poster of Kirsten Dunst’s face. The lighting is what makes this though. I don’t really like the handwritten stencil type, or the cutesy girly cursive (though it fits with the movie), but the shot of her face with the glare makes for a provocative image.
Mulholland Drive Japanese poster
Directed by David Lynch
2001
Not sure who designed this, but it narrowly beat out another version I liked, the Spanish Mulholland Drive poster. It’s pretty artsy plus has some good typography using the Hollywood typeface, whatever that is. Also the cropped out images of Naomi Watts and Laura Elena Harring fit the kind of hazy dreamlike mood the film has, or most of David Lynch’s work tends to have. Plus Japanese type just looks cool. What with all their angles and squares and whatnot.
Snatch
Directed by Guy Ritchie
2000
Designed by Yellow1, a Danish design company so of COURSE they would rock the shit out of Helvetica in this teaser poster. Which actually really fits Snatch though. The designs for this movie all had either the lowercase title and/or the black/yellow color scheme with the road signage style graphics giving an overall stylistic tone which Guy Ritchie films (specifically this one) has a lot of. Oh and I believe this poster just might be the first ever (albeit inadvertent) use of THE SHOCKER.
Dancer in the Dark
Directed by Lars von Trier
2000
Designed by POV, this poster does a pretty good job of teasing you with what it’s about using clever typography. Basically it’s about Bjork and she’s blind and she suffers and it’s an artsy DOGME 95 film and it’s really sad and depressing. Alternatively, a dead cat could’ve been used as the poster too that’s just as sad.
