There are very few awards given out for movie posters these days. The Cannes Film Festival used to have one, and though the Chicago Film Festival revived their prestigious poster competition two years ago (Uncle Boonmee was their runner-up) they don’t seem to have repeated it since. The two major exceptions are the Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards in the Us and The Screen Awards in the UK, both of whose ceremonies were held over the last couple of weeks. Both are industry-centric award shows run by trade magazines, so the results tend more towards design in the service of commerce than design for design’s sake—the Screen Awards website says “the category is judged not just on aesthetic appeal but how the poster represents the film, and how it enticed audiences”—though good design still shines through for the most part.
Ironically neither organization provides images of...
Ironically neither organization provides images of...
- 11/2/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
There are many sides to Elijah Wood's acting career. One is the Frodo in Lord Of The Rings side, another the Kevin in Sin City side. As you can probably tell from this exclusive poster below, Maniac is definitely in the latter category.Directed by P2 and Wrong Turn At Tahoe's Franck Khalfoun, it's a remake of the 1980 film of the same name, with Wood playing Frank Zito, a disturbed young man who becomes a ruthless serial killer until, that is, he meets Anna (Nora Arnezeder), and falls in a very strange form of love.The annoying thing about Frank's love is that it reveals itself in a rather disturbing and rather bloody way. Think... scalping, basically, and you're 100% there.To get a better look at the film, check out the very gory red band trailer below. As for the poster, designed by Sam Ashby, that's a much less red affair,...
- 2/7/2013
- EmpireOnline
It was hard to whittle down my favorite movie posters to a straight top ten this year. There was no absolute stand-out like Chris Ware’s Uncle Boonmee last year, and the majority of film posters continue to be depressingly rote and uninspired, even though the explosion of Diy illustration has started to make inroads into the world of commercial film promotion. As a symptom of my indecision I have tended to group posters together more than usual; laid out like this the year doesn’t look half bad.
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
1. Wreck-it Ralph (with The Lorax and Life Of Pi)
On its own the Wreck-It Ralph teaser would still have been one of the best posters of the year—a wittily simple 8-bit pixellated key-stroke of genius that compresses a blockbuster 3D extravaganza into a flat, three-color arrangement of squares and tells everyone walking by exactly what they need to know (except...
- 1/5/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
In last week’s rundown of my favorite posters of 2012 I included the work of a young British designer named Sam Ashby who had created two witty, rule-bending posters for two of my very favorite films of the year: The Turin Horse and Two Years at Sea. Both of those played with type over a single stark black and white image so it was a surprise to see his newest poster—unveiled here for the first time—which is a riot of color, detail and illustration.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
The delightfully titled Fuck for Forest, or Fff, is a brand new documentary by Polish director Michał Marczak about the radical German eco-charity of the same name.
The film—which had its world premiere at the Warsaw Film Festival last October where it won the Best Documentary prize—will play at the Rotterdam Film Festival next month and will be distributed in the UK by Dogwoof in March.
- 1/4/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Above: 1999 Japanese poster for La jetée (Chris Marker, France, 1962). Designer: unknown.
This Sunday I will be posting my 366th post on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr, meaning that I have managed to keep up this endeavor for an entire year, not yet skipping a day. Back in early July I wrote about the blog and posted the 20 most popular (most liked and reblogged) posters to date. With the year anniversary approaching I thought I would do the same thing, tallying the 20 most popular posters of the past four months. Movie Poster of the Day’s viewership has grown exponentially in the interim and as of writing it has 56,964 followers, which blows my mind. You can scroll through the entire archive here.
The most popular poster of the past four months, and the second most popular of the entire year, was this Japanese B1 for La jetée, which I...
This Sunday I will be posting my 366th post on my Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr, meaning that I have managed to keep up this endeavor for an entire year, not yet skipping a day. Back in early July I wrote about the blog and posted the 20 most popular (most liked and reblogged) posters to date. With the year anniversary approaching I thought I would do the same thing, tallying the 20 most popular posters of the past four months. Movie Poster of the Day’s viewership has grown exponentially in the interim and as of writing it has 56,964 followers, which blows my mind. You can scroll through the entire archive here.
The most popular poster of the past four months, and the second most popular of the entire year, was this Japanese B1 for La jetée, which I...
- 11/16/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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