01Jan10
Since it’s no secret by now that The Girlfriend Experience is my favorite movie poster of the year and since I already selected a few of these for my Best of the Decade post I decided not to rank this selection of my twenty favorites of 2009—except aesthetically. Happy New Year, thanks for reading and here’s to more dazzling design in 2010.
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Categories: Movie Poster of the Week
Comments
Rob Sica
on Sat 02 Jan at 03:10 PM
I would also add the French poster for Bruno Dumont’s “Hadewijch”:
http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3215691264/tt1257562
Alvaro
on Sun 03 Jan at 05:48 AM
Hi Adrian, awesome selection! I would also consider this poster from The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus:
http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1159
Cheers, and happy 2010!
fakebook (Tom)
on Sun 03 Jan at 07:29 PM
The poster for “Two Lovers” is conceptually interesting but the photo of Gwyneth Paltrow on the left is disproportionately smaller than the image of Joaquin Phoenix.
It is an example of terrible Photoshop work…
mknudy
on Mon 04 Jan at 10:32 PM
what would be the name of the movie next to objectified, with the tree?
Sue
on Tue 05 Jan at 05:24 PM
No “An Education”? And the poster for “Limits of Control” seems like a ripoff of a Starflyer 59 album: http://blog.invisiblecreature.com/?p=909
Zachary Reese
on Wed 06 Jan at 02:30 PM
@mknudy That would be the poster for Dear Zachary.
mknudy
on Thu 07 Jan at 02:42 AM
thank you berry much
Alisa
on Fri 15 Jan at 02:10 AM
ohhhh, there’s some good ones here for american artifact: http://www.freakfilms.com/aa/aamovieposters.html
Tim Smith
on Sat 16 Jan at 06:09 AM
Precious is a glaring omission: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/9f/Precious2009poster.jpg
Josh
on Wed 27 Jan at 01:06 AM
I like Limits of Control and with a quote from Jim Jarmusch….
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
Plondie
on Fri 16 Apr at 05:29 AM
There was this Indian Movie called ‘Dev D’. Each and every one of it’s posters were beautiful! And I liked it all the more since Indian filmmakers don’t usually give attention to detail.
Some of the posters:
http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/fstills/13812/index.html