One of the downsides of going to the Rotterdam Film Festival (more on which next week) was having to miss a whole week of Film Forum’s essential “Fritz Lang in Hollywood” retrospective which continues
Movie Poster of the Week is off to the Rotterdam Film Festival, always a treasure trove of international arthouse film posters. This one sheet for Thai Tiger Award competitor Eternity already caught
Having its world premiere tonight in the Park City at Midnight section of the Sundance Film Festival, Jason Eisener’s Hobo with a Shotgun is a film with an interesting genesis. A film that came out of
While researching posters for my Weimar post last month I came across this stunning Hungarian poster which looks as if it should be a poster for a Dreyer film, but is in fact for a lost silent 1917 German
The great Japanese actress Hideko Takamine, who passed away on December 28 at the age of 86, has been eulogized beautifully on MUBI already (here, here, here and here) but I wanted to add my own personal
Tied for 1. I AM LOVE and I’M STILL HERE My two favorite movie posters of 2010: one for one of my favorite films of the year, the other for a film that I didn’t even see (not from lack of desire, though
As the year winds down, and in anticipation of the film that nearly everyone who cares about movies hopes/believes will be one of the very best films of 2011, I give you this strange new poster for Terrence
Back in May I wrote about the posters of Apichatpong Weerasethekul in excited anticipation of his newest film at Cannes. However, when I saw the first poster for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past
There is a terrific little movie poster exhibition on view right now at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, running in conjunction with the Film Department’s essential retrospective Weimar Cinema, 1919
It is one of the miracles of cinema that Manoel de Oliveira, who made his first film nearly 80 years ago, in 1931, is still working, and making some of the best films of his career at that. And next
A couple of weeks ago there was a lot of buzz about the fact that this rare teaser poster (the only one known to be in existence) for the 1935 The Bride of Frankenstein was poised to break the world
While starting to gather up the best movie posters of the year and looking for anything I might have missed I came across these two canny posters for a documentary I had never heard of (even though it