Claire Denis has not always been well served by her poster artists. Oddly, for a director who has made some of the most beautiful, sensual films of the past twenty years, the posters for her films rarely
Before you throw up your hands in dismay, please note that today’s column is called Movie Poster Trend of the Week. I am not a huge fan of the three teaser posters for Morning Glory, though in theory
A look at the posters for Tyler Perry’s 2010 film.
Though they’ve already been plastered all over the internet, I’d be remiss if I didn’t pay attention to the four teaser posters for Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan that were released last week. I’ve still
The ingenious poster for this year’s BFI London Film Festival, which kicked off this Wednesday, could not be more up my alley: a poster made from movie posters. Designed by [correction] Leo Burnett and
Anyone who follows me on Twitter might guess from my icon that I’m a bit of a Dirk Bogarde fan. I featured him in The Servant last year but until last week I had never seen this amazing poster for Fassbinder’s
As a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently running a retrospective of the great and underappreciated Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. As
Put on your best costume jewelry: this evening, as every New York cinephile knows, the 48th New York Film Festival kicks off at Lincoln Center with the world premiere of David Fincher's The Social Network
The great Claude Chabrol, who passed away at the age of 80 last Sunday, left behind a prodigious body of work. But when I started to think about his posters I realized that, whereas there are indelibly
To mark the winding down of summer, a gem this week from the best movie poster store in New York City: Posteritati. I found this Japanese poster for Stacy Peralta’s superb 2001 skateboard doc Dogtown
Stephen Frankfurt was something of a real-life Don Draper: a hot shot ’Sixties Madison Avenue ad executive who was profiled by the BBC in 1965 in a 30 minute film called The Quiet Persuader (the whole
A gorgeous new poster for Milestone Films’ release of the restoration of Lionel Rogosin’s 1957 documentary On the Bowery, which opens on September 17 at Film Forum. Part-verité, part staged drama, On