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
At the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York last week some of us were lucky enough to enjoy Pomegranates: Like a Phoenix from the Ashes, a fascinating compilation of rare film clips, commercials
As a follow-up to last week’s post which touched, especially in the comments section, on the trend of Minimalist Movie Posters, I wanted to feature the work of Pennsylvania-based designer Tom Whalen
Movie Poster of the Week is on vacation. Here is some holiday footage.
When I lived in Paris in the mid 80s this poster, in full French grande format, dwarfed my tiny chambre de bonne. Betty Blue (playing on MUBI for free in the US this week) or, rather, 37.2 Le Matin
Whatever you say about the films of Todd Solondz, and people usually have a lot to say, his posters are often something special. Whether by coincidence or design his films have now racked up three of
Norman Rockwell, America’s most beloved illustrator, purveyor of sentimental, small-town kitsch, preserver of American pieties, is undergoing something of a renaissance. Though Robert Hughes said in
Sometimes a poster in an online database seems like the last remnant of a lost film. Robert Mandel’s 1983 Independence Day (an “interesting but unfocused little picture” according to Leonard Maltin
Dogtooth, which may be the highest profile Greek release since the heyday of Theo Angelopoulos, opens in the US today after over a year on the festival circuit (it won the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes
The dynamic new poster for Anton Corbijn’s The American is a clever pastiche of mid 60s action movie posters that trumpets its hipness (would we expect anything less from the director of Control?). With
For a retro of films by master Carl Th. Dreyer at the BFI in London, a post from our archives.
To celebrate the Le cinema d’Agnès Varda, the virtual retrospective currently running on The Auteurs, I thought I'd take a look at Varda’s career in posters. With the recent announcement that the eclectic