Movie Poster of the Week has been at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this past week, scouting some brand new poster art from around the world. Next week I'll be posting a larger selection
The stark and gorgeous Japanese poster for Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited Shutter Island eschews the one thing that has dominated the posters for the last four Scorsese features, and that’s the looming
To accompany the IFC Center’s inspired midnight movie series “Base Instincts: Verhoeven in the U.S.A.” I wanted to find something pretty special. Verhoeven’s Hollywood posters are all iconic and effective
I was thrilled to get an email this week from Akiko Stehrenberger, the designer of my favorite movie poster of the last decade. She had been told by friends about her chart-topping appearance and agreed
After a few weeks of round-ups of the decade's and year’s best posters I figured it was time to step back in time to something a little more classic. At a screening of Andrea Arnold’s excellent new
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
Last week I posted my selection of the decade's best movie posters: a post which attracted a remarkable amount of attention, not least from the estimable Roger Ebert, who posted his rival choices on
Trawling through databases of all the movie posters released in the past ten years and trying to remember my ten favorites, two things stand out: that only a very small percentage qualify as great
I like the new poster (see below) for the re-release of Francois Truffaut’s 1976 film L'argent de poche, but for me nothing can beat the kitsch charm of the original British poster which takes a number
What better title for Thanksgiving weekend? And what better film for the annual urban exodus than this superb debut feature by French-Swiss director Ursula Meier: a film which deals with both domesticity and
“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases...” This gorgeous French poster for Jane Campion’s Bright Star (which doesn't open in Paris until January) is quite a departure from the
If anyone merits the “big head” poster treatment so expertly parodied by Funny or Die it would be everybody’s favorite movie star George Clooney. Lately, however, Clooney has started to disappear from