Movie Poster of the Week: "House"
Adrian CurryI wasn't intending to feature a third horror movie poster in a row for this column, but then I saw House, and, more importantly, I saw this poster. Made in 1977, House is a cult Japanese comic
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Curse of the Werewolf"
Adrian CurryThough this French poster for the 1961 Hammer horror The Curse of the Werewolf—with a lycanthropic Oliver Reed bursting through a window (and his shirt) against a garish pink sky—is terrific by itself
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The House of the Devil"
Adrian CurryI love this poster for Ti West's blandly titled but reportedly quite impressive horror flick The House of the Devil most of all for its perfectly realized retro look. Already available on VOD and coming
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Movie Poster of the Week: "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus"
Adrian CurryThe superb British poster for Terry Gilliam’s latest folly The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (which opens today in the UK and on Christmas Day in the US) is all in the details. The movie most famous
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Le feu follet"
Adrian CurryThis suitably autumnal poster for Louis Malle’s Le feu follet (The Fire Within) was the creation of the brilliant German designer Hans Hillmann. Now 83 years old, Hillmann was a major film poster designer
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Movie Poster of the Week: "What?"
Adrian CurryAs a great big lurid question mark hangs over his future, it seems that there's no time like the present to celebrate the films of Roman Polanski, in poster form. (Glenn Kenny has already spoken much
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Movie Poster of the Day: "Antichrist" (Again!)
NotebookLars von Trier's hoot-of-a-new-film may inspire a lot of boring critical bile—we still stand by our take from Cannes—but it is also inspiring a lot of great graphic art. The original US poster is striking
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Movie Poster of the Week: The 47th New York Film Festival
Adrian CurryThe New York Film Festival starts today (kicking off with former Movie Poster of the Week star Wild Grass) so I thought it only fitting this week to feature the official festival poster, which is one of
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Gummo"
Adrian CurrySay what you will about Harmony Korine's films, but his posters are something else. If his cinematic output can be criticized as formless, arbitrary, crudely provocative and often intentionally repulsive
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Antichrist"
Adrian CurryVisually striking and deeply unpleasant, and thus perfectly in sync with the film it is promoting, the Australian poster for Lars von Trier's Antichrist was designed by Jeremy Saunders and is already
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Movie Poster of the Week: "Husbands"
Adrian CurryThe recent, long-awaited DVD release of John Cassavetes’ Husbands (1970) is more than enough of an excuse to feature this illustrated French grande as Movie Poster of the Week. I like this poster a lot
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Movie Posters of the Week: "Merman" and "Stolz der Nation"
Adrian CurryIf you haven't seen MerMan and Stolz der Nation yet, where have you been this summer? These films, with their perfectly pastiched posters, are the linchpins of the cinema-centric worlds of Judd Apatow