Independencia, just recently selected for the New York Film Festival, is 25 year old Filipino auteur Raya Martin’s seventh feature and hopefully the film to make his name in the States. Martin is part
When the line-up for the 2009 New York Film Festival was unveiled this week, one of the surprises was the announcement that Alain Resnais’ Les herbes folles, or Wild Grass, would open the festival (the
Back when I was twelve or thirteen I asked my Dad to take my friends and me on a birthday outing to a movie called Crystal Voyager which we all thought was going to be a superhero movie. It turned out
In London last month I caught a small, fascinating exhibition at the British Film Institute on the collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter. This magical alliance yielded
Movie Poster of the Week was on hiatus for the last month as I scoured Europe for inspiration. In a film poster store in Paris I picked up an out of print book of Les affiches de la nouvelle vague which
If ever there was a director whose work should be represented by magnificent posters, it is Sergei Paradjanov. His symbol-laded films, and especially his 1968 masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, are
If you look at the website gigposters.com you’ll see an incredible wealth of talent pored into the world of indie rock poster design and I often wonder why we don’t see more of that in movie posters
What is it with circles? Three of the best new movie posters of 2009—The Girlfriend Experience, The Limits of Control and now Moon—are awash with them. For Moon it makes perfect graphic sense. Directed
David Carradine, who died yesterday at the age of 72, worked with a remarkable number of name directors…
Though he is arguably the best known graphic designer in America, and despite the fact that he is legendary for his poster design (think Dylan, think Mahalia Jackson, think Angels in America), Milton
Before Tony Scott sullies the memory of Joseph Sargent's 1974 Gotham crime classic The Taking of Pelham One Two Three with his Denzel-Travolta remake, let us celebrate the original with this knockout
The amazing Art of the Modern Movie Poster, a 500-page treasure-chest of postwar film poster design published by Chronicle Books and the good folks at Posteritati, deservedly devotes a whole section