Movie Poster of the Week: Masaki Kobayashi’s “Harakiri”
Adrian CurryOn the week that Takashi Miike’s Hara-Kiri is released in the US, a look back at posters for Kobayashi’s deathless original.
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The Noteworthy: Locarno, Mini Cinema, Hoberman on Siodmak and "Hitchcock Presents"
Adam CookThis week: Locarno 2012, Ben Sachs on The Cat Returns, a defense of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, two pieces on Robert Siodmak + more.
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Echoes #8
NotebookRemarkable visual and audio rhyming between Todd Haynes’ Safe and David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr.
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Da Vinci Sternberg
Daniel KasmanCorkscrewing two images: a Florentine mural potentially hiding a Da Vinci; and a Russian icon, definitely hiding Marlene Dietrich.
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The Best of “Movie Poster of the Day”
Adrian CurryThe 20 most popular posters to date from our related Tumblr, Movie Poster of the Day.
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The Noteworthy: La Furia Umana, The Best of Sarris, and Fassbinder in America
Adam CookThis week: two major film magazines unveil their new issues, Adam Nayman reveals why Jaws is the “greatest movie ever made”, and more…
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Image of the day. Tony Scott's "Déjà Vu" (2006)
Daniel KasmanIncredible color in the early autopsy sequence in Tony Scott’s New Orleans-set riff on Vertigo.
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Movie Poster of the Week: “The Golden Coach” and the Early Posters of Waldemar Swierzy
Adrian CurryA look at the early work of one of the great designers of the Golden Age of Polish movie posters.
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Colours in Movie Posters Since 1914
NotebookAn intrepid poster lover has made a stunning “unified view of colour trends in movie posters since 1914.”
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Images of the Day: Pedro Costa's New Film
NotebookStartling images from Pedro Costa’s contribution to an omnibus including new films by Manoel de Oliveira, Victor Erice and Aki Kaurismäki.
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The Noteworthy: Remembering Sarris, Verhoeven's Jesus, and an Eye Surgery
Adam CookFilm critics commemorate the life & work of Andrew Sarris, Verhoeven lands funding for a controversial project, + David Cairns on Hitchcock.
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Movie Poster of the Week: Georges Franju’s “Nuits rouges”
Adrian CurrySome wildly different posters, and some marvellous ephemera, for Franju’s final film maudit.