Above: English-language festival poster for There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse. Design by Marcelo Granero.So another nine months have gone by since I last did one of these round-ups. As I’ve been doing for many years, I have tallied up the most popular posters featured on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram (previously Tumblr). The biggest surprise, not least to its designer, was the popularity of a festival poster for an experimental Argentinian film There Are Not Thirty-Six Ways of Showing a Man Getting on a Horse which has racked up some 2,335 likes to date and was the third most popular design I posted in the whole of 2020 (after the two Parasite posters that topped my last round-up). When I say it’s surprising it’s because film recognition tends to play a big part in the popularity of posts,...
- 3/5/2021
- MUBI
Yorgos Lanthimos's Nimic is exclusively showing on Mubi in the Luminaries series.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s poster for Nimic.Has there ever been a graphic designer more closely allied with a filmmaker than Vasilis Marmatakis is with Yorgos Lanthimos? Saul Bass and Otto Preminger are the team that most easily come to mind, but even then, though Preminger was a great supporter of and advocate for Bass’s work, I don’t feel that Bass’s designs quite express Preminger’s ethos in the same way that Marmatakis’s designs encapsulate the wonderful strangeness of Lanthimos’s work. Starting with Dogtooth in 2009, Marmatakis has created the windows to his friend’s worlds with a series of iconic posters that are among the very best of the past 20 years.Above: Vasilis Marmatakis’s posters for Yorgos Lanthimos’s films (clockwise from top left) Dogtooth (2009), The Lobster (2015), Alps (2011), The Favourite (2018) and...
- 11/28/2020
- MUBI
After The Undertaker episode of Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions it was going to take a big name to follow that, and, for me, they didn’t follow it. I guess my thoughts on that come from the fact that I’ve never been a Goldberg fan. I watched WWF back when WCW was running and Goldberg was on top, and when he was in WWE I never really wanted to see him wrestle. Still, he’s a huge name from the history of wrestling, so I get it. He’s still popular, as can be seen anytime he appears in WWE, so this episode is likely one many people we’re happy to see. Austin has a way about him as an interviewer, bringing stories around to his personal experiences, comparing his career and life to those of his guests, and it helps the conversation feel casual and smooth.
- 1/27/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
The esteemed designer, who died this week, left behind a career of work on some of Hollywood’s biggest and most-loved films
This Monday marked the death of main title designer Wayne Fitzgerald at the age of 89. One of the great movie and television craftsmen of the past half century, if you don’t recognize Fitzgerald by name, you’re probably still familiar with his body of work, which included a filmography boasting more than 450 credits and which earned him three Emmys over the course of his career.
Related: The seminal film posters of Bill Gold – in pictures...
This Monday marked the death of main title designer Wayne Fitzgerald at the age of 89. One of the great movie and television craftsmen of the past half century, if you don’t recognize Fitzgerald by name, you’re probably still familiar with his body of work, which included a filmography boasting more than 450 credits and which earned him three Emmys over the course of his career.
Related: The seminal film posters of Bill Gold – in pictures...
- 10/2/2019
- by Zach Vasquez
- The Guardian - Film News
Late last week, a new poster for The Nun blessed your timeline with some pretty ominous imagery, which, one couldn’t help but notice contained quite the glaring parallel between the tidbit of promotional art and Bill Gold’s iconic one-sheet for William Friedkin’s genre classic, The Exorcist.
Although, likeness aside, the artwork was, and is, unquestionably the best piece of advertisement we’ve received apropos of The Nun so far. Especially when you take into consideration the underwhelming and stereotypical first trailer for the film, which you can watch up above. Thankfully, though, the fifth installment into The Conjuring universe does appear to be done with subpar marketing, and we’ve got another foreboding poster to prove it.
Courtesy of Bloody Disgusting, the one-sheet – which you can check out below – features Bonnie Aarons’ Valak the Defiler creeping up behind Demián Bichir’s Father Burke, quite possibly to give...
Although, likeness aside, the artwork was, and is, unquestionably the best piece of advertisement we’ve received apropos of The Nun so far. Especially when you take into consideration the underwhelming and stereotypical first trailer for the film, which you can watch up above. Thankfully, though, the fifth installment into The Conjuring universe does appear to be done with subpar marketing, and we’ve got another foreboding poster to prove it.
Courtesy of Bloody Disgusting, the one-sheet – which you can check out below – features Bonnie Aarons’ Valak the Defiler creeping up behind Demián Bichir’s Father Burke, quite possibly to give...
- 8/16/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
Given the classic status of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, you’d think Warner and New Line would be looking to distance The Nun from that kind of pressure, but as you’ll see in the poster below, the fifth installment into The Conjuring universe is practically being invited into MacNeil manor.
Scheduled for a September 7th release later this year, The Nun likely has the disciple of horror in your life chomping at the bit, and rightfully so. The Conjuring 2 spinoff, directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow), will finally see Valak the demon steer its own full-length feature, and if the marketing’s anything to go by, we should indeed start “praying for forgiveness.”
However, before we get down on bended knee to the Defiler, we’ve just received unarguably the best piece of advertisement for The Nun yet, in the form of an intimidating new poster – which...
Scheduled for a September 7th release later this year, The Nun likely has the disciple of horror in your life chomping at the bit, and rightfully so. The Conjuring 2 spinoff, directed by Corin Hardy (The Hallow), will finally see Valak the demon steer its own full-length feature, and if the marketing’s anything to go by, we should indeed start “praying for forgiveness.”
However, before we get down on bended knee to the Defiler, we’ve just received unarguably the best piece of advertisement for The Nun yet, in the form of an intimidating new poster – which...
- 8/13/2018
- by Joseph Falcone
- We Got This Covered
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