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International Poster Tour: QUADROPHENIA (dir. Franc Roddam) 1979
“Look, I don’t wanna be the same as everybody else. That’s why I’m a Mod, see? I mean, you gotta be somebody, ain’t ya, or you might as well jump in the sea and drown.”
Criterion will release Quadrophenia on DVD & Blu-ray on August 28.
WINGS OF DESIRE
Designed by The Silver Screen Society
even more incredible Wings of Desire posters from the collective over at The Silver Screen Society, as their month devoted to the film rages on. in a related story, it’s total bullshit that April only has 30 days.
Clockwise from upper-left:
SEVEN SAMURAI Poster
Designed by: Adam Rabalais
so yesterday i re-blogged a Seventh Seal poster designed by Adam Rabalais, and then i immediately bought it for myself, cause i’m a man of action (and posters). afterwards, i naturally began to sift through adam’s etsy site, and… well, for someone who survives on ramen and an epic supply of teenage mutant ninja turtles ice cream pops, that was a financially unwise decision.
this guy is for reals. his Seven Samurai poster (seen above) is… um… well, it’s something i own, now. oops. i bought the full-size 27 x 40 version, and i’m deeply in love with this thing. the texture immediately returns me to my first encounter with the film on Criterion DVD in 1999, gruff and battle-tested… the gun & sword meeting to form a “7” is a bit high-concept, but the tension between the two ideals and all that they represent is obviously of central importance to the film, and — when hovering above the rather subtle graves below — feels organic, and a logical extension of overall aesthetic. the deteriorated Toho logo in the bottom left seals the deal… this is one of my favorite posters. full stop. now to find the wall space… someone build me an office.
International Poster Tour: BELLE DE JOUR (dir. Luis Buñuel) 1967
so Buñuel’s erotic masterpiece (harvey weinstein’s words, not mine) finally arrives in the Criterion Collection today, and not to spoil my review or anything, but if there’s one 2012 Criterion that you absolutely must own so far this year, it’s this one, and given that it’s almost January 20th, that’s saying quite a bit (sorry, Traffic upgrade for which approximately zero people asked).
unsurprisingly, the myriad posters that Belle de Jour has inspired over the years are both immediately fetching and entirely predictable. it’s only the Polish (natch) who spiced things up a bit, veering away from catherine deneuve’s come hither stare with that inspired abstract design in the bottom right corner of the image tower above. that being said, methinks the Criterion cover art may be the best of the bunch.
what say you?
Movies From An Alternate Universe
you are traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind. a journey to a land where movie posters let us know what could have been had the stars and their stories just shaken out in different ways.
Godard’s TRAINSPOTTING could have been truly brilliant, the anger of junkie culture (pooped laundry bags) dovetailing with godard’s political virulence… could have been delightful.
shoving Audrey Hepburn into RUSHMORE...well, not so much. though if anyone could make it work it would certainly be nicolas ray.
head on over to Behance to see a bunch more of these lovely fever dreams.
THE POSTERS FOR ROBERT BRESSON
this assembly of these remarkable (and remarkably varied) posters is the good work of the great Adrian Curry, and you should really just hop on over to mubi.com to read his original post on the matter.
as for me, i need to go occupy Film Forum for the 2-week Bresson retrospective that’s already up and running. Although if I miss A MAN ESCAPED on the big screen, at least i might get a chance to check it out on Blu-ray later this year…
Polish GODZILLA Posters
(bottom left poster is for Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster, bottom right is for Son of Godzilla)
soooo jazzed that Godzilla is now a pertinent subject to a blog about The Criterion Collection. cause i would never blog about something that wasn’t at least tangentially related to Criterion… isn’t that right, shameless Why Cookie Rocket post from August?
anyway, i had wanted to re-blog these from Sam Smith’s tumblr (if you don’t follow him, you should really follow him), especially because that dude sorta knows from good graphic design, but tumblr is dumb and wouldn’t allow me to add photos to his original post.
so to recap: these Polish Godzilla posters are awesome and holy hell i can’t believeGodzilla is actually coming to The Criterion Collection next month. Sam Smith’s tumblr must be followed. and tumblr is dumb. good talk.
(via MonsterBrains)
Director Portraits by Gizem Vural
these super snazzy and insightful posters — designed for the 30th International Istanbul Film Festival (which went down back in April of 2011) — are the work of a Turkish graphic designer named Gizem Vural. she is awesome. don’t implicitly believe everything i say? visit her website. there is some exceptionally delightful art available in her store.
(via Flavorwire)
alright, it’s friday night. go have fun. if you’re going to the movies, Ghost Protocol is a right bit of fun, but absolutely MUST be seen in true-blue IMAX.
you probably shouldn’t spend your friday night seeing Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked. i explain why for Box Office Magazine.
Italian Posters for BRANDED TO KILL
La Farfalla sul Mirino = “The Butterfly on the Viewfinder.”
…or so the internet tells me. i don’t really speak italian. i mean, if you catch me within a few days of watching all 6 hours of THE BEST OF YOUTH my comprehension of the language may be a bit better than usual, but i’m really just an american. as opposed to THE American, which the Italian posters for Seijun Suzuki’s acid-jazz yakuza freak out BRANDED TO KILL apparently inspired.
Criterion’s new editions of Branded to Kill and Tokyo Drifter hit the streets tomorrow. they are very, very pretty. but don’t lick them.
Stencil It In
1.) A NOS AMOURS (dir. Maurice Pialat) 1983
2.) I’M STILL HERE (dir. Casey Affleck) 2010
one of these films is in The Criterion Collection. can you guess which!?
(h/t to backstreetsbackalright for inadvertently reminding me to post this)
