Still racy after all these years is the 1968 film poster for Romeo and Juliet, in which the Italian director Franco Zeffirelli dared to use actors close in age to Shakespeare’s young lovers–Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, 17 and 15, respectively.
Archive for the 'film' Category
YOUNGSTERS
18 July 2012REEL LIFE
31 December 2011
F. Ron Miller eloquently captures the black-and-white desolation of the 1971 film, The Last Picture Show, on packaging for Criterion Collection.
FORK LIFT
20 December 2011
The UK designer Olly Moss spends a lot of time offering up spare, cleverly-illustrated alternatives to mostly mediocre, official movie posters. I’m not sure how I overlooked this 2010 composition, but the fork illustration alone is reason enough for a rewind.
POST IMPRESSION
19 December 2011
Marilyn Monroe, whose beauty can’t be obscured by a postmark, on a postage stamp issued by Germany in 2001.
PSYCH MINDED
19 October 2011
A 2008 New Zealand ad for a TV broadcast of the film, American Psycho, created by Saatchi & Saatchi.
URBAN COWBOY
22 July 2011
Almost Modern designed this fold-out gallery invitation/poster for a Rotterdam exhibition related to the genre of western films.
FRUITFUL
6 July 2011
Libidinous is not a word one associates with Errol Morris’ deadly serious documentary films, but this brilliantly sexy poster for Tabloid–his latest documentary about the sordid life and times of a former beauty queen–should drum up some business nicely. Note the hilarious-cheeky tag line.
CITY OF NIGHT
3 July 2011
A 2011 Parisian film backdrop and an 1889 painting made in Provence would seem to have as much in common as a dead Dutch artist and a still active New York filmmaker do. But Vincent Van Gogh’s quintessentially expressionistic Starry Night is the beguiling lead in the official poster for Woody Allen’s latest movie.
COPY THAT
13 May 2011
FAST FORWARD
2 May 2011
A spread from a book by the Finnish artist and filmmaker, Mika Taanila.
