If there’s one thing I sometimes love looking at even more than movie posters it’s old photographs of movie posters as they originally looked pasted on walls or hung outside movie theaters. I especially love this Walker Evans photograph with billboard posters for Chatterbox and Love Before Breakfast pasted in front of a row of clapboard houses in Atlanta in 1936. And Christian Broutin has some great photos of his posters in situ which you can see towards the end of my interview with him.
So, while searching for posters for Jacques Becker’s Antoine and Antoinette, which opens in a revival at Film Forum next week, I was especially pleased to run across some superb photos of the posters for the film as they appeared in Paris in 1947.
The size of these posters, and that incredible marquee lettering on the second photo, give a sense of what a...
So, while searching for posters for Jacques Becker’s Antoine and Antoinette, which opens in a revival at Film Forum next week, I was especially pleased to run across some superb photos of the posters for the film as they appeared in Paris in 1947.
The size of these posters, and that incredible marquee lettering on the second photo, give a sense of what a...
- 9/20/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Above: 1979 Hungarian poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, UK/USA, 1968); Designer: unknown.
When I started the Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr almost two years ago to augment my weekly poster essays here, I thought I might well run out of great posters to post daily after a year or so. But the deeper I dig the more gems I seem to unearth and the more popular the site seems to become (nearly a quarter of a million followers to date).
I’ve been posting these Best Of round-ups every six months (see parts one, two and three) but I’ve found so much good stuff lately that I feel the urge to do these four times a year instead of twice. As usual I’m using the very unscientific method of number of likes and reblogs to judge a poster’s popularity, but it does tend to...
When I started the Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr almost two years ago to augment my weekly poster essays here, I thought I might well run out of great posters to post daily after a year or so. But the deeper I dig the more gems I seem to unearth and the more popular the site seems to become (nearly a quarter of a million followers to date).
I’ve been posting these Best Of round-ups every six months (see parts one, two and three) but I’ve found so much good stuff lately that I feel the urge to do these four times a year instead of twice. As usual I’m using the very unscientific method of number of likes and reblogs to judge a poster’s popularity, but it does tend to...
- 9/7/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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