Now here’s a poster bound to send tingles of fear down the spine of many a liberal-inclined cinephile: the one-sheet (left, click to enlarge) for The Undefeated, a pro-Sarah Palin documentary reportedly funded not by the woman herself but by conservative American filmmaker Stephen K. Bannon. Inspired by Palin’s book Going Rogue: An American Life, [...]
October 4, 2010 – 10:25 pm
It appears my review of I’m Still Here inspired the fabulous W H Chong to buy a ticket and, as they say, take the ride. Over at his blog Culture Mulcher Chong makes some interesting observations about the film but makes it clear he wasn’t nearly as taken in by it as I. This hardly [...]
August 11, 2010 – 3:42 pm
Now I don’t want to lower the highfalutin tone I’ve taken great pains to refine here at Cinetology – over the last week alone there has been nary a poo or fart joke, not a single one – but this nugget of amusement simply needs to be shared. A friend of mine alerted me a [...]
Check out the striking use of pink in this elegant but bold one-sheet (left, click to enlarge) for director Luca Guadagnino’s acclaimed drama I Am Love. The film stars Tilda Swinton, whose frosty glares and phlegmatic performance style have made her one of cinema’s most commanding ice queens. How appropriate that she played the White [...]
January 26, 2010 – 11:33 am
Last November I wrote about the striking use of white employed in the poster for Clint Eastwood’s new political biopic/sports movie Invictus. This simple but rather wonderful one-sheet for Creation (left, click to enlarge) ups the ante with a whole lot more nothingness; it’s a strikingly elegant, uncluttered image that uses empty space to maximum [...]
November 16, 2009 – 7:46 pm
Star-centric posters featuring large floating heads and a pithy tag line are the film industry’s garden variety marketing one sheets, but here is one cookie cutter image that really works. The poster (left, click to enlarge) is for Clint Eastwood’s new pic Invictus and depicts Matt Damon superimposed onto the back of Morgan Freeman; they [...]
September 10, 2009 – 9:43 am
Jeremy Saunders, Australia’s prolific poster-designing prodigy who featured on this blog in an interview late last month, has conjured a corker new one-sheet (pictured left, click to enlarge) for Lars von Trier’s notorious indie flick Antichrist. The simple eerie elegance of this poster, which depicts the faces of stars Willem Dafoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg melded [...]
September 9, 2009 – 6:57 pm
It’s been a while since the last Poster Watch so dig this sweet new one-sheet (left, click to enlarge) for Wes Anderson’s upcoming stop-motion animated Fantastic Mr Fox, which looks pretty adorable: funky, kitsch, cute. George Clooney and Meryl Streep (who voice Mr and Mrs Fox) share vocal strings with an A-list supporting cast including [...]
Brad Pitt is a Basterd in Quentin Tarantino’s long-anticipated and extensively delayed new film about a group of Jewish-American soldiers in WWII who hunt down and slaughter Nazis to inspire fear in the Third Reich. Pitt stars alongside a bumper cast including Diane Kruger, Christoph Waltz, Daniel Bruhl, Eli Roth, Samm Levine, Julie Dreyfus, Mike [...]
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