Meansheets is a movie poster blog that features vintage movie posters, French movie posters, and the movie poster artists and illustrators from the 1950s, 1960s, 1970's and 1980s who designed them.
This weekend marks the 75th Anniversary of the great Golden Gate Bridge — so here’s a movie poster tribute to one of America’s most beautiful landmarks. That said, the glorious International Orange-painted bridge has dealt with its share of troubled waters over the years as 11 men were killed during its original construction — and it was also reported to be America’s #1 suicide destination in The New Yorker, which also inspired the compelling, but controversial documentary, The Bridge.
Regardless of its tragic history though, this iconic monument of early 20th Century manpower is still a stunner — happy birthday, Golden Gate!
The new Wes Anderson comes out in selected theatres on Friday — and whether you love or hate his brand of esoteric films — you cannot deny the auteur’s unique sense of style and attention to detail that permeates every frame of his work.
Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby is not your father’s Gatsby — or even your grandfather’s or grandmother’s, for that matter — as it looks quite a bit more theatrical than previous film adaptations.
With the unique style of Yves Saint Lauren and the drawing power of Thor, French poster artist, Yves Thos, set cinema lovers’ hearts afire for decades with his memorable renderings of La Dolce Vita and other International classics…(EMP)
Everybody’s talking about the latest re-teaming of Tim Burton and Johnny Depp for their new horror-comedy, Dark Shadows — but what’s also notable about the production is that it marks the big budget return of 90′s screen siren, Michelle Pfeiffer, whose beautiful features and dramatic skills dominated movie screens for years. However, with Shadows, I’m sure her dark side will come out! (IMP)
Check out these one-sheets for Terry Gilliam’sAdventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) as well as the fantastic French 2-panel from the 1944 version via Heritage…
Amanda Seyfried, the star of such teen films as Red Riding Hood and Mamma Mia!, has undertaken an undeniably more hardcore role in her upcoming flick, Lovelace, in which she portrays Linda Lovelace, the troubled 1970′s porn star of Deep Throat.
To find out the skinny on this scandalous time in American film history, check out the trailer of the 2005 doc, Inside Deep Throat, and, of course, don’t forget that legendary scene from Robert Redford in All The President’s Men. (ImpAwards)
No matter where in the world you were this weekend, hopefully you had a chance to check out the supermoon. And nobody liked to go full moon on their movie posters more than Steven Spielberg and ’80s poster design legend, John Alvin!
With this weekend’s Five Year Engagement, it looks like Judd Apatow’s eight year winning streak at the box office will continue as the prolific comedy director-producer of raunch’n'romance has been the life of the party ever since 2004′s Anchorman…(ImpAwards)
