Meansheets - Vintage Movie Posters

Stuck In A Rutters

russ — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:08:55 +0000

Klaus Rütters, one of the more under-sung German poster artists of his time, completed quite a few Hollywood classics on his palette, featuring some of the era’s biggest stars…(EMoviePoster)

Filed under: 1950s movie posters, 1960s movie posters, Foreign movie posters Tagged: 55 days in peking, german movie posters, german poster, klaus rutters, sand pebbles, sombrero, sound of music, to kill a mockingbird

Boom Baby!

russ — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:35:58 +0000

The character posters for the new belly-slapper pregnancy comedy, What To Expect When You’re Expecting, are now showing…(THR)

Filed under: 2000s movie posters, Character Posters, Comedy movie posters, Romance movie posters Tagged: brooklyn decker, cameron diaz, poster, trailer, what to expect when you're expecting

A Trip To Bounty-ful

russ — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:12:58 +0000

This weekend’s new release, One For The Money, is yet another cinematic take on the Bounty Hunter — prominently featuring that ol’ movie poster prop favorite, handcuffs.

But let’s not confuse it with those other classic fightin’ bountys!

Filed under: 1980s movie posters, 2000s movie posters, Drama movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Pop Culture, Thriller movie posters Tagged: bounty hunter poster, katherine heigl, mel gibson, midnight run poster, movie poster, mutiny on the bounty poster, one for the money poster, the bounty

We Need To Talk To Roman Polanski

russ — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:23:46 +0000

With awards season in full swing, I think We Need To Talk About Kevin has won the Oscar for Most Variations of One-Sheet Designs.

And the marketing dept might be running out of ideas since this latest poster bears a striking resonance to Polanski’s ~~baby~~ Rosemary’s Baby. (ImpAwards)

Filed under: 1970s movie posters, 2000s movie posters, Artists & Illustrators, Horror movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Pop Culture, Poster Ripoffs Tagged: roman polanski, rosemary's baby poster, we need to talk about kevin poster

Tutti Frutti Cerutti

russ — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:12:31 +0000

The 1930s and 1940s French posters of Henri Cerutti go down smooth as a sweet, fruity glacé. Hailing from the golden age of the gargantuous 4-panel poster (240×160 cm, or 94x 63 inches for you Americanos), Cerutti’s mural-sized designs were not only big, but beautifully elegant as well. (Intemporel)

Filed under: 1920s movie posters, 1930s movie posters, 1940s movie posters, 1950s movie posters, Artists & Illustrators, Foreign movie posters, French movie posters, Romance movie posters Tagged: affiches, branded man, dominique besson, french posters, gunfighter, henri cerutti, intemporel, marius

Words Cannot Express…

russ — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:19:20 +0000

Bradley Cooper gets a font-filled close-up in The Words! (ImpAwards)

Filed under: 2000s movie posters, Drama movie posters, Pop Culture Tagged: bradley cooper, poster, the words

Red Harbor!

russ — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:49:59 +0000

Filed under: 2000s movie posters, Action movie posters, British film posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Poster Ripoffs, Romance movie posters Tagged: airplane posters, pearl harbor movie poster, red tails poster

A Dash-ell of Hammett, please?

russ — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:21:11 +0000

Look out, film fanatics, because Noir City’s annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival begins this weekend and runs through January 29, capping off with a Dashell Hammett marathon, including screenings of the 1931 and 1941 versions of The Maltese Falcon…

And don’t miss out on these French poster beauties (drawn by Roger Soubie) of that other Hammett classic, The Glass Key.

Filed under: 1930s movie posters, 1940s movie posters, 1950s movie posters, Artists & Illustrators, Film Noir, Foreign movie posters, French movie posters, Italian movie posters Tagged: dashell hammett, film noir festival, film noir posters, glass key, maltese falcon posters, noir city, roger soubie

If Today’s Movie Posters Were Made Yesterday…

russ — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:55:35 +0000

Here’s a clever bit of graphic revisionist history from Behance…(MOPO)

Filed under: 1950s movie posters, 1960s movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Pop Culture Tagged: behance, hangover, metropolis, mopo, movies from an alternate universe

Girls Riding In Cars With Boys

russ — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:48:04 +0000

This new dramatic poster for The Paperboy takes me back to that less serious 80s teenage sex pic, Mischief…

Filed under: 1980s movie posters, 2000s movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Poster Ripoffs, Romance movie posters, Teen posters Tagged: mischief, movie poster, nicole kidman, paperboy poster, zac efron

Howard the Duct Tape?

russ — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:59:07 +0000

This new 60′s-style Marky Mark movie poster’s so tactile you can almost feel the pain! (ImpAwards)

Filed under: 2000s movie posters, Action movie posters, Drama movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Pop Culture Tagged: contraband, howard the duck, movie poster, wall of noise movie poster

The Künstler Adventures!

russ — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:25:33 +0000

A reader commented that it was American Civil War artist, Mort Künstler — not John (“King Kong“) Berkey — who created the key art for The Hindenburg. This, of course, led me to uncover the full arsenal of Künstler’s explosive, action-packed 1970s one-sheets.

Filed under: 1970s movie posters, Action movie posters, Artists & Illustrators Tagged: beyond the poseidon adventure, john berkey, mort kunstler, movie poster, taking of pelham one two three poster, the poseidon adventure, three the hard way

Danish Wenzel

russ — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:04:57 +0000

I know, it sounds like a food — but Karl Wenzel was actually a rather famous designer of Danish movie posters back in the day. Just take a taste of his delicious eye candy for yourself! (EMoviePoster)

Filed under: 1940s movie posters, 1950s movie posters, 1960s movie posters, Drama movie posters, Foreign movie posters, Romance movie posters Tagged: 12 angry men, arabesque, danish movie posters, karl wenzel, wenzel posters

Portrait of The Dictator

russ — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:44:43 +0000

Enjoying the minimalist one-sheet (probably the first time ever that a gold framed oil/velvet painting has been deemed understated) for the new Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) comedy, The Dictator — although Commander Cohen does bear a strong resemblance to Adam Sandler in this pic.

Filed under: 2000s movie posters, Comedy movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown Tagged: adam sander.sacha baron cohen, movie poster, the dictator poster, you don't mess with zohan

Up In Arms!

russ — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:37:22 +0000

The new bullet-laden teaser for Baytown Disco is not the first movie poster to show off its firepower — as seen below by the 2005 one-sheet for Lord of War and the classic 1960s shoot-’em-up film, The Professionals, with posters from American artist, Howard Terpning, and the French version by Jean Mascii. (ImpAwards and EMoviePoster)

Filed under: 1960s movie posters, 2000s movie posters, Action movie posters, Movie Poster Smackdown, Pop Culture, Poster Ripoffs, Westerns movie posters Tagged: baytown disco poster, howard terpning, jean mascii, lord of war poster, movie poster, the professionals