This past weekend, rock music fans were in a deep state of Nirvana (not to be confused with the one-sheet rockin’ PosterNirvana), celebrating the 20th anniversary of Nevermind.
The famous swimming baby on the album cover reminded me of another similar underwater-themed movie poster, starring a legend in her own era, Jane Russell.
And if you mixed all these one-sheets together into a scary movie poster potluck, you might get this early 90’s classic…(ImpAwards)
Is Sean Penn’s new one-sheet for This Must Be The Place an homage to the 1968 Italian film poster for The Bride Wore Black (by Ferracci)? (ImpAwards and EatBrie)
Of course, don’t confuse these titles with this Chuck Norris fashionable-action classic…
Following his higher calling in movie posters, it’s no wonder that Italian illustrator, Angelo Cesselon, later moved onto drawing portraits of saints and other religious paintings for churches since looking at his beautiful work can be somewhat of a religious experience.
I’m not sure if he was repenting for all of his past pretty Marilyn Monroe depictions — regardless, his many artful creations are for the ages. (via Dominique Besson)
It appears that the studio behind Johnny Depp’s new Hunter S. Thompson biopic, The Rum Diary, was inspired by the Eat Pray Love print marketing campaign…or maybe they just had too much to drink! (ImpAwards)
Daniel Levy of NYC’s Illustraction Gallery has a nice little write-up this week on Hans Hillman, a prolific German movie poster designer who created over 130 movie posters, most famously The Maltese Falcon…
Ryan Gosling appears to be doing his best Steve McQueen in this weekend’s high-testosterone octane release, Drive.
Btw, here’s a few other scenic drives, including the classic Taxi Driver one-sheet, which features the graphic stylings of Guy Peellaert)…
Georgii and Vladimir Stenberg, aka The Stenberg Brothers, a pair of Russian Constructivist poster designers from the 1920’s, were largely forgotten until a 1997 MoMA exhibit restored their adventurous avant-garde legacy.
And this summer, The Tony Shafrazi Gallery in NYC once again revisited their finely-constructed prints (which I unfortunately missed!) — but it’s still available for viewing on the website. (via Posteropolis)
Movie Poster Museum 