Pam Grier was the queen of 70’s blaxploitation movies — and seemed stuck there in cinematic history — until Quentin Tarantino rejuvenated her career in 1997 with Jackie Brown (which had one of the coolest opening credit sequences ever right here).
And now Miss Foxy has pulled out the big guns with a new book!
It’s the NFL Playoffs this weekend. And nothing gets me more pumped for football than football movie posters! Yeah, not exactly…but Coach Pacino’s lockerroom speech from Any Given Sunday is pretty damn good.
Although Alvin & The Chipmunks are squeakin’ at the box office today, they don’t got nothin’ on legendary poster designer, John Alvin, who died tragically at the age of 59 from a heart attack back in 2008. Fortunately for us, his hopeful, inspirational work lives on…
Did you know that Steven Spielberg asked Saul Bass to do a poster for Schindler’s List? Neither did I! Regardless, I think Universal made the right choice in going with a more dramatic design.
Phil Roberts is yet another contemporary artist who draws in that humorous Jack Davis style. In fact, he not only draws like him — he actually did the poster for The Bad News Bears remake in 2005. But what’s interesting is that he also happens to be a very well known surf artist, too!
Another solid series of poster books was published by Graham Marsh and Tony Nourmand, owner of The Reel Poster Gallery in London. Each edition covers the best one-sheets of its respective decade and unearths some real finds.
You used to only be able to get these classic Bruce Weber posters for $300+ on eBay, but now you can get cheap reproductions at Moviegoods!
Here’s a clip of Weber’s heartbreaking doc on jazz legend, Chet Baker…
Movie Poster Museum 