Mucha To Love…

There were only a handful of female artists credited with creating movie poster designs prior to the 1980’s — and Poland’s Maria Mucha Ihnatowicz created some real beauties with her explosive style…(EMoviePoster)

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The World of Movie Posters

EMoviePoster’s latest “World of Movie Posters” auction ends today on Tuesday — and there’s a particularly good batch of Polish posters, including these Hollywood classics from the artist, Andrzej Pagowski, who studied under the great Waldemar Swierzy.

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Star Wars Goes Spaghetti Western

Django Unchained has renewed interest in the 1960s Italian spaghetti western genre — and Tim Anderson has taken it to another level with his clever set of limited edition Star Wars aka Guerre Stellari Trilogy posters…(Pinterest)

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Yippee-Ki-iaia!

Not to be confused with Bruce Willis’s notorious catch-phrase, Italian poster designer, Piero Ermanno Iaia, has created some of Hollywood’s most indelible one-sheets…

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Come Sail Away!

Until They Sail (French grande, 47×63) from Roger Soubie

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Bysouth, You’ve Got It!

In case you were too busy with the holidays and missed the excellent long-form interview with UK movie poster artist, Brian Bysouth, by Eddie Shannon of FilmOnPaper, check it out HERE!

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When Monsters Met Maidens…

From December 14-18, 2012, The Swann Auction Galleries presents Monsters and Maidens: A Film Poster Collection, featuring some of the darnedest damsels in distress designs that any movie poster lover has seen, including works by (clockwise from top left): Roger Soubie, Boris Grinsson, Alfredo Capitani, and Anselmo Ballester. (MOPO)

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Two Woman’s Heads Are Better Than One

Piovano Paradiso!

Mario Piovano, one of the more unsung stylists of Italian movie poster design, has come up with some real beauties for his work done under the Paradiso Studio label. (Posterit)