The Rolling Stones have taken a pit stop on their latest tour — to the mens room of their own museum — complete with the group’s ubiquitous lips logo-shaped urinals. Marcel Duchamp would be proud!
Category Archives: British film posters
Red Harbor!
The Unknown Poster King
Meet Edward McKnight Kauffer (1890-1954), the man who may have inspired such graphic design icons as Saul Bass and Paul Rand. This well-traveled illustrator was born in America, but thrived in Britain with his bright colors and clean lines…
Shame-less?
The producers of the new erotic drama, Shame, are testing the theory that less is more — at least when it comes to sex. Directed by Steve McQueen (no, not that Steve McQueen!) and starring Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds) and Carey Mulligan, the new NC-17 film is set for limited release today and it will be intriguing to see how this steamy adult pic fares at the box office.
American moviegoing audiences, notoriously prudish when it comes to on-screen sex in film, will soon decide if they are a-Shame-d or not to see this flick. (ImpAwards)
My Favorite Aunt and Uncle
Being an uncle myself, I’ve always had a soft spot for these eccentric family classics from Pierre Étaix (Mon Oncle) and California Nagel-esque airbrush artist, Peter Palombi (Travels With My Aunt)…
Jagged Edges…
The new Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher one-sheet for the upcoming biopic, The Iron Lady, looks like it was ripped off the pages of late 20th Century movie poster history…
Drive Hard!
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)…
Twisted Fates?
Here’s two sketchy one-sheets from 1960s design studs, Bob Peak and Paul Crifo, respectively, that will make you see red…
Sunday Night Shapton
Leanne Shapton has an eye-opening illustration essay on black-and-white movie rentals in today’s The New York Times…
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