Heritage reports that they sold the 3-sheet for The American Venus for $35k (at last month’s Vintage Movie Posters Signature Auction) — a beautiful piece of paper that bears a vague Oscar-like resemblance to the 80’s laffer, Ruthless People.
Category Archives: Movie Poster Smackdown
For A Good Time, Call…Bette Midler?
Ari Graynor and Lauren Anne Miller, stars of For A Good Time, Call…, are saying that their new female buddy sex phone comedy was inspired by those 80s tandems of Bette Midler and Shelley Long, etc. (IMP)
Ripping Them Softly?
The new minimalist one-sheet for the Brad Pitt thriller, Killing Them Softly, looks like it may have taken a page from the classic German poster for The Maltese Falcon by Hans Hillman.
Meansheets Takes A Tumblr
Just in case you missed some of the greatest hits — not to mention, extremely accomplished artists and illustrators — featured here in the past 2+ years, feel free to check out the new sleeker version of Meansheets on Tumblr.
French Nagel?
Could mid-century French poster artist, Clement Hurel (top left), possibly have inspired 80s fashion maven, Patrick Nagel?
Viva Los Sombreros!
Hats off to these fine Mexican + French posters by Boris Grinsson (Viva Zapata), Guy Gerard Noel (Un Pistolet Pour Ringo), and Clement Hurel (La Cucaracha).
Moviepaper Romance
Franco-Italian Poster Smackdown!
Sometimes two different artists from two different countries — Clement Hurel (France) and Sandro Symeoni (Italy) — can come up with remarkably similar-looking posters for entirely different films…(KinoArt)
If Lookers Could Kill…
Movie Poster Museum 