Michel Landi brings you baubles, women, windmills, sumo wrestlers, and guns. Lots and lots of guns.
Maidens of Mascii
From the minds of Michel Landi (top left, The Carpetbaggers) and Jean Mascii come these two French pajama-clad beauties…
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.
Let’s Get Theatrical!
Erik Piepenburg of The New York Times has an intriguing column called Behind The Poster which provides info and interviews with some of today’s modern poster artists decorating the marquees of Broadway…
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).
RIP: Tony Scott
Tony Scott, the director who brought us Top Gun, Crimson Tide, and a whole slew of popular thrillers from the 80s and 90s — as well as the younger brother of Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, Alien) — has sadly died of an apparent suicide after jumping off a bridge in San Pedro, CA. (IMP)
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