Roman Polanski’s new movie-based-on-a-play, Carnage, seems to have a lot in common with some of those foursome films of the 1970’s — Carnal Knowledge and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice — except without the sex!
Movie Poster Wallpaper?
In a development that is sure to make most movie poster fans cringe and shrivel up, a company called Weitzner has created a new wallpaper called Cinema Posters that is made from recycled movie posters.
Now I guess we know where all those cheesy Trimark and New World 1980s home video posters went!
Thanks A Lot!
Meansheets thanks you for visiting the site and wishes all you movie poster turkeys a Happy Thanksgiving — with some help from one of my holiday favorites, Planes Trains and Automobiles…
F-BOMB WARNING BELOW : Hey, but who doesn’t throw an F-bomb when you’re traveling for the holidays?
SPOILER ENDING BELOW: If you haven’t since this film by now (since it was originally released in 1987), I figure the statute of limitations gets me off the hook.
Separated At Sea?
Return of The Mad Men
In a world gone Mad, Jack Davis & Co. had a reunion to talk about the good ol’ crazy days of Mad Magazine. “The usual gang of idiots”, as the writers/illustrators called themselves, have been humoring and horrifying readers with their colorful and off-color comic spoofs since 1952.
No Payne, No Gain!
One of Hollywood’s cleverest directors, Alexander Payne, is coming out with The Descendants this weekend, starring George Clooney. Although Payne’s résumé boasts quality over quantity, let’s hope we see more from him sooner than later.
Also, if you didn’t see his short, but sweetly subtle gem from Paris Je’taime, feel free to sample it below…
Hispanic Hirschfeld?
If you’re within eyeshot of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, you might want to check out the early 1900s caricatures of one Marius de Zayas, a Mexican illustrator who’s drawing style is strongly reminiscent of legendary Broadway doodler, Al Hirschfeld.
Señor de Zayas was a natural-born networker as he hobnobbed all over NYC back in the day with artsy pals, Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe.
AFM Poster Bash!
The Hollywood Reporter has The 20 Most Outrageous Posters that were shown at last week’s AFM (American Film Market) convention where film distributors from all over the globe gather to showcase their sometimes schlocky B-movie wares.
Munn Meets MoMA
Indie rock/film poster artist, Jason Munn (Alamo Drafthouse, etc.) just went legit as SFMoMA recruited him be part of the museum’s Artist Series.
With that designation under his belt, he designed an eye-popping quartet of Saul Bass-ish graphics that are now on sale at Munn’s website or the SFMoMA museum store!
Movie Poster Museum 