Patrik Svensson designed posters for various movies using only a few letters and/or characters. Here’s his poster for The Shining:
(Via Minimalissimo.)
Posted in Kubrick, movies, posters, typography
From Olly Moss’s clever and charming “Paper Cuts” series.
Previously: Olly Moss’s Movie Poster Remakes.
Before sharing his thoughts on Twenty Cigarettes, film scholar David Bordwell pauses to “reflect for a moment on the powerful role played by the cigarette in twentieth-century photographic portraiture.”
Related posts: Cigarettes are Sublime and The Cigarette Abides.
This video reminds me of Uncredited: Graphic Design and Opening Titles in Movies, a book I reviewed for Film & History in 2008. The veritable explosion of love for movies titles online since then (in addition to Art of the Title, there’s The Movie Titles Stills Collection and Steven Hill’s Movie Title Screens Page) warms my heart.
Number fourteen on Where Danger Lives’ marvelous “100 Greatest Posters of Film Noir” list.
“You may remember that during the first part [of North by Northwest] all sorts of things happen to the hero with such bewildering rapidity that he doesn’t know what it’s all about. Anyway, Cary Grant came up to me and said, ‘It’s a terrible script. We’ve already done a third of the picture and I still can’t make head or tail of it.’ … Without realizing it he was using a line of his own dialogue.”
—Alfred Hitchcock in Hitchcock, by François Truffaut
“You know I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement – none.”
—Cary Grant, To Catch a Thief
(Via Walker Lamond.)
The poster for Terrence Malick’s new film The Tree of Life:
Even better is the trailer, which, though only 2 minutes and 11 seconds long, might actually be the best movie of 2010. Go watch. Now.
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