Above: 1963 German re-release poster by Heinz Edelmann for Kind Hearts and Coronets.If you are near Berlin during the next four months there is a movie poster exhibition that you must not miss. It opens today at the Kulturforum and it is called Grosses Kino: Filmplakate aller Zeiten, which translates as The Big Screen: Film Posters of All Time.Grosses Kino has been curated by Dr. Christina Thomson and Christina Dembny of the Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (the Art Library at the Berlin State Museum) in collaboration with the Berlin International Film Festival and the Deutsche Kinemathek. The Kunstbibliothek has an extraordinary collection of over 5,000 film posters, 300 of which—dating from 1905 to 2023—have been selected for the exhibition. Earlier this year I was asked to be one of 26 “film industry experts” from the fields of acting, directing, cinema management, film studies, art, and graphic design selected to choose one...
- 11/8/2023
- MUBI
If any film can lay claim to having inspired the most beautiful promotional art over the years, Fritz Lang’s 1927 Metropolis must be a very strong contender. The original German three-sheet poster designed by Heinz Schulz-Neudamm was a highlight of the Museum of Modern Art’s first ever exhibition of movie posters in 1960 (I wrote about the exhibition for Issue #0 the of Notebook magazine) and now holds the record for the most expensive movie poster ever sold at auction. (Rumor has it that Leonardo DiCaprio owns one of the four existing copies while another can currently be seen on display at MoMA). I’ve written about Boris Bilinsky’s stunning French poster for the film in the past. And then you have beautiful contemporary Mondo posters by the likes of Kilian Eng and William Stout.But the trove of exquisite Metropolis art was expanded recently when two very rare Japanese...
- 4/11/2022
- MUBI
I am excited to be premiering Janus Films’ brand new poster for their re-release of The Passion of Joan of Arc, one of my all-time favorite films and one of the most beautiful films ever made. Designed by Eric Skillman, the new poster is simplicity itself, relying on a single still of Maria Falconetti as Joan in her most iconic pose, and although the beauty of Dreyer’s masterpiece is that almost any still from the film would be poster-worthy, this one is perfect. It’s the clarity of the image that carries the poster, and which whets the appetite for the digital restoration it heralds, but the type block below is suitably elegant and restrained.I did a previous feature on the film a few years ago, concentrating on the artwork of the great René Péron, but there are a number of other wonderful designs for the film which...
- 11/10/2017
- MUBI
Above: 1979 Hungarian poster for 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, UK/USA, 1968); Designer: unknown.
When I started the Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr almost two years ago to augment my weekly poster essays here, I thought I might well run out of great posters to post daily after a year or so. But the deeper I dig the more gems I seem to unearth and the more popular the site seems to become (nearly a quarter of a million followers to date).
I’ve been posting these Best Of round-ups every six months (see parts one, two and three) but I’ve found so much good stuff lately that I feel the urge to do these four times a year instead of twice. As usual I’m using the very unscientific method of number of likes and reblogs to judge a poster’s popularity, but it does tend to...
When I started the Movie Poster of the Day Tumblr almost two years ago to augment my weekly poster essays here, I thought I might well run out of great posters to post daily after a year or so. But the deeper I dig the more gems I seem to unearth and the more popular the site seems to become (nearly a quarter of a million followers to date).
I’ve been posting these Best Of round-ups every six months (see parts one, two and three) but I’ve found so much good stuff lately that I feel the urge to do these four times a year instead of twice. As usual I’m using the very unscientific method of number of likes and reblogs to judge a poster’s popularity, but it does tend to...
- 9/7/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
When I first saw this artwork for Fritz Lang’s Metropolis used on the Masters of Cinema 2010 Blu-ray packaging, I was convinced that it was contemporary artwork commissioned especially for that release. As familiar as I was with Heinz Schulz-Neudamm’s famous poster for the film (aka the most sought after and most expensive movie poster of all time), for some reason I had not seen this before. But when I discovered that this poster was not only an original 1927 French release poster but also that it is a four-sheet poster that stands 94 inches tall and 126 inches wide, my mind was blown. (Click on the image to see it in all its glory). Apparently an original exists in the Art Library of the Berlin State Museum (the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin) but I would assume no copy has ever come up for auction. As far as I’m concerned this...
- 9/2/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
Our fine friends across the pond at DVDuell.de recently found the new cover art that will accompany the upcoming Masters of Cinema release of the newly restored, “complete” Metropolis.
Anyone else get a Chris Ware vibe from this cover art?
As pointed out in the comments below, Brenden from The Blu-ray Blog points out that the artwork is from Boris Bilinsky, “clearly an influence on Ware.”
Here are the supplemental materials that will be included with the release:
150-minute feature film (including 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world) Special-edition packaging with lavish wraparound sleeve and embossed printing Pristine film transfers presented on Blu-ray (1080p) and DVD (2-disc) Newly translated optional English subtitles Full-length audio commentary by David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum Die Reise nach Metropolis (2010) documentary about the film 56-page booklet featuring new essays, archival interviews, vintage production stills, and more Further extras to be announced...
Anyone else get a Chris Ware vibe from this cover art?
As pointed out in the comments below, Brenden from The Blu-ray Blog points out that the artwork is from Boris Bilinsky, “clearly an influence on Ware.”
Here are the supplemental materials that will be included with the release:
150-minute feature film (including 25 minutes of footage previously thought lost to the world) Special-edition packaging with lavish wraparound sleeve and embossed printing Pristine film transfers presented on Blu-ray (1080p) and DVD (2-disc) Newly translated optional English subtitles Full-length audio commentary by David Kalat and Jonathan Rosenbaum Die Reise nach Metropolis (2010) documentary about the film 56-page booklet featuring new essays, archival interviews, vintage production stills, and more Further extras to be announced...
- 5/6/2010
- by Ryan Gallagher
- CriterionCast
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