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
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