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  • 10 Feb

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    Friday One Sheet: Kill List

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    The film may have already had a successful festival run, and has opened commercially in United States last Friday, but I just missed seeing this handsome Quad for the column a week ago by about an hour. So here you go.

    This drama/horror blend of Hit Men and The Wicker Man and Ben Wheatley’s first film Down Terrace (an understated gangester black-comedy of errors and manners) takes its time to ease its audience into complacency before dropping a substantial bomb of dread and pain. The poster above reflects the literal title and what awaits at in the finale. I love the ‘domino’ motif, and the slanted credit block. It’s a keeper.

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  • 03 Feb

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    Friday One Sheet: Clean Design (Elena)

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    I could not tell you what this film is about from this minimalist design, but could tell you the film has played a lot of festivals! Actually, the third film from Russian visual-stylist Andrei Zvyagintsev (Think the Russian version of Anton Corbijn) is a cause for celebration. While The Banishment didn’t light the festival circuit on fire (it was really solid – I liked it), the director’s debut, a meditation on manhood and fathers and sons, The Return, was one of the best films of 2003, period.

  • 20 Jan

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    Friday One Sheet: Yo Teach!

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    I don’t have much to say about a rather classic and tasteful design (even the festival logos and critics quotes are integrated handsomely). We ran the trailer for this new Tony Kaye film earlier in the week, it looks bombastic, but Kaye (American History X, Lake of Fire) has a way of making that work.

  • 12 Jan

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    Bradley Cooper is Word [Thursday One Sheet]

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    Tomorrow’s regular post is already set to go (and it’s a good one), so I thought I’d jump the gun a bit and post a taste of first time directors’ Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal’s film The Words. I’m pretty sure this sort of design has been done before, but I can’t recall one quite as classy or eye-catching. So first time film makers they may be, but from a marketing standpoint, it looks good so far.

    Furthering my interest, the movie also boasts a really nice cast. Obviously Bradley Cooper; but also Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes, John Hannah and J.K. Simmons.

    I don’t know much about the movie’s plot yet. It has something to do with strong consequences for plagiarism and how our use of words defines us especially when they are not your own. Now to me, this poster gives off a bit of a sci-fi (sort of an The Adjustment Bureau) feel for some reason. No reason to think that will be part of the story, but I like the style/vibe.

     

  • 23 Dec

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    Merry Christmas from the Friday One Sheet Featurette

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    Ho. Ho. Ho.

  • 16 Dec

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    Friday One Sheet: Boys Will Be Boys

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    OK, I know nothing about this film other than that tagline with that image in combination is somehow highly amusing. It’s been a busy week in One Sheets, but this is the stand out for me.

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  • 02 Dec

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    Friday One Sheet: Inception in the Woods

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    Whoa. Despite the litany of delays to Joss Whedon’s (self-aware?) horror film, The Cabin in The Woods, getting a release – It was originally to drop into theatres on February, 2010 before being pushed to January 2011 before settling on April of 2012 – I remain very keen on seeing the darn thing. This rather weird poster just fuels that fire.

  • 25 Nov

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    Friday One Sheet: Alternate Movie History Poster Designs

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    Taking a break from the plethora of minimalist poster designs that seem to be the most popular trend in niche key art on the internet. Here is something completely different. Using retro poster designs and ‘alternate universe casting’ for various film properties – what if Ghostbusters was a Hammer Horror picture? What would Akira Kurosawa’s 2001: A Space Odyssey look like? What if Calvin and Hobbes was written at the turn of the century and adapted into a feature film in the the early 1930s (by King Vidor no less.) It takes a precise cocktail of geek properties and film history to appreciate exactly what Sean Hartter is doing with this growing collection of posters. It’s fun to expand the images and behold all the production design and directing credits, the attention to detail and often esoteric choices are pretty impressive beyond the graphic design work.

    Hat tip to neatorama.com

    A few more choice examples are tucked under the seat.

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  • 18 Nov

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    Friday One Sheet: Ghana take on Tom Cruise = Pudgy

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    It is fun to see how big Hollywood blockbusters are marketed around the world, and this series of hand-drawn posters from Ghana, are not sanctioned by the big American Corporations running the movie business, yet are insightful in how the particular artists sees the product. I am not even sure if that scene is in the Brian DePalma Mission Impossible; it looks a lot more like a scene from the John Woo sequel. The MI:2 poster has Tom Cruise looking like Corey Feldman. Click for lots more of these.

  • 11 Nov

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    Friday One Sheet: Stout on Carpenter

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    We like Mondo Tees Poster designer Tyler Stout quite a bit around these parts, and his latest One Sheet, for John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13, is pretty fantastic.

  • 28 Oct

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    Friday One Sheet: The Innkeepers

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    Happy Halloween Edition. Here is the just-released-yesterday one sheet for The Innkeepers. Note that the keys are the village behind the foregrounded in. Sorry about the Entertainment Weekly watermark (Shame on you, EW).

    I will say one thing, Ti West has a knack for getting quality Key Art to match his quality films. Don’t take my word for it, check out lots more Ti West poster goodness tucked under the seat.
     
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  • 14 Oct

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    Friday Onesheet: Polish Tarantino

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    While the Polish-style of making movie posters is legendary for its surreal, often non-sequitur, weirdness, this is not always the case. As with this wonderfully minimalist one sheet for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill. An abridged version of the credit block makes up the Hanzo sword on the yellow background reminiscent of The Bride’s homage to Bruce Lee at the end of Kill Bill Part 1.

    This is a store that sells all kinds of polish posters here if you are interested in browsing where you will see that the countries particular brand of key art creation is not simply based on strange, there is lots of interesting and accessible stuff in there to balance out the crazy.

    Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs one-sheets are tucked under the seat.

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