I can’t help myself. I’m really loving the over-the-topness (it’s a word now damn it!) of Steven Soderbergh’s upcoming The Informant! starring Matt Damon. This one sheet, via Empire (who have a slightly bigger version), is no exception.
And if you haven’t seen it yet, be sure to check out the great trailer for the Doctor’s film.
Earlier this year local Browcoats were abuzz. Joss Whedon was in town with a new project titled The Cabin in the Woods. The title certainly suggests something but with Whedon behind the pen, it was pretty certain that this wasn’t going to be your typical horror movie and the release of three one sheets for the film cement that notion.
These are kind of fun no?
What we’ve been reading – July 6th through July 7th:
All the pretty new posters for Quentin Tarantino's latest. Magnificent.
Grady Hendrix gives the lowdown that folks in China like their films as big, dumb and homegrown as the good Ol' US of A.
A huge list of celebrities you can follow on Twitter. There are some worth following here.
Either I didn’t take enough drugs this morning or the poster designer took too many before opening Photoshop and working on this poster for Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock. I understand you’re trying to channel the 60s but is the tie-die mess really necessary? The design itself isn’t so bad (reminiscent of the cool concert posters that now sell for thousands on e-Bay plus I like the folded look) but the colours…it’s a little too psychedelic for me. Add in the fact that I wasn’t particularly impressed by the trailer and you’ve got a movie that I’m going to to forget until the day before it opens. I will say one thing for it, at least it looks like the designer was proficient in Photoshop unlike the dude that designed Richard Kelly’s The Box poster; I could have done better with one eye closed.
You may want to cloud the room with a little smoke before looking at this thing that Kurt found via Rolling Stone.
Everything I’ve seen thus far from Spike Jonze‘s adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are has been first rate. And this new one sheet continues the trend of quality, capturing a great deal of the spirit of the original book with a pretty solid tagline and great framing of the image. MOJO LLC did the poster work (they also did the great one sheets for Brick, Zodiac, Burn after Reading, Watchmen and the magnificent design for David Chapelle’s Block Party).
via IMP Awards.
I sometimes look at my eggshell white walls and wish that I had more time to search out cool movie posters. Yes, there are lots out there and occasionally we’ve devolved into posting pictures of some of the best but for one reason or another, I never manage to actually go shopping. Here’s another one to add to the list of “posters Marina wants on her wall.” It’s the one sheet for Gary Hustwit’s upcoming documentary on industrial design Objectified. It’s a metallic and black lithograph that will be available for purchase from the film’s shop in the coming weeks.
Not to promote breaking the law or anything but if you happen to be at SXSW and see one of these on a wall, I’ll be owing you big if you can snag it for me, just don’t get caught!
It’s the Spanish one sheet for Almodóvar’s new film Los Abrazos Rotos staring the gorgeous Oscar winning Penélope Cruz. This should tide Andrew over until the film picks up some legs and the North American media frenzy begins. That is all. For now.
We tend to fetishize on movie one-sheets around this site often enough. We like looking at them and we like posting them. Of course there are fabulous dedicated sites to this, my favourite being Movie Poster Addict, a site I should be visiting more often. That way, when something like this little music video is showcased there, we would not be a week late posting it.
The video is pretty simple in terms of structure, it really is only flash-style animated zooms; but the amount of work that went into taking dozens of classic movie posters and re-inventing each of them as a star-vehicle for “a mod cartoon secret agent heroine, part Modesty Blaise, part Diabolik, part Daphne from Scooby Doo” is pretty staggering and pretty sweet.
I would watch “A Girl Called Trouble” movie, which (in my mind) would combine those three properties as a far more savvy reboot of Charlie’s Angels merged with Breakfast at Tiffany’s.
Enjoy.
A new one sheet offers the iconic image of Benicio del Toro as the Argentine doctor turned revolutionary and gives the split-in-two release dates of January, February 2009.
The tagline however, “Everyone Knows the Icon, Few Know the Man” is an interesting marketing fabrication. I managed to catch both parts in a screening at the Toronto International Film Festival, and personally I didn’t think it gave all that much about the personal life of Ernesto Guevara. It was more how he was an interlocking piece into the ecosystem of revolution in Cuba and South America at the time. The film is more a Revolution 101 piece than a traditional biopic. And this is a good thing. I happy that Steven Soderbergh took an HBO’s The Wire approach rather than the Walk the Line approach. Things are far more analytical and detached viewing here than the warm and fuzzy emotional approach which would have been an uphill battle considering the polarized opinions of history and myth.
It is very much worth seeing both parts when they arrive in the cinema on as big of a screen that is possible. Seeing them together I do not believe is critical, as they are quite separate films. A very, very good piece of cinema that has the added bonus of showing of the new “Red” HD camera system. The cinematography looks ‘alien’ yet amazing – A similar effect as when I saw Michael Mann‘s Collateral for the first time.
Retro-futuristic and monochrome, this One Sheet for the upcoming William Gibson novel adaptation is a head turner. Yes, it looks more like a novel cover than movie marketing materials, but since it immediately is reminiscent of the body-horror pics of Shinya Tsukamoto, well, that is a fine thing!
Have to agree with the Quiet Earth boys, and Todd over at Twitch in that this one falls into the ‘unfilmable’ category. I love the novel, but still could not adequately envision many scenes in my head (even after multiple readings). And Hayden Christensen in the lead? I weep. Best of luck to first time feature director Joseph Kahn.
…Or rather the photographer who took this famous wallpaper still of Ms. Jolie enjoying a little of her own ‘precious bodily fluids.’ I know that marketing stuff goes in trends, just look at all the recent riffs on the fabulous Naomi Watts crying in the Funny Games Poster (used in The Strangers (see here), and All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (see here)), and it is not really a big deal, but wow with the goth-y chicks-lick-blood in the popular culture at the moment, see below. (And yes, that is Rose McGowan as the lithe re-envisioning of campy Red Sonja, that only in this day and age would get the are-they-serious looking (read: humourless) treatment rather than the Barbarella-esque romp that the original one was.
Not to put all the blame (or originality) on Angelina Jolie’s PR/marketing efforts, and although I seem to be alone on this, the less-atrocious poster for Wanted was inspired by the sublime poster for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.
What can I say, I like Japanese One Sheets, and the ‘image editor’ aesthetic of this one strikes my fancy. It reminds me a lot of a vintage old Canadian horror flick (staring a one-two punch of hammy Canucks, Michael Ironside and William Shatner), Visiting Hours which did a similar motif, yet the ‘digitized aspect’ was done with hospital windows (That one sheet is tucked under the seat)
(While Blindness (Row Three Review) was not a hit at Cannes, I remain excited at the prospect of seeing it this fall.)
