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Friday One Sheet: SITGES #56
It cannot pass without mentioning how much the design team for the Sitges Film Festival, or rather, Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya, simply aced the key art this year. On a creamy white field (the similar colour of an...
Fantastic Fest 2023 Preview: Too Many Great Flicks to Count
Leaves are falling and there's a mild chill in the air. It's Fall Fest Season and that means Fantastic Fest! It's a big year for new genre flicks and some of the best will be playing in Austin from September...
Sound And Vision: Kristian Levring
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Oh Land's Love You Better, directed by Kristian Levring. The music video of this week's Sound...
Friday One Sheet: LIMBO
The pull quotes filling the open sky here say as much about the film as they do about Australian Carnival Studio's design ethos for the film's key art. Ivan Sen's striking, monochrome new cold case, outback noir Limbo is a...
Sound And Vision: Marco Brambilla
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Kanye West's Power, directed by Marco Brambilla. Marco Brambilla is a curious director, in that...
Friday One Sheet: RIDDLE OF FIRE
The "Coolest debut from Cannes," according to AnOther Magazine, the poster for American indie cult-film-to-be, Riddle Of Fire, exudes rural middleschool cool. The key art is awash in warm peachy tones and early 70s pre-Amblin 'latch-key kids' vibes. Note the mushrooms and...
Sound And Vision: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at The Red Hot Chilli Peppers' Otherside and The Smashing Pumpkins' Tonight, Tonight by Jonathan Dayton and...
Friday One Sheet: POOR THINGS
Welcome to the wonderful world of Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind one of my favourite posters of the past decade, an earlier Yorgos Lanthimos film, The Killing of A Sacred Deer, with its immense verticality, and...
Pretty Packaging: Criterion's PASOLINI 101 Boxset Pulls No Punches
A lavish boxset full of Italian films, many of which have caused controversy and scandal? What, is this article about Severin's Black Emanuelle boxset again? Nope. A BIG nope. This set comes from Criterion, and contains the first nine films...
Sound And Vision: Sam Taylor-Johnson
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at R.E.M's ÜBerlin, directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Ostensibly, this edition of Sound and Vision will be about...
Sound And Vision: Claude Lelouch
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a look at Françoise Hardy's Tous les Garçons et les Filles, directed by Claude Lelouch. I have to admit...
Friday One Sheet: ROTTING IN THE SUN
Sex and death. Eros and Thanatos. A corpse with an erection being consumed on a beach. The latest queer comedy from Sebastián Silva (director of the criminally underrated Magic Magic) gets this lovely hand painted poster (if you zoom in...
Sound And Vision: William Friedkin
In the article series Sound and Vision we talk about music videos from notable directors. This week we look at Laura Branigan's Self Control, directed by William Friedkin. Last week director William Friedkin passed away. The luminary behind such classics...
Pretty Packaging: The Sensual Boxset Of BLACK EMANUELLE
If you are a Blu-ray collector, US-based distributor Severin is worth keeping tabs on, as their releases tend to be interesting, with many films getting proper treatment and great extras. Their boxset dedicated to folk-horror films is rightly the stuff...
Friday One Sheet: CREATURA
The 'polaroid' style one-sheet is a particular favourite of mine. As you can see below for Elena Martín's Cannes fêted Creatura, it allows room for pull quotes at the top, a well-kerned title below the image, and an ample credit block that...
Sound And Vision: Jeremy Blake & Theresa Duncan
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we take a different direction, looking into the stories of artists Jeremy Blake and Theresa Duncan. The Sound and Vision this...
Friday One Sheet: HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
This Jack Davis-inspired poster for Hundreds of Beavers may or may not have the literal "hundreds" on display; you can count, if you like. Either way, it gives the sense of scale and tone of the film's climactic finale. Illustrated...
Hey New York! Jean Grémillon x2 4K Restoration at Metrograph
'Lady Killer' and 'The Strange Mister Victor,' beautifully restored in 4K, will have exclusive two-week theatrical runs.
Now Streaming: TO END ALL WAR: OPPENHEIMER AND THE ATOMIC BOMB, THE DAY AFTER TRINITY, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY, MANHATTAN
Plus: 'The Atomic Cafe' on VOD, as Criterion Channel, Peacock, Tubi and AMC+ offer multiple perspectives on the atomic age.
Call Me Maybe: Hideo Nakata's RINGU Turns 25
A curse that infects people like a virus; a ghostly girl apparition with long hair — we owe these iconic J-horror images, and many other elements that are now the scary starter kit, to the creators of Ring (orig. Ringu). This year...
