Tag: fridayonesheet
Friday One Sheet: RELAPSE
Sometimes, all you need for an effective piece of key art is a well lit photo and a generous bit of negative space. Frost Foundry's poster for Paul Boyd's live-streaming drug addiction rock and roll drama, Relapse, is just that....
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Friday One Sheet: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER
Seizing on the final 'set-piece' of Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another, French designer Melanie Danna created this alternate poster for the film, with the title text highlighting the 'bumps in the road', as it were. Also note the...
Friday One Sheet: CRIME 101
After the opening credits and marketing from HBO's True Detective, the silhouette/landscape design trope became fairly ubiquitous in movie posters. Noteworthy that the key art for Denis Villeneuve's criminally under seen Enemy kind of got there first. I am generally...
Friday One Sheet: BUGONIA
Have we featured key art from pretty much every Yorgos Lanthimos film since this column's inception? Probably. The work of designer Vasilis Marmatakis is always striking, and his inclination towards verticality always captures my attention. For Bugonia, a loose remake...
Friday One Sheet: AMONG THE PINES (DANS LES PINS)
Debuting this week in the short-film competition at Montreal's Festival Du Nouveau Cinéma, is a film from ScreenAnarchy's own Canadian Editor, Shelagh Rowan-Legg. Dans Les Pins plays out via letters read aloud, in which a young woman tells of her job at...
Friday One Sheet: EUROPE'S NEW FACES
A smoking vessel on an open sea. A literal and metaphoric image dominates the key art for Sam Abbas' documentary, Europe's New Faces, or "An observation of the migrant experience: From crossing the Mediterranean Sea to settling in Paris-based squats."...
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Friday One Sheet: UNDER THE SAME SUN
A round hug of a one sheet, for Ulises Porra's historical drama, Under The Same Sun uses the title and credit block, above the line and below the line, to form a circle around its multi-racial trio. A young Spanish...
Friday One Sheet: DEAR STRANGER
Simple line art, or is there more? The key art for Tetsuya Mariko's New York City-set drama, Dear Stranger, has a few interesting textural things going on beyond its doodle-in-the-margin first glance. First is the subtle texture, like a badly...
Friday One Sheet: LILLY LIVES ALONE
Did I choose this poster this week purely for the way the stem of the lily here threads the O in the typesetting? Well, not quite. The Gothic Romance and horror (coded with a black background and red text) vibes are...
Friday One Sheet: MY SUNSHINE
I am feeling whimsical in the back half of summer, and this simple design for Hiroshi Okuyama's nostalgic love story, My Sunshine, is doing the trick. Normally the Koreans excel at this kind of design, where there is little fuss...
Friday One Sheet: THE ROWS
Minimal in design, but high in communication, Anell Samardzic's teaser design for indie horror The Rows, with only two colours (minus the textured matte-ing and the title card) and no shading gets a lot done in a prosaic fashion. At a...
Friday One Sheet: BLUE SUN PALACE
This Spanish poster for Blue Sun Palace has a beautiful verticality to it. The lead character is framed by a long window, with lines of hazy light coming through the vertical blinds. Hanging pendant lights drop down from the top of...
Friday One Sheet: BROKEN VOICES
The key art for Czech film, Broken Voices, is a welcome reminder to designers that a well lit, perfectly F-stopped photo is often the best way to make a movie poster. In warm hues of browns, creams, and red, a...
Friday One Sheet: RELAY
With some retro 1980s styling, and featuring analog technology as the off-centre focal point, the poster for David MacKenzie's tradecraft-laden whistle-blowing corporate thriller, Relay, displays like a nod to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, and a print advertisement for...
Friday One Sheet: 28 YEARS LATER...
Skulls, and sunflowers, and Pantone Red, oh my! One thing that has been remarkably consistent with 28 xxx Later franchise has been this particular shade of distressed red in their posters. Here, a poster that seems to be highlighting the...
Friday One Sheet: M3GAN 2.0
Leaning hard into a magenta, back-lit, pop-star aesthetic, LA's design for the sequel to surprise horror hit M3GAN, has the most elegant alliteration tagline of the year, "Miss Me?" This could easily be a super hero or action movie poster, but that it...
Friday One Sheet: HIGHEST 2 LOWEST
Give me a dominant colour, some architectural symmetry and a stylized title, and I am a happy boy. This cool blue teaser poster for the new Spike Lee Joint, Highest 2 Lowest, a remake of Akira Kurosawa's classic (and my...
Friday One Sheet: TOGETHER
There is close, and there is uncomfortably close. Perhaps there needs to be a third category, given the proximity of eyeballs in this poster for Together. Neon Pictures' head of design, Bianca Moran Parkes, has probably crafted the most disturbing...
