Tag: keyart
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: TRAIN DREAMS
Here is a lovely hand-drawn poster from design house Grandson, and artist Sally Deng, for Clint Bentley's Train Dreams, which illustrates one of the films central images: work boots nailed to a tree, a potent visual metaphor for the manifest destiny...
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: SHE LOVED BLOSSOMS MORE
The poster for Greek horror science-fiction hazy tale of unexplored grief, She Loved Blossoms More, has worthy-weird poster, with slime-green text, and a textured background of dried and oxidized blood. And of course, the key and central image of the...
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: NOVIEMBRE
27 Hours, 1 Bathroom. 25 Hostages. This festival poster for Tomás Corredor's Noviembre (November) lists the real-life hostages vertically above the catchy tagline. A highly-dramatized account of Colombia's nation-tramautizing 1985 siege and hostage situation at the country's Palace of Justice, the key art...
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: KEEPER
Director Osgood Perkins has been on a creative and productive streak. It is almost a year to the day that Longlegs was released, and he has two more features under his belt: The Monkey from earlier this year, and the forthcoming "Dark Trip"...
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...
