Showing posts with label movie posters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie posters. Show all posts

Friday, September 28, 2012

New York Film Festival Posters

Roy Lichtenstein

On the occasion of the 50th New York Film Festival kicking off this week, I’ve rounded up posters that had been commissioned for the annual Lincoln Center event. As I did not have access to an archive, I was only able to locate images for roughly half. The 1962 poster for the first NYFF, below, was by Larry Rivers. He was the first of a long roster of art stars to undertake the assignment. Notably absent, (from those I found, at least) were Peter Max and Milton Glaser. 

Larry Rivers


Saul Bass


Bruce Connor


Andy Warhol


Henry Pearson


Marisol Escobar


James Rosenquist


Frank Stella


Josef Albers


Niki de Saint-Phalle


Jean Tinguely


Allan D'Arcangelo


Jim Dine


Les Levine


David Hockney


Robert Rauschenberg


Tom Wesselmann


Sol Lewitt



William Wegman



Sheila Jeffrey Metzner





Chermayeff & Geismar



Julian Schnabel


Mary Ellen Mark



Robert Cottingham


Gregory Crewdson


Thursday, March 24, 2011

Vintage Liz: International Film Posters

Cleopatra
1963 (Hungary)


A Place in the Sun
1951 (Germany)


Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 (Sweden)


Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1966 (Czechoslovakia)


Giant, 1956


The Sandpiper
1965 ( Japan)


BUtterfield 8
1960 (France)


National Velvet
1944 (Sweden)


The V.I.P.s
1963 (France)



SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER 1959
France

Italy

Germany

This poster has the film title in French and Dutch. A reader suggests that it is from Belgium.

NOTES: Links are to IMDb film information. Date is year of the movie, not the poster.
Poster Sources: Movie Goods, Listal

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Dynamic Duotones

Rosemary’s baby, 1968

A while back, when my research of the Funny Girl logo landed me in the world of vintage movie posters, I was struck by the prevalent use of duotone in posters of the late 1960s and early 1970s. I don’t quite know what the reason was for the trend--there were four-color posters as far back as Birth of a Nation. And it wasn’t just for low-budget movies with lines like “Leaves nothing to the imagination” (Negatives) and ”She uses men like pep-up pills” (Stolen Hours). The poster for Bergman’s Persona was duotone, as was the one for Rosemary’s Baby.
I’m thinking it had something to do with the transition from illustration to photography, as the artwork of preference, but I’d be very interested to find out the real reason, from some one out there in-the-know.

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, 1971

The Rain People, 1969

Persona, 1966

The Wild Bunch, 1969

Bullitt, 1968

Hombre, 1967; Harry Figg, 1968

Rabbit Run, 1970


Klute, 1971

A Walk with Love and Death, 1969; Because of the Cats, 1973

Stolen Hours, 1963; Negatives, 1968


Funny Girl, 1968; The Loves of Isadora, 1969


The Love Doctors, 1969

Darling, 1965
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