1. The AssassinThough it doesn’t always follow, the most beautiful film of the year should have the most beautiful poster, and Erik Buckham does Hou Hsiao-hsien right with this gorgeous piece. What looks at first like a combination of photography and illustration is in fact entirely taken from images from the film. Buckham told me “I didn’t want to use any imagery in the poster that did not come from the film itself, so everything you see is taken from screen grabs and some on-set photography.” What I always thought were stylized clouds surrounding Shu Qi are actually elements from an embossed picture of a rooster on a lacquered vase or some similar object. As Buckham confided, “I liked the look of the lines so I cropped in super close and played around with lighting and layer effects to blend it in with the background imagery. It was...
- 12/6/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
1. The AssassinThough it doesn’t always follow, the most beautiful film of the year should have the most beautiful poster, and Erik Buckham does Hou Hsiao-hsien right with this gorgeous piece. What looks at first like a combination of photography and illustration is in fact entirely taken from images from the film. Buckham told me “I didn’t want to use any imagery in the poster that did not come from the film itself, so everything you see is taken from screen grabs and some on-set photography.” What I always thought were stylized clouds surrounding Shu Qi are actually elements from an embossed picture of a rooster on a lacquered vase or some similar object. As Buckham confided, “I liked the look of the lines so I cropped in super close and played around with lighting and layer effects to blend it in with the background imagery. It was...
- 12/6/2015
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
A new one-sheet by artists Erik Buckham and Jesse Vital has arrived for the debut feature from Ted Geoghegan, entitled We Are Still Here, via Entertainment Weekly; and we really dig it. Will you? Forever goddess Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator, You’re… Continue Reading →
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- 3/10/2015
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
1. Nebraska
It’s simplicity itself, but it’s also perfection. A vertical portrait in rich black and bright white, the poster complements Alexander Payne’s widescreen, greyscale road trip rather than trying to emulate it. Bruce Dern’s Woody Grant—whose grizzled outline, with its shock of white hair like a wheat field on fire, is all we see—is a man in his twilight years, a man fading away. An enigma even to his family, his silhouette looks like a question mark. The poster comes from Blt Communications, the studio responsible for the American Hustle campaign and numerous multi-character big budget assaults on America’s billboards. When I first saw it I assumed it was a teaser that would eventually be superseded by something more conventional, but I’m impressed that Paramount Vantage kept it as their chief campaign. You only have to see the Japanese poster to see...
It’s simplicity itself, but it’s also perfection. A vertical portrait in rich black and bright white, the poster complements Alexander Payne’s widescreen, greyscale road trip rather than trying to emulate it. Bruce Dern’s Woody Grant—whose grizzled outline, with its shock of white hair like a wheat field on fire, is all we see—is a man in his twilight years, a man fading away. An enigma even to his family, his silhouette looks like a question mark. The poster comes from Blt Communications, the studio responsible for the American Hustle campaign and numerous multi-character big budget assaults on America’s billboards. When I first saw it I assumed it was a teaser that would eventually be superseded by something more conventional, but I’m impressed that Paramount Vantage kept it as their chief campaign. You only have to see the Japanese poster to see...
- 12/14/2013
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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