Back in November, after having written Movie Poster of the Week for almost three years, I decided to start a Tumblr as a place to display all those orphan posters I loved: the ones I couldn’t find all that much to say about, that didn’t fit any current trend or personal train of thought but which needed to be seen. It seemed natural to call it Movie Poster of the Day and so I decided I would try to post just one single poster a day, ideally something unfamiliar yet worthy of attention. In February, Flavorpill declared Movie Poster of the Day one of the “Essential Tumblrs for film fans” which persuaded me it was worth continuing and over the past eight months I have somehow managed to post something every single day. In the process I seem to have amassed over 15,000 followers on Tumblr.
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- 7/6/2012
- MUBI
As a sidebar to the New York Film Festival, the Film Society of Lincoln Center is currently running a retrospective of the great and underappreciated Japanese New Wave director Masahiro Shinoda. As an addendum to last week’s collection of posters from the festival (which I have since updated) I thought I’d collect the best Shinoda posters I could find. For some time I’ve been meaning to write about the superb Japanese designer Kiyoshi Awazu, who died last year at the age of 80. His poster, above, for Shinoda’s Himiko (1974) is a stunner, and one I would love to see full size (the better to see those tiny figures at the bottom). Awazu also designed the poster for Shinoda’s Double Suicide (1969) below, another favorite of mine (and the film itself is unmissable). Next to that is a terrific Polish poster for Shinoda’s Gonza the Spearman (1986) which...
- 10/1/2010
- MUBI
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