Poster Kids

I love movie posters. I'm moving in July, and am thinking about decorating my new place with some. Once you've looked at enough movie posters, you realize how unexciting most of them are, which is why the innovative ones stick out. There are the lyrical ones, almost like pieces of art:


The Virgin Suicides

Volver

Picnic at Hanging Rock


Then there are the great taglines (who doesn't remember "Garbo laughs" from Ninotchka?) Not to mention:

Shampoo

The Graduate This one says it all.



Badlands The text is probably too small to read here; it begins, "He was 25 years old. He combed his hair like James Dean" and ends "In 1959, she watched while he killed a lot of people." Like a great short story.


Intriguing/mysterious favorites.




Bubble I haven't yet seen this Steven Soderbergh flick, but the creepy/cool poster makes me want to.

Rosemary's Baby Love the overlay of Mia Farrow's face and the baby carriage. It's creepy but just creepy enough, which is more than I can say for The Tenant, whose tagline is "No one does it to you like Roman Polanski." (Questionable in so many ways.)


And these are just unexpected and cool from a design perspective:

The Life Aquatic

Dancer in the Dark The eye chart theme is clever and ties in well with the main character Selma's blindess.




Fargo Hilarious. Homespun homicide.



Love in the Afternoon This one's a Saul Bass special (one of my favorites -- he also designed the posters for Vertigo, West Side Story, Anatomy of a Murder, Bonjour Tristesse, and more. As well as many famous credit sequences - oh man, he's the best.)