I said ICONIC BILLBOARD !!!!
http://www.movieart.com/ben-hur-1959-20580/ Kirby McDaniel MovieArt Original Film Posters P.O. Box 4419 Austin TX 78765-4419 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com mobile 512 589 5112 On Jun 14, 2013, at 12:48 PM, Simon Oram <fab5fre...@btinternet.com> wrote: > US International 1 sheets, Premiere's and B styles can have some very > imaginative art, posters that spring to mind are: Billy Jack; Get Carter > (Hammersveld);Way Out (1967) and the Otnes' poster for A Fistful of Dollars. > Some very nice US 1 Sheets with artistic license: No Way Out; Fargo; Naked > Lunch and Sullivan's Travels the one sheet that has Lake's face done in brush > strokes by art director Mauric Kallis was so ahead of it's time. > > Simon > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > From: Richard C Evans <evan...@mac.com> > Sender: MoPo List <mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 17:54:16 +0100 > To: <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > ReplyTo: evan...@mac.com > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD > > My impression is that generally speaking French poster art tended to be more > creative/looser. > > Good examples that spring to mind are Les Diaboliques and Lift To The > Scaffold. Think it rarer in US posters that you get something similarly more > abstract or impressionistic like the On The Beach style B. > > Also Bass' work obviously, but not exactly popular with the studios. > > Also benefit from choosing to stick with stone litho far longer, when using > offset was an option long available, and used alongside stone litho. > > Not sure exactly what the reasons were for this, perhaps scale of USA made a > greater case for offset. > > French printers perhaps didn't invest in upgrading the presses. > > But imagine that if literal (photographically accurate) likenesses were more > of a priority in France, stone litho would have died out earlier. > > May be wrong, but that's my impression. > > Though the French weren't as far out there as the Poles. > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 14 Jun 2013, at 08:28, filip de volder <runbuffy...@hotmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi Kirby , since there were tens of thousands of different posters made >> since the beginning of movie posters there's of course a lot of french ones >> that look wrong for sure , but since the topic was on what posters look >> really right french artists soubie and mascii made a lot of wonderful >> créations >> >> Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 11:30:13 -0500 >> From: ki...@movieart.net >> Subject: Re: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> >> Filip et al, >> >> I have to say that there are lots of French posters that look really, really >> wrong as well. >> The Italians are the best at this, and they get it wrong, too. >> >> I think a blind test of illustrations of stars lifted from posters would >> reveal that we often accept >> that an image is so and so because the poster tells us it is so and so. >> >> Other than the economics of the issue, one of the reasons that I'm sure the >> studios were happy to move >> to offset is that they could use photographs of the stars as well as art. >> Photographs would insure a >> higher recognition factor I think. >> >> Kirby McDaniel >> MovieArt Original Film Posters >> P.O. Box 4419 >> Austin TX 78765-4419 >> 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com >> mobile 512 589 5112 >> >> On Jun 13, 2013, at 10:32 AM, filip de volder <runbuffy...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> as for french posters , there's really a lot of them that were done by >> great artists and look really right (though the french Niagara also looks >> terribly wrong ) french artists soubie and mascii were really top ! filip >> >> > Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:44:08 +0200 >> > From: texasmu...@web.de >> > Subject: Re: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD >> > To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> > >> > The first poster that comes to my mind is the french LE MEPRIS: >> > >> > http://www.filmposter.net/movieposters/poster/movie/original/le-mepris-contempt-3/ >> > >> > Helmut >> > >> > Am 13.06.2013 um 15:43 schrieb Kirby McDaniel: >> > >> > > Marilyn's posters - across here entire filmography - often to do not >> > > look like Marilyn. Very few of the illustrations get >> > > it really right. Most of them are Marilyn-like. This is often the case >> > > with film posters. The image of Veronica Lake on THIS GUN FOR HIRE does >> > > not look like >> > > Veronica Lake. Some Blonde is pictured. >> > > >> > > So here's a question for the list - excepting photographs - which >> > > illustrations on film posters really get the image of a star - >> > > doesn't matter which one - REALLY right? >> > > >> > > I point to the Roger Souble portrait of Veronica Lake. There is art that >> > > really captures the look and the essence of the star's appeal. >> > > >> > > K. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Kirby McDaniel >> > > MovieArt Original Film Posters >> > > P.O. Box 4419 >> > > Austin TX 78765-4419 >> > > 512 479 6680 www.movieart.com >> > > mobile 512 589 5112 >> > > >> > > On Jun 13, 2013, at 7:30 AM, Zeev Drach <lobb...@rogers.com> wrote: >> > > >> > >> Gorgeous poster but is it just me or does Marilyn not quite look like >> > >> Marilyn on all posters on this title. >> > >> >> > >> Zeev >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > >> -----Original Message----- >> > >> From: MoPo List [mailto:mopo-l@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirby >> > >> McDaniel >> > >> Sent: June 13, 2013 12:56 AM >> > >> To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU >> > >> Subject: [MOPO] ICONIC BILLBOARD >> > >> >> > >> http://www.movieart.com/niagara-1953-385/ >> > >> >> > >> Kirby McDaniel >> > >> MovieArt Original Film Posters >> > >> P.O. 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