Movie posters are usually meant to give audiences a glimpse of what a film is actually about. But in Ghana, a completely different and wonderfully imaginative tradition took shape – one where ...
Movie posters aren’t just advertisements slapped together to fill theater lobbies. They’re mini works of art that capture the essence of a film in a single image, and when done right, they become just ...
In the 1980s and ‘90s, a vibrant new art form proliferated in Ghana: Kung Fu movie posters painted by self-taught artists on recycled flour sacks. China’s biggest action stars rendered in this folk ...
LONDON — An oversized infant sucks at a cow’s udder while a snake-woman floats overhead. A naked, bloodied man is tied to a cross as the stump of his left foot stands up on its own, and a headless man ...
Drew Struzan, the renowned artist whose iconic, hand-illustrated posters captured the crackling essence of classic movies stretching from "Star Wars" to "Harry Potter" and adorned the walls of every ...
The festival says it is "committed to building a bridge between filmmakers and audiences," calling the event during its 15th edition this month "a gift" to the Chinese animation industry and fans. By ...
The Hollywood Reporter went inside the showcase of 150 posters, hand-painted by director Yang Yu, aka Jiaozi, to get a firsthand sense of the passion that the $2 billion-plus movie hit has ignited in ...
"Now Playing is a magnificently illustrated book that opens a door to another time. Dramatic artwork and detailed text tell the groundbreaking story of hand-painted movie posters commissioned by the ...
(Illustration by Stephanie Jones / For The Times; photos from Focus Features; NEON; Warner Bros. Pictures) Both an advertisement and a piece of art, the modern movie poster may be the industry’s most ...