The Blood in the Snow Film Festival gets underway this evening at the Yonge & Dundas Cineplex Theatre. Leading off the festival is a documentary that has been on my radar since its beginning, 24×36 – a movie about movie posters. As anyone who has followed the blog knows, I, like a number of my…
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James Bond: 50 Years of Movie Posters (2015) – Alastair Dougall
I love movie posters as much as I love movies, and as far back as I can remember, I can recall cutting black and white facsimiles of posters from newspapers and taping them to my wall, until I was able to start buying them (or bringing them home from work – a bonus of having…
The Death of the Movie Poster as Art
The art form that is the theatrical movie poster is dying. This isn’t one of those “when I was a kid” stories, it’s a legitimate claim. Now, yes, it’s true I’m going to be talking about movies from my youth and even before my birth, but they’re being used to illustrate the point, not indicate…
The Mind Reels 