ART WE LIKE: Foreign Movie Posters

ART WE LIKE is a weekly column where we, Dan and Vince, present art that doesn't suck.

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In keeping with last weeks post, we figured we'd pay homage to some cool movie posters. But not American Posters, not since Drew Struzan stopped being Hollywood's go-to guy. Sorry, guy-from-the-Sonic-commercials but I'd stick to what you know best, which is eating food and talking about eating food. Making posters, not really your thing.

In fact as I write this, Catherine Deneuve is staring down on me from a Belle de Jour poster. And no, not the lame Photoshop 101 American poster- a very cool Japanese version- okay, a reporduction of a very cool Japanese one, but still...

Click around here or here or here. You'll see some cool stuff. One of Vince's favorites is this Hans Hillman poster for The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz, where the poster itself manages to be surreal.

Some of these are really cool. However, sometimes foreign posters are crazy. Like did you know that One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is actually a sequel to the Shining? Well in Turkey it is!


Anyway, for more odd- just plain wrong (but still better than American) foreign movie posters go over to Cracked.com.

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Dan

Post-post wrap up: I think this post was pretty good. I probably could have included more actual images of the posters I was talking about, but whatever- I'm lazy. Also, I had a really hard time finding a copy of the Belle de Jour poster I have. God, so lazy... Oh, and I'm really worried that 'foreign movie posters' sounds like posters for foreign films, which isn't really what I'm talking about. It's the posters themselves that are foreign. I don't know, I give this post like a 4/10.