“There was a time when photoshop disasters didn’t exist.”
Guns. Swords. Paint. Old time Japanese movie posters at Wild Grounds “because there was a time when photoshop disasters didn’t exist.”
“Wong Fei-Hung and the Lantern Festival Disturbance”
Wong Fei-Hung defeats three bullies with a rod (not a gat), deals with the Lantern Festival Disturbance and wins a victory at the Sipai Lou in these 1950s film posters.
Bond, Jane Bond
Back in the day, HK studios assumed films with male leads couldn’t cut it in the theaters. So during the 1960s spy era, Hong Kong had Jane Bond films featuring masked spies in catsuits way before Maggie Cheung in Irma Vep. TarsTarkas gathers the resources all in one […]
Don’t Open the Forbidden Door
You really don’t want to open the forbidden door, but it couldn’t hurt to peek at the trailer, stills and poster for Joko Anwar’s Forbidden Door / Pintu Terlarang. (new working link).
¡Los Monstruos Resucitados!
¡Los monstruos resucitados! or at least monsters live again in Destroy All Monstruos’ gallery of Mexican movie posters.
A SHOUT GLUED TO A WALL
At one point in the essay that introduces ¡Mas! Cine Mexicano, Sensational Mexican Movie Posters 1957-1990, author Rogelio Agrasánchez, Jr. quotes philosopher and art critic Eugenio d’Ors, who called movie posters “a shout glued to a wall.” As someone who works in advertising, it’s an appealing metaphor. As […]
The Cultural Gutter 