Favourite Movie Posters - Part I

I've recently been posting more movie posters on here so I wanted to feature my favourites over the last few years, which will no doubt over time date way back to the early 1900's. Each post will include 10 posters starting with these below. I've not seen all of the movies listed and the film itself is no reflection on the poster design. Enjoy. Please feel free to comment on any you may like or dislike.

Coen Brothers pays homage to Saul Bass

I've been a massive Coen Brothers fan since their debut movie Blood Simple. New posters of their up and coming movie First After Reading have recently been released and what can I say, wow! It clearly pays homage to the legendary works of Saul Bass who's posters included the likes of Hitchcock's Vertigo, Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm & Anatomy of Murder and Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon to name a few, all of which I've featured below for you to enjoy.

Burn After Reading will hit theaters on September 12th 2008.



If you haven't seen the trailer yet, check it out here.



I've included the mentioned posters which may have inspired Burn After Reading's poster design below, starting with one of the best classics of all time, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo.



This is one of my favourite movie posters, Otto Preminger's Anatomy of Murder.



Otto Preminger's The Man With The Golden Arm.



Billy Wilder's Love in the Afternoon



Another recent movie poster which has been influenced by Saul's unique style was the poster for Before the Devil Know's you're Dead

The art of Eric Tanner

This is the fantastic work of Eric Tanner, a California based illustrater. You can find out more about Eric on his blog, in the mean time i've posted some of his art and some quotes about each piece. His blog can be found at http://erictanart.blogspot.com/

"I finally finished up that Indy piece for Acme Archives. My idea here was to create something that looked as if it came out when the movie took place, circa 1936. I was heavily influenced by Mexican film posters from the 30's & 40's."



"It was quite the honor to get to work on these characters that I've followed since I was a kid. In the end, it became a combination of the stuff I did for Incredibles and them old German film posters."