Above: US one sheet for Epicentro. Design by Sam Smith.Recently I had the pleasure once again of working with one of my favorite movie poster designers: Sam Smith (a.k.a. Sam’s Myth). In my capacity as Design Director of Zeitgeist Films and now Kino Lorber we have worked together in the past on posters for Elena and The Mountain. Granted, Sam does all the work; as art director I just steer him in the right direction. This was especially true of our latest poster collaboration, for Kino Lorber’s new documentary Epicentro which opens in virtual cinemas today. Directed by Hubert Sauper (Darwin’s Nightmare), Epicentro is a beautiful cine-essay about post-colonial Cuba and so it was a no-brainer to play off one of the greatest design sources in the world: the screen printed movie posters of post-revolutionary Cuba produced by Icaic—the Cuban Institute of Cinemagraphic...
- 8/26/2020
- MUBI
"With regard to longevity and productivity, not to mention talent, the only peers of the great Spanish director Luis Buñuel (1900–83) are his contemporaries Fritz Lang and Alfred Hitchcock," writes J Hoberman, opening a review of Román Gubern and Paul Hammond's Luis Buñuel: The Red Years 1929-1939 for the Nation. Read of the day, obviously.
More reading. Carlos Saura on the five films that have most influenced his own work (via Criterion Cast).
Ed Howard on four shorts by Maurice Pialat.
Pat Jordan for the New York Times Magazine on "How Samuel L Jackson Became His Own Genre."
For the Wall Street Journal, John Jurgensen talks with Sissy Spacek about her forthcoming memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life (via Movie City News).
In Reverse Shot, David Ehrlich argues that Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) is "a vital (if imperfect) chapter of this beloved saga, as...
More reading. Carlos Saura on the five films that have most influenced his own work (via Criterion Cast).
Ed Howard on four shorts by Maurice Pialat.
Pat Jordan for the New York Times Magazine on "How Samuel L Jackson Became His Own Genre."
For the Wall Street Journal, John Jurgensen talks with Sissy Spacek about her forthcoming memoir, My Extraordinary Ordinary Life (via Movie City News).
In Reverse Shot, David Ehrlich argues that Spielberg's Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) is "a vital (if imperfect) chapter of this beloved saga, as...
- 4/27/2012
- MUBI
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