Fritz Lang was born on this day 125 years ago and, to celebrate, Matthew Thrift has drawn up a list of "10 essential films" for the BFI. Also in today's roundup: Claude Chabrol's episodes for the 1980 television series Fantômas, the Chiseler on William Dieterle, Eddie Cantor and Houseley Stevenson, Yorgos Lanthimos on Nikos Papatakis's The Shepherds of Calamity, a wide-ranging interview with D.A. Pennebaker, John Waters on Christmas, a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964), David Lynch and Ringo Starr on music and meditation, video essays on Luis Buñuel, remembering Robert Loggia—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2015
- Keyframe
Fritz Lang was born on this day 125 years ago and, to celebrate, Matthew Thrift has drawn up a list of "10 essential films" for the BFI. Also in today's roundup: Claude Chabrol's episodes for the 1980 television series Fantômas, the Chiseler on William Dieterle, Eddie Cantor and Houseley Stevenson, Yorgos Lanthimos on Nikos Papatakis's The Shepherds of Calamity, a wide-ranging interview with D.A. Pennebaker, John Waters on Christmas, a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's A Married Woman (1964), David Lynch and Ringo Starr on music and meditation, video essays on Luis Buñuel, remembering Robert Loggia—and more. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
This bold, strange poster for Georges Franju’s 1974 Nuits rouges is one of my all-time favorites, one I’d love to own, though I haven’t seen the film itself. There is something very contemporary (or at least end of last century) about its simple Helvetica tagline announcing “Le Nouveau Franju” and more especially its grid system credit block, also in Helvetica (which reminds me of Spiritualized’s 1997 CD, or the 1996 Trainspotting campaign). The letterman jacket typeface for the title is a bit of an anomaly, but the red letters nicely echo the stunning red mask looming over what at first glance seems to be a cityscape but which turns out to be a pile of crates.
I can’t decipher the artist’s name on the poster (running up the side of one of the crates) so if anyone recognizes it I’d love to know what it is.
I can’t decipher the artist’s name on the poster (running up the side of one of the crates) so if anyone recognizes it I’d love to know what it is.
- 6/22/2012
- MUBI
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