Günter Grass (left) with actor David Bennent (centre), who played Oskar Matzerath in the film adaptation by director Volker Schlöndorff (right) of Grass’s novel The Tin Drum. Photograph: United Artists/EPA
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No introduction needed to Sergei Eisenstein’s “Ivan the Terrible, pt.I ” (1944) & pt.II (1958). Feast your eyes on these posters from all over the world with different artists, some unknown, and several styles highlighting Nikolai Cherkasov‘s terrifying look.
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Ivan el terrible. Argentinian poster. By Osvaldo Venturi.
Ivan the Terrible. Russian Poster. By M. Dulgach.
Ivan the Terrible. Polish posters. By Franciszek Starowisky
One of my favorite Luis Bunuel films is “Los Olvidados” (1950), starring Alfonso Meja & Roberto Cobo as juvenile delinquents in a Mexico Citythese slum. A lot of posters have been made to market the film, here are my favorites.
In a row, the countries where these posters were made are: Germany – Germany – Argentina – Japan.
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Alain Resnais’ masterpiece “Last Year at Marienbad” (1961) is indeed one of many great works he delivered throughout the years. Along with “Hiroshima mon Amour” (1959), it is surely one of the director’s most known work.
Let us check out how the film got presented, through its posters, in France, Germany, Japan and Poland…
This first image is a poster painted by Ercole Brini (1913-1989), born in Rome, whose work ranges from Rear Window to The Bycicle Thief. His work is characterized by strong brush strokes together with a very distinct water-color style.
This Last Year in Marienbad is one of his distinguished works.
German poster: Letztes Jahr in Marienbad. Illustrated by Hans Hillmann
German poster: Letztes Jahr in Marienbad. Illustrated by Tostmann (no mention of first name)
Japanese poster: Last Year at Marienbad (unknown illustrator)
Polish poster: Last Year at Marienbad. Illustrated by Wiktor Sadowski in 1992.
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Check out Alain Resnais’ concentration camp documentary, shot in 1955 in Poland, “Night & Fog”, here.
Here’s a tribute I found by a very interesting artist named Ralf Ueltzhoeffer. Born in 1966, in Mannheim, Germany, he usually uses typography to create portraits of famous faces, thus using the medium as an art in its own right. His artistic research is dedicated to the relationship of visual and written information in cyberspace in the creation of faces and visual blind spots.
Here’s his 2009 portrait of Hanna Schygulla, the famous German actress.
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In 1939, French actor Jean Gabin began a love affair with German actress Marlene Dietrich. They starred in a film together “Martin Roumagnac”aka “The Room Upstairs” (1946, directed by Georges Lacombe) was not a success and their personal relationship soon ended.
© Here are some photos from their affair. Not a lot of information are available about these images, except that the last one was shot in Los Angeles in 1942. All rights go to the author/photographer.
© Leni Riefenstahl ‘s “Triumph of the Will” (1934), the infamous propaganda documentary representing Hitler’s rally in Nueremberg, Germany.
Racks were laid so that her cameramen could get traveling shots of the crowd. When rough cuts weren’t up to par, major party leaders and high-ranking public officials reenacted their speeches in a studio for her.Riefenstahl also used a film crew that was extravagant by the standards of the day. Her crew consisted of 172 people who also worked on aerial photography.
© This photo stream is dedicated to Vicco von Bülow (1923-2011), the most celebrated German comedian, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer who went by the name of “LORIOT”.
Below you’ll find his portrait during an autograph session in 1971, another photo of him next to his famous cartoon and 2 videos from youtube.com featuring 2 of his famous short film: “die Nudle” (with Evelyn Hamann) & “das Ei” (with english subtitles).
Click on them and have a good laugh!
© “Tuvalu” (1999), directed by Veit Helmer
an experimental homage to silent cinema
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