The Averardo Ciriello-painted Italian advert for 1971’s Trafic, which marked the cinematic adieu of writer/director/star Jacques Tati’s Monsieur Hulot character. Though his career spanned four decades, Tati directed only six feature films – all of which you can find in a single Criterion Collection box set.
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A rock star is brought back from the dead when his final album is played backwards in 1986’s Trick or Treat. The horror flick was one of a slew of movies – both high brow (Blue Velvet, Manhunter, Crimes of Hearts) and low (King Kong Lives, The Cat’s Eye, Maximum Overdrive) – shot in North Carolina for Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis before his De Laurentiis Entertainment Group went bankrupt in 1988.
Trick or Treat features early work from legendary cinematographer Robert Elswit (Nightcrawler, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol and several films for Paul Thomas Anderson) and an uncredited dialogue polish from Final Destination scribes Glen Morgan and James Wong.
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Stone’s Oscar winner for Best Picture was based partly on his own experiences in Vietnam from 1967-1968 – beginning when the filmmaker was just 21 years old. Stone’s official website features a few photos taken during his tour, including the shot below.
American artist Richard Amsel, best known for his original Raiders of the Lost Ark poster, crafted this German ad for the release of Roman Polanski’s Chinatown (1974).
Read the third draft of Robert Towne’s Oscar-winning screenplay here. Below, check out Towne’s opening scene between private eye Jack Nicholson and cuckolded husband Burt Young below:
The Hungarian release poster for David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of The Fly – a rare genre redo that improves upon its predecessor. Pic via Film on Paper.
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Today’s pic features a pair of posters from one of my favorite artists Renato Casaro, who in his long career created movie ads for James Bond, Schwarzenegger and Stallone, and Italian legends Dario Argento, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Sergio Leone.
(Above) French-language poster for Fred Zinnemann’s 1953 Best Picture winner From Here to Eternity, an advert immortalizing Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr’s adulterous oceanside kiss. The film is based on the 1951 debut novel of James Jones, which features some autobiographical elements from Jones’ time stationed in Hawaii on the eve of World War II.
Here’s Zinnemann on concessions made to the Army in order to receive its cooperation in making the film. From the book Fred Zinnemann: Interviews:
Certain things the Army objected to, particularly two things. One, the inside of the stockade. The book contained many scenes showing the rough life inside the stockade. The Army said that if that was shown, there would be no cooperation. The second point was the character of the captain, Deborah Kerr’s husband, who was ineffectual and a bad officer. The Army wanted to see the man get his comeuppance and be courtmartialed and forced to resign. In the book he was promoted to major.
Now the whole point then became: is it worth making that sort of arrangement? I felt that it was. As it turned out, I was sure that it was not necessary to go into gruesome details about the inside of the stockade, because one could see in the escape and the death of Sinatra sufficient proof for what was going on inside and leave room for the audience’s imagination.
I personally would’ve liked to see the captain being promoted, because it was a fine sardonic touch. But it was a sacrifice that had to be made.
The Belgian release poster for Mike Nichols’ The Graduate (1967). Despite playing one of cinema’s most iconic May-December dalliances, Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft were actually only six years apart in age.
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