PostersPosters designed by Saul Bass
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A few years ago I walked into a shop that sold movie posters, and asked the saleslady if she had anything by Saul Bass.
She shook her head and said, rather wistfully: "No. Those are very rare..."
Here are some. For movies he also did titles for, check there.
As a rule, the posters for movies can be found on the movies pages.
Most of those that were hardly or not at all used for release you can find on this page.
Many are available as originals from MoviePoster.com, and also as reprints.
MOVIES
LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON
Billy Wilder, 1957
(reprint)
SEVEN SAMURAI
Looks like advertising for USA release
of the 1954 Akira Kurosawa film
(from which it is a direct quote)
but is unused design for John Sturges'
USA remake THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
SECONDS
John Frankenheimer, 1966
not used for film release
GRAND PRIX
John Frankenheimer, 1966
Titles, Montage Sequences, Visual Consultation
not used for film release
THE WHITE CROW
unfinished movie, 1990
SCHINDLER'S LIST
Steven Spielberg, 1993
not used for film release
OTHER POSTERS
Speaker, Art Director's Club of L.A., 1983
Oscar 63/1991 - 68/1996 - 66/1994 (twice)
Motion Picture Centennial, 1992 - 5th Israel Film Festival, 1985 - Filmex, 1985
Human Rights Watch Film Festival, NY 1988
Environment Magazine, cover/poster, 1973
Freedom of the Press, 1975
Chicago International Film Festival 1974 -1984 - 1994
August 7, 2009
Posters designed by Saul Bass
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Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore: The definitive view of British nightlife | Music | guardian.co.uk
Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore: The definitive view of British nightlife | Music | guardian.co.ukFiorucci Made Me Hardcore: The definitive view of British nightlife
Ten years on, Mark Leckey's short film still captures the poignancy and strangeness of clubbing like nothing else
This year sees the 10th anniversary of Mark Leckey's short film, Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore, perhaps the finest portrayal of British nightlife ever captured.Leckey is best known for his exhibition Industrial Light & Magic, which won the 2008 Turner prize. He had first appeared alongside Damien Hirst at the ICA's New Contemporaries show in 1990, but by 1999 had fallen off the radar. Fiorucci … was a devastating return to form.
Fragments of "found" video footage from British nightclubs are spliced together, repeated and slowed down, while a perfectly edited collage of ambient sounds – snatches of rave tracks, crowd noise, men bellowing across provincial shopping precincts – filters in and out. There's a loose chronology – northern soul, soul weekenders, casuals, acid house – but the two defining themes of the film are timeless.
Firstly, what deeply strange places nightclubs are; hundreds of strangers, all as high as kites, crammed together in a deliberately disorientating space. And secondly, how much poignancy there is in something ostensibly celebratory; the idea that "the best days of your lives" will be wiped away by a change in fashion. Leckey captures this beautifully in the occasional sound of tolling bells, the endless headlong rush of the video timecodes, the snippets of empty rooms and the suddenly frozen images of young, apprehensive faces.
Jonathan Jones wrote that "(Leckey) haunts the secret parts of modern culture, where memory and emotion linger". By doing so, he succeeded where almost everyone else fails – in accurately conveying what it feels like to be inside a nightclub, when being inside a nightclub is the most important thing in your life. Thanks to online video sites, the film is now available again; take 15 minutes to put on the headphones and sink back into Britain's clubbing past.
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