Comments on: Polish Movie Posters

By: Translating Hollywood « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog

Translating Hollywood « Posterwire.com « the movie poster weblog — Fri, 02 May 2008 14:15:07 +0000

[...] including samples from the United Kingdom, Japan, France, and of course the ubiquitous posters of Poland. What sets the book apart is the foreign posters are compared to the original domestic one-sheets [...]

By: rafalski

rafalski — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 20:49:54 +0000

Keep in mind that most of these posters come from the commie era, when ticket sales didn’t matter at all. Everything was state owned and donated. Some of the posters remind me of my childhood, I remember these from movie theaters. The posters often revealed the desigers’ lack of knowlege of cultural movie context which was kind of funny. But a lot of these were based on clever ideas shortly and precisely describing a movie that’d give a poster a life of it’s own.
Too bad the Polish poster school has deteriorated in mid-80’s. A lot of the authors have been working succesfully abroad since, mainly in the US.

By: admin

admin — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:53:55 +0000

Appreciate the kind words. ;)

By: Sunny

Sunny — Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:16:11 +0000

great site; i think this was a really interesting post as i love movie posters – especially of the international variety – love the site, can’t wait for more updates!