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Grotesque and Beautiful: The Polish School of Film Posters

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In case anyone else wanted to see some of these posters: http://www.poster.pl/polish_poster_artists.html

Thanks. You'd think an article about the posters themselves would show more than just one ...

Yeah, and it's not even a polish one, it's czech.

FWIW, I'm using a JavaScript blocker, and the page doesn't show even a single poster. HTML & CSS alone are not powerful enough to display images, apparently.

Very helpful. It wasn't immediately obvious to me, but if you click any of the thumbs on that page, you get through to the individual page for each artist, where it shows their work and actually identifies which film each poster is for, which is helpful if your Polish is as limited as mine.

I clicked on the only one from your link that was immediately obvious to me, "Last Tango in Paris", and ended up at a page with many well-known films and fantastic posters for them: http://www.poster.pl/gallery/?q=Homework_Joanna_Gorska_Jerzy...

This Aliens poster is one of my favorites: http://www.polishposter.com/images/0851.jpg

Here in LA we have summer movie screenings at the Hollywood Cemetery by a group called Cinespia, and they project the founder's collection of movie posters on the screen before the show. He has a ton of amazing Polish posters but my favorite one is always the Muppet Movie: http://www.polishposter.com/images/2450.jpg

I grew up in Poland and this is what I internalized as typical for movie posters. Actual Hollywood posters that came after the fall of communism looked cheap and tacky by comparison. Sort of like the game box art with actors in the recent HN article.

Here's the poster for "Eyes wide shut" mentioned in the article: http://polishpostershop.com/plakat/leszek-zebrowski/oczy-sze... And here's a nice gallery: https://wellmedicated.com/50-incredible-film-posters-from-po...

If you ever find yourself in Łódź, Poland, check out the cinematography museum. They have a huge collection of Polish film posters.

http://kinomuzeum.pl/?page_id=1871&lang=en

Despite the title mentioning Poland, the only poster to illustrate the article is actually in Czech language. Funny thing.

Some of these qualities seem to be unique to that region of Europe. If you dig the style, you may like the games by Amanita Design, a Czech studio:

http://amanita-design.net/

One of the greats, Waldemar Swierzy - http://www.poster.pl/gallery/?q=Swierzy_Waldemar

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