These posters are striking. But how were they made? Let’s take a look throughout the ages.
This blog post is a continuation of my last, and a ranking of my favourite unseen Italian Films based on their poster alone. You can find it here.
#3: IL SORPSASSO (“The Easy Life/Speeding”)
Italian film posters were often burned by the cinemas after the show running ended, making the originals incredibly rare and quite the find for collectors. We know by now how important these posters were to the paratext of the film itself, and at first, I wanted to do a ranking of my favourites, but I fear the films I’ve already seen and those that have sentimental meaning to me would make me bias.
I’ve decided to take things in a different direction.
I have decided to rank Italian films I have never seen, based purely on how absolutely insane the posters look. Let’s go.
The history of cinema as a whole is drenched in the influence of Italian artistry. One of cinema’s earliest pioneers was director and inventor Filoteo Alberini, patenting the kinetograph allowing moving images to be projected to multiple people at once.
I thought my first blog post should be taking you through my creative process of choosing my logo, as well as the decisions involved in making the colour palette and patterns you will see while navigating the site.
