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That's an awesome poster.

I wish more ad campaigns were as adventurous as this. The fact that movie posters in Poland are actual art makes me sad for the US. I treasure my poster of THE MISFITS (SKTOCENI Z ZYCIEM) all the more with each passing year of generic product that comes out of Hollywood.

1. This poster has been around for months and everyone who has seen it already said it's one of the best posters around. Nice for you to put it up, but it's true.

2. This design is hardly Polish-inspired.

3. Am I the only one who thinks 90% of Polish posters are awful? Some look cool (although a lot are just incredibly ugly) but they tell you as much about a film as any American floating head/image in a sea of white design does.

4. The polish poster for The Birds is one of my all time favourites though. The poster is scary let alone the film.

Good poster, but I'm still not going to see this movie.

What the heck about this is "Polish-inspired"? Most of the great Polish posters I've seen are paintings. This looks a lot more like some other ad campaign that has been running lately -- HP products, maybe?

Love that poster, won't see the movie.

Does it appear that this poster isn't painted over a filmed image?

Agh, what I meant was a painting that was not photo-realistic in the vein of Richter, but more along the lines of http://retrocrush.buzznet.com/archive2006/polishposters/

Kamikaze,

You are right. There are many foreign posters that are every bit as ill conceived and poorly executed as the ones Stateside. Good call.

Having said that, what throws me off here is that I do not know if I love the poster or just the big close up of Watts, who I think is one of the most beautiful actress' working today.

Cool poster as is the new DARK KNIGHT one...
http://www.filmthreat.com/blog/?p=940

Whoops, didn't see the DARK KNIGHT poster below. Der.

God, she is beautiful.

Here's the Polish poster for The Birds.

I think the poster just has high contrast or saturation of whatever function it is on Photoshop. I wrote about it back in September and it's still amazing. I wrote that the poster reminds me not of a Polish poster but of a Criterion DVD cover. Cause it does. A lot.

http://kamikazecamel.blogspot.com/2007/09/well-played-poster-funny-games.html

such a pretty poster for such an ugly movie.....

i like it when DP comments on design. Like when he said The Descent poster was incredible when it was a dumb gimmicky rip-off of another work of art. Calling the FG image Polish is plain loopy.

Yes the poster is a beautiful photo with the blacks crushed and some desaturation happening - but for me it accurately shows once and for all that Watts is a weak actress. It looks like a photoshoot from ANTM. She's still the screecher from Children of the Corn 10 for me, her wow scene in Mulholland was a laughable showcase that people mistook for brilliant acting.. it wasn't - it was bad theatre and over the top. Look at the expression in the poster for Funny Games - its nothing but a pretty image. She'd be good in Beowulf where dead eyes are required.

That's... strange. Firstly, she doesn't just have one "wow scene" in Mulholland Drive she has a "wow two and a half hours". That you call it "over the top" shows that you're not really on Lynch's wavelenghth. Were you? I doubt you were. I actually tend to find Watts' best moments in that movie are the early bright-eyes-and-bushy-tails scenes of eternal optimism.

And I think the look on Naomi's face on the poster shows exhausted terror and the depressing realisation that she is indeed in hell, which works well for the poster. I don't like the original Funny Games, but I'd be intrigued to see what Watts and Roth do with it. On DVD.

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