Fantastic Fest: 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters

Director Kevin Burke on one-sheets and screenprints

"...the print that led him to make 24x36: A Movie About Movie Posters. "It was There Will be Blood..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Hot Movie Previews

Sneaking Into Summer

"...15 weekends - the weekends that define the summer movie season. To you and me that may sound like..."

May 23, 1997 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Make a Movie Wish

The Drafthouse flies in twin filmmakers from the Gaza Strip

"...the Gaza Strip, aren't new to films. They're major movie buffs and aspiring filmmakers themselves, but they've never experienced..."

Oct. 24, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Solving the Mystery of the Nicolas Cage Superfan Posters at SXSW

Enigmatic movie star's new movie blurs the lines of reality at the fest

"...people will encounter when picking up their badges are posters slapped across columns along the Austin Convention Center with..."

March 11, 2022 Screens Post by Tom Cheredar

National Poster Retrospecticus Invades Mondo

A print show so big, they had to do it twice

"...centerfold held up with tape. Now hand-printed gig and movie posters are something to be curated and treasured. This..."

Sept. 11, 2015 Arts Post by Richard Whittaker

Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

"...(i.e., a water cooler filled with malt liquor and movie posters for films like Robopimp) and add some wit..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Sleight of Hand

How filmmaker Yen Tan fell into a gig selling other people's movies

"...In the end, a movie poster is just an advertisement – no different from..."

Feb. 10, 2012 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt

The Art of Schlock

A conversation with Shock Festival art director Tim Bradstreet

"...the cover was something along the lines of a movie theatre with a marquee that would read "Shock Festival"..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Poster Perfect

How Mondo is revolutionizing film art-vertising

"...Recall, if you will, the movie posters that informed your youth. Chances are they decorated..."

July 8, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

The Smell of Success

Austin's poster art scene is back, and it's better than ever.

"...[Posted to the chat room at Gigposters.com, Thursday, July 19, 2001:]..."

Nov. 22, 2002 Music Feature by Marc Savlov

The Rookies

Milla Jovovich sleepwalks through an action-comedy dud

"...Those with a keen eye for movie posters will notice that Zhao keeps two in his..."

April 16, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Telling The David Whiting Story or, the Cesar Romero Joke

Louis Black reflects on working decades ago with Walter Reuben

"...filmmaker Walter Reuben, who came quite late to the moviemaking game. Once a rare collectibles dealer in Austin, Reuben..."

Feb. 16, 2015 Screens Post by Louis Black

Making Trouble Look Good

How Kurt Volk got to be Robert Rodriguez's go-to poster designer

"...office has no windows. That means more room for posters. Grindhouse. Machete and Machete Kills. Predators. Matador. A whole..."

Aug. 22, 2014 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Fantastic Fest First Wave Announced

Miss Peregrine, Phantasm: Ravager, and more

"...Stanley Kubrick's assistant. There are even two about film posters: 24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters, charting four decades..."

Aug. 2, 2016 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

The Past Casts a Long Shadow

History is now at this year's Austin Polish Film Festival

"...a Polish film festival without an exhibit of Polish movie posters, this year's curated by longtime collector and former..."

Oct. 23, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

The Wizard of Oz

Follow the yellow brick road.

"...Digital Stereo Sound. It's been 25 years since the movie's last theatrical run, which means that just about everyone..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Madness of King Geek

Harry Jay Knowles' Cool Movie News

"...700 "spies" culled from the crews of those same movies and from the public at large, Knowles is well..."

June 6, 1997 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Austin Polish Film Festival Breaks New Ground and Keeps Up With Tradition

The 14th fest focuses on the media's responsibility and the perspectives of women

"...Of course, there's the venerable Polish movie poster exhibit, a unique appendage to the film festival...."

Nov. 1, 2019 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Oscar, Meet Mondo

Drafthouse's art boutique partners with the Academy

"...more than 10 million photographs, 80,000 screenplays, and 35,000 movie posters...."

July 11, 2011 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Fired Up

This new teen sex comedy is both sexist and prudish.

"...writer, I hereby present my first attempt at quotable movie criticism (Sony Pictures International, feel free to reprint this..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey

"...makes wonderful use of performance footage, newspaper items, home movies, Hollywood movie clips, and posters to illustrate the tale...."

Oct. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Napoleon Dynamite

Indie film about teenage dork celebrates the youthful underdog.

"...a unicorn-lovin’, lip-balmin’ Future Farmer of America with Dragonslayer posters on the wall of his Preston, Idaho, bedroom. His..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Short Cuts

"...days after showing the director's cut of his new movie Eyes Wide Shut to his producers at Warner Bros...."

March 12, 1999 Screens Column by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

The Coen brothers head West, but it's a bumpy ride

"...identified as a misanthrope wanted dead or alive on posters in every town he enters. Nelson plays him as..."

Nov. 16, 2018 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fantastic Fest Review: Original Copy

An affecting profile of one of the last Indian film poster artists

"...the 40-foot, hand-painted banners that advertised this week’s Bollywood movies atop every cinema in India is vanishing – and..."

Sept. 25, 2016 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten

Design a Poster, Save A Life

Local ISDs and Cap Metro launch rail safety competition for kids near new tracks

"...the new rail tracks The three grand prize winning posters will be distributed to all public schools in the..."

Jan. 22, 2009 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Swept From the Sea

"...intentions couldn't have been clearer if they'd printed their posters on the embossed card stock of Silhouette Romance covers),..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Horror,The Horror!

"...book Yesterday's Tomorrows: The Golden Age of Science Fiction Movie Posters (and if you haven't, do so) which illuminated..."

Dec. 1, 1995 Books Feature

The Work of Kurt Volk

"...Before he moved to Austin, Kurt Volk designed posters for bands and venues in Chicago, "very rudimentary, cut..."

Aug. 21, 2014 Photo Gallery

Painting Race

Getting Inside Michael Ray Charles' Provocative Images

"...of bells. In Charles' Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus posters, figures named Dawg Boy and Sealboy perform for the..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

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