MIFF Talking Pictures

Here’s a short excerpt from the panel I took part in at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, talking with some fellow travellers about the current state and future of movie poster design.

Described — a very long time ago, by the once-popular internet site aintitcoolnews.com — as “one of the most interesting poster designers in the world”, Jeremy Saunders has created key art and titles for very nearly 400 movies and shows including works by Lars von Trier, Jane Campion, Taika Waititi, Steven Soderbergh, Andrea Arnold, Warwick Thornton and many more. Unfortunately since this time no-one has said anything nice about his work, likely with good reason. His increasingly panicked attempts to spend his remaining years in the pursuit of almost anything else are routinely thwarted by a cruel, cold universe.

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