Amy’s Ten Highlights of 2011 Movie Posters

3. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives

Weird imagery for a slightly weird movie about the metaphysical. LOL The colors are stunning, bold — in contrast to, well… the stillness of the subject matter dealt with in Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives.

2. Shame

I find it unsettling that I wasn’t able to find a bigger crisper version of this poster.

I swear, it’s not like I hate actors or anything… there’s just something VERY boring about seeing them on posters. Hollywood, we don’t want to see Hollywood faces on movie posters — and this poster of Shame tells you why.

There’s something VERY sexy about bed sheets. Even sexier… untidy bed sheets where you know Michael Fassbender might have been frolicking. However, the tone of the bed sheets with the light… it’s very dark and sketchy — it has so many undertones without showing anything.

1. Winnie the Pooh

I’m sorry. This poster is just brilliant.

We don’t even need a title because we know it’s a Winnie the Pooh movie. It’s not as funny as the one with poor Piglet about to be launched like a rocket into the air and ending up stuck in the honeycomb [1], but it’s simplicity is just outstanding.

We know for a fact this golden yellow space is honey. All of them sailing on the Hunny jar is telling us they’re coming — when? July 15th, of course! There’s nothing else you need to know.

That’s it. This are my favorite movie posters dated 2011 on the IMP Awards website.

What were your favorite posters this year?

amy

YAM Magazine editor, photographer, blogger, translator and part-time web designer. Film junkie, music junkie… and lately series (a.k.a. TV) junkie.

7 Responses

  1. Margarita says:

    I liked the Rum Poster too!

    My personal faves are:
    Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
    Reminded me of the opening (credit scene).
    I like the typeface created for the movie. What I like about the poster is that it keeps you looking.
    Hunger Games, simple & awesome
    Dunno if it counts because the movie is not out yet. But the poster definitely TEASES us.
    Jane Eyre
    Tree of Life (so cute!)

    • amy says:

      @Margarita, I was gonna add the Dragon Tattoo one but I thought it’d be a boring list. xD Jane Eyre is out, just so you know… (it says so in the poster too, March 2011) and it is beautiful but there were so many posters with big type recently.

      Btw, if you like the poster for Jane Eyre, the film is as beautiful looking xD

  2. Fantastic choices! Some I haven’t seen before, although I’ve liked the Pooh one since I first saw it many months ago.

    • amy says:

      @Diandra Rodriguez, I know! Pooh is a love at first sight thing, though I’m thinking it’s part of the nostalgia “our” generation is feeling… I guess.

      Besides Pooh, I think Harry Potter is the only poster that was brave enough not to use the title of the film – though I can be wrong. At least I remember HP7.1 having the HP all cropped and barely on the posters…

  3. Echydo says:

    I love the Winnie the Pooh one. I also love the Centipede one. I had never it before; it is just brilliant.
    Isn’t Uncle Boonmee from 2010 though?
    A poster that I really like even if I haven’t seen the movie is Restless’s. I like the color tones and contrast with the red scarf. Just looking at it makes me feel like I’m about to fly to the sky like a ballon. I don’t think the movie is that lighthearted though.

    • amy says:

      @Echydo, I’m not sure if Boonmee is 2010 but the IMP Awards site lists it as 2011… and doesn’t list Jane Eyre at all, so there you go.

      I remember the poster for Restless, I posted it on the January batch and I had that same feeling as you xD I didn’t enjoy the movie much, though… even if I do love Ryo Kase in it – I think he was my favorite part of the film, but then again- I may be being biased there. LOL

  4. Echydo says:

    Amy, you inspired me to start a new tumblr page! I just hope I’ll have the time and discipline to keep track of poster releases *_* . In any case, there may be some other posters that you would like. Here it is: A l’Affiche

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