Fritz Lang’s 1927 dystopian silent sci-fi classic is one of the most iconic movies in cinema history. Its photography style and production design has been hugely influential, both on a great many sci-fi movies (Blade Runner etc etc) and music videos (Queen’s Radio Ga Ga). Possibly the most famous image is of the robot, seen…
Valentino / Women In Love
Here are a pair of French ‘grande’ posters for two Ken Russell movies. Flamboyant British ‘enfant terrible’ Russell made a wide range of ‘extreme’ censor and critic baiting movies – from The Devils to Whore. His movies tend to be love them or hate them affairs, and he made a number of undeniable stinkers in…
Ciné-Miroir
Here are some ultra-rare items of movie memorabilia sure to pre-date all of us. Memorabilia from the silent movie era is understandably incredibly hard to find and – in the case of posters at least – hugely expensive. So I was very pleased to come across recently a haul of 50 copies of the fascinating…