Top 10: Best Posters of the 2007

It’s that time of year here (we wish our faithful readers happy holidays) at IONCINEMA.com where we put up various Top 10 & Top 20 lists commemorating and celebrating the past 12 months/52 weeks of movie-watching, movie-reviewing and movie-reporting. To start things off: we have our Top 10 list for our favorite poster one sheets (click here and here for 2006’s Top Ten). 

Once again our preference goes to original marketing eye candy, posters with narratives, and illustrations with a wow-factor and basically anything that caught our attention span for more than a minute. Come back tomorrow for our Top 5 posters of 2007!

10. The Savages

Distributor: Fox Searchlight
Comments: My personal preference of graphic novel art means that this one became my tenth overall pick – for those who have seen the film you might be able to read what I read into it: two siblings caring for their ailing father by supporting one another but in the same measure keeping their distance from one another. Color scheme is nice and so is the artwork – another Daniel Clowes poster one sheet worth framing.

9. Eastern Promises

 

Distributor: Focus Features
Tagline: Every Sin Leaves a Mark.
Comments: Kudos go to Viggo Mortensen for his additional research in the tattoo culture in Russia – it obviously plays a significant narrative role in not only the feature but the movie poster as well. The poster takes care of the “who is starring in the film issue”, and in the same measure describes the world in which the protagonist belongs to – all with a simply pair of hands.

8. Zoo

 

Distributor: ThinkFilm
Tagline: We Are Not Who We Appear to Be
Comments: This is the only poster/movie combo film that I haven’t actually seen. I’m against animal cruelty and abuse so the docu-subject matter of bestiality doesn’t interest me…but in a Julio Medem/animal’s POV kind of way there is indeed more to this story than “meets the eye”.    

7. Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead

Distributor: ThinkFilm
Tagline: No One Was Supposed to Get Hurt
Comments: Curiosity factor is higher with arty presentation and it’s a nice reprieve from common poster one sheets with an ensemble of actor’s faces lined up. It sort of looks like IONCINEMA.com’s logo type face and a bit of Saul Bass.

6. There Will Be Blood

Distributor: Paramount Vantage
Tagline: When Ambition Meets Faith
Comments: This is actually the teaser poster and not the official one sheet. The bible cover works with thematics of the PTA’s film – let’s just say Paul Dano’s character speaks the word god and more than likely spells out what wrath the all mighty one might unleash upon sinners.