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Here are the ten best movie posters of 2014:
By Sasha James on December 24, 2014
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10. Men, Women and Children
Though Canadian director Jason Reitman might not be winning any awards for the poorly-received Men, Women & Children, starring Adam Sandler and Jennifer Garner, its poster – designed by BLT Communications – proves to be the best part of the 2014 comedy.
9. Only Lovers Left Alive
It’s the German poster, but we couldn’t help ourselves. The Jim Jarmusch vampire romance released a series of character posters featuring the lovers played by Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton. This single shot of Eve (Swinton) is the standout and tells you everything you need to know about the effortlessly cool, bohemian love story.
8. Enemy
Denis Villeneuve’s Jake Gyllenhaal-starrer, Enemy, has a plethora of great posters – (one of them can be seen up top) – but designer Jay Shaw’s clever take, which incorporates a two-sided man similar to that on a playing card, is the best of the lot.
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7. The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson’s love for doll house-like sets is well documented in films like The Royal Tenebaums, The Life Aqautic, and well, the entirety of Fantastic Mr. Fox. So it was lovely to see that the stately Eastern European hotel at the centre of his latest film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, also gets full purchase of the film’s poster.
【6. Nightcrawler】
It’s been a good year for Jake Gyllenhaal posters. His other major thriller this year, Dan Gilroy’s Nightcrawler, gets the “big face” treatment – a recent poster trend where the entire poster is just the face of the protagonist – but this design, again by BLT Communications (Men, Women and Children), is lifted out of the ordinary by its striking title treatment, stylized image, and Los Angeles skyline.
5. Whiplash
It’d be a crime to have the poster for Damien Chazelle’s extraordinarily intense Whiplash as anything less than spectacular, and thankfully, this one delivers. In the film, Miles Teller’s first-year music student is pushed to the edge by his bandleader (J.K. Simmons), so it’s highly appropriate that the poster does the same.
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4. Under the Skin
Neil Kellerhouse is perhaps best known for his work with director David Fincher. He added the poster campaign for Gone Girl to his ever-growing portfolio which includes The Social Network, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, and Casey Affleck’s I’m Still Here. Though his work on Gone Girl was phenomenal, he one-upped himself with his ethereal poster for Under the Skin featuring Scarlett Johansson and an eye-catching colour palette.
3. Nymphomaniac
It’s simple, effective, and whoever thought it up should get a raise.
2. The Double
If you were pumped about the teaser poster for next year’s James Bond flick, SPECTRE? That’s the work of Empire Design which also produced the posters for this year’s The Double, directed by comedian Richard Ayoade. The movie, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, is set in a block of apartment buildings and an office overrun with the isolated, peculiar air of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. The Double’s poster matches that tone, throwing in an added layer of overwhelming loneliness with Simon (Eisenberg) front-and-centre, by himself, and incredibly small.
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