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The Director's Chair => Paul Thomas Anderson => Topic started by: SHAFTR on September 26, 2003, 06:21:32 PM

Title: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: SHAFTR on September 26, 2003, 06:21:32 PM
I came across this double sided UK poster for Punch Drunk Love and picked it up, it's not a reprint, but the original, very cool.

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.iconographics.net%2FImages%2F2003%2FPunchDrunk_BQ.JPG&hash=25bf1a786a5ce6566bffd963bc43d017ee7071a4)
Title: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Finn on September 26, 2003, 07:00:55 PM
Yeah it's really wonderful. But that's what I love about UK Quad's!

http://xixax.com/viewtopic.php?t=3601
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: squints on April 11, 2010, 01:47:18 PM
From theauteurs.com:

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fauteursnotebook.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fimages%2FMPOTW%2FPunchDrunkLove_Chirashi_500.jpg&hash=3b4a18cacef0c86bc58fa0a5f8e87391ef7d9ac1)

The only thing I would really wish different about this gorgeous abstract Japanese poster for Paul Thomas Anderson's 2002 Punch-Drunk Love is that it were bigger. It is in fact a chirashi. Chirashi (the word is derived from the verb "chirasu"—to scatter, disperse) are small (7" x 10") promotional handbills that are distributed in Japanese movie theaters. Highly collectible among Japanese cinephiles, they are usually full color mini versions of the official release poster, with monochrome photos and text on the reverse, though the small format allows occasionally for affordable variations on the theatrical poster design. There is a terrific selection of chirashi collected, and available for purchase, here.

For Punch-Drunk Love, Toho-Towa, the Japanese distributor, produced a series of nine designs based on the lush colorfield "motion paintings" by Jeremy Blake that punctuate the film and add to its hallucinatory quality (see here). Blake was a rising star in the Los Angeles art world and a pioneer in digital painting when Paul Thomas Anderson commissioned the work (the same year that Blake also created the four covers for Beck's Sea Change album). But, as reported a couple of years ago in New York Magazine and Vanity Fair, a series of personal set-backs, culminating in the 2007 suicide of his partner and fellow artist Theresa Duncan, led to the 35-year-old Blake taking his own life by walking into the sea at Rockaway Beach.

It was rumored that Bret Easton Ellis was writing a script about the tragic couple's life, with Gus Van Sant attached in some capacity, but that remains to be seen. Van Sant's upcoming film Restless, a film reported to be about "two lovers with a preoccupation with mortality" but based on a play by Jason Lew, is probably coincidental.

Meanwhile, if anyone ever sees full poster size versions of any of the Blake designs, please let me know.

http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1702 (http://www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/1702)


More:
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Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: polkablues on April 11, 2010, 03:18:48 PM
Holy crap, I want to buy every one of those.


EDIT: I am currently in the process of buying every one of those.  The website is here (http://www.jmshop.net/premium/drama2.html), by the way, for those who want to save themselves an extra click.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: picolas on April 11, 2010, 05:30:55 PM
that's awesome and i could easily destroy my wallet there.. let us know how 'high quality' this stuff is when you get it.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Kellen on April 12, 2010, 12:43:05 PM
well, there goes some of my money.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pwaybloe on April 13, 2010, 08:53:10 AM
Really? 
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pubrick on April 13, 2010, 08:58:10 AM
yeah i don't think these are very good examples of JB's art.

they look way too blown up and grainy.

the colours are there.. sort of, but not the compositions. even though they're probly directly taken from the film, they just don't seem to capture the PUNCH of those moments.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Fernando on April 13, 2010, 11:31:22 AM
I like some of them, maybe p this is more right up your ally?

(https://xixax.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi7.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy251%2Ffbv%2Fjapqt.jpg&hash=9f538bfd89c806fe86838f380deba5e1a63f8d8d)
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: polkablues on April 13, 2010, 04:00:37 PM
At 2 bucks each, I'm not all that picky.  They'll look real purdy up on my walls.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pas on April 13, 2010, 04:31:02 PM
Quote from: polkablues on April 11, 2010, 03:18:48 PM
Holy crap, I want to buy every one of those.


EDIT: I am currently in the process of buying every one of those.  The website is here (http://www.jmshop.net/premium/drama2.html), by the way, for those who want to save themselves an extra click.

Just ordered for 50$ of all kinds of these. I hope they'll be good, but I'm pretty confident.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ on April 13, 2010, 11:57:22 PM
Nerds.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: polkablues on April 14, 2010, 12:03:59 AM
Oops, Walrus is off the wagon again.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pas on April 14, 2010, 05:58:45 AM
That's he shame, he gets like Bukowski-dark
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: ᾦɐļᵲʊʂ on April 18, 2010, 11:28:49 AM
Quote from: Pas Rap on April 14, 2010, 05:58:45 AM
That's he shame, he gets like Bukowski-dark

Am I drunk or are you?
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Stefen on April 19, 2010, 01:01:55 AM
^haha, drunk Walrus is da best.

If these are alright quality, I'm in for many many many. I'm placing the Red with Irène Jacob on my ceiling above my bed.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pas on April 30, 2010, 09:33:42 AM
Got 'em! They're pretty freakin sweet! They stink a bit, though (:crazyeyes:) but they look really, really great.

Thanks Polka for the link man, that was cool. Very happy with them. I bought 25 ha!
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: polkablues on April 30, 2010, 10:31:35 AM
Lame, I haven't gotten mine yet.  :yabbse-sad:
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: polkablues on May 16, 2010, 07:12:50 PM
Oops, Pas reminded me about these.  I did finally get mine last week, and they're awesome.  Perfect condition.  I just need to find some super cheap frames to put them in and then they will be all over my walls.
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pas on March 14, 2011, 06:41:33 AM
I want to order some more of these but I guess now is not the time hey?
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Reel on March 14, 2011, 12:33:14 PM
of all people, a Canadian should know it's eh. "Now is not the time, eh?" I wanna get some too, but you're right now is not the time..hey
Title: Re: PDL Movie Poster
Post by: Pas on March 14, 2011, 01:03:23 PM
Ah! I didn't even notice that 'hey' (or more accurately, as you said, eh)

That's cause I'm french canadian and we don't end half (if not more) of our sentences with 'eh' but with ''hein'' (pronounciation is like ain't without the t...... just ain... you don't really pronounce the 'n' either, but it's there you know? it's 'ain' and not 'aine' ... anyway who gives a shit!)