The Art of the Movie Poster: Peter Fonda's The Hired Hand

One of my favorite films from the early seventies is Peter Fonda's haunting debut as a director, The Hired Hand. The film starring Fonda with Warren Oates, in one of his best performances, remains quite a stunner and I was thrilled with its revival in the earlier part of this decade. I'm quite fond of both of these posters for it. One of which is the Italian version, with the other being an American one-sheet highlighting some of the film's critical acclaim:





Honestly neither one do real justice for the sometimes surreal and always moving film, but they are both still quite effective.

The Art of the Movie Poster: Sam Peckinpah's Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

"Nobody loses all the time..."

Images From My All Time Favorite Films: Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)

Take it as a major tribute to my love affair with Two-Lane Blacktop that it is just the second film in this series that I have broken my own rule of just capturing ten stills.

Also, I have recently started using a new program grabbing my stills that allows me to capture them without having to do any editing. However this program does, on certain DVDs, retain the black bars in the frames. Please let me know if this in anyone takes away from the quality of the presentation, as I want to keep Moon in the Gutter as visually pleasing as possible (especially right now in this period where I can't write as much as I like). Thanks!