The Strange Beauty of Polish Movie Posters
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
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Dorota Folga-Januszewska
Leon Chwistek
Jan Polinski
Tadeusz Piotrowski
Mieczysław Szcuka
Jerzy Hryniewiecki
Stefan Osiecki
Stanislaw Witkiewicz
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Roman Cieślewicz
Jan Lenica
Andrzej Wajda
Roman Polanski
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Krzysztof Zanussi
Jerzy Kawelerowicz
Movies shown
Battleship Potemkin
Man with a Movie Camera
1984
Camera Buff
Ashes and Diamonds
On the Silver Globe
A Short Film About Love
Olympia
Werckmeister Harmonies
My Left Foot
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Etude Op. 10, no. 3 in E major - 'Tristesse'
Nocturnes, Op. 32 - No. 2. Nocturne in A♭ major
Nocturnes, Op. 32 - No. 1. Nocturne in B major
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How many Poles does it take to make a movie poster? 🧐
How many Poles does it take to make a movie poster? 🧐
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In a video about foreign movie posters?
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The To Kill A Mockingbird Poster actually makes perfect sense, since a major part of the trial in the film concerns the fact that the victim has bruises on the right side of her face, while the accused hasn't been able to use his left arm for years.
In Poland we sometimes analyze film posters on Polish literature exams, btw.
For the to kill a mockingbird poster, I think the significance of the hand is that there's an important plot point abt how the abuser must've been left handed and the man on trial had an accident involving his left hand, making it impossible for him to be the perpetrator. Judging based off of knuckle and wrist, the hand in the poster seems to be the backside of a left hand.
Some of these Polish poster artists also made remarkable posters for plays in the theaters that are worth checking out.
Hello. I'm polish. Cool - ppoland mentioned!
You forgot about important thing - many op this posters were made by artist who hasn't watched the movie. That's why sometimes poster is complete nonsense. Artists had a completely free hand but also a complete lack of idea what the film was about. And the communist system meant that the poster did not have to sell the film - that is why even blockbusters often had an abstraction instead of something concrete, such as an actor's face.
That's so interestsing! Thanks
"Polska Szkoła Plakatu" was a highly influential field in applied arts. It's influence resonates to this day. One example is Nine Inch Nails "The Slip" album artwork. It is basically Roman Cieslewicz's 1983 Paris exhibition poster.
I genuinely admire your attempt at the tongue twisters that are Polish last names :)
howdy! I'm a polish graphic designer, but I also teach graphic design at the academy of fine arts in my city. I love polish posters, every kid who went to study graphic design is familiar with them and very likely went through a polish poster phase, but I'd venture there's an issue in the 'polish poster school' design approach still hanging over art academia 20-30 years later.
Of course, the posters are visually iconic, and I enjoy the wit and playfulness of many of them, but as you said, the commercial aspect of the posters used to be divorced from the posters, and that is not viable as a designers' offer in today's world.
When I was in the art academy or art high school before that, back in the 2000s and early 2010s, under the old guard of greyhead professors we designed many posters or other design exercises under that "put meaning into it" principle, and went into adulthood secretly hoping we'd be glamorous poster designers. But, since the fall of communism and up to very recently, polish public space has been visually littered with a lot of subpar homespun "boss' nephew knows computers he'll whip up an ad" graphic design, billboards everywhere you look, and of course most recently AI slop. It's incredibly rare to get the honor of designing a poster for theatre or even less rare for movies, it's hard to design anything fresh and new when there's higher-ups and their wives who of course all offer input despite knowing squat about design principles or the trends. I work with Americans too, and never noticed so many people chiming in during a design process as there are in Poland. It's a bit depressing how Polish approach to art and art education has fallen since the communist times.
So, the younger generation of teachers like me has been mostly straying away from teaching the polish poster, but I still catch myself giving advice for thinking like an old poster designer. Make the little visual play. Screw the capitalist times, make the cool poster.
Also!! last thing. There's a polish guy who currently makes movie posters in the way of polish poster school, search for Plakiat
which city? i’ll be in my first semester in a polish art school so it would be funny if it turned out you teach there
@@lordkamquatevonpotbrownieoh same I am also starting soon so it would be very funny
The didn't know the movie "hardcore" beforehand, so I thought of his daughter being dead, not in pornography.
Polish and Russian movie posters are crazy in how they create these beautiful works of art that are just barely related to the media itself. I'm also a big fan of Hungarian Movie Posters.
Is it possible that makers of these never watched that movie, I mean if the poster was created before the movie got showns so they only got some vague info about it? I heard it about Soviet Star Wars poster xD It looks like an artist would hear "there's a dude in a black mask and some weird aliens and he has a stick of light" and he would have to create poster based around this
Any David Lynch poster is pretty much perfection for me
I really like Japanese film posters (yes I'm a weeb), but damn Polish posters have them beat. These were so good, and I love Polish films so I need some of these.
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I’d like to also bring to everyone’s attention Piotr Jablønski. He’s a fucking phenomenal concept artist and his work is fucking amazing
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Back in the early 00's I found a huge gallery of Polish movie posters online. They were not labeled or anything and I don't speak Polish, so it was sometimes a bit of a game to figure out what movie it was. I sat and looked at them for hours, wishing they were available for print. This was before you could just send a Jpeg and get a high quality print mailed to you within the week. I don't think those images were that high resolution anyway.
Well, as many other cool things you find online, they sort of wander to the back of your mind as you find other things to occupy your attention.
Thanks for bringing up this topic, Polish movie posters is such an oddly specific artform and it really deserves more recognition.
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When I was kid I used to follow a blog about horror and monster movies, and in one post the guy running it tried to collect every Godzilla poster he could find, and even then I noticed that the Polish ones where extra strange and unique.
Ahhh that Apocalypse Now one, they look like straight razors hailing down on him. Awesome
Should’ve looked like straight razors under him. And he looks like a snail. Crawling along their edge.
Wow, I did not think of them as razors but you're right. I guess it's inspired by the "snail creeping across the edge of a razor"- monologue.
Also, the reveal of Brando's shaved head I suppose.
It is a striking portrait. For all the amazing shots in that movie, it's cool that the artist chose to recreate a shot that gives absolutely no clues to what the movie is about.
As a Pole, I really appreciate this video. Also, I discovered your channel because of your videos about Kieślowski when I was discovering him myself a few years ago 😅 Also, looking at the comments I'm suprised how many are from my country ❤
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If you are interested in polish poster id recommend the book "The Art of Polish Poster" by Dorota Folga Januszewska, the same author as the one mentioned at the beginning of the video. It's pretty hefty, but very interesting to read and look through.
just a note about the Close Encounters of the Third Kind poster, in the 70s it was quite often the case for the poster artist to not see the movie while making the poster, maybe a few stills at best because movies were still going through the bureau of censorship
if you look at the original Star Wars poster it just shows C3PO, probably because he was the most characteristic element the artist could remember
You wanna see legendary posters? Check out the movie posters from Ghana. The best.😆
I pick what movies to watch based on their posters
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Their posters are rad.
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Now... Imagine using similar style of poster today to advertise psychodelic horror movie in the US. They are striking and unapologetic, so it would stand out
On the topic of propaganda movies, a polish book which is part of the school curriculum "Kamienie na Szaniec" - recounting the diaries of the polish resistance around the WW2 period, describes how the resistance would vandalise propaganda movie posters with the catchphrase "Tylko świnie siedzą w kinie" - "Only pigs sit in cinemas" and would even use some sort of harmless gas to deter people from going to the movies (which had the opposite effect as people wanted to have the "gas experience" themselves XDDD)
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i cringe at the way ppl pronounce polish names
IMO the poster for "To Kill a Mockingbird" represents the hand of the black man on trial. The defense was, he could not commit the crimes he was accused of, because he had a hand disability. I haven't watched the movie either (so I don't know if it was portrayed in it), but the book was very popular in Poland. So maybe it's another case of the poster artist not seeing the movie, but in this case knowing the source material.
I'm from Poland, born in 1980 and I've seen some of these kind of posters on the advertisement poles or on walls in my home city, but i guess in the late 80's they were not that popular or prevalent as in 60's or 70's.
UA-cam probably recommended me this video because I'm Polish myself lol. I'm glad other people can appreciate our posters, I learned a bit about them in I think high school? The only thing I had a small problem with is I couldn't quite understand which artists and directors you were talking about sometimes due to your pronounciation. But it was overall good. Nice video
That poster for Hitchcock's Birds has insane '1999 screamo/emoviolence album cover' energy.
Thank you for making this. Would you be interested in adding Polish subtitles? I could translate the video for you.
The Sven Samurai poster reminds me a lot of medieval tapestry’s and paintings. Weirdly fitting for depicting the historic and epic battles of Seven Samurai.
Awesome video. Movie Posters where incredible. I had Pulp Fiction and Dark City on my wall.
Polish movie posters go INSANELY hard for no reason and I love it, I genuinely wanna watch some of these by the poster alone
BRAVO this is a very good documentary for POSTERS. Thanks 👏👍🍓🤗
If you want to see a brilliant and unique poster that I’ve seen. You should see the poster for dead man’s letters it’s one out of ten of my favourite movie posters I haven’t watched for a long while I do know it’s a post apocalypse where a group of survivors of a nuclear war are trying to live through a the waste land of earth and that’s about it I can’t remember the rest of it. It does look nice though it’s all a sepia colour the sets look okay and well that about it. As I said that all I can remember it (well mostly I want you to go check it out for your self it’s great) that all.
when I was younger we used to go to the cinema and ask for posters and they usually were glad to give them away instead of throwing them out
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I love the back and forth between you and Sands, I forgot I was listening to a video, not to mention riding a bus home at night, I was just immersed in the conversation, interpreting topics with real depth to them, would love to see more, if your friend is up for it!!
it's clear that you really took in what you researched about, it's great to see you make videos about topics that genuinely sparked your interest as there's clear passion behind it that makes it so great tp listen to and learn, I was completely immersed in the video in no small part to the superb editing and the resulting atmosphere
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You show polish posters with polish movie titles without captuoning them with english titles, it makes no sense :(
I own the poster for Anatomy of a Murder. Such a great poster, just as good as the awesome film 😊
21:48 The blood is comming from mouth of a guy, who wanted to sentence the prisoner to death
Thank you for essay, such unexpected and interesting theme.
I thought you were gonna include the 2 hand Fight club poster, i think that one is pretty haunting but striking
I love the Polish Deer Hunter poster on the site you linked to.
Scout was the Defense Attourney's daughter.
Always been interested, thank you for the video
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These posters have no right being this good. I love this.
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Thanks for puting some light on part of polish culture, which is not very known even in Poland. I love this old movie posters, my favourites are Man of Marble and Man of Iron, which depicts the whole comunistic period in Poland
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Nice video 👍
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a 10 min video streched out to 30 min. 1/5 stars. Would not reccomend.
more like commie posters
Thank you so much for talking about this!💛🥹