Saul Bass's Movie Posters
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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Bass's rejected designs for The Shining - bit.ly/2ZALuBQ
DesignVerso essay collection of Bass's work - bit.ly/2x6AvUS
Saul Bass on making money vs quality work - bit.ly/1I4rlFb
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Which one is your favorite Saul Bass poster?
Hard to pick a definite favorite, myself, but if I had to pick a single one it would probably be Saul Bass' unused poster for Schindler's List, the last one he's ever done.
Favorite Saul Bass Poster: The Two Of Us
Favorite Saul Bass Title Sequence: It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
which ONE?!
My favourite is the Tonko (The Silk Road) poster. The shape is like a scroll, not a usual poster, and shows a great balance of detail with his iconic style. Thanks for the video!
Vertigo. B/c it is the only one I've actually seen. Also, I went to the Paramount in Austin to see Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 35mm. A really great movie at a really great venue. Going to try to make it for the 70mm screening of 2001 later this summer.
Portrait video about posters. You crazy bastard. Love it.
This is fucking amazing
I can see your video editing style and use of minimalist images were heavily influenced by Saul Bass. Great Job, man
Watching this with UA-cam dark theme was a pleasure! Well designer and executed job you did here, mate! Keep it up!
I love the such good friends poster! It hangs in my room even though I’ve never seen it.
Ok. People seriously need to make more videos in vertical. Vertical fullscreen is my new obsession.
omg the video is vertical i just noticed while scrolling, thats brilliant!
Holy shit, I realized like almost at the end, fucking amazing
Didn't even notice the aspect ratio of the video until the very end!
I will marry the first person who buys me an original Saul Bass poster
Well, you look handsome
He also directed the masterpiece Phase IV
MASTER
Great video. Saul Bass was always the daddy
I am definitely drawn to the minimalist approach and fonts which are difficult to identify. Any suggestions on the fonts he used?
Why did you delete the other video on posters?
Not a art world but movie ....
How can you talk about what the design represents and evokes of a film when you have not seen the film? I understand that these posters are unique design pieces and can be analysed as such, but they are inevitably linked to a story.
What Microphone do you use
Probably shure
We really need a return to form with film posters. Every Marvel poster, for instance, is innately inferior to its alternate design. Film as a medium is so detached from viewing itself as art that a mere shift in poster design might be what we need for perception to shift again. Disney is like the biggest company in the world and if they don’t feel safe marketing their products, how is film supposed to be safe as a whole?
They there for money
to say he put equal to or more effort into his posters than the directors did on their entire film is a bit of a stretch.
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oh man watching this video makes me dislike even more the current state of movie posters, where they just paste every single actors' face that appears in the film into one image
So you review the posters but you didn't watch the movies? Why are we here then? Some lazy aesthetical exercise? omg so cool #Millennials
This is the best use of the mobile phone aspect ratio that I've ever seen on a UA-cam video! I've never seen someone use this aspect ration in a creative way that actually matches the topic of the video.
Nerdwriter did it lately
Came down here to comment the same thing (not the nerdwriter thing)
you should check out a short film titled "The Dispute" by illegalciv it's use of portrait aspect ratio is really cool!
Another great example is Jamie Windsor's video 'The INSTAGRAM PROBLEM for PHOTOGRAPHERS':
ua-cam.com/video/Gu0zEniLKrs/v-deo.html
Such a great idea to have this as a poster ratio. Looks great on my phone!
take THAT david lynch!
By pure coincidence I decided to watch this on my phone whereas I typically don't. What a treat!
The Vertigo poster is glorious. It's so simple and violent.
The man grabbing the woman as she runs away.
Yet, it could also be looked at as him trying to save her from falling as she is off-kilter.
The swirl, which illustrates the disorientation associated with vertigo within the film, also looks like Madeleine and Carlotta's hair bun. It also centers the characters.
The man is the only figure in black, solid and central, while the woman is a mere outline, she takes on whatever color is in the background, sort of how Scotty really doesn't see Judy for who she is but what he can make her become which is Madeleine, the object of his obsession. She is an outline that he colors in with hair dye and clothes to make Judy into Madeleine once more.
Actually, when you look at the poster from a distance, you can't see the woman anymore, all that is left is a man crouching, caught in the tide of the spiraling circle, which could be used to show how in the end Scotty does end up alone, captured by the truth that his obsession brought him to.
God, I love this poster.
A very interesting watch, and the aspect ratio is especially striking on mobile
“I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares”
Non artist wouldn't ...or creative people
Really loved how you described the posters, "Feeling like Jazz". I've never used that phrase before but I love it and look for movies that give off that same feeling.
...but unlike jazz, which relies on improvisation, Bass' posters were the result dozens of drafts to reach the final image.
Old fashioned
The Thing Poster is just the best
Horror movie posters are just the best
movie posters without photos (old movie posters) are just the best
Please do a video on Stanley Kubrick´s frequent use of slow motion
What is there to say? He uses slow motion and he uses it well, hard to stretch that out into a video
Your editing is impeccable. The way you captured Bass's essence and even effectively used his style in transitions and text in this video is very admirable. Great work as always!
The poster for Django Unchained seems reminiscent of Saul Bass' posters
I love the editing and design flourishes in your essays... Great work!
Great video. Creating movies posters that symbolize and summarize the film’s theme or ideas is another step toward extending the story across different mediums.
Watching this on mobile is *chefs kiss*
I actually have 4 Saul Bass posters in my living room! Great video, vertical actually makes sense for his subject matter.
I think you did a pretty decent job emulating his style in the graphics.
It boggles the mind that Saul Bass is not included among the Great Artists of Post-WWII America. Roy Lichtenstein copied the style of comic books, Andy Warhol LITERALLY COPIED someone else's design for a soup can label - and they are Great Artists.....
I'd consider myself a fan of Bass's work but I had NEVER seen that Magnificent 7 poster before and it's incredible.
Also this is such a unique aspect ratio for a video and it really carries with the subject matter, this is so well made and enjoyable.
This video was great, I’d love to see a similar video on Polish Posters, they are world famous among designers but the history and style is unknown to many.
This dude must've loved Rothko.
Sooooo good! Love the insights. And what a gift to see all those posters back to back to back 🙌🏻
"neither films which I've seen. " no offense, but this is why I find channels like these wack as fuck.
I genuinely can't remember when I saw a good movie poster. Most these days SUUUUUUUUCCCK.
video brought to you on BEHALF OF, NOT BY, MUBI by someone whose Voiceover is sickeningly overconfident with appalling, repulsive inflections that betray arrogance and conceit.
holy shit, I never knew Bass made the shining poster! now I know why I liked it so much
.This is kinda fun to watch, I have a second screen that is set vertical. I had a take wondering why full screen filled my entire screen.
AGAIN...GREAT LITTLE FILM ...NO INFO ON WHO...WHAT ... OR BACKSTORY... ON IT'S INCEPTION...
Why did you take down the “beauty of the summer blockbuster” video and then put it back up after a while? It was kind of a long time ago that you did it but I just don’t know why
he put it back up? I've been looking for that video for a while, i love it.
I love how this is in a vertical form
Really youtube, an ad 1 minute in, half way through a sentence?
Thanks for the video. It's really inspiring to see someone create a video essay on a subject they know nothing about. Who needs research when you can regurgitate opinions about posters from movies you've never seen?
I was like why the fuck is that aspect ratio like this... then I was like, o ya that makes sense
You don't have to over pronounce the last word in every sentence.
Bass didn't do a poster for Phase IV?
"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter."
some of it looks good most of it looks like shit, minimalism is overrated.
I'd love it if you did a piece on Satoshi Kon!
Yeah, even with a video from Every Frame A Painting, he's still vastly underappreciated.
you have "Freakonomics" voice
You fucking bastard, this is glorious
What's the movie shown at 7:17 ?
These posters are boring and lame.
This is fucking GREAT!!
one of my favourites channels
Love your videos. Excellent analysis of Saul Bass.
That Bunny Lake Is missing is a sicks postee, and a very good movie by the way
I’m so happy channels like yours exist
There has been a great collection on display in the Stanley Kubrick exhibition that was on tour the past couple of years of Bass's storyboard art from Spartacus- Brilliant.
Funny you compare Saul Bass' approach to jazz as one of his clear influences was Henri Matisse whose arguable masterpiece was a book of posters entitled - Jazz!
Saul Bass. So that’s the name of the guy that I keep thinking modern posters need to emulate more often. Romantic movie poster tradition is once again rearing its giant floating head.
If you like those two poster especially and haven't seen those movies, sounds like they didn't do their job
the most satisfying vertical video i've seen in a long time, maybe ever
please do not fall into the same trap as that austin guy who speaks like a constant predictable roller coaster with content like this. The repetitive drops in tone at the end of each sentence, please nooooo
I knew about his film work but had no idea he'd done all those iconic logos.
Some of Saul Bass’ artistic visions remind me of the opening credit scene of Monsters Inc.
Been waiting for this video from you forever.
Saul Bass also designed the titles and credits to many of the movies that he created poster for. Usually the same design elements were in both. Can you show the titles and credits?
This wonderful man thank you
i always come back to this video, it truly is one of the coolest things on youtube
thanks for the effort and the sharing. i am an appreciative subscriber. thumbs up.
I should be watching this on my phone.
My hero. Brilliant. Genius. Love.
Loved this so much!!!
You. Bloody. Genius. Loved how you played with the aspect ratio for this one, just perfect.
Saul Bass’ voice sounds so much like Bernie Sanders.
Another magnificent video.
now i know why vertigo's poster is cool as hell
Love Saul Bass and love what you did with the vertical video.
your editing ..... it......s truly wonderful
These look pretty good
Hey nerdwriter, is that you ?
Never thought i'd fall in love with the look of a vertical video
This video was like holding a poster!
youre so good dawg. Wow
One of your best
YOUR VIDEOS ARE EVERYTHING!!!
Spectacular video
The framing is interesting
this is one of the greatest videos ive ever seen
the animation is done so well in this video!