There’s a name for the winners in this world

What should have been a brief essay on why exactly it  is that I find functionalism such a debasing and human-loathing structure turned into a comparison of polish and american movie posters (call it overreaching to find art trends that support your view). Nevertheless, Polish poster art has always been a very different ballgame. Working around the concept of the movie, a stray scene capturing some of the very essence of it rather than a flawless re-rendering of the main cast – is one of the cornerstones of polish movie poster art.

Modern postermaking has turned into a masturbatory display in the use of Photoshop, Maya and other rendering tools. Below are some refreshing examples of artists capturing a fleeting, defining, moment in a style seeming aloof yet so accurate to form and concept.

And as to any functionalist purgatory of human degradation, I’ll return to the matter.

The Exorcist

Blade Runner

Raging Bull

The Elephant Man

The Illusionist

Star Wars

The Great Race

My Stepmother Is An Alien

Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid

Brubaker

Raiders Of The Lost Ark

The Getaway

Sugarland Express

Blue Thunder

The Empire Strikes Back