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Above: Czech poster for Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, Italy, 1968).As I’m sure I’ve said before, the world of Czech movie posters is never less than an embarrassment of riches. I keep discovering new artists that I was never aware of previously, all with an impressive body of work behind them. The other day, as I was looking through the new acquisitions of my favorite poster shop, Posteritati, I came across this striking poster for Once Upon a Time in the West: a fascinating combination of bold color, eccentric collage, pop art elements and unusual typography. I wasn’t aware of the name of Stanislav Vajce before that but a quick search on the store's website and elsewhere revealed a wild array of some of the most exciting and inventive Czech posters I have seen in a while. As with so many of...

Goran Visnjic is to appear in a movie in his native Croatia for free. The ER heartthrob has accepted a part in the film Long Dark Night - which will be directed by his father-in-law Antun Vrdoljak. Vrdoljak is clearly delighted by securing the services of his famous relative, saying, "Goran has a four-year contract with Warner Bros and he is paid in six-digit amounts for every episode. Here we could pay him 10 or 15 thousand pounds, so he reacted as a gentleman and refused to receive any payment." The 29-year-old actor will play the role of a Second World War partisan fighting the Nazi invaders. And he is so committed to making the movie, he will miss three episodes of ER while filming in Croatia.