Above: Us 2014 re-release poster for Othello (Orson Welles, Morocco/Italy, 1952) designed by Dark Star, Paris.
Orson Welles' glorious, noirish, idiosyncratic, benighted Othello opens in New York and Chicago today in a new restoration. And Wednesday, not coincidentally, saw the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. Shakespeare has been adapted for film since the silent dawn of cinema, so it seems only right and fitting that I should mark this occasion with the best posters for Shakespeare on film through the ages, presented here in chronological order.
Above: German poster for Hamlet (Svend Gade & Heinz Schall, Germany, 1921).
Above: Us one sheet for The Taming of the Shrew (Sam Taylor, USA, 1929).
Above: Us lobby card for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt, USA, 1935).
Above: 1956 Polish poster for Henry V (Laurence Olivier, UK, 1944) by Jozef Mroszczak.
Above: Australian poster for Henry V (Laurence Olivier, UK, 1944).
Above: French poster for Hamlet (Laurence Olivier,...
Orson Welles' glorious, noirish, idiosyncratic, benighted Othello opens in New York and Chicago today in a new restoration. And Wednesday, not coincidentally, saw the 450th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s birth. Shakespeare has been adapted for film since the silent dawn of cinema, so it seems only right and fitting that I should mark this occasion with the best posters for Shakespeare on film through the ages, presented here in chronological order.
Above: German poster for Hamlet (Svend Gade & Heinz Schall, Germany, 1921).
Above: Us one sheet for The Taming of the Shrew (Sam Taylor, USA, 1929).
Above: Us lobby card for A Midsummer Night’s Dream (William Dieterle & Max Reinhardt, USA, 1935).
Above: 1956 Polish poster for Henry V (Laurence Olivier, UK, 1944) by Jozef Mroszczak.
Above: Australian poster for Henry V (Laurence Olivier, UK, 1944).
Above: French poster for Hamlet (Laurence Olivier,...
- 4/25/2014
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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