Thursday, 21 October 2010

My 12 favourite local movie posters of the past decade

Restricted to movies that were commercially released here. 

I also picked only the posters used for the Malaysian release; for example, I much prefer the international festival poster of Sell Out? to what was used in Malaysia and Singapore

I have also modestly not included the posters of movies in which I served as director or producer -- although anyone can tell you that the ones for Susuk and Punggok Rindukan Bulan are bloody brilliant.



Also my nominee for Best Tagline:
"Love. Despair. Love. Despair."
Tagline goes on 2 words too long!


Pity about that horrible GSC logo.












Pity I don't have a clearer image of this;
  it captures the Gila-Gila aesthetic so well.
















Those are the 12. A special mention goes to:


Why only Special Mention? Because I initially quite liked it, and then I saw this!

10 comments:

  1. Oh yes, the "Senario Lagi" poster is also the best 'racing movie' poster.

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  2. Love the non-movie-poster-looking posters! The others look a bit too cliched...

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  3. yeap yeap, love it too!! Dukun is bloody brilliant too!

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  4. Hanyut poster will be the trend setter, no?

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  5. PSB, Yes I quite like "Karaoke", but I suppose I slightly prefer the festival poster.

    GuiKP, I look forward to both the "Hanyut" and "Bunga Lalang" posters the most for next year.

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  6. gambar yg di-komposisi khas utk tujuan rekaan poster memang terbaik!

    kalau tahun 50/60-an dikata zaman emas filem melayu (dgn byk poster buruk. ada yg ok), mungkin sekarang zaman emas poster filem pulak haha..

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  7. i like the joshua tapes. simple.

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  8. i love Gadoh's poster. it got that hollywood indie kinda vibe. hehe...

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  9. It's by the same designer as "Histeria" and my book "Yasmin Ahmad's Films"!

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