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The Motel poster is nice. Never thought something like that would look good for a poster. Great compilation btw

Love it! Love ‘em all. Great collection of posters and creativity.

Love them all. The Motel and Broken Flowers are favourite, Broken Flowers especially since it doesn’t look like a traditional movie poster. But why did you use that version of the Being John Malkovich poster? The mask one is much better.

I really don’t see the exquisite in most of these posters.

Come on Smashing Magazine, Once you get a decent fanbase of strong rss readers doesn’t mean you can get lazy and make articles like this. I would of preferred 30 or even 15 well researched and exquisite posters rather then 40 which seem random with no thought into what makes them exquisite.

Glad and really surprised to “Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)” given its due recognition it deserves. Well done smashing Magazine! Hopefully the publisher will get their acts together and so finally we can see it in our local high street soon.

Exquisite, beautiful, excellent, you guys love your thesaurus.

Exquisite …? Not really …. Only few are impressive.

I like most of the posters which are shown here, e.g. Paris je t’ aime, Bug, The Machinist, Broken Flowers, … where can one buy them? Would be nice to have the one in my flat.

Honestly these are a very poor and undistinguished selection of posters (with the exception of ‘Birds of America’ and a couple of others). Maybe you can point us to what you thought was special about each of them?

This kind of post seems to split opinion every time you publish one. I originally subscribed to Smashing Mag because it was a great resource for web developers, with thoroughly researched and well written technical or design related posts, and I must say I think that you still do that very well.

But now it seems like these posts are becoming overshadowed by the 50 most stunning/beautiful/inspiring/… photos/posters/album covers/cereal boxes… posts. Personally, I’m very interested in photography, but I think there are other blogs out there which do this kind of thing better. But I appreciate that a lot of your readers love this kind of thing…

Have you considered publishing two or more feeds to keep these things separate. That way your readers could choose to subscribe to the one that most interested them, or to several posts if their interests spanned more than one subject area.

That way you might avoid all the negative posts that dominate the comments after every article.

Bill Murray gets around a bit eh?!

Nice posters and good films, as well.

Double A for Smashing!
They’re great movies, someones very confuse and bizarre. It could be interesting inform who create them.

Nice.

Does anyone know the font for the title on The Savages?

Thanks!

Great set of posters. Never seen many of these movies but the posters look awesome.

I myself am a fan of “independent” films, especially those featuring indie greats Matthew Perry, Lauren Bacall, Bill Murray and Scarlett Johansson.

Great collection!

Lars and the Real Girl is a hilarious movie. I highly recommend it.

My Blueberry Nights was one of the worst movies I’ve seen in a long, long time. I didn’t even get all the way through it. Yuck.
The second and third posters on this list are awesome.

I’m not quite sure how the “Akeelah and the Bee” (worst title for a movie ever) poster makes this list. Can someone please explain?

What have happended to the Font of the month?

What about Big Fish?
http://www.impawards.com/2003/big_fish.html
Amazing poster & a movie.

helpful as always! I just worked on a movie poster for an independent film for a friend and I always find great inspiration here. There is something about the independent films that I love. The style, writing and everything down to their creative posters. Me gusta! :)

It’s too bad you didn’t include the names of the designers who created these posters – but I suppose that would have required some extra sleuthing.

That is a really interesting collection. Honestly I did not know all these films yet, but will try to do so the soonest. Was also interesting to see the posters for such films also I knew, as I did not really remember the belonging poster picture. Anyway, great idea, congratulations!
Ann

Why are these great? Cause I’m not all that impressed with most of them. How about some explanation please? Seems like all they did was a Google search for “indie film posters”, and put the first 40 results up here.

My favs from the list:

Birds of America
Whale Rider
Before the devil knows you’re dead
Sideways (also the cover of the book = great)
Requiem for a dream (GREAT movie)
Hard Candy = bad-ass

I’m not really impressed with the Brick poster, but I’ll check the movie just because the poster is hand made (or so it seems!)

I like much better the other posters of Eagle vs shark, this one is a bit more out of the box, but not as attractive i think.

That’s it, longer comment than usual.. :)

Beautiful Losers def needs to be on this list:

http://www.impawards.com/2008/posters/beautiful_losers.jpg

hey, the descent poster looks alike silence of the lamb unreleased poster.

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I loved that poster for ‘Zoo’ from the first time I saw it. Awesome artwork, and so very evocative.