24X36: A Movie About Movie Posters

2016

1h 39m

Documentary

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Filmmaker Kevin Burke explores the birth, death, and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster.

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Moderately interesting overview of the ever-changing art of the movie poster, leaning rather too heavily on the recent growth of alternative artists and design studios. There is legitimate criticism of the boring photo-montage type promotional one-sheets that infect every multiplex, but not enough history, and not enough coverage of the great poster artists of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Still, for anyone with even a passing interest this will serve as a good primer.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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A fun insight into nerd culture and movie posters! Made me want more wall space.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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excellent most enjoyable and interesting

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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I knew nothing about movie posters until I saw this movie - including how interesting the history is. I was pleasantly surprised. The art is spectacular, the culture is unique and the story was really well told. I highly recommend.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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I saw this at the Cleveland International Film Festival 2016. I'm fascinated by any documentary about the movie industry. This behind the scenes look at the history of movie posters and the many unrecognized artists who created posters before photographic designs became the norm since the 80s is entertaining. Many of the talking heads are current artists from the company Mondo, which releases new collectible hand drawn movie posters for recent and classic films. The history is interesting, and comparing the studio habit of unoriginal marketing materials for the last 40 years to the unique art work done by hand at Mondo recently is thrilling in a way. A peak at an unsung art form.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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Kevin Burke

Director

Paul Ainsworth

Self

Andrea Alvin

Self

David Byrd

Self

Tracie Ching

Self

Matthew Chojnacki

Self

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Leonard Maltin

leonardmaltin.com

Movie Posters is enjoyable and informative, especially if you have a yen for the subject as I do. Kevin Burke's entertaining film is primarily about the renaissance of posters and its artists who don't restrict themselves to standard sizes

May 1, 2017

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Emilie Black

Cinema Crazed

The film is well done and informative, but this reviewer found herself wanting them to dig deeper into the original poster art, the painted posters, maybe get interviews with painters that are currently working ...

Rated: 3.5/5

Apr 19, 2020

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Rob Gonsalves

Rob's Movie Vault

Never finds anything ironic or chilling in the notion of fans selling the past to each other.

Rated: C-

Sep 14, 2017

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Luke Y. Thompson

Nerdist

It's a tough grade here, as I like some of 24X36 a lot, but overall feel it's a missed opportunity. In the end, I think 2.5/5 burritos is fair enough.

Rated: 2.5/5

Jul 12, 2017

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Synopsis

Filmmaker Kevin Burke explores the birth, death, and resurrection of the illustrated movie poster.

Director: Kevin Burke
Producer: Matthew Chojnacki, Jared Dobbs, Wendy Donnan, Mike Gregory, Travis Stevens, Stephanie Trepanier
Production Co: Snowfort Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 4, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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