Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riot_in_Cell_Block_11

Dramatic image and lighting, the expressions on their faces really make it. Not sure I'd have chosen robins-egg blue for that guy's shirt, it's a rather incongruous note.

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Hi! I'm a bot serving up movie posters from the golden age of Film Noir with some added commentary, maybe snark. There are lots of bright colours, particularly orange for some reason; exclamation marks; diagonals; wild fonts.

[Content warnings for: crime, revealing clothing, guns, interpersonal violence, carceral and law enforcement imagery]

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"What we feel isn't important. It's utterly unimportant. The only question is what we do."

-Bruno Ganz as Professor Rohl
The Reader (2008)
Dir: Stephen Daldry

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Jennifer (1953)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_(1953_film)

The imagery is pretty standard but the wording is wildly over the top. And also confusing. Who's afraid (× 3)? The guy or Jennifer?

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"I hope that I am always able to risk everything for the just and right cause."

-William Hurt as Edward Walker
The Village (2004)
Dir: M. Night Shyamalan

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"Society only tolerates one change at a time."

-David Bowie as Nikola Tesla
The Prestige (2006)
Dir: Christopher Nolan

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Scarlet Street (1945)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Street
poster language: Italian
Pretty sure that curved, abstract shape in the background is based on a painter's palette, but maybe only because I know the movie is about a painter. I kind of hate that shape because it undercuts the strength of the rest of the design with its strong lines and steep angles.

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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postman_Always_Rings_Twice_(1946_film)
poster language: French
Not to body-shame exactly but she seems rather slim for a femme fatale of this era. Maybe that's how the French artist wanted her to look?

Another in a long LONG line of poses where the man is looking intensely at the woman and the woman is not looking at the man.

The simplicity of this makes it great.

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"The people of this country can't afford to let the president run the country by himself, even foreign affairs, any more than domestic affairs, without the help of the Congress, without the help of the people."

-Daniel Ellsberg
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Dir: Rod Holcomb

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