Another Cool Poster for Woody's 'Tall Dark Stranger'

I liked the first poster for Woody Allen's You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger and now there's a new one. Ditto. And I love that they're using the strongest color combination in marketing - red, white, and black - so it's eye-catching, and then it's got a really nice throwback design.
Enlarge it, I dare you This is, of course, the Spanish poster for the film, which hit IMP Awards yesterday. Much like the first one, a playing card sketch, there isn't a whole lot to the new Tall Dark Stranger poster, but sometimes less is more, and because the title of this film brings to mind a vision by a cheap psychic huckster, I think an air of mystery fits very well here. We shared with you a few days ago Woody's list of his favorite films of his own. You rarely hear directors go down that road, and you don't hear Allen talk about anything all that much, so this was a rare peek inside. You should know by now that he has some self-esteem issues, and even though he's one of the most accomplished filmmakers of his generation, he feels like he hasn't done a very good job.

"I've squandered an opportunity that people would kill for. I have had complete artistic freedom. Other directors don't get that in their lifetime. But I have a very poor record given the opportunities I've had. Out of 40 films I should have 30 masterpieces, eight noble failures and two embarrassments, but it hasn't worked out that way. "Many of the films are enjoyable by the mean standards of movies, but look at what has been accomplished by people who have done beautiful things - Kurosawa, Bergman, Fellini, Bunuel, Truffaut - and then look at my films. I have squandered my opportunities and I have nobody to blame but myself. I can't blame a studio's interference. I used the actors, scripts and music I wanted. I cut them the way I wanted. Still they weren't great."

Well, some of them are, if that's any consolation. As for his new one, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger opens in September.

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Allen needs to chiill, I love him, Im a huge Woody fan, he is ranked up there as one of the greatest writer-directors of all time, in my opinion...

But he is comparing himself with juggernauts of film history.... Woody just keep it going!