Sweet Saul Bass-Inspired 'Buried' Poster

You're probably a big fan of Saul Bass even if you don't know it. The artist and graphic designer is responsible for tons of movie posters, like Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, handsomely appropriated for the latest one-sheet for Buried, starring Ryan Reynolds.

Poster courtesy of MTV What a great tip of the cap that is, although when he was still alive, Bass considered the poster for Spike Lee's Clockers - which was obviously inspired by Bass' Anatomy of a Murder poster - to be a rip off instead of an homage.

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New Clips and Poster from The Coen Brothers' 'Burn After Reading'

What do you get when you take The Coen Brothers, Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton, Frances McDormand, greedy but bumbling health club employees, the unpublished memoirs of a CIA agent, and blackmail? You get Burn After Reading, which looks like another potential classic from Joel and Ethan. Before we saw anything from this film - posters, trailers, and clips - we heard Clooney talking it up as the conclusion to his "Idiot Trilogy" with the brothers, following O Brother Where Art Thou and Intolerable Cruelty. (Can't we just skip that second one?) And the more we've seen over the past few months, the more we truly understand what he means. We've been tipped by a Big Picture reader to the existence of another new poster, again inspired by the legendary Saul Bass. The last time we published a poster for this flick, it was unapproved, so we had to remove it. I like this one better, anyway, which was on display over at JoBlo. Very nice. And there's more good news. In addition to learning that we'll be having a Big Picture Premiere for the film on September 11th - that's very exciting - Worst Previews has four brand new clips from Burn After Reading. If you don't know what an "Idiot Comedy" is in the world of Joel and Ethan Coen, these scenes ought to clear it up. Or you could just talk to people who really thought that Bigfoot press conference would blow the lid off everything. Burn After Reading will open on September 12th. Let's hope it can live up to, well, every last ounce of footage we've seen so far.