Poster service The poster expert Paul Rennie explains why some billboard designs work while others don’t
Poster service: It's a Wonderful Life This year's credit crunch Christmas has an upside: it's made Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) required viewing. Luckily, the film has become a staple of holiday scheduling. Paul Rennie talks you through the story - and its backstory
Poster service: Stranger than Paradise Poster service: This week Paul Rennie explores the world behind the poster for Jim Jarmusch's Stranger than Paradise
Poster service: North by Northwest Poster service: Paul Rennie analyses the poster and title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest
Once Upon a Time in the West: Spaghetti or toast Paul Rennie Poster service: This week Paul Rennie takes a magnifying glass to his favourite film, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West
Pullman's potent mix of magic and technology Paul Rennie Paul Rennie on a thrilling combination of Victorian invention and traditional fantasy elements
New York girl Paul Rennie on a classic expression of New York sophistication that is still popular half a century later
The Left Handed Gun: Pop goes the poster Paul Rennie on a rough-and-ready, student-designed poster for Arthur Penn's revisionist take on Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Vertigo: Disorientation in orange Paul Rennie explains the origins, details and consequences of Saul Bass' revolutionary design
The poster for Blow Up explodes with urgency London in the 1960s was a place of enormous change and cosmopolitanism. The poster for Blow Up encapsulates the age brilliantly
Scarface: a world of black and white - and red Paul Rennie This week Paul Rennie shows how the much-blu-tac'd poster for Scarface reflects the film's origins in the gangster genre
Revolution on the barrel of a gun Paul Rennie This week we're going back to the USSR and analysing the poster for Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
Polish up on your Polish posters Paul Rennie The state-owned nature of the film industry in Poland meant that its poster makers were freed up from the usual constraints - with extraordinary results
Poster service: The Exorcist Paul Rennie Dark and light, silhouette and rain all speak of the moral anxiety plaguing the US in the early 70s, writes Paul Rennie
Poster service: Girls and guns in the French new wave Paul Rennie explains the revolutionary origins of the posters of the Nouvelle vague
Cuban posters don't just flog a film, they distinguish their audience Paul Rennie Continuing our series examining great film posters. Today, Paul Rennie explains the origins of Cuban cinema promos
Poster service: Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Continuing our series analysing classic film posters. Today: an Ealing classic, with a promo by John Piper
Poster service: Gone with the Wind The film poster is a branch of graphic design quite distinct from the world of outdoor advertising. But how do they work? And what do they mean?
