Director Rian Johnson has released a hand-drawn poster for his upcoming saccharine and whimsical con man film, “The Brothers Bloom” starring Adrien Brody, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo and Rinko Kinkuchi.
Unfortunately you’ll never see it in theaters officially, though you’ll see a semi-similar (more audience friendly) version on the film’s official website.
But Johnson clearly loves this unofficial version and is encouraging you to print them out on your own. He writes:
“This is not a new official one sheet for the movie. Instead, it’s something I asked my cousin Zach to work up, mostly just to hang on our walls. I’m really proud of Zach’s work on it, I think it captures the tone of the movie in a very special way. Summit has been kind enough to host the images on their Bloom site. To get them, go here, scroll down a little and click “WATCH,” then scroll down a little more. There are three sizes, “tiny” for the web, “small” for printing on regular 8.5 x 11 paper, and “huge” if you want to take it to a copy shop and print out a full sized poster.”
And though we didn’t love “The Brothers Bloom” affectations we greatly appreciate the list of con man movie favorites, Johnson has listed out on the official site which includes classic duplicity gems like Preston Sturges’ “Lady Eve,” with Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda, Peter Bogdanovich’s “Paper Moon” with Ryan O’Neal and his daughter Tatum O’Neal, George Roy Hill’s “The Sting” with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, and modern classics like David Mamet’s “The Spanish Prisoner,” Stephen Frears’ “The Grifters” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.” He also gives a shout-out to the non-con film, but classic nonetheless, Ingmar Bergman’s fraught family tale, “Fanny & Alexander,” and legerdemain expert and great character actor Ricky Jay.
It’s a great list of films and consider yourself uneducated in the conman genre if you haven’t seen them (hop to it now). “The Brothers Bloom,” opens in New York and L.A. on May 15, expands to select cities on May 22 and is in theaters everywhere on May 29. As stylishly asphyxiating and cloying as the picture can be at times, you’re still better off seeing it before you see 90% of multiplex crap. [Tumblr]