100 Greatest Film Noir posters

[Steve-O]

The Professor has a good eye for pulp art. He's starting a thread on his blog counting down the top 100 film noir movie posters. A must read!

http://wheredangerlives.blogspot.com...-noir-100.html

Let’s get started! I have a feeling that as I go through this countdown, I’ll be waging a continuous battle against my own judgment, and the compulsion to reorder my selections. As I pause over each image to write the blurbs, I find myself noticing new details and making new discoveries that beg for a reassessment of the list. As a rule, I won’t do this unless I feel my oversight is positively glaring. I need remind myself that I looked at over 500 film noir one-sheets for this exercise (over the course of numerous sittings, not to mention the time spent in Photoshop) and that for every design I chose to include at least four were left out.

[The Professor]

Thanks boss!

If anyone stops by, there are currently two posts up covering numbers 100 - 81, ten new posters will go every Friday until we reach #1.

And feel free to download all the hi-res, cleaned-up posters.

[The Professor]

#'s 80-71 now up! Click here to jump to the blog.

[The Professor]

I wanted to return to this thread when the countdown finally came to an end, but it kept slipping my mind. At any rate, here are links to each set of rankings.

100-91 | 90-81 | 80-71 | 70-61 | 60-51 | 50-41 | 40-31 | 30-21 | 20-11 | The Top 10