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THE BEST REPERTORY POSTERS OF THE DECADE

OOKENDED BY TWO VERY DIFFERENT POSTERS FOR JANUS releases of 1970s television series by and —the past decade has seen an explosion of revival key art fueled by art prints and fan-created designs, as well as the popularity of the 4K restoration and the milestone anniversary re-release. The Fassbinder posters were designed and illustrated by two different Sams: Smith and Hadley. Some of the most memorably quirky and delightful rep work of the 2010s has come from New Zealand–based Dylan Haley () for Arbelos and Kino Lorber, while Glasgow-based Jen Davies has produced a decade’s worth of stylish quad posters—including the above stunner for —for U.K. revival house Park Circus (for which Brandon Schaefer also contributed the marvelous minimalist artwork). Rounding out my favorites are Scott Meola’s elegant monochrome for Straub-Huillet (filmmakers you would otherwise rarely see represented by fan art), and Midnight Marauder’s colorful resetting of the David Hockney doc .