The Fittingly Frankenstein Creations of “Poor Things” Poster Designer Vasilis Marmatakis

“The movie’s poster is usually the first thing you see, so it should create an anticipation to see the film,” said Vasilis Marmatakis, the Greek graphic designer and illustrator behind the alluring poster art for Poor Things, a feminist riff on the Frankenstein legend that is up for 11 Oscars, including Best Picture. “It’s an entry point.”

In the age of social media and star contracts, which specify their face appear front and center on promotional materials,

Best of 2023: “Poor Things” Costume Designer Holly Waddington on Bringing Yorgos Langthimos’ Ecstatic Vision to Life

*It’s our annual “Best of the Year” look back at some of our favorite interviews from the year. 

Before costume designer Holly Waddington got started on Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos gave her a visual reference: inflatable pants. The futuristic-seeming trousers made by London College of Fashion graduate Harikrishnan buck the movie’s late-19th-century setting, which encouraged Waddington to ignore the norms of time and space.

“Poor Things” Production Designers Shona Heath and James Price on Going Gleefully Mad for Director Yorgos Lanthimos

When we first meet Bella Baxer, she’s a bit unusual. Not in a physical sense. All her arms and legs are accounted for, and playing the character is Academy Award winner Emma Stone so that you can be the judge of her beauty. But something about Bella is off. Turns out, she’s the creation of Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe), a renowned London scientist who reincarnated her adult body with the brain of a child.

“Barbie,” “Wonka,” “Poor Things,” and “Rebel Moon” Among Oscar Visual Effects Finalists

An iconic doll comes to life, a ribald story of a young woman resurrected, and a genius chocolatier’s life as a young man are among three of the subjects of the films that have been notified they’re finalists for the Visual Effects Oscar.

Barbie, Poor Things, and Wonka are the titles we’re talking about above, and they join 17 other films as they head into the next round of Oscar voting,

“Poor Things” Costume Designer Holly Waddington on Bringing Yorgos Langthimos’ Ecstatic Vision to Life

Before costume designer Holly Waddington got started on Poor Things, Yorgos Lanthimos gave her a visual reference: inflatable pants. The futuristic-seeming trousers made by London College of Fashion graduate Harikrishnan buck the movie’s late-19th-century setting, which encouraged Waddington to ignore the norms of time and space. No material would be too anachronistic, no fit too audacious. “I designed a whole series of things based on this idea of inflation and compression,”

“Poor Things” Pops in Venice as Emma Stone Earns Raves in Yorgos Lanthimos’s Stunner

With the 80th Venice International Film Festival still underway and the Telluride Film Festival just wrapping this past Sunday, some of the year’s most eagerly anticipated films have had their world premieres recently. Michael Mann’s racing epic Ferrari blew the doors off Venice, while Ava DuVernay made history at the fest by becoming the first Black U.S. director in the film’s 80-year history to have a film in the main competition,

“Poor Things” Teaser Reveals Emma Stone Risen From the Dead

Emma Stone and filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos have reunited, and the world is a better place for it. After their delicious collaboration in Lanthimos’s excellent 2018 film The Favourite, Stone and Lanthimos are back with Poor Things, which is centered on Bella Baxter (Stone), a young woman given a second shot at life after she’s brought back from the dead by the brilliant Dr. Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe). Lanthimos has made a string of unforgettable films,