20 Awesome Polish Posters  Mad ads from our mates abroad...
This week, we've been mostly digging through an archive of
spectacular Polish promo one-sheets.  They're strange, lateral
and really rather wonderful: striking colours, bizarre fonts,
and, unlike their western counterparts, dripping with outside-
the-box thinking.  Oh, and did we mention that a fair few of
them are also totally and utterly bonkers...?   The Empire
Strikes Back (1980)  If The Film Was Like The Poster: It'd be
the curious animated tale of a rainbow-quiffed transvestite (who
is that supposed to be, anyway...?) with a crippling addiction
to those old 54321 chocolate bars. In a cage.  Would we actually
watch that? Who cares!? We want a copy of that poster, and we
want it NOW. Preferably sooner.  Next: Duel[page-break]   Duel
(1971)  If The Film Was Like The Poster: Rather than a white-
knuckle cat-and-mouse thriller featuring poor old sweaty-mug
Dennis Weaver and his brush with The 18-Wheeler From Hell, it'd
be a revealing documentary abo