Stuff I Dig: Weird but Dope Movie Posters

I love movie posters that enhance or comment or go beyond the film it advertises.  In doing so, it becomes a work of art.  Although I had always admired a good movie poster when I saw one, I hadn't noticed the artistic possibilities of the movie poster until I read this article by Michael Atkinson, "POLISH MOVIE POSTERS: One of the Great Secrets of Twentieth-Century Pop Art" in Believer's 2009 Film issue:

Pulp form, thumbnail allusiveness, hyperbole, uncouth syntax—this much we all understand about movie posters, truly a public art form only Papuan tribesmen could claim to be ignorant of. Until we go to Poland. Outside of its fevered circle of cultists, the authentic phenomenon of Polish movie posters remains one of the great secrets of twentieth-century pop art. There are large-format books published here showcasing Italian movie art, Japanese posters, American exploitation graphics (no shortage of these), and, remarkably, amateur posters for Hollywood films made by Ghanaian artists on secondhand flour sacks. But none of the Polish. Nowhere else but in Poland has the very concept of movie-poster design gotten such a radical overhaul, and nowhere else has it so persisted at identifying itself as a freestanding object. The primary philosophical singularity at work in the tradition of Polish movie posters going back at least to the ’50s is this: The poster art need not visually suggest the movie in question in any concrete way whatsoever. In fact, direct visual reference to anything in the film is often shunned. The poster should at most semiconsciously evoke the thematic feeling of the movie (or its title—in many instances, Polish posters seem to be created with abject ignorance of the cinematic work itself). The artists chosen are prized for their intensely idiosyncratic visions, to which the movie-poster form and the marketing exigencies of a particular film must defer, not vice versa.

Some Polish movie posters here and here.

And now here's this fan-made poster on I read about on reddit and the AV Club. 
Simply dope.

Btw, here's a little message from "the guy who created this poster here."

So asides from watching the film a dozen or so times, for this poster I actually watched it three times while making it. I wanted to capture as much detail of every suit as possible, even down to the folds of the handkerchiefs. It truly was an obsession.
You can read more about the process of how I made that poster and the others in my Scorsese series here:
http://ibraheemyoussef.com/blog/?p=615
Edit: I'm also participating next month at the Spoke Art, "SCORSESE: an art show tribute" happening at Bold Hype Gallery in Chelsea, NYC April 19th, with a lot of other great artists, show will be on for one week only. Here is a little more on the show from the Spoke Art FB page:
http://on.fb.me/13RCOrm