This small gallery of hand-painted rural Russian movie posters is fascinating (pictured here, poster for "50 First Dates"). Here's the story behind them: "the posters were made in response to a nascent form of mobile cinema – entrepreneurs brought the latest foreign videos and films to Russia's rural hinterlands where they set up make-shift movie houses and they hired 'professionals' to promote the films with outrageous naive paintings. some theaters even had in-house artists to keep up with the torrent of releases."
(via We Make Money Not Art)
