RIP Renato

 

Renowned film poster artist Renato Casaro died in his hometown of Treviso, Veneto Italy on September 30th. He was a month shy of turning 90. Renato was born on October 26, 1935, in Treviso. His early interest in posters reportedly began with movie advertisements. Every day he would go to the cinema to see if they were changing the posters, and if they were he would ask if he could take them home where he would try to reproduce them. In 1953, at age 18, Renato found a job as a staff artist at Studio Favalli, a famous design and art studio of Rome's film industry. In Rome, at age 21, Renato opened his own art studio. Dino De Laurentiis hired Casaro in 1965 to design the poster images for the film The Bible: In the Beginning.... After that, Casaro worked on many films with De Laurentiis, like “Flash Gordon”, “Dune” and “Conan the Barbarian”. At the same time Casaro continued his business, producing posters for different directors like Sergio Leone, Claude Lelouch, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Franco Zeffirelli and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. In 2019, Casaro was called by Quentin Tarantino to realize some "old school illustrated Western posters" ("Uccidimi Subito Ringo, disse il Gringo" aka "Kill Me Now Ringo, Said The Gringo" and "Nebraska Jim") for Italian films starring Rick Dalton, the character Leonardo DiCaprio plays in “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”.

Renato Cosaro’s westerns –European poster artist:

Buffalo Bill Hero of the Far West - 1963

A Fistful of Dollars - 1964

For a Few Dollars More – 1965

The Man Who Came to Kill – 1965

Outlaw of Red River - 1965

The Big Gundown - 1966

Blood at Sundown – 1966

A Few Dollars for Django - 1966

Go with God, Gringo - 1966

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 1966

Day of Anger - 1967

Death Sentence - 1967

The Stranger Returns – 1967

$10,000 for a Massacre - 1967

This Man Can’t Die - 1967

Vengeance is Mine – 1967

Bury Them Deep – 1968

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death - 1968

One More to Hell - 1968

A Bullet for Sandoval – 1969

Five Man Army – 1969

The Price of Power – 1969

Stalking Moon – 1969

Have a Good Funeral… Sartana Will Pay – 1970

Dead Men Ride! - 1971

Hallelujah Returns – 1971

A Town Called Hell - 1971

Trinity is Still My Name – 1971

Bad Man;s River - 1972

My Name is Nobody – 1972