Italian movie-poster artist Renato Casaro, 89, died on Sept. 30. Such directors as Dino De Laurentiis, Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, Bernardo Bertolucci, Luc Besson, Franco Zeffirelli, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder requested Casaro, whose work appeared on posters for My Name Is Nobody, Quadrophenia, Conan the Barbarian, Octopussy, Never Say Never Again, Rambo: First Blood Part II, Red Sonja, and Flesh and Blood (he also did the “film within a film” posters for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood). Renato told Film on Paper, “I was at the cinema to see a film almost every day. As well as enjoying the films themselves, I fell immediately in love with the posters that were displayed when a new film was showing. I used to go by the cinema every day to see if they were changing the posters and when they were I would ask if I could take them home. I was usually in luck and would run home with the poster and go into my bedroom to study it before attempting to paint a copy of it.”
