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Favourite Movie Posters
Posted by STD on 20 June 2011 - 7:24pm.
We've probably all had at least one movie poster on our wall.
Some are works of art.
Some just do a great job of whetting your appetite for a film (like this Joker poster...)
Some, once seen, are never forgotten. (I could have used Nastassja Kinski looking over her shoulder in 'Paris Texas' but let's have this..)
(I particularly like the - let's call it - drool running down)
Any favourites - particularly less well known posters you'd like to champion?
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The big blue
It's a beautiful poster
but the image is from the alternative "up" ending grafted on for the US release of the film so it always feels a little false to me..
Thanks for the info'
I didn't know it related to the usa version. I have always preferred the french/english version. Still the poster always reminds me of the film I love. i always liked the idea that when the film was plyed in France in late night shows they sprayed 'sea air' into the cinemas.
Also one of my favourite soundtracks too.
This is one of my favourites...
for Federico Fellini's Le Notti di Cabiria.
Sofia
Out of Sight
I like this one and it was a good film too
This is great too...
The poster for Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari.
I never knew Peter Murphy was in that film
You live and learn
the only
reason he was cast is because bela lugosi's dead...
On my wall for years
Now rolled up in loft, awaiting proper framing and convincing Mrs D that it is ART
Great movie, great poster...
The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Good call!
and great Basil Kirchen soundtrack!
George Peppard's Finest Hour
That's Fantastic!
All that's missing is a speech bubble coming from George Peppard exclaiming "Achtung! Schweinhund!" (and perhaps an 'aaiiieeee!!!!" from the Zeppelin...)
Hände hoch ...
like you, i learnt all my german from war picture library!
If...
I'm kinda biased because this is one of my favourite films, but this is still a great piece of pop art that encapsulates the violent rebellion of '68 and which still looks cool today
ping ping ping ...
this is a clever one, in that
it's made up of hundreds of stills from the movie.
Another clever one...
The Polish version of "Blow-Up" - it doesn't really work small as you can see that it's a face, but actual size (like the one on my wall!) it just looks like an op-art piece, so it's very in keeping with the theme (and period) of the movie...
When I was a student, no male's room was complete..
..unless it had this on the wall. Apart from the DVD and Unrated Directors Cut bit. DVDs hadn't been invented when I was a student. CDs were still regarded as highly futuristic back then.
"Beatrice Dalle. Lips like a pair of mating li-los and a body designed by a committee of perverts.."
- Martin Deeson. I think.
VHS
Did anybody ever get past the first five minutes?
I certainly didn't.
No matter how often I tried.
Great poster
Great movie
This would be
absolutely unthinkable now:
Clearly,
You've not been to Lanarkshire lately.
Uma, bed, fag.
This must've been on every wall of every student room when I was at uni, and rightly so. It's genuinely iconic.
Disturbing film
Disturbing poster
BTW...Empire of the Sun, Spielberg's best.
I've always liked...
... this one.
... and, of course, it's a great film, too.
When I was seven, this..........
had me salivating for weeks on end. My 9 year old now has one on his wall.
Drool.
I had this on my wall as a nipper. It stayed up for nearly a decade until it just fell apart.
Hammer had a habit of producing posters
which were better than the films. I've never seen this but I just know it's not going to be as exciting as the poster
That's the best movie title ever!
( Though it does sound like it could be a frowned upon Word thread pitting the Golden Gods against some cult prog rockers...)
Sadly, the film doesn't actually exist...
Hammer used to go to film festivals with mocked-up film posters like "Z V P" to gauge response to high concepts before going to the trouble of investing in incidentals like, well, scripts, stuff like that. See also...
Another classic...
As a fan of exploitation films
This is actually quite a decent film and really not as lurid as the poster suggests.
You've reminded me of this film
which has several great posters. I like this one
I did not know
Ray Davies was in that film...
This one was a little bit of genius marketing
Poor old Kevin McKidd
He was supposed to be on that poster, but was unavailable on the day of the shoot, so Kelly Macdonald did it instead. Gutted.
That said, the poster is much better for the presence of Diane.
Absolutely
I don't think it would have worked anywhere near as well with an all male line up.
Pretty much anything by Saul Bass, but this is a favourite
http://www.albumartexchange.us/images/vertigo_poster.jpg
Also happens to be my all time favourite movie.
(Why isn´t the link turning into a picture?)
Broadsword to Danny Boy ...