Post your favourite Posters.

Here's a case where I like the movie, but I just love the poster. This is the Star Wars Style D which Drew Struzan (and another guy) created. This poster was actually released in 1978 a year after the movie debuted. Information that I'm sure all of you already know. I should also note that there's a Fan Club re-issue from the '90's, so be careful when buying one.




The above Star Wars poster is my favorite of any that I've seen, but then there is the "Birthday" style which I think is cool. It's an anniversary poster that was only sent to theatres that played Star Wars for an entire year straight; it's a very rare poster to find, and the last one that went to auction sold for an astounding (although it was expected) $2,300. The buyer of it is the daughter of Rudy Franchi who runs and owns http://www.nostalgia.com



Here's the Nightmare on Elm Street quad which is the best poster on the title I've seen, although the Japanese B2 isn't bad either. I posted this photo in the Creature Corner forum some time ago, but it's worth seeing again.

The Evil Dead one-sheet is very nice.


Then there's Polish posters. Collector's are often surprised by how graphic and weird they are, but I like them quite a bit. I do not own any yet, but I'll add that the reason I like them is that they're smart and often funny. Like a Saul Bass credit sequence, they get to the heart of the movie in just seconds. Unfortunately, Polish poster artists are rarely used today, especially once the same images were used worldwide.

Here's an '80's re-release for Orson Welles' Citizen Kane



And a bizarre Gremlins poster



The brilliant Day of The Jackal poster which is much smarter than the movie itself.



An '80's re-release of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby. This is one of the best designed Polish posters I've seen.



And in honor of the Clint Eastwood appreciation thread, I present the Polish poster for High Plains Drifter. Sorry I couldn't find a better photo, but I think you'll get the idea.

Yeah, there are a lot of great Polish movie posters.

2001: A Space Odyssey


Apocalypse Now


Face/Off(I love this one)


A couple of great theater posters from Poland too.

King Lear


Julius Caesar

The ones above are wondeful. I think that Polish poster for Rosemary's Baby is simply fanstastic.

Great designs.

I'll keep with the Clint Eastwood posters for awhile and see what I can dig up.

The Gauntlet: the poster was illustrated by Frank Frazetta (he'll have at least one other here) and I must say I haven't seen the movie. This image is used on the one-sheet, but I think it looks better on the half-sheet (they measure 22" x 28"); either way, it's a wonderful image I think.



Unforgiven: This is the advance (aka teaser); the regular one-sheet is a bland floating heads motif. Reprints of this poster have flooded the market, but if you do find an original, expect to pay $150-$200. Eastwood fans love this one-sheet and deservedly so.



Dirty Harry: Classic!



Hmmm...I'm having trouble tracking down a few of Clint's Italian posters, in particular, a set of character posters with him and Lee Van Cleef that are just bad-ass.

Damn Speed, those are my kinda sleaze. Very nice.

Barbarella had a great poster campaign throughout the world and it was treated much the same way the James Bond posters were.

The first poster is the UK quad (they measure 30" x 40") and it's one of my top five (or so) wanted posters.



The second poster is from the Czech release and it plays up the movies comic-book origin well I think.



The third we have the Japanese B2 (they measure 20 x 28 or 29) which seems to be very rare.



The Style B US one-sheet. Love this design!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

There isn't anything quite like sexploitation. I personally liked the big red-head at the bottom.

Desperate Living is another movie with interesting posters, but this is by far the best of the lot. It's an Italian poster from its original release; looking at it reminds me of the scene in True Romance where Drexel asks Christian Slater why he hasn't noticed that set of tits on the tv beside him.

Very cool thread, and I never knew all those Polish designers were so talented....

My favourite poster has to be the French version of Clockwork Orange....





Also very cool if slightly OT is the artwork for the original soundtrack:




Couldn't find a bigger image, but you get the idea, it's Beethoven holding the glass of milk...

If anyone is a James Bond fan and would like to see just about every Bond poster ever created, with artist listings and so forth then check out: http://www.artofjamesbond.com My PC is never able to load the images for some reason, but it's a wealth of information inside.

Dr. No: Classic "country of origin" quad.



The American posters for From Russia With Love are bland; they're almost entirely red and feature a few ladies. The poster campaign throughout the rest of the world was much better though.

The first is the "country of origin" quad. I should note that all of the Bond quads were later reprinted in the '80's and they measure at 27 x 37, or close.



And the Japanese B2. The Japanese posters from the '60's and '70's were almost all photo montages and this is an excellent example of one.





The Goldfinger quad is my second favorite of the Bond posters I've seen. It's beautiful and elegant and unforunately out of my price range. The same image was used on the US half-sheet.



And there's the 24-sheet. A 24-sheet measures a whooping 9' x 20'; they're actually the paper applied to the large billboards. Hard to display, but goddamn it'd be worth it just to have this in your place somewhere.



The most die-hard Bond collector's I found out seek the obscure promotional posters that were used for motorcycles or tires. This one from Thunderball is very slick I think.



Continuing with Thunderball the worldwide campaign of this film was astounding; nearly every country has a great poster. Below is the 24 sheet; again, this would be astounding mounted inside someone's home.



The subway poster (they measure 45" x 60" I think), which is actually one of two; the other says "Look Down" and there maybe a third.



And my all-time favorite Bond poster is the Thunderball door panel set. Actually, I only like two of the posters in the set and I can't quite explain why I do so much. They just have such a cool look a feel to them; very modish I think. I've seen the fourth in the set, which is orange and features another of the actresses, but it's rather ugly I think. Oh, and the images themselves were taken from an issue of Esquire magazine that was published in part to promote Thunderball.



May as well show Roger Moore some attention as well.

I've seen one other Brown Bunny poster (the one posted here is nice) with the motorcycle in the center at a distance. It's cool as well. I think the Clockwork Orange poster that El Topo posted was also used during the film's 1980 re-release, although I could be wrong. There's a Style B from the 70's that's close in spirit to the Polish posters. I'll see if I can find an image of it tomorrow.




I didn't realize it was this late already. Well anyway, these bottom two I own and I can't wait to have them on display later this year. The second poster was my Holy Grail blaxploitation piece and it took me just over a year to find one, and then on Ebay all of sudden three popped up within two weeks. Odd.



And the lovely Pam....

Some of my personal favourites:



From my actual wall:

Holy shit! Where the hell did that ROTK poster come from? I thought the marketting for that movie was phenominal, but that's probably the best poster I've seen. Is there a series of those?


And I can't find an image of it on its own, but the Style B poster for Lost in Translation with Scarlett Johannsen is absolutely beautiful:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0335266/posters

I love this 12 Monkeys poster...



The Italian poster for the original Godfather...





The classic...



And, of course...

Okay, I found the Apocalypse Now Japanese poster I'd been looking for.




And the German one-sheet. The illustration was created by Bob Peak and was orignally going to be used stateside, but at the last moment, it was a German-only export. This one has picked up steam with collector's quite a bit lately.

What a weird poster to use for Apocalypse Now...it looks all CG and that isn't a shot from the movie. And why is there a person in the waves?

The Japanese poster is my favorite of the Apocalypse Now posters I've seen and it's large one, measuring in at 45" x 60" (I think). I like how the artist (and I've forgotten his name) used two scenes and spliced them together on one poster.

Definitely. The surfer is a real nice touch.

It is an awesome, awesome poster.

Finally!

I found the For a Few Dollars More character posters I'd mentioned earlier. These were produced for the use in Italian cinemas only and have proven to be quite scarce. The Eastwood poster is nice, but I prefer the Van Cleef actually.

I have this on my door:

Very nice Charles; you can't go wrong with a Sergio Leone western poster. Hell, even the DVD release poster from this year was nicely done.

I wasn't a fan of the Lord of The Rings posters, but this is well-done design I think.

Have you ever seen the film? He's surfing, as per direction from Kilgore.

Actually, I've already got it hanging proudly on my wall. I ran across a copy in, of all places, the poster store at the mall. It's quite possibly my current favorite poster that I own.

I like that LOTR poster with Frodo looking down at the ring a lot. It's probably my favorite next to these...

For a video poster, that isn't bad; better than the US one-sheet for sure.. Just looking at the chainsaw carrying father I had to laugh, and to think people would actually pay to listen to Wes Craven speak in person.

That can't be dispusted.

Nice. Never seen that one before. My favorite is still the original one that's on the DVD.

I liked this one too. Kinda funny actually...

Mean Streets (En Español)

What?!? Oh man, the one-sheet (same art as the dvd) is brilliant! The French Mean Streets poster is kinda funny because I just picture De Niro saying, "You've always been a jerk off" over and over.

I just noticed the additional Polish posters that Aetius posted and I must agree: Face/Off is great!; 2001 is very cool and a son of a bitch to find; Apocalypse Now is just more proof that a guy could put together a nice collection of posters only from that film. Love the detail of the helicopters around Brando's head.

I think the design work is extremely clever. Kind of how that Gangs of New York sheet with the NY skyline in the flag was. I'd love to see some other ones besides the two posted above though.

Love that scene.

I got my Martin Scorsese boxset from Amazon today and I have got to say, I really dig black and white one sheets. The images from Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore and Who's That Knocking at My Door are really nice.

Very nice indeed.