The movie poster thread

Mathis1

Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »

I just posted this on another thread, fantastic poster from a great movie.

Havent seen that poster before for it, excellent from a brilliant thriller!

Tracy

https://www.photobox.co.uk/album/temporary

TX Chainsaw ita 4sh (sgd Hansen/Hooper) 1975

B Lee FoF leb 1sh , vhtf (1st issue ?) 1973 ?
Lee BB ita 2sh (rejected style , FoF already released as "Chinese fury" so BB was renamed to "Chinese fury strikes again" instead) , super rare 1973
Lee WoD ger #A 1sh , htf 1975
R80 Lee WoD ita 4sh (3rd or later issue , same art as 1st) , vhtf

Loren Houseboat spa 1sh , htf 1960
Loren "The millers beautiful wife" turk 1sh , 50s

Monroe R60s SYI ita 1sh (2nd issue)

Batman egypt 1sh , htf 1989
TSWLM fre door panel (signed Munro)
Jaws czech/pol 1shs (sgd Dreyfuss) , 1976/78
Rocky pol 1sh (sgd Weathers , sadly usps tore it :( ) , 1978

Bandits from Shangtung HK 1sh , vhtf (real factory folded) , 1972
Chinese Boxer 2sh , vhtf (it turned 50 last yr) , 1973
King Boxer 2sh , vhtf (the fist was not as red on the re issue)
Chan WoM thai 1sh , vhtf 1984

Tracy

https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=504037848539

Golden Harvest info :

-white GH logo 1971-73
-wheat straw GH logo 1973-78
-G logo 1979-well into 90s

Tracy

More :

Loren "Lucky to be woman" fre 2sh (has some tan.....it was literary coming apart prior to backing) 1956
Loren GIS ita 4sh , htf 1967
Chinese Hercules ita 2sh , vhtf (italian title : "3 strikes is enough") 1975
Chinese Boxer ita 4sh , vhtf ( looks like Pat Johnson - the ref in Karate Kid , lol) 1973
He-Man fre 2sh (signed Dolph , Foster , Tolkan....met all cept Tolkan) 1987
Batman '66 US 3sh , incomplete (signed West/Ward/Meriwether , sadly the fakes were sloppy painted over , shouldve used airbrush or something , sigh)

Strike a blow for freedom aka Kid in pier aka Chinese Hercules aka Gozakko.....weird

Gozakko sounds like a wrestler , ha ha

(Green Hornet poster is Japan , not Chinese)

Ive got Rigg Avengers ger 1sh , this movie seems to have disappeared , only poster/lobbys to proof it was ever shown in cinema , France also released such a movie but prolly different episodes edit together.....West claims Batman Londinium trilogy released overseas , never seen such a poster , terrible trilogy imo

Torgeirtrap

Gerard wrote: »

Let's go back to a time where they put together episodes of a TV series and released them as a movie, with The Green Hornet :

American original (I think) :

Chinese :

French :

And German :

Again, some really nice Bruce Lee posters, @Gerard! The American one is hard not to notice, just because how colourful and different it is. My favourite of these is perhaps the Chinese one though.

Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »

I just posted this on another thread, fantastic poster from a great movie.

I watched The Parallax View only a couple of months ago, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. It's a great film. There are several great poster for that movie (the one above included!)




The Criterion Collection Blu-ray cover artwork for the film is also great!


Cover art by Adam Maida

Tracy wrote: »

It depends , from 50$ to several 1000s , the more rare the more costly : OHMSS ita advance 1sh could have paid for 2 vacations but it means more to me than just $ , it has great historical value : only Lazenby movie , art only used in Italy

I gladly pay 150$ for HK/Singapore Bruce Lee posters , well worth it , vhtf

No surprise posters can be that expensive! Wouldn't know if I could justify paying $150 for a poster, though. It would have to be something really special, that's for sure!

Gerard

Still about Bruce Lee, here's the second Green Hornet movie (again, four episodes put together and marketed as a movie after Bruce Lee's demise). American poster :

[img]German poster :[/img]

Italian :



Also italian :



And french :

Torgeirtrap

The American poster for the second Green Hornet movie is also a standout one! The style certainly looks recognisable, but I can't place or take a wild guess who the artist is. Love the crosshatching details. The French one looks familiar, but I might actually be mistaking it for a paperback cover I saw a while ago. It had nothing to do with Green Hornet/Bruce Lee, but it had a similar layout and typography.

mattjoes

Tracy wrote: »

https://www.photobox.co.uk/my/photo/full?photo_id=504037848539

Golden Harvest info :

-white GH logo 1971-73
-wheat straw GH logo 1973-78
-G logo 1979-well into 90s

Very striking logo, the one from 1978 onwards. That rising synth at the end is a bit creepy.

Torgeirtrap wrote: »

Can't remember seeing the Chinese poster before. Really love how simple it is, and how the typography frames the artwork. Makes me think of the fantastic 60's and 70's Japanese Bond posters!

Those Japanese posters are so different in style from the ones in, say, the US and the UK. I find they look quite modern even today. They're very cool.

Torgeirtrap wrote: »

That makes sense. The two French posters certainly looks a bit "cheap" compared to the other ones with the painted artwork, but still kinda cool.

The first French poster of Fist of Fury looks cheaper than the others, but it also hints at the future trend of more photo-like illustrations in posters.

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Love it.

Fire_and_Ice_Returns

Mathis1 wrote: »

Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »

I just posted this on another thread, fantastic poster from a great movie.

Havent seen that poster before for it, excellent from a brilliant thriller!

I may get a print of the poster I do like the imagery, the falling man reminds me of a great Brosnan moment from the TWINE title sequence when it shows Bond falling from hot air ballon and tumbling down the Millennium Dome then falls in silhouette.

Torgeirtrap wrote: »

Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »

I just posted this on another thread, fantastic poster from a great movie.

I watched The Parallax View only a couple of months ago, @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. It's a great film. There are several great poster for that movie (the one above included!)




The Criterion Collection Blu-ray cover artwork for the film is also great!

I especially like the Criterion poster, the blacked out area around the eyes looking like a blind fold and the American bullet going straight through the head to the brain. Great imagery.

Gerard

And to end with Bruce Lee, here are a few poster for his last movie, Game of Death. Chinese poster first :



American (?) poster :



German poster :



And french :

R1s1ngs0n

Can't believe I didn't check this thread before... I'm a sucker for posters, especially AMP by the likes of Mondo, Mad Duck Posters and others.
These 3 beauties hang proudly at home and if money and space were no object, a couple more would have adorned my walls.

Goldfinger by Todd Slater (Mondo)

Taxi Driver by Martin Ansin (Mondo)

Citizen Kane wood variant by Martin Ansin (Mad Duck Posters)

Thunderfinger

Those are very nice. I especially like the one for Taxi Driver.

R1s1ngs0n

A few others I wouldn't mind owning

Fire_and_Ice_Returns

I like the Citizen Kane image, I have this print framed in my lounge...

mattjoes

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Those are very nice. I especially like the one for Taxi Driver.

Same here. The cityscape on that poster made me think of this one:

R1s1ngs0n

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Those are very nice. I especially like the one for Taxi Driver.

I love that one, it was this poster that made me discover Mondo and fall in love with their works. Both Taxi Driver and especially Goldfinger cost me an arm and a leg as these were limited, sold out editions that I could only find at a Mondo dealership in Paris, but their value has since soared so I have no regrets whatsoever 😊
Besides, these are not an investment but rather works of art that I enjoy looking at every day.

Tracy

https://www.flickr.com/photos/160757480@N02/

Torgeirtrap

Gerard wrote: »

And to end with Bruce Lee, here are a few poster for his last movie, Game of Death. Chinese poster first :

American (?) poster :

German poster :

And french :

Really love the Chinese and the French poster! Interesting choice to have a text masking effect of his name, using imagery from the film.

R1s1ngs0n wrote: »

Can't believe I didn't check this thread before... I'm a sucker for posters, especially AMP by the likes of Mondo, Mad Duck Posters and others.
These 3 beauties hang proudly at home and if money and space were no object, a couple more would have adorned my walls.

Goldfinger by Todd Slater (Mondo)

Taxi Driver by Martin Ansin (Mondo)

Citizen Kane wood variant by Martin Ansin (Mad Duck Posters)

Wouldn't mind owning a few Mondo poster myself, @R1s1ngs0n! These are really great; the Taxi Driver one in particular is just incredible.

Here are a few Mondo posters I really like:

Thunderfinger

Those are all excellent, especially the one for Jaws.

noemiasmont

It's an extraordinarily exciting film. I can watch it a few times a day. What's more, I grew up with movies about this character. I often dreamt of plagiarizing him to be a hero myself. Something similar to me is the history of Khazad-dûm on thetolkienforum.com. I think they are similar in terms of well-written history and few fantastic elements that offer a much more colorful outline of the film and the script. Also very important to me is how the director can combine all the elements of a history so that every reader is captured by this history.

Torgeirtrap

Thunderfinger wrote: »

Those are all excellent, especially the one for Jaws.

There's another variant of the same poster as well, but I prefer the red monochrome one above.

Gerard

Well, I saw a catalog of the artist who painted the second french posters on sale, but the store is closed for the holidays and won't reopen till august 21st. Once it does, I'll let you know. But now, let's carry on. Everybody knows that poster, right ?

All right : his name was Jean Mascii (1926-2003), and he was (very) active from the fifties to the eighties. Amon his works, here's one for a little spy movie you might have heard about :

Thunderfinger

This one is pretty cool.

Torgeirtrap

Gerard wrote: »

Well, I saw a catalog of the artist who painted the second french posters on sale, but the store is closed for the holidays and won't reopen till august 21st. Once it does, I'll let you know. But now, let's carry on. Everybody knows that poster, right ?

All right : his name was Jean Mascii (1926-2003), and he was (very) active from the fifties to the eighties. Amon his works, here's one for a little spy movie you might have heard about :

Thanks for the update, @Gerard! I've just browsed through some posters by Jean Mascii on moviepostersgallery.com, and it looks like he made posters for a lot of well-known titles throughout his career. Here are a few posters from the same site:

Thunderfinger wrote: »

This one is pretty cool.

This one seems vaguely familiar, but googling the film, I don't think I've seen it before. Maybe there's another horror film that has used similar imagery. Anyway, it's a cool poster!

Gerard

Guess how Godzilla was called in Germany in the sixties and seveties ?

Thunderfinger

A few diabolically cool posters.

Fire_and_Ice_Returns

@Thunderfinger the Devil elevator poster is great, its actually really good film also I watched it a several years ago.

Thunderfinger

Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »

@Thunderfinger the Devil elevator poster is great, its actually really good film also I watched it a several years ago.

Haven t seen it myself, but clever posters make me curious about the film as well. Mission accomplished.

Fire_and_Ice_Returns

@Thunderfinger Devil went under the radar is a clever atmospheric horror in the vein of The Cube (a group of people trapped).
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I first watched this mere days from watching The Devil Rides Out. One of my parents friends had a large collection of Hammer Horror/Horror films on VHS back in the 80's.
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The best part of this poster is the reflection on the table.

Fire_and_Ice_Returns

My two favourite Devil themed movies...