post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

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I wonder how many people went to that movie and we're disappointed that it wasn't about Flo.

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 15 August 2019 17:20 (six years ago)

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/179/MPW-89808

The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell, 1968 (Frank Tashlin's final film)

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 20:59 (six years ago)

perfect encapsulation of the 60s "type," nice.

Good morning, how are you, I'm (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:34 (six years ago)

There's elements of this style on Bob Hope posters going back to the '40s!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjg1YzRmY2ItMmI4Yi00ZWE0LThhMGEtOWMzNWUyN2I3YTAzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNTY4NjI2OTA@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,660,1000_AL_.jpg

Let's Face It, 1943

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:44 (six years ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYTU5MjA5YTMtYzMzMi00ZDQxLWE0YjItNjk2MGMwNzQ0MjQyXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNjE5MjUyOTM@._V1_SY1000_CR0,0,666,1000_AL_.jpg

The Iron Petticoat, 1956

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:50 (six years ago)

https://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5MXM0/where-theres-life-us-poster-bob-hope-signe-hasso-1947-E5MXM0.jpg

Where There's Life, 1947

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:55 (six years ago)

Oddly enough, it wasn't until The Road to Hong Kong (the last Road To... movie, from 1962), that this style was tentatively embraced...

https://www.moviemem.com/images/pictures/store/victorian-shed-movie-posters-2/ROADTOHONGKONG1SHHRws.jpg

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 21:59 (six years ago)

ALSO: Racist Stereotypes!

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 17 August 2019 22:00 (six years ago)

Related: A number of John Schlesinger films are going up on the Criterion Channel in September, including HONKY TONK FREEWAY.

frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 August 2019 19:48 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

...and a new personal fave

Never Mind the Quality: Feel the Width
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andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:16 (six years ago)

Wtf at that title? 😅

Tuomas, Friday, 13 September 2019 15:20 (six years ago)

Never Mind The Quality, Feel The Sex Pistols

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 15:21 (six years ago)

in the george and mildred, i'm sure they meant for the officer (?) to look like he's crashing his bike, but it looks more like he's pulling some badass freestyle move.

andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 15:33 (six years ago)

nb to most of the world: andrew's three excellent contributions are all big-screen spinoffs of 1970s UK TV sitcoms

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 20:49 (six years ago)

hahaha, on George & Mildred:

Released [weeks] after the death of star Yootha Joyce, the film was neither a commercial nor a critical success. One critic has described the film as "one of the worst films ever made in Britain . . . so strikingly bad, it seems to have been assembled with a genuine contempt for its audience." A writer for The Guardian stated that the film's failure marked "the death knell" for the 1970s British practice of producing motion picture spinoffs based on sitcoms. The film aired on television on Christmas Day 1980, only a couple of months after its theatrical release.

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 20:57 (six years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Are_you_being_served_320x240.jpg

Are You Being Served: The Movie, 1977

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:14 (six years ago)

what does NRC stand for? Not Recommended Cinema?!

andrew m., Friday, 13 September 2019 21:19 (six years ago)

Not Recommended for Children. Replaced with PGR in the early '80s, later shortened to PG.

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:39 (six years ago)

love how every name on that poster is presumably a household name in britain but to american eyes appears to be the work of a hack comic generating fake british names

weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:41 (six years ago)

they were sort-of household names from appearing in the popular sitcom of the same name, which has probably been rescreened 923x more often in the US than the UK over the last 45 years

now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:50 (six years ago)

Yeah, Are You Being Served ran on Houston PBS regularly for like 20 years. For awhile in the '90s it was on five nights a week!

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 13 September 2019 21:53 (six years ago)

apologies to sugden & bannister, LLC

weird ilx but sb (Doctor Casino), Friday, 13 September 2019 23:42 (six years ago)

Sugden Bannister & English

pplains, Saturday, 14 September 2019 00:06 (six years ago)

I was just trying to think of what someone in the states would know them from aside from AYBS, and...

All I got is Nicholas Smith voicing the vicar in the Wallace & Gromit movie, and Frank Thornton is in Richard Lester's It's Trad, Dad for about 30 seconds...which reminds me that Wendy Richard got cut out of Help!

Writer Jeremy Lloyd was on Laugh-In.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 14 September 2019 00:58 (six years ago)

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The Vals, 1983

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:46 (six years ago)

Apparently was remarketed as The Valley Girls after Valley Girl hit.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:48 (six years ago)

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Vicious Lips, 1986

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:54 (six years ago)

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BNTk3NDAxY2UtZjBiZS00MzhkLTgxYzktNzRmMzNmMGUxY2ZhXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzc5MjA3OA@@._V1_.jpg

Hot T-Shirts, 1980

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 15:57 (six years ago)

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C.O.D., 1981 (cast also includes Samantha Fox and Ron Jeremy)

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:07 (six years ago)

Oops

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BODQ5ODk2NDc1MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzM3ODQzNA@@._V1_.jpg

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 16:08 (six years ago)

An Albert Pyun joint and *two* Chuck Vincents! The thread continues to deliver!!

Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 21 September 2019 19:16 (six years ago)

And all it took was IMDB'ing Gwen Verdon, seeing she had a role in a TV sequel to The Jerk, clicking on it and falling in a 'More Like This' clickhole.

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 21 September 2019 20:55 (six years ago)

Leonard Maltin likes that movie one-star better than Taxi Driver.

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 1 October 2019 15:18 (six years ago)

RIP Robert Forster

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The Kinky Coaches And The Pom-Pom Pussycats (AKA Heartbreak High), 1981

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:52 (six years ago)

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Chattanooga Choo Choo, 1984

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 13 October 2019 14:21 (six years ago)

A+

Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 October 2019 21:44 (six years ago)

three weeks pass...

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/10/A70-5484

The Monkey Hu$tle, 1976

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 05:35 (six years ago)

Dunno if my favourite Star Wars posters from Burger King are admissible:
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71xrinlwCrL._SL1500_.jpg

an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 13 November 2019 06:19 (six years ago)

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/2UmiFVWnbZWQjGldZnamA0YyLbq.jpg

Beyond Atlantis (1973)

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/koNb0rW69NkviReVYkb6G8uquWD.jpg

The Big Bird Cage (1972)

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 November 2019 19:51 (six years ago)

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Come Back Charleston Blue, 1972

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 November 2019 05:28 (six years ago)

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/bZcnDABBorrLtIe1NTMci1u09rc.jpg

Norman...Is That You? (1976)

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:35 (six years ago)

oops.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/bZcnDABBorrLtIe1NTMci1u09rc.jpg

Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:35 (six years ago)

those both look like McGinnis, y/n?

insecurity bear (sic), Thursday, 21 November 2019 21:53 (six years ago)

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/012hbrooks12.jpg

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 November 2019 07:14 (six years ago)

Hadn't seen this one before, done in the style of the outsider artist in the film.

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTUxNjIyMTEwN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjE1NzAzMQ@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg

Junebug, 2005

a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 28 November 2019 16:19 (six years ago)


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