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

[From Time article linked in the US pol thread]

http://spiritualbolshevik.cocolog-nifty.com/ftaposter.jpg

F.T.A. (1971)

i would likely live a better life if, everywhere I went, I opened all my conversations with "WHAM! BAM! HERE COMES PAM!"

― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Sunday, December 20, 2020 3:57 AM (one month ago)

cover connections?

https://i.imgur.com/hveUScS.jpg

Good Neighbor Sam, 1964

(hueg)

This version of Cold Turkey (1971) has linkrotted upthread afaict:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x9mov3JrQSY/UXgd9sSDCYI/AAAAAAAAU9Y/Cnir84rATYg/s1600/111443.1020.A.jpg

good job on the tagline connection!

That must have been one of Randy Newman’s first scores.

Was wondering

From what I remember, it's less a score than "He Gives Us All His Love" popping up repeatedly on the soundtrack.

looks like!

an alternate Uptown Saturday Night poster that may or may not have been posted and vanished earlier:

https://i.imgur.com/EARoF8M.jpg

another version with bottom detail

Speaking of bottom detail, why not appreciate 1959's Please Turn Over

sadly I cna't find a better copy of this even better variation

they don't get much busier than... "BRANNIGAN!" (1975)

https://i.imgur.com/kg64Amq.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51WBN6S7Q4L.jpg

The Gun In Betty Lou's Handbag, 1992

"What A Pullquote!"

Even the apparently official blurb for the DVD opens Penelope Ann Miller's delightful performance as the shy, part-time librarian Betty Lou Perkins is the saving grace of this comedy from Touchstone Pictures. Allan Moyle though, I'd give it a watch.

gotta say that the actual movie poster does a much better job of selling it than the VHS cover above.

https://www.themoviedb.org/t/p/w600_and_h900_bestv2/svdDKiQnBFj8tsgN7fXlKqHpjUk.jpg

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang (1979)

leader of the hotwire gang is really not that into this, it seems

Producer to poster artist: "Makes sure them nipples is VISIBLE"

linkrotted upthread:

80s All Over continues to deliver the goods:

Take This Job and Shove It (1981)

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 12:30 AM (three years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/iU5e0WS.jpg

meanwhile i'm continuing my long-abandoned project of spreadsheeting all these movies, with taglines and dates. probably redundant to cryptosicko's Letterboxd list but it's something i started ages ago so... hey.

anyway one thing that struck me, cataloguing taglines, is how many of these posters, especially in the post-Animal House era, lean on calling out other, better films by name, e.g. What "Stripes" did to the Army, What "Police Academy" did to law enforcement... These guys do to scouting! for "The Wrong Guys," or that attempt by "Take This Job and Shove It" to suggest Hays's presence means you're in for something somehow descended from or connected to Airplane! can't recall seeing that kind of naked credibility-grabbing in more recent years - did the big studios crack down at some point, maybe secure a legal precedent that invoking their films was intended to mislead the audience about who made the films or something?

another running theme, apparently a wackiness signifier: really precise numbers, as where the town in "Cold Turkey" has 4,006 people trying to quit smoking and collect the cash prize, or where the dollar amount at stake in The Fortune Cookie is $249,000.92.

― ✓ (Doctor Casino), Sunday, May 7, 2017 3:35 AM (three years ago)

guess you can't turn your quote into a hide

RIP Yaphet Kotto

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ewk4I62XMAEMY-A?format=jpg&name=900x900

I have some big news for you about animated films

YK the god

apparently legit, the 1979 pitch poster for unmade second Jaws sequel Jaws 3, People 0

https://i.imgur.com/QsRMP6K.jpg

which was to be directed by Joe Dante from a script co-written by John Hughes, based on an idea improvised in a restaurant by the publisher of National Lampoon, and be a meta parody about the making of a Jaws sequel about an alien shark, that opened with Peter Benchley being chomped in his own swimming pool.

hueg

(apparently Spielberg kiboshed the idea of a wacky parody of Jaws; Dante went and made The Howling instead. then Spielberg hired him for Twilight Zone and Gremlins bcz The Howling showed he was so good at making a mix of horror and pop-culture-aware comedy.)

Steve Bissette just shared this one on his FB page, never seen it before:

https://scontent.fman1-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/162064566_10161101427708289_4944227670621849757_o.jpg?_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=J2JpFvWqz3QAX8tUr56&_nc_ht=scontent.fman1-2.fna&oh=898c2342d0e682bf37176535cd24042b&oe=607823F9

last posted itt three weeks ago, last cited itt two days ago :)

"A good cast is worth repeating" :-)

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-GMkEd7V7Zyk/TrOVyxRHlVI/AAAAAAADpWg/UH35TUfv-OU/s1600/slap_shot-poster-3.jpg

Slap Shot, 1977

in my head, the front guy is shouting the title in the style of Tony Manero saying "Alllll Pacino!"

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cz-r2DsXcAAt94V.jpg

One Way Pendulum, 1965

Getty watermarked with spot colour

https://i.imgur.com/TxmCyh4.jpg

hueg

cool one-off for a 2010 screening by the bane of Glasgow FAPs

drawings remind me a bit of the Magical Mystery Tour booklet cartoons!

while searching through the thread to avoid repeats, I found El Castañazo still posted from eight years ago!

Also not labelled, here's a much clearer version of More American Graffiti (1979)

(at that size you can confirm that it's a Wm. Stout joint)

... mercilessly ripping off crumb left, right and center

The movie is set in 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 - the Roth and Crumb quotes are, I take it, Stout putting his own youthful interests of the period into the context of the way the film uses different film stocks, aspect ratios and editing styles to reflect the "mode" of each year.

(note that he's especially quoting aspects of Crumb that Crumb had beatjacked from older culture - eg the Segar bystanders, Kilroy Was Here)

uh, some of those are direct crumb lifts (stoned agin, riot cop stomping the hippie, flakey foont with ?, etc)
i like stout as much as the next guy but that poster is grounds for a lawsuit

Speaking of late-'70s Crumb rips...

https://townsquare.media/site/366/files/2017/06/TYW-Book-Hi-res-CMYK.jpg?w=600&q=75

uh, some of those are direct crumb lifts (stoned agin

...the stoned agin riff is not only very much not a direct lift, it specifically blends a different take on Kilroy Was Here with the one 1960s pop-culture sample that recurs from American Graffiti (1973) to MAG (1979). Stout really appears to be working in the spirit of the film here!

more of that Sabbath Crumb rip collected here, but collected there from a 2015 Skot ILX thread that has since linkrotted)

Haha, I'm the one who posted that article in said Skot thread.

http://i.imgur.com/ku58xMV.png
http://i.imgur.com/ii6B6xT.png
http://i.imgur.com/mbKwI9F.png
http://i.imgur.com/pgT84fW.png

yes, the Stoned Agin guy has his whole head melting and sagging in the middle, and at no point drapes his long nose over a spinning record like Kilroy draping his nose over a wall, and also is not an element of an illustration representing people listening to radio DJ Wolfman Jack! we're agreeing completely!

You are completely out of your mind sic but you do you

This is the most anyone has discussed anything pertaining to More American Graffiti in 40 years.

RIP George Segal

https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/500x/cozdofnp/the-new-interns-french-movie-poster.jpg?v=1587312682

The New Interns, 1964

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjZjNDY2OTEtNTZjNC00ZGFiLTg5MDQtOTI4NjdjY2MwY2NjXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyNzQzNDEyOQ@@._V1_UY1200_CR85,0,630,1200_AL_.jpg

All's Fair, 1989

https://i.imgur.com/kE4KIzh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6G4pdHx.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/7b5baEY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Rc8irFY.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/AnPq466.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/EgnzDRV.jpg

i am familiar with kilroy, the positioning/hair/eyes of that figure are clearly based on the stoned agin comic.
the face above wolfman jack is clearly a lift from jayzey lynch.
the keep on truckin' figure is all but traced.
i can't find it but the riot cop jumping on the hippy's head is a copy from either gilbert shelton or crumb.
the rosy hippy face in the center is based on the fritz the cat cameo.
i like stout but he was obviously told to lift underground signifiers, poses and shots and did a bunch of swipes.
is he your uncle or something and you feel the need to defend this point or is this indicative of some larger mania?

compare cop faces here:
http://i.imgur.com/snqa98F.pnghttp://i.imgur.com/twtGZqf.png