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

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http://www.americanartarchives.com/davis,j_mad_world1963.jpg

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:09 (nine years ago) link

sorry, I missed the '70s/'80s part

wk, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (nine years ago) link

The Long Goodbye one is in the tradition of this, I guess, or of Mad magazine: (x-post, speaking of!)

http://images.wikia.com/its-a-mad-mad-mad-mad/images/1/1f/It

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (nine years ago) link

Double x-post, yikes!

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:11 (nine years ago) link

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:15 (nine years ago) link

machete kills has a poster like this.

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:17 (nine years ago) link

(in this tradition, that is)

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (nine years ago) link

Are there any posters in the last 15 years that are a throwback to this style?

― obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, October 25, 2013 12:15 PM (1 minute ago)

detroit rock city?

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:18 (nine years ago) link

xp no caricatures though nm

sleepingsignal, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (nine years ago) link

detroit rock city?

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

!!! yes

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (nine years ago) link

and Mallrats!

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (nine years ago) link

FYI this movie owns:

http://i.imgur.com/DXdVv3Q.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:23 (nine years ago) link

woah japanese take on this style:

http://i.imgur.com/yW1UCNL.jpg

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:27 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/XacS5Ol.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:46 (nine years ago) link

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:55 (nine years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/3lIx48u.jpg

乒乓, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:59 (nine years ago) link

I've never seen that Nashville poster upthread before! Altman's preferred poster artwork ended up on the soundtrack instead:

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/files/2009/08/04/img-nashville_105700420061.jpg

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:10 (nine years ago) link

Every Bond movie of that period to thread...
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Live_and_Let_Die-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:15 (nine years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/california_suite.jpg

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:16 (nine years ago) link

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0c/The_Man_with_the_Golden_Gun_-_UK_cinema_poster.jpg
Wikipedia's alt text:
A man in a dinner jacket holding a pistol is in the centre of the picture. Various scenes and images surround him, including two women in bikinis, a midget with a pistol, a car stunt and explosions. At the bottom right, oversized and pointing towards the man in the dinner jacket, is a golden gun, with a hand holding a bullet, about to load the gun. The top of the picture has the words "ROGER MOORE as JAMES BOND 007". At the bottom are the words "THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN"

not a lunch that is hot (snoball), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (nine years ago) link

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lschmxxO8P1r13zreo1_400.jpg

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (nine years ago) link

Charltonem Hestonem

brio, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (nine years ago) link

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/11/MPW-5611

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (nine years ago) link

holy moly

Doctor Casino, Saturday, 9 April 2022 00:13 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

rest in whatever peace the constantly-expanding soil in which you are buried will allow, Neal Adams

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

the Black Dragon's Revenge (1975)

AKA / ART

https://i.imgur.com/3mcYmYI.jpg

Death Promise (1977)

VHS / ART

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

Westworld (unused draft, 1973)

James Garner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 30 April 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link

Does that German poster say "The big wetmakers?"

immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Saturday, 30 April 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link

well, if we’re just posting 1980s posters, here’s some bonus Adams:

Troma Entertainment promotional materials for "Death to the Pee Wee Squad", a 1980s homemade feature film written, produced and directed by Neal Adams - starring his kids, and featuring comics people like Denys Cowan, Larry Hama, Gray Morrow and Gary Groth. pic.twitter.com/oA2hjyzIp2

— God Hurricane “JOG” (@snubpollard) April 30, 2022

Yul Brynner film festival on Channel 48... (sic), Saturday, 30 April 2022 21:32 (one year ago) link

one month passes...

lol this Spartacus poster:

THE 70MM FILM FESTIVAL continues today with *2 Brand New* 70MM Prints!

2:30pm - SPARTACUS - 2nd ever screening of this print!
7:30pm - AIRPORT - 1st public screening of this print!

Sponsored by @mubiusa
Get Tickets: https://t.co/aF0aCHpWUC pic.twitter.com/MIS0unxRJp

— Music Box Theatre (@musicboxtheatre) June 19, 2022

deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 03:45 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

Although it's not in the same style I was struck by this poster for Spartacus, which seems to be based on the standard UK/US poster, but drawn in a cartoonish style:
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0598/2925/products/C6cu4bZ.jpg?v=1531004670

"See A MAN WHO MIGHT BE KIRK DOUGLAS SPIT BLOOD, and also see HIS ANIME LADY WIFE". I didn't realise until googling it that Spart started a wave - or restarted a wave - of Italian Spartacus films, including Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators and the Steve Reeves-starring Son of Spartacus, which sidestepped the major barrier to a sequel by having Reeves portray Spartacus' son.

Sadly there isn't a Conan vs Spartacus. Yet. Did Spartacus have a superpower? He was just good with a sword, and charismatic.

Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 22 July 2022 16:23 (one year ago) link

Paul Sorvino's passing made me think of the forgotten 1986 comedy Vasectomy, which I was delighted to discover scored a Mort Drucker illustration -- sadly less busy than some:

https://e.snmc.io/i/300/s/6e63f3bfdc98283455c0e3b8a8d5daa2/4787358

Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 July 2022 23:12 (one year ago) link

^^Classic. We had some fun with that one upthread.

one month passes...

This looks like a fake poster created for some other series' background art.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 28 August 2022 00:36 (one year ago) link

https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/464402-door-to-door

Door to Door, 1985

Les hommes de bonbons (cryptosicko), Monday, 29 August 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link

Starring Paul Simon and Bing Crosby?

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Monday, 29 August 2022 21:10 (one year ago) link

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMjI3ODA1NTA5NV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwNDQ5MDQ3NA@@._V1_.jpg

They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)

visiting, Saturday, 10 September 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link

three weeks pass...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Hallelujah_trail32.jpg

The Hallelujah Trail (1965)

Infanta Terrible (j.lu), Monday, 3 October 2022 16:02 (eleven months ago) link

96% of the fun is contained in the poster, leaving very little to spread across the three-hour running time.

Vance Vance Devolution (sic), Monday, 3 October 2022 16:51 (eleven months ago) link

thought for a second that was chris elliot on the cover and wanted to hear the podcast
martin mull must have some stories

two months pass...

These Ross Macdonald covers! pic.twitter.com/yd9h16TVKW

— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) December 10, 2022

The self-titled drags (Eazy), Saturday, 10 December 2022 23:01 (nine months ago) link

two weeks pass...

Why is Bannon wearing only one shirt?

his cartoon heart expands, then he relaxes by smoking crack (stevie), Friday, 30 December 2022 11:01 (eight months ago) link

Le Coup de Sirocco (1979)

https://pics.filmaffinity.com/Le_coup_de_sirocco-647491909-large.jpg

Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 1 January 2023 23:12 (eight months ago) link

Herb Alpert - first trumpet
Al "He's The King" Hirt - second trumpet
Doc Severinsen - third trumpet
Miles Davis - fourth trumpet

Hans Holbein (Chinchilla Volapük), Wednesday, 11 January 2023 23:30 (eight months ago) link

if there's a rock and roll Hefner
Well you know he's got a hell of a band

got it in the blood, the kid's a pelican (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 January 2023 03:44 (eight months ago) link

Miles talking to that no-playing motherfucker from BS&T.

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:03 (eight months ago) link

Miles was 1st Trumpet in 1966

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:11 (eight months ago) link

...and he was 2nd Trumpet in 1973

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 January 2023 05:14 (eight months ago) link

OMG at Miles.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 18:44 (eight months ago) link

I saw a cool Instagram thing of Wayne talking about Miles the other day.

Farewell to Evening in Paradise (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 13 January 2023 18:44 (eight months ago) link

https://fffmovieposters.com/wp-content/uploads/185.jpg

Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 13 January 2023 19:13 (eight months ago) link

two weeks pass...

FP’d

more crankable (sic), Monday, 30 January 2023 23:21 (seven months ago) link

two months pass...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070075/mediaviewer/rm603466496/?ref_=tt_ov_i

Frasier, the Sensuous Lion

with theme song by Sarah Vaughan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STMFuC4lPhk

"The pudding incident?" (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 11 April 2023 20:05 (five months ago) link

five months pass...

the same director did a film called 'My Demon Lover' (imdb synopsis "A homeless street musician becomes a demon when sexually aroused") which would have totally had one of these posters if came out a few years earlier, but sadly it was released in 1987 so the poster looked like this:

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BYmZhNDVjYjMtYWNiOC00YTIxLTgxM2UtNWFmNmQyYjZhMzRkXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMTQxNzMzNDI@._V1_.jpg

soref, Monday, 11 September 2023 20:19 (one week ago) link

the German poster is a little more like it, but it's still clear that the golden age was over

https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/500x/wukfkq0u/my-demon-lover-german-movie-poster.jpg?v=1482480318

soref, Monday, 11 September 2023 20:21 (one week ago) link

Good one, classic homage to the aesthetic. I hadn't realized Christopher Lloyd was still working, and then I looked at his wikipedia and holy shit he works a lot! 9 movies just in the last 3 years, though I will not be investigating their quality

Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 14:58 (five days ago) link


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