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 (ten years ago) link

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

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

Double x-post, yikes!

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

machete kills has a poster like this.

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

(in this tradition, that is)

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

xp no caricatures though nm

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

and Mallrats!

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

FYI this movie owns:

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

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

woah japanese take on this style:

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

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

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

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

pretty much half of all 70's movie posters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Charltonem Hestonem

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

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

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:18 (ten years 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year 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 (one year ago) link

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

Miles was 1st Trumpet in 1966

...and he was 2nd Trumpet in 1973

OMG at Miles.

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

two weeks pass...

FP’d

more crankable (sic), Monday, 30 January 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link

two months pass...
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 (seven months 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 (seven months 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 (seven months ago) link

three months pass...

The Comic Art of Jack Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQIfUig_6o

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 3 January 2024 04:01 (three months ago) link

The best Boston movie pic.twitter.com/Ydut30342R

— Dan Chiasson (@dchiasso) January 2, 2024

underwater as a compliment (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 06:42 (three months ago) link

aha, yes - it's here: post movie posters done in a busy/claustrophobic caricature style from the 70s and 80s

― (Doctor Casino), Wednesday, March 6, 2019 4:06 PM (four years ago)

bae (sic), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 08:27 (three months ago) link

Between The Lines is a great movie, and that is a wonderful poster

impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Wednesday, 3 January 2024 09:35 (three months ago) link

And I just bought the poster.

impostor syndrome to the (expletive) max (stevie), Thursday, 4 January 2024 12:15 (three months ago) link

two weeks pass...
three weeks pass...

New poster for ‘GHOSTBUSTERS FROZEN EMPIRE’

In theaters on March 22. pic.twitter.com/pUnSeHWk6A

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) February 22, 2024

an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:01 (two months ago) link

does Josh Gad provide Slimer's grunts and squeals?

B. Amato (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 22 February 2024 16:06 (two months ago) link

three weeks pass...
two weeks pass...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12818328/mediaviewer/rm406400513

Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 10 April 2024 21:21 (one week ago) link


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