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

I don't think this was posted yet... sorry if it was...
http://i.imgur.com/27LsTuf.jpg

eh never mind Doc beat me

Saw this one outside the MFAH theatre this weekend.

https://cdn.traileraddict.com/content/unknown/harold-lillian-hollywood-love-story.jpg

Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story

i hate the look on that fucking lions face

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81WAEX%2BnWBL._SY679_.jpg

Senior Trip (1981)

Over in dense adventure thriller land:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Yw0soiS5Z14/T1aMOtoiarI/AAAAAAAABLg/MqEMfh-T_EU/s1600/colossus2.jpg

Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)

http://www.englishscholar.com/amst1/westworldposter2.jpg

Westworld (1973)

80s All Over delivers the goods again:

http://www.moviepostermem.com/images/products/940e0f89-a6e0-40a6-b3f5-ff38561b2bd9.jpg

Honky Tonk Freeway (1981)

"Directed by John Schlesinger"

I was about to write that this must be the sore thumb of his career, but I just noticed that he also made The Next Best Thing and The Believers. Weird.

They also report that it was a serious, serious money-loser for the studio, striking when the poster suggests the entire enterprise began with the low-budget logic of this kind of would-be screwball farce. They hypothesize that loading up on seasoned character actors adds up, budget-wise, but I wonder if there's more to it.

some imdb trivia entries:

When released, its $24 million budget made it the most expensive comedy ever produced. It was a major failure at the box office.

Wikipedia states: "Just before the film was released, EMI sold the ancillary rights under this scheme to German investors in need of a tax loss, in an effort to try to recoup their $11,000,000 loss. When the movie's distributors learned this fact, they were no longer financially motivated to distribute the movie widely and consequently released the film for only one week".

According to Pulse the Magazine, "the film had been fraught with problems, from a disjointed script to its title - and marketing that implied it was just '...another car crash comedy romp'. This was compounded by the producers' decision to sell the video rights before Universal Pictures agreed to release the film. Angered by this, Universal minimized their marketing support and limited the number of theaters in which the film was shown. Withdrawn from theaters just a week after its release, the movie disappeared".

and

Originally planned with a $2-3 million budget, the film's costs ultimately ballooned to $25 million.

oh man, that is an even better, and yet more utterly banal, string of blunders than i'd hoped for

everything about that is incredible.

I don't think this was posted but I did a ctrl-f for "shirtless lewis j. stadlin" and nothing showed up so I guess not.

http://i.imgur.com/AZx7IpG.jpg

and SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY AND THE ASBURY JUKES!

Is there an imgur gallery of all these yet

http://img.moviepostershop.com/bye-bye-braverman-movie-poster-1968-1020252528.jpg

Bye Bye Braverman, 1968

http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr332/rdimucci/Movie%20Posters%20-%20Video%20Covers/KingdomIntheClouds2-small.jpg

Kingdom In The Clouds

https://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/caveman-movie-poster.jpg

Caveman (1981)

http://www.nordicposters.com/p2/back_to_school_86.jpg

Back To School (1986)

did this one already show up? Robin Williams' screen debut

https://images.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F4.bp.blogspot.com%2F-ojUc4zdRtAY%2FU-yFlpJN95I%2FAAAAAAAABMg%2FLHPecCjKC5E%2Fs1600%2FCan%252BI%252Bdo%252Bit%252Btill%252BI%252Bneed%252Bglasses%252Bcover.jpg&f=1

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5XspmtM4Ykc/WX9dNHdsbHI/AAAAAAAAM04/cMIDd9lWEvsTlcBtYwZ3uVI00zyzGUqcwCLcBGAs/s640/Alice%2BGoodbody.jpg

Alice Goodbody (1974), once again with a tip of the hat to Every 70s Movie.

http://www.pastposters.com/cw3/assets/product_full/(JamieF)__WhoopsApocalypse(2).jpg

Whoops Apocalypse (1986)

a title for our age

Seinfeld/Young Ones M*A*S*H* up.

https://www.cinematerial.com/media/posters/md/vy/vyrdc8bf.jpg?v=1456439994

a.k.a. Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe

http://img.moviepostershop.com/kentucky-fried-movie-movie-poster-1977-1010740515.jpg

https://media.newyorker.com/photos/59a9ca4dd82660397c5ace67/master/w_813,c_limit/170911_r30495.jpg

When's that movie coming out?

Want to frame this one.

http://www.gstatic.com/tv/thumb/movieposters/1825/p1825_p_v8_aa.jpg

Not the usual comedic genre, nor any caricature, but there are lots of little people:

http://www.cliomuse.com/uploads/9/2/4/6/9246605/1357253757.jpg

(The Long Duel - 1967)

Two-page print ad for Cheers, run ahead of the premiere:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uU59O_F7ONc/WcjAz6CejMI/AAAAAAAAawQ/khWjpAIpZewMjiOlI78ddjdMktZswo2fwCLcBGAs/s1600/cheers820930.jpg

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/45/3e/73/453e73d31aa26f60f3ee8df820929615.jpg

ABC advert from the 80s (I think the art is by Mad magazine's Sam Viviano?)

Yeah that looks like Viviano's stuff.

https://panandslam.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/licence-to-kill-poster.jpg

Just saw this one for Blue Collar (1978) today. Had heard about Universal's botched campaign to hookwink viewers into thinking this was a Richard Pryor comedy...that's some comedy they got there...

http://img.moviepostershop.com/blue-collar-movie-poster-1978-1020542692.jpg

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/E5NB8D/the-fortune-from-left-warren-beatty-stockard-channing-jack-nicholson-E5NB8D.jpg

The Fortune (1975)

And yes, I did see indicator's January '18 release list!

Man so many failed/forgotten period pieces in the 70s

I always forget just how big The Sting was. On a $5.5 million budget:

The film received rave reviews and was a box officesmash in 1973–74, taking in more than US$160 million ($800 million today). As of October 2016, it is the 22nd highest-grossing film in the United States adjusted for ticket price inflation.[10]

Right? And mike nichols too!

There's some good stories about The Fortune in Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. IIRC, Columbia was so hot to make the picture, both Beatty and Nicholson signed on with the stipulation the studio would greenlight a separate starring vehicle for each of them, which turned out to be The Last Detail and Shampoo, both of which had to be made and released first. Once preproduction on The Fortune began, it was discovered Carole Eastman's script was 200+ pages without an ending, and she wasn't really in the mood to write one. A fixer was brought in, but by then a lot of enthusiasm for the project had waned.

remembered slightly wrong. Wiki has even more stories...

When Warren Beatty was unable to stir interest in his and Robert Towne's screenplay for Shampoo, about an amoral hairdresser he had been developing since 1967, he bundled it with the more appealing The Fortune and convinced Columbia Pictures head David Begelman to finance both films. The fact that Carole Eastman, writing under the pen name Adrien Joyce, had yet to complete her 240-page script fazed Beatty less than it did director Mike Nichols, who needed a box office hit after Catch-22 and The Day of the Dolphin, both of which were critical and commercial flops.

The working relation between the screenwriter and director was amiable until Eastman objected to the many cuts Nichols was making to the script and his determination to make it less satirical and more slapstick, and she was eventually fired from the production.[1]

Nichols wanted Bette Midler to portray Freddie, but he changed his mind when, seemingly unaware of his career, Midler insulted him by asking what films he had previously made. He ultimately cast relative newcomer Stockard Channing, whose credits were limited to a few television appearances and a minor role in the Barbra Streisand film Up the Sandbox.[1]

Because the start of principal photography on One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was delayed, Jack Nicholson, who had worked with Nichols on Carnal Knowledge, was available for the role of Oscar Sullivan. During filming, the actor was forced to deal with two events that impacted his personal life. First, a fact checker working on a biographical piece for Time discovered that the woman Nicholson believed was his sister was actually his mother, and the woman who raised him was his grandmother. Then his close friend Cass Elliot died in her sleep, and rumors about the cause of her death circulated in the media. These two events, linked with the film's eventual failure, made The Fortune a subject that Nicholson never discussed in interviews and biographies.[1]

The film was shot on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and on a segment of street constructed in the corner of the former RKO Forty Acres backlot where the "Stalag 13" sets for TV's Hogan's Heroes were located during the Desilu days. Nichols did not direct another film for seven years.

this is a new movie!
https://scontent.fsnc1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/23000351_10210040831285309_1084322645653781935_o.jpg?oh=3e3a5b70523960636a2b2f01cb783740&oe=5AA6FE19

best pastiche I've seen so far!

Rob Ford parody I assume

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/93/Poster_of_Rhinoceros_%28film%29.jpg

Rhinoceros, 1974

was just reminded of that movie; it's playing here soon (but on a smallish screen) and is also on Kanopy.... wonder if i should give it a whirl.

Was just reminded too! Posted it because the big Alt. Theatre company here in town is doing a production of the play and they just shared that poster/cover on FB.

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Not a movie but

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LJGz9jS4osM/VGfVaJnc2OI/AAAAAAAACeI/kiFR_ABcEPk/s1600/JOS-CU%2BLP%2Bobverse%2Bicon.jpg