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

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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

Jack Davis rakin the bucks back then

obie stompin' moby (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:25 (ten years ago) link

not to get all thread police but the thread title has the word CARICATURE in it, not just any old illustration

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:26 (ten years ago) link

http://i2.listal.com/image/145793/600full-fast-times-at-ridgemont-high-poster.jpg

(Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

Josefa, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:27 (ten years ago) link

ha i guess these are all Jack Davis

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link

Everything about Boogie Nights has to do with the '70s, and sure enough, that extends to the poster, too.

http://mrrumsey.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/boogie_nights_ver1.jpg?w=300

(A couple of the images above aren't showing up for me at work, so sorry if it's already been posted.)

clemenza, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:54 (ten years ago) link

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 25 October 2013 18:58 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1978/posters/harper_valley_pta_ver1.jpg

Darin, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link

http://blogwaybaby.com/Harper%20Valley%20PTA.jpg

Darin, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link

http://www.impawards.com/1979/posters/hot_stuff.jpg

Darin, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:07 (ten years ago) link

http://product-images.highwire.com/58136/69892.jpg

Darin, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ibs2wXDLL._SY300_.jpg

Darin, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link

SPIES poster is by moebius
american graffiti by mort drucker

http://www.thewhippitinn.com/carry_on_films/carry_on_girls/images/poster.jpg

Ward Fowler, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:12 (ten years ago) link

^best movie

ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Friday, 25 October 2013 19:25 (ten years ago) link

WONDERFUL THREAD

have long wanted there to be a name for this basically vanished genre of movie poster illustration, this shit was like 75% of any video store i ever visited as a kid. Especially great for actually kinda serious heavy movies like California Split.

Doctor Casino, Friday, 25 October 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link

lol waht is that Caan-Gould caper flick above and how bad is it

― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, October 25, 2013 1:58 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Harry and Walter Go To New York! With Michael Caine & Diane Keaton! It's actually pretty good, not great, but entertaining nonetheless. The two bits of trivia from the imdb:
The film went massively overbudget and caused such a major cash crisis that Columbia Pictures nearly went out of business until a fund of German dentists, Cinerenta, agreed to help

co-finance the studio's other films.

After disastrous previews, Columbia heavily cut the film down. Director Mark Rydell claimed most of the film's jokes were the main victims.

A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:03 (ten years ago) link

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 (four 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 (four 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 (four 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 (four months ago) link

And I just bought the poster.

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

two weeks pass...

Broken image link on my end!

not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 25 April 2024 20:17 (one week ago) link

That's OK, I was trying to post Hundreds of Beavers without having scrolled up an inch to see it was already posted.

Hideous Lump, Thursday, 25 April 2024 22:20 (one week ago) link

everywhere i go i keep running into hundreds of beavers

i don't even live in beaverton anymore!

i do admittedly still live in the pnw, serves me right

Kate (rushomancy), Friday, 26 April 2024 03:58 (one week ago) link


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