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

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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— Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) November 30, 2017

Not a movie but

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

Album Covers by Jack Davis

http://img.moviepostershop.com/the-hospital-movie-poster-1971-1020206867.jpg

The Hospital, 1971

yikes

https://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/4/A70-2153

Every Little Crook & Nanny, 1972

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BZTQ3ZDY0ZDctMThkMC00YTIwLTlkYjktNjIyM2M3YWRmMDgzXkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMzI2MDEwNA@@._V1_UX182_CR0,0,182,268_AL_.jpg

I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?, 1975

Better version...

http://images3.static-bluray.com/products/20/50023_1_large.jpg

https://www.grindhousedatabase.com/images/Fullmoonhighpost.jpg

Full Moon High, 1981

https://media.wired.com/photos/593283d0edfced5820d111d5/master/w_602,c_limit/Big-Trouble-in-Little-China.jpg

https://alchetron.com/cdn/Jimmy-the-Kid-images-03d52ebd-b42f-4e18-856a-bc3f1f03e53.jpg

Jimmy The Kid, 1982

Almost all of the above brought to you by me IMDB'ing Pat Morita at 2:00 AM.

lol in my pursuit, I failed to realize that that one did not even have the title attached (mind lost in the business..)

https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9781608868711_p0_v1_s550x406.jpg

xp

The Original Victor Mature

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-uQTIj-IFu24/U9G1kE4jPnI/AAAAAAAAhqg/DwPMCP2mxWA/s1600/State-Park-Poster-1.jpg

State Park (1988)

That's quite a tagline.

https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w640/4k6hVutzAvJpZFL6EUXBZkkReS5.jpg

Snowballing (1984)

"What Hot Dog: The Movie did for skiing.... oh wait"

busy? sort of. claustrophobic? hell yes. caricature? ...does photoshopping so half-arsedly and ineptly that everyone looks like a slightly melted wax figure of themself count?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c3/Father_Figures_%282017_film%29.png

(large version: https://cdn.flickeringmyth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Father-Figures-poster.jpg)

the most disconcerting thing about that image is..... whose hand is on Ed Helms's shoulder? Walken? Close? Owens?

like here are 8 heads and a hand. make sense of it.

they did katt williams dirty

http://img.moviepostershop.com/waitress-movie-poster-1982-1020353881.jpg

Waitress! (1982)

A sexy romp about Joan of Arc.

Jim Harris is an actor, known for American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1990), The Fox Affair (1978) and Squeeze Play (1979).

Carol Drake is an actor, known for Waitress! (1981).

Carol Bevar is an actress, known for The Yum Yum Girls (1976) and Waitress! (1981).

bonus points for calling out both airplane and animal house.

Claustrophobia + actors faces in boxes + a warning from the director!

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a389GdnVTl4/WlkKha5ByQI/AAAAAAAANec/DVBxW1UDPCouCbLzd9KoZqr2GqtiFAL6gCLcBGAs/s1600/Sharks%2527%2BTreasure.jpg

Shark's Treasure (1975)

"Shark's Treasure"

"He'll explode in your face!" o_O o_O o_O

Cornel Wilde in a Cornel Wilde Film, Written, Produced and Directed by Cornel Wilde

https://i.imgur.com/k4u0Nyn.jpg

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Keep Off My Grass, 1972

Another Poster:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/715Fx0OULuL._SL1000_.jpg

Louis "ROSCOE" QUINN

wow. can't believe i've never heard of that. i'm sure it's terrible but possibly it's fascinating.

Movie seems pretty heavy, man.

Rita, still bearing the sting of the good looking Dr. Woodal’s rejection, plans a spiteful revenge, along with her hateful brother, Grady. The romance between David and Sandy has now flowered into marriage plans. Rita and Grady learn of the wedding date. They spike the ice cream with LSD and the wedding ceremony ends in a tragic freak-out, as the guests go psychedelic, and one of the hippies, under the influence of the drug, kills himself.

Jerry, dejected, disillusions You Know by telling him his garden of “grass” is a garden of weeds.

https://i.imgur.com/ElV2vYv.jpg

wow yeah sounds like a serious drag. hate all those post-easy-rider "we blew it" bummer endings for the sake of bummer endings.

Least we know the Danny Masterson remake won't be happening.

lol Mick Dolenz as "YOU KNOW"