herbiehancock

...when someone tells me a movie with this poster... ...is not very good. Sad day. Sorry, Summertime Killer

I ran across these in my unemployed journeys around the interwebs. They have nothing to do with one another except they both are loved by yours truly. While very 60s/70s in it's style, this poster for Wrestling Queen, a documentary about the lifestyle and fans of professional wrestling in the 1970s is very well illustrated, and I love that super thin font at the bottom. This one is quite different. A quirky, near low-brow art poster for what appears to be quite the quirky Japanese film called A Crazy Family.

I'm in love. Blog spoiler: I'm covering this film ASAP!

This is opening at my theater soon, and I'm pretty pumped about it. And what a fantastic poster! Here's a more titular alternate poster!

Cold Souls is playing at the local independednt theater I work at. I haven't seen the film yet, but the poster has been catching my eye whenever I am running to refill napkins or something. And in searching for the image, I saw this and thought it was pretty funny too. That is all.

1974 1976 I will say, though, that I like the stolen 1976 design better. If you're gonna swipe it, better make an improvement I suppose!

This one makes me feel a little tickly inside. The art of the movie poster is essentially lost these days. Acres upon acres of just uninspired shit (I guess it matches many of the uninspired hollywood films we see all the time), but every once in awhile some "old-fashioned" attention is given to a poster and it's a treat for a visual guy like myself. I would like to have seen an illustrated Rockwell in the center of the circles instead of the photograph, and I'm not entirely sure about the multiple shades of grey flying forward effect on his name in the upper left (one simple white line of text would have been effective, I think), but overall this stylish poster really stands out from a lot you see these days. It reminds me of an old Solaris poster I came across a few weeks ago. (You should be able to click on either of these posters for a higher resolution image) I really want to see the film itself. I've not really had the funds lately to make any theatre trips,...

This site is incredible. I should have posted this long, long ago, but alas I am a lazy bastard. Wrong Side of the Art collects genre film posters all the way back to the 30s... and all are nicely high-resolution. There's new stuff added constantly, so it's definitely worth the bookmark. http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/