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bdsweeney
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Re: Worst DVD Covers...ever! (Part 3-D)

#151 Post by bdsweeney » Mon Feb 17, 2014 12:35 am

Was it Unforgiven that started the trend?
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matrixschmatrix
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Re: Movie Posters

#152 Post by matrixschmatrix » Mon Feb 17, 2014 1:12 am

It's not quite the same thing, but The Exorcist does feature the full character from the back look. Image

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Re: Movie Posters

#153 Post by Roger Ryan » Mon Feb 17, 2014 9:02 am

It probably goes without saying, but the poster for THE EXORCIST is an actual image from the film itself...and it's a brilliant design choice. Just looking at posters for recent efforts like THE LAST EXORCISM, one can imagine if Friedkin's original was released today we'd see Linda Blair in full make-up as the main poster element...perhaps with her back to us as well as her head!

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Re: Movie Posters

#154 Post by thirtyframesasecond » Tue Feb 25, 2014 4:27 am

I've yet to go, but GRAD in London has a fantastic looking exhibition of Russian film posters, which you can also purchase.

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Re: Movie Posters

#155 Post by "membrillo" » Sun Jun 15, 2014 2:41 pm

I finally scored a couple posters I had been looking to get for a while and at a good price. Now, I need to get them linen backed in preparation for framing, but my online searches only served to confuse me even more than I had been. Does anybody have any experience or recommendations for good and reputable linen backing, preferably in California? Also, can anyone tell me if there is a big difference between Swiss and French posters as far as their collectibility? Both came from Switzerland but seem to be identical to the French posters.

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Re: Movie Posters

#157 Post by boywonder » Tue Jul 15, 2014 4:46 am


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matrixschmatrix
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Re: Movie Posters

#158 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Jul 15, 2014 9:39 am

Oh my, the Let the Right One In and Moonrise Kingdom ones are really lovely. I like the Blade Runner and There Will Be Blood ones as well, but they feel like they're drafting off the looks of the respective movies to a greater degree.

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Re: Movie Posters

#159 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jul 15, 2014 10:10 am

Well, fuck - I should've looked at this sooner. Though I am tempted by the Kill Bill one that's still in stock, that sold out Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind one is gorgeous.

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#160 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 15, 2014 11:21 am

matrixschmatrix wrote:Oh my, the Let the Right One In and Moonrise Kingdom ones are really lovely.
Yuup

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Note if you decide to order a print, Bottleneck Gallery was all radio silence for the better part of three weeks before finally shipping mine, so patience will be key

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Re: Movie Posters

#161 Post by matrixschmatrix » Tue Jul 15, 2014 12:57 pm

The black backing/frame is yours, right? You only get the print itself?

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Re: Movie Posters

#162 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jul 15, 2014 1:48 pm

Correct, I bought the frame off Amazon. No black backing though:

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Re: Movie Posters

#163 Post by mfunk9786 » Tue Jul 15, 2014 2:12 pm

Lovely. LQ didn't agree, however, so we won't have the same print adorning our wall.

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Re: Movie Posters

#164 Post by rohmerin » Sat Aug 09, 2014 1:36 am

Were there a branch- school from Polish Design in the Americas? Yes, Cuba.
Some examples

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Re: Movie Posters

#165 Post by ArchCarrier » Wed Aug 13, 2014 3:54 pm

Yes, those Cuban designs are great. I bought this one in Havana a couple of years ago, it's hanging in my hallway:
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rohmerin
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Re: Movie Posters

#166 Post by rohmerin » Sat Aug 16, 2014 3:52 am

I've updated my blog with 9 Cuban posters including Fellini, Saura & de Sica.

http://rohmerin.blogspot.com.es/2014/08 ... ubano.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Not easy to find Cuban posters on the net.

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Re: Movie Posters

#167 Post by BigMack3000 » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:08 am

This guy on ebay sells reprints of a wide variety of cuban film posters/other cuban graphic design art.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/cubangraphics/m ... g=&_from=

I have La Dolce Vita and Le Samourai.

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Re: Movie Posters

#168 Post by rohmerin » Sat Aug 16, 2014 6:05 am

I've found and downloaded 124 posters of mostly unknown Cuban, Soviet, Romanian, Bulgarian etc movies.
All Cuban beautiful designs. And the strange The knack, Red Desert and some known film.

There's an Argentinian website who sells originals, 500 dollars each. Not reproductions, originals. You the Americans, can travel and find originals in La Habana or wherever. I hate to fly and heat kills me.

I'll upload all this weekend.

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Re: Movie Posters

#169 Post by Zot! » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:18 am

rohmerin wrote:You the Americans, can travel and find originals in La Habana or wherever.
Actually you can't fly to Cuba from the USA.

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Re: Movie Posters

#170 Post by BigMack3000 » Sat Aug 16, 2014 4:42 pm

rohmerin wrote:
You the Americans, can travel and find originals in La Habana or wherever.

Actually you can't fly to Cuba from the USA.
Unless you have family in Cuba. Then you can.

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Re: Movie Posters

#171 Post by rohmerin » Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:56 pm

Anyway, spite all those Cold War stop traveling and stupid barriers, it's a good business to travel to La Habana and buy.
I bet after Fidel's end, Cuban posters will be hipstered and became as cool as Polish or Checoslovacos, quite expensive now.

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Re: Movie Posters

#172 Post by rohmerin » Sun Aug 17, 2014 1:57 pm

I've uploaded all in two parts (the 1st is the link you know with 50 or 60 new posters).
Note the anti US propaganda and design Puerto Rico, pro Vietnam, etc. US flag are the chains for Puertoriqueños.

Bleached brains with lots of Cuban documentaries, and those strange and unknown Eastern films but They could watch 1 Szabo (Apa, Padre) 2 Wajdas, several Kurosawas, 1 Anthony Mann, The pawnbroker ! Moby Dick, even Spanish films but no Italian "red" or liberal French. Strange.

http://rohmerin.blogspot.com.es/2014/08 ... rt-ii.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Saludos.

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Re: Movie Posters

#173 Post by Cash Flagg » Mon Aug 18, 2014 9:08 pm

BigMack3000 wrote:
rohmerin wrote:
You the Americans, can travel and find originals in La Habana or wherever.

Actually you can't fly to Cuba from the USA.
Unless you have family in Cuba. Then you can.
Or if you are going as part of a cultural exchange/tour. My brother and his wife are visiting Cuba in October, though I'm not sure what the particulars are on how they were able to arrange it.

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Roger Ryan
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Re: Movie Posters

#174 Post by Roger Ryan » Tue Aug 19, 2014 8:23 am

I've heard that you can travel to Mexico and fly from there.

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knives
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Re: Movie Posters

#175 Post by knives » Tue Aug 19, 2014 1:25 pm

Yeah, that's the easiest way.

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