Your favorite movie poster?

The Japanese poster for "A Man and a Woman" (1966):

Not sure this qualifies as an official poster, but I like it.

Le Grande Ilusion. I wouldn't really want this poster hanging in my room because it's too morbid-looking but it's still gorgeous.

The one from Helix Academy is classic.

My holy grail-too expensive.

A beautiful picture that always reminds me of watching storms come across Lake Michigan.

Frogs

"M"

Haha, that's a great pick R7.

Here's my fave:

This one is nice.

1968. Looks modern, but period.

I love the OP's. It seems as though quite a few of my favorites seem to 60s - 70s. Someone should post the VOTD one with Susan Hayward screaming in her B&W box.

Clara Bow in IT.

Swamp Water (1941):

Those lips, those eyes (though nonsensical, because cats hate rain).

jane

I love the cheesy "epic movie titles carved out of mountains" poster trend that was big in the 60s.

"Ben-Hur" started this trend, I believe. Other examples are "King of Kings", "Genghis Khan", "El Cid", "Zulu", and "Hawaii".

I don't have only one favorite. There are just too many great ones. Here's one of several posters used for Feuillade's Les Vampires serial:

Pretty much anything by Saul Bass

West Side Story

Man with the Golden Arm

Exodus. (have the one sheet framed in my den)

Anatomy of a Murder

Psycho..... I think Bass did this one!

Yes R15!

I also like the Bob Peak illustration for CAMELOT

My Fair Lady

I have a book of old MGM posters. Those were always so distinctive, especially the ones from the 30's and 40's

Oh yeah, the "Camelot" movie poster!

It was much better than the film.

I like this poster for the 1957 Kim Novak vehicle Jeanne Eagels. Quite sensual for its time.

And this one for Gilda is iconic

Call me crazy R21 but I loved the film, warts and all.

The Stunt Man starring Peter O'Toole. Not just one of my favorite posters, but one of my favorite little known movies as well.

GREAT idea for a thread, OP.

perfection

Beautiful, R5! I have the 1/2 sheet, but it's not quite as stunning. Don't know how to upload pics, but one of my favorites is the 1-sheet from THE BAD AND THE BEAUTIFUL. It has a closeup of luscious Lana about to be kissed by Kirk.

1946 "Double Indemnity" poster from Spain.

Jaws, still a classic!

The Poseidon Adventure!

That JAWS poster is truly great. It's so ubiquitous, we take it for granted now. But that was a seriously scary piece of art in its day.

Oh, I like this one!

Crawford as Lorna Hansen Forbes in THE DAMNED DON'T CRY.

I remember when this poster was actually controversial. I was a kid, but even then I wondered about people who had nothing better to do that complain about movie posters.

And I found this one while looking at James Bond posters, I think it's rather nifty.

Too bad Mel ruined it by revealing his true nature

I have this, signed by Miss Patty Duke.

Great film. Important to me. Beautiful poster. Hanging in my room now.

I like that one too, R33. The American posters for most of Joan's Warner Bros. potboilers were just blah, but the Belgians were beauties.

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R38, I always thought the BROKEBACK poster looked very similar to the TITANIC poster.

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

The Chinatown poster is perfect! Back when movie posters were an art form. And it's an incredible film.

One of my faves is the poster for an obscure 1934 French film called "Ladies Lake". The film itself is a piece of shit but I really like the poster-it looks like one of those vintage travel ads from the 1920's.

R39, Have you seen the book of Hitchcock Poster Art? The Belgian posters included are the best.

I also like the poster for the 1935 version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (starring DL fave Olivia De Havilland).

Beautiful, unusual poster for "Written on the Wind." It sort of gives away a lot of the plot, though.

Here's another awesome poster: Polish poster for Freud with Monty Clift. Polish posters are well known for being crazy and often misleading but whoever made this one did a great job.

I can't explain exactly why but I always liked this image.

r41, the Brokeback poster IS reminiscent of the Titanic poster because Brokeback producer James Schamus specifically requested that marketing people copy the Titanic poster.

Pretty Baby

This one definitely wins "the sexiest movie poster of all time" award.

Lady Sings The Blues. The microphone turning into an "L"...the glove, braclet, and handcuff...very Diana Ross!

Legends of the Fall

The ONE and ONLY

I like some of David O'Daniel's movie posters for the Castro Theater.

Pre-Code films had posters of astonishing richness. The Lithography of this Carole Lombard film is a knockout!

I love that poster, R57. It looks a lot like posters for magic acts from the same era.

No I haven't R45. I'll have to check it out. I love the artwork on Belgian posters. Hitchcock + Belgian art sounds fantastic.

"Drama Gay and Daring As A Beach Petting Party!"

Loretta Young before she got noble.

Next Stop, Greenwich Village

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I've always liked this one.

Flashdance

Sorry. Flashdance poster:

And this Brokeback Mountain poster:

Sorry. This one:

The De Mille-Claudette Colbert version of "Cleopatra"

Some fantastic stuff here. Great thread idea OP.

[quote]Next Stop, Greenwich Village

What a wonderful movie.

any one of the different Valley of the Dolls posters

R71, are you one of the "An Unmarried Woman" trolls? (I am.)

I would love to have this poster.

I always loved this one.

Ludwig

Poster for Amadeus is gorgeous. It's just an adaptation of the stage play's poster but it's still very effective and creepy, with that menacing figure hovering above the rooftops of Prague.

Eddie Cantor in WHOOPEE!

This early movie musical was shot in eerily beautiful Two-Strip Technicolor - all red and green with no true blues or yellows.

Most of these posters are rather uninspiring, and I question if people are linking either posters for their favorite movies or those that seem to have kitsch value.

However, I have never seen that version of the METROPOLIS poster that R32 (thank you!) linked. It is absolutely striking, and I may like it even more than the iconic female robot version. Time to engage in a search for one, as I would like to have it on my wall.

There's a lot going on in this poster for REAR WINDOW.

In far right of the upper window, there appears to be a large pale silhouette of a man's head spying on the embracing couple.

In the lower window the female dancer's pose also suggests that she may have been thrown with force up against the window pane. The mostly concealed figure of a man lurking behind the curtain on the left strikes a pose that is both menacing and sexual. His hands are curled and held apart at a distance that makes it look as if he could pin the woman by her outstretched arms to the window pane.

Meanwhile down below, Jimmy Stewart handles the wide binoculars in a way that suggests he's really cupping Grace Kelly's lift-and-separate brassiere-bound breasts.

R60, here is a production number from that film...so weird.

I like the poster from Saving Private Ryan, the one without the actors' faces in the clouds. Just the silhouette of a soldier holding his rifle, alone in the landscape. War is terrible and each soldier dies alone.

This thread should have been titled "What's your favourite old people's movie poster?

Holy Motors

[quote]Most of these posters are rather uninspiring, and I question if people are linking either posters for their favorite movies or those that seem to have kitsch value.

Fuck you.

This one is classic--just perfect in simplicity and design.

Always loved this poster for SUBWAY...

And this one for STRANGER THAN PARADISE!

A modern classic:

R79 OMG dude, you're so deep, I can't even see you anymore! So post some favorite posters of your own if you have such an exquisite taste.

Here's a great art deco poster for Salome with Alla Nazimova.

I'm surprised no one has posted this one already. IMO this is the best movie poster of the last thirty years.

DO NOT SEE THIS FILM ALONE!

Poster to my favorite ghost story film.

Very rare teaser (pre-opening) poster of "Silence Of The Lambs. They of course went with the classic Jodie Foster one for the final. I had this and gave it away before the picture opened, dang!

[quote]This thread should have been titled "What's your favourite old people's movie poster?

Hey, it's not our fault today's poster artists lack the imagination and artistry of a Saul Bass or Richard Amsel.

This is what constitutes a "movie poster" these days; just cram all the stars onto it like a class picture and slap the title over them. No wonder all the posters mentioned here are "old".

Richard Amsell's magnificent artwork for "Death on the Nile":

More of Richard Amsell's art, including preliminary sketches and stuff that was not used by the studio.

And IMP Awards Richard Amsel's page:

Richard Amsel was great; the art of movie posters (and TV Guide covers) died with him.

I know--MARY!

[quote]Richard Amsell's magnificent artwork for "Death on the Nile":

Ruined by the ugly (in every sense) text.

Ugh, R80! I was forced to sell my REAR WINDOW insert last year. Broke my heart. I love 50s era cheesy sci-fi and horror. Reynold Brown did some super work on the genre.

Intacto, starring Leonardo Sbaraglia

The Rear Window poster also highlights one of Hitchcock's central ideas: The movie audience is a bunch of voyeurs.

I love Polish posters. This one for Black Swan is fantastic.

The first time I saw this poster, I screamed out loud with happiness.

So sad when you consider how bad the movie itself turned out to be.

Oops, that Black Swan was actually done by a British studio, LaBoca, but inspired by Polish poster art. And they did a set of four - all beautiful.

For R105:

Morder on the Orient Express by Richard Amsel

Death on the Nile by Richard Amsel

Voyage of the Damned by Richard Amsel

Actually this is what a modern movie poster is... The big action star and nothing else. Liam Neeson in Non-Stop. No mention of five time Academy Award nominee Julianne Moore or Downton Abbey's Michelle Dockery. Ridiculous, especially since Neeson has to sign off on it.

Raiders of the Lost Ark by Richard Amsel

Here's an Amsel thread. Such a talent, silenced by AIDS

Disney movies are always accompanied by beautiful theatrical posters. Too bad they never use these posters for the DVD covers, because Disney DVD covers are really really ugly and unattractive.

P.S. I wasn't aware DL has a Richard Amsel troll!

Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Love this one because it shows Harrison Ford in his prime glory.

I like that Mort Drucker's 1999's "Detroit Rock City" poster was a throwback to the posters he did in the 70s ("Detroit Rock City" takes place in 1977).

r114 The Disney teaser posters from the 90s were beautiful, and more "artsy" than the more cartoonish regular release posters.

I instantly fell in love with this "Little Mermaid" teaser:

[quote]Oops, that Black Swan was actually done by a British studio, LaBoca, but inspired by Polish poster art. And they did a set of four - all beautiful.

Those are [italic]stunning[/italic]. If I had liked the movie, I'd consider hanging one of them. Thank you for the lead on the design studio.

In breathtaking Panamation*

I remember that MERMAID teaser R117. I liked it too.the art work for the Broadway production was a bit reminiscent of this one.

Disney's teaser one sheet for Beauty & The Beast

Disney's teaser one sheet for Aladdin

I only wanted to get you coffee! I thought we were friends!

This poster for "The Handmaiden" really summarizes the whole plot.

Senso