Harleybloke

In my office I have 'The Great Escape', 'Terminator' (Oh that Bike!!!!) and 'Quadrophonia'.

I'd like to get the legs one for 'Secretary' and TLGF.

What are your favs?

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

penfold

Not particularly rare or valuable, just nicely designed; the BFI poster for the reissue for AMOLAD about 7 years back;

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Moor Larkin

Never really thought that much about it,
but this one has rocked my boat since the first time I saw it:



I don't even remember Belinda actually wearing a bikini in the film.......
but I haven't been able to watch it recently, the video's lost it's marbles......

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christoph404

I much prefer movie posters when they used illustrations and paintings etc as opposed to modern posters which generally use photogrphic images in some kind of montage. Im thinking of the Bond movie posters right up to the Roger Moore films, those stylised illustrations with lots of action packed into them were great and Roger looked much slimmer than in the films themselves! I think there is a style of film poster art tha thas long gone and there were notable artists of the day who were employed to paint or sketch illustrations for film posters. There are numerous books around on this subject showing many old film posters in all their glory and in fact the collecting of rare original film posters has become big business with many rare and original posters changing hands at auction for very large amounts of money, tens of thousands of pounds in some cases! I tend to like posters of films I have actually enjoyed or which have become iconic images themselves, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" poster for example or "Scarface" (Al Pacino version) or "The Godfatrher", they have become more than mere posters but immediatly identifiable logos for the film. I have a few posters hanging up around my house which I bought for about £4.oo each in about 1974 with earnings from my paper round, I had them valued last year at a specialist gallery in London and was astounded to find that my posters are worth £600+ EACH!! I would never sell them because I enjoy having them but isn't it incredible that film poster art is now so desirable and trendy to have hanging on the walls at home.

Joenoir

Very few modern film posters can compare to classic ones of the 1930/40/50s. There is an excellent book on Ealing posters, I think it's called Projecting Britain. Good example include The Man in the White Suit and Dead of Night.

penfold

Mind you, I wouldn't mind a copy of the poster used for this DVD cover....

Not a fan of the film, particularly, fine though it is...but a copy of this poster holds the auction record for film posters.... $453,000 is a nice nest-egg....

Bit of a Bay Window, what??

Steve Crook

There's a coincidence. I've got that one as well.
And the BFI, silly people, didn't want to sell any despite a lot of people asking for them. So all the ones that people have were sneaked out of the back doors of cinemas where the restored film was shown.

I like this one as well


I've got a few others, mainly P&P of course, but I don't have the room to hang them all. I have a few hung though like an original AMOLAD poster

Some of the European posters can be very artistic and pleasing to the eye.
I've got a Red Shoes poster from Germany which is lovely

Apart from that clunky text

The Swedish one is very nice as well



Steve

Merton Park

One of my favourites!

David M.

A few from my collection. If you like Hammer posters go to my site,



Hammer Horror Posters

David McC

J. J.

batman

plus these two ....

batman

Do you mean this one?




Bats

Ljelja

I like phosters that feature photographs.

Here is Filmposters.com that offers some great and rare vintage stuff.

Harleybloke

Oh Yeah................................. Legs nearly as long as Chrissy CB's..........!

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!

Steve Crook

There have been some great posters for Peeping Tom. One of my favourites is the one by Astor Pictures

So wonderfully over the top

Steve