What do you get when your favou­rite local art house cinema starts giving away its reserve of ori­gi­nal thea­tri­cal pos­ters from over the past 10 years? A lot of frea­kin’ awe­some and huge pos­ters, that’s what. The rest of this blog entry is just one giant boast and a list of pic­tu­res. The most impres­sive of finds was the Wel­come to the Dollhouse pos­ter, a rare little Todd Solondz fea­ture from 1996 that is hard enough to find on DVD and the David Lynch/Disney team up in “The Straight Story”, the sound­track for which con­tains “Lauren’s Wal­king” by Angelo Bada­la­menti, one of my con­sis­tently favou­rite tracks.

Here we go:

Signs

Note the weights to hold down the pos­ter and pre­vent it rolling up again — some of these have been rolled in sto­rage for years.

The Machi­nist (sorry for the blur on this one)

The Woods­man

About Schmidt

Lower City

Memento

Me and You and Ever­yone We Know

Birth

A pretty shitty Starship Troo­pers

Bro­ken Flowers

The Squid and the Whale

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Sixth Sense

Requiem for a Dream

Metro­po­lis

Wel­come to the Dollhouse

To illus­trate how big these pos­ters are the next pic­tu­res are of the ones pos­ted on my walls. These were the first pos­ters I found and I haven’t chan­ged them for my more favou­ra­ble films yet:

The Others & Memento

The Straight Story, Doom the Movie (heh), The Talen­ted Mr. Ripley, Corpse Bride

If peo­ple have inte­rest in any of these I might be willing to “swap” for a large Ghost World or Lost in Trans­la­tion (ver­ti­cal with Scar­lett Johans­son) poster.

It seems Lost has pro­ved so popu­lar it now has a second (yes second) spin off cros­so­ver spe­cial! This time John Locke is joi­ned by FBI spe­cial agents Fox Mul­der and Dana Scully in an attempt to unearth the deep, shady and super­na­tu­ral past of the Dharma Ini­tia­tive; the truth is out there. This was can­not be mis­sed, even if just to watch that dreamy fan­tas­tic Mul­der one more time. Airs Octo­ber 27th, possibly.