Oct 6 2006
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.
Jul 25 2005
In a bid to clean up parts of the house we decided to rummage through our attic to make space for more boxes of things we don’t really need but like to keep. We removed some old boxes and looked through them, most of it was junk. Door handles, screws, locks, metal brackets, paint brushes, wallpaper, broken things and lots of dust. However we did come across a bag containing two large rolls, upon closer inspection they were my Dad’s old posters. These posters look pretty darn cool and I’m trying to value them at the moment.
Easy Rider Posters, very rare and vintage:
Black and White, 29" x 51.5", Peter Fonda and "Chopper", in Las Vegas on scene for filming
Poster date: February 16th 1969 (pre-release)
24.5" x 33.5"
25" x 34"
One of the greatest posters I have ever seen at a massive 34" x 51.5"
Jimi Hendrix:
Black Sabbath:
Soft Machine
Random Science Fiction Monthly Posters
This one’s pretty cool.
Che Guevara
If you are interested in purchasing any of these, feel free to contact me at kangoophoo NO at SPAM gmail dot com, state how much you are willing to pay also. Most of these posters are in mint or very good condition and have been rolled away in the dark for 20 years.
May 7 2005
I’ve decided that I would like some ‘proper’ art to grace the walls of my room. I have film posters of the generic ‘movie loving teen boy’ aka the matrix, kill bill, etc… . I also have a large nuclear explosion photo and a rasturbation of Marilyn Monroe “popaganda”. But I’m not satisfied. I want something with style I guess. So I began browsing shops and art.com for prints that I liked. I found few that struck me but there were 3 I absolutely loved:
a) “Sphinxes with Dictionary” by Francine Van Hove
b) “Bunny Dressing” by Michael Sowa
c) Japanese import Amelie poster (featuring Sowa’s art)
There was also a lovely coffee and croissants photo I nearly purchased in the local arty shop on campus.
Mar 11 2005
All this anti-feminine stuff I have thrown on here as joke is going to make me look like a total sexist pig. I don’t take any of this stuff seriously and if I were in fact sexist I would never be able to lead a life in my house in which I live with 5 other girls. In hind sight, here is my awesome new poster I found on campus and did not pay for:
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