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.

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.

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.

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: