Art in Movie Posters
 

Posters are usually just used to "sell" a movie, at least in America. But apparently, in Poland, they take making a poster as an art, or at least that's how it seems to me after looking at some posters here and a summary here.

Here are a couple of examples:

Rosemary's Baby

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F...emarysbaby.jpg

Gandhi

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F...ers/gandhi.jpg

Empire Strikes Back

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F...trikesback.jpg

Strangers on a Train

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F...rsonatrain.jpg

Weekend at Bernies

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F...datbernies.jpg

Down by Law

http://math.dartmouth.edu/~trevino/F.../DownByLaw.jpg

I think these posters are wonderful, felt like sharing.

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Those are really cool. I would like to have some of them for my wall.

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i've on several occasions very nearly bought some of these, but i seem to remember them being a bit expensive

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A friend of mine has a few of them, think he paid about £60 a piece

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I like the Ghandi one. The "Alfreda Hitchcocka" one made me laugh. The Weekend at Bernies one I guess I don't get -- WTF were they thinking? is what I'm coming up with. Plus it seems very funny to get artsy-fartsy with such a totally dumbarse movie.

Not sure I like the Rosemary's Baby one. Too obvious and garish.

I like the spirit of inventiveness in general, but I suppose sometimes it plays out better than others. I did like the Down by Law one.

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Great thread. I'm going to look at more of these later. I love poster art!


Dances With Wolves

http://www.polishposter.com/images/3894.jpg

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The Witches of Eastwick
(A Cher movie)


http://www.polishposter.com/images/1830.jpg




Here's one that Carter likes,


The Fly
http://www.polishposter.com/images/1846.jpg

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LOL Katy I like the Dances with Wolves one a bit. The Witches of Eastwick one is hilarious. The Fly one seems kinda meh.

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if we're gonna have polish poster art, we should mention a Polish film

The Double Life of Veronique

http://www.polishposter.com/images/0779.jpg

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The father of a childhood friend of mine created these posters for a living. This thread makes me want to figure out if he ever created anything well-known.

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Thank you enrique, I didn't even know that these polish posters existed, but now I'm pretty sure I know where a big chunk of my money is going in the near future. OMFG, they have one for Howard the Duck!

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive200...ardtheduck.jpg

That poster may be better than the movie.

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I was talking to a Polish friend I have and he told me that when he grew up he didn't see these posters and judging from the dates on them, it seems as if they were made in the communist times.
It got me thinking about how communism could have been ideal to doing art in posters. Obviously communism is not ideal for most things (including art), but in the case of posters it makes sense, that since nobody is making money out of the movies in communist countries, then the artist can make the poster however he likes without having to think of a business model or how it will sell. Movie posters have to sell a product, get you to watch a movie, but that may not be the case in a communist regime.

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i've on several occasions very nearly bought some of these, but i seem to remember them being a bit expensive

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Yes, most of them are expensive. The cheap ones are under $30, like "Down by Law" is $24. But many are above $100 and some even make it to $200. "Spartacus" costs $290.