This is a pair of French posters for Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey and its less renowned sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The special effects in Kubrick’s movie were a marvel of their time, for sure, with everything created physically and in immaculate detail in the days before CGI….
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
This is a selection of stills and the UK press kit from Steven Spielberg’s remarkably dark follow-up to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple is actually a prequel to Raiders. It kicks off with a fantastic opening sequence, set to “Anything Goes”, sung in Mandarin, and climaxes with an amazing set-piece rail car chase through…
The Evil of Frankenstein / Frankenstein Created Woman
Here’s a pair of Belgian posters for films from the Hammer Frankenstein sage, both starring the indomitable Peter Cushing. These Belgian posters are quite small (35 x 55cm), so are a good option to display if you do not have a huge amount of wall space. They are also highly collectible, especially for the 60s…
Raging Bull
Martin Scorcese’s biography of boxer Jake La Motta is the movie for which Robert De Niro famously piled on nearly 30 kg and won his second Oscar. It has phenomenal performances, fantastic black and white photography, and the fight scenes are wonderfully choreographed and edited. But it is very slow burn, and whilst it is…
Quadrophenia
My friend Andrew who is a huge Who fan has been asking me blog about this poster, as he also owns a copy. This is the UK “Quad”(!) I think I got this for free from a bookshop window display back when the movie came out. It was damaged badly at one edge and I…
Eyes Without A Face
I am not sure but I do not believe I have ever seen Eyes Without A Face. This 1960 movie was realised by French director Georges Franju, a former documentary film-maker. The plot concerns a plastic surgeon who is obsessed with performing a face transplant upon his daughter, who has been badly disfigured in a…
Apocalypse Now
This is the US one sheet poster for one of the most epic and ambitious war movies ever. I distinctly remember seeing Apocalypse Now in the cinema. It was at an arthouse cinema in Nottingham, which did not have the best sound. Consequently it was impossible to understand a word of Marlon Brando’s dialogue. At…
Valentino / Women In Love
Here are a pair of French ‘grande’ posters for two Ken Russell movies. Flamboyant British ‘enfant terrible’ Russell made a wide range of ‘extreme’ censor and critic baiting movies – from The Devils to Whore. His movies tend to be love them or hate them affairs, and he made a number of undeniable stinkers in…