This is a Belgian poster for Orson Welles’ 1952 adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Othello. Othello was a labour of love for Welles. He shot it on location in Europe over a period of 3 years, frequently having to shut down production having run out of money. Welles part-funded the movie himself, taking on other…
Flashdance
“What a feeling!” If you are looking for iconic 80s movie moments Flashdance’s climactic dance audition scene would probably be in the list. Director Adrian Lyne’s 1983 movie is the frankly ludicrous yet slight story of a beautiful female factory welder (yeh right) who aspires to be a professional dancer. Lyne drew on his previous…
Midnight Cowboy
This poster for 1969’s MIdnight Cowboy is one of the more unique pieces I have in my collection. Midnight Cowboy is one of the most iconic movies of its era. It depicts the unlikely friendship of 2 loser hucksters in a seedy and desperate New York City – male prostitute Joe Buck, as played by…
Superman
Richard Donner’s 1978 Superman was the first major superhero movie of the modern era, and is still the benchmark by which all Superman movies are judged. I remember going to the movies to see this on the back of the promise of the tag-line: “You’ll believe a man can fly.” The special effects, whilst cutting…
Kiss Of The Vampire
Kiss Of The Vampire is one of my favourite Hammer horror movies, even though it does not feature either Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing. I watched it again recently on YouTube and it really holds up well. It takes the basic set-up template of a great many vampire movies (ie a young couple break down…
The Woman In Red / Weird Science
Kelly Le Brock had limited acting talents but was one of those classic 80s pin-up who became the stuff of schoolboy fantasies. LeBrock started out as a model. (She was the Pantene girl who memorably implored “Don’t hate me because I’m beautiful” in a famous TV commercial). As an actress, she is remembered for…
Firefox
I doubt even the most avid Clint Eastwood fan would claim Firefox was one of his better movies. I remember buying this US one-sheet at a film memorabilia fair in Nottingham before the movie had been released in the UK. From the poster it looks promising, with a great image and tag-line….but that’s about as…
The Evil Dead
I remember seeing Sam Raimi’s original 1981 The Evil Dead in the lecture theatre at university and I found it very scary and gruesome at the time. The movie was (unusually for its era) released both in theatres and on VHS, and it generated a lot of controversy as a so-called ‘video nasty’. It has…
Grease
I recently saw Jimmy Fallon ran a segment on The Tonight Show called “Honest Movie Reviews”, where they described Grease as “a bunch of people in their 30s, playing teenagers in the 50s, singing songs written in the 70s”. All of which is true, but it doesn’t much detract from the charm of Grease. Grease…
Torn Curtain
Here are a pair of posters for Alfred Hitchcock’s 1966 thriller Torn Curtain. Like several of Hitch’s later movies, Torn Curtain is rather uneven, old-fashioned and boring in places. I saw it years again on TV and have not revisited it since. Stars Paul Newman and Julie Andrews try hard, but don’t have much chemistry…