Movie posters are art and, unfortunately, the forgotten one. In the early years of cinema history, they were used just like advertising material. Displayed in theaters only, movie posters had the same function as a menu in a restaurant: what feast can I enjoy this evening? Nowadays, movie posters play a big role in cinema memorabilia collection. They have lost the "informative" tone to wear a more artistic and decorative dress. We want to change it with this post.
Made in many different sizes and versions, and released in different moments all along a movie's life, posters immortalize in one static image the feeling and the atmosphere of a motion picture. Some posters can be dark or try to frighten the audience, others bedazzling with bright colors; some can be someway informative, while others can be fully teasing and may provide you only the date when movie will be released, even if you may not know what the movie is about.
In this post we present you a showcase of 50 beautiful movie posters. We went through different decades of movie history and different genre, different graphical approach, colors and style. Movies the posters are about may be famous or not, this is not the point.
Movie posters put together the love for for two different visual arts: cinema and graphics. Enjoy!
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The Spirit (Upcoming, December 2008)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (2007)
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
Invasion (2008)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Perfume (2007)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Dr. Strangelove (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb) (1964)
Good The Bad And The Ugly (1966)
Italian version.
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Last Click
Beyond A Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Please note the advice's style (highlighted with the red circle) for the audience: an innocent suggestion or just marketing?.
Resources
- Film Posters History On Wikipedia
- Movie Genre Classification on Wikipedia
- impawards.com
Internet Movie Poster Awards, with all the lates movie poster news and updates. - imdb.com
International Movie Data Base (IMDB), probably the most authoritative and well known movie website. - Cinemasterpieces.com
A good place where to buy movie memorabilia: old and original movie posters. - movieposteraddicted.com
Another good site about movie and movie posters. - Posterwire.com
A movie poster weblog. - Science-Fiction Movie Posters Archive
- 50 Incredible Film Posters From Poland
- Weird Posters: Wrong Side Of The Art
- PosterWhore
Social bookmarking for movie posters. - Internet Movie Posters Awards
- Kerry Ropper’s Selection
- Movie Poster Blog
- Vintage Horror & Sci-Fi Posters through the 1940s
- Posters Flickr Pool
- Hand-Drawn Movie Posters
- 31 Great Movie Posters
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