Hot Beer (3)

More collage-based poster-art. By me.

Hot Beer (2)

Collage-based poster-art. By me.

Hot Beer (2)

Collage-based poster-art. By me.

Hot Beer (1)

Collage based poster-art. By me.

Frankenstein

Painting of Frankenstein. By me.

Mobile Cinema

An advert for the fabulous mobile cinema. Go have a look at the restoration project here.

Mrs. Beeton's All About Cookery

Front:




Back:

A Postcard From Tangiers

I bought this in Tangiers. It has no printing information on it at all. My scan.

This is from the fabulous Royal College of Art exhibition of Roman Cieślewicz (wikipedia here)

It's a poster for a Polish screening of Hitchcock's Psycho.

Club del Misterio

Cover for a Spanish pulp-fiction story as part of a series.
My scan.
Printed 1981
Cover art by Rafael Cortiella Juancomarti

Dime Western Magazine

I came across this over at the fantastic Lots of Pulp blog. Check out the other stuff there!

Software Piracy

This is an OLD warning/advert against software piracy from back in the day. Do you think that, when they were putting together that picture of that disc dated 23rd August 1989 they could have had any idea of how the internet would change things. As those two hands pass 1.44Mb between friends, could they have known that TERRABYTES of copyright data would be changing hands between complete strangers just 20 years later?



Sadly, I don't know where this image came from. Credit to both the creator and the scanner.

Brandy

Unknown scource/artist. My scan.

Possibly the creepiest advert ever? Just look at those leering men...

Photography

Tribute to Director Luc Bresson
by Peter Kim

(click image or name for his Flickr account to see more)

La Venganza de Caronte

The Revenge of Caronte

Pulp science-fiction thriller in Spanish.
Printed in Spain 1982.
Cover-art attributed to 'Almazán', also 1982.
My scan.

Absinthe

A poster for the 1913 film, Absinthe. Sadly it seems like the film is long-lost.



Image from the Wellcome Collection.

El Papel Gol...

This is a Spanish advert for 'Gol' brand smoking papers of unknown origin/year. I love that, for a smoking advert, there is no-one smoking here, no tobacco, no cigarettes: nope, just a smiling Spanish lady, grinning to convince you of the wonders of 'Gol' papers

Gol Papers Smoothen Your Tobacco

Poster Hunt #11 - Nightfall

Here are a couple of posters for Jaques Tourneur's Nightfall (IMDb) from 1957, starring Aldo Ray, Brian Keith and Anne Bancroft. I don't write much about the films for these Poster Hunt posts (as I select them for artwork rather than the film - most of them I haven't seen), so if you do want to know more about the film I'll direct you to this comprehensive blog post at Noir of the Week.






Every day for five years? That's quite a claim!

Poster Hunt #10 - Suspiria & Giallo

Whilst most of the posters I've selected for Poster Hunt have been classic style, painted scenes, I thought that this time I'd go for a more modern, minimal look: clean lines and bold block colours.

So here we have two posters, the first for Dario Argento's Suspiria (a truly fantastic film, I recommend it highly) and the second for his much more recent Giallo (which I haven't seen and which received very mixed reviews)

Regardless of the quality of the films though, the posters are certainly both gorgeous.

Poster Hunt #9 - Blood Bath

A fairly late-in-the-month Poster Hunt, this classic and enticing poster comes from the B-movie super house that was American International Pictures.



This actually sounds pretty intriguing! From IMDb:

Roger Corman, noted producer/director, hired Jack Hill in 1964 to write and direct a horror film with the condition that he make liberal use of footage from "Operation Titian", a thriller Corman produced with Francis Ford Coppola (!) in Yugoslavia, but deemed unworthy of USA release. Hill was given actor William Campbell, Titian's star, and hired Lori Saunders (still using her original name of Linda Saunders, and soon Petticoat Junction-bound).

However, Corman didn't like the resulting film about a murderous sculptor possessed by the spirit of his ancestor, who was killed by a beautiful witch. So he shelved it for a year, bringing it out for director Stephanie Rothman to revise. Rothman turned the possessed sculptor into a vampire, shot extensive new footage (using a few members of the supporting cast) and---bingo!---"Blood Bath" was out in the theaters at last,

Might have to hunt this one out!

Poster Hunt #8 - Goliath and the Vampires

This gorgeous piece of retro poster-art looks back to a day when a film could be sold entirely on the strength of a poster. And looking at this one, you can see why!

SEE: The Revolt of the Faceless Humanoids? Count me in!

HOLD

SPACE

Poster Hunt #7 -James Bond and The Matrix - Ghana style

This month Poster Hunt comes in the form of TWO gorgeously ridiculous hand-painted posters from Ghana. Many of these paintings were made by (incredibly creative) artists who had not seen the film





And if you like these, you should definitely check out Ephemera Assemblyman

Poster Hunt #6 - Count Yorga, Vampire

After completely missing out December, Poster Hunt makes a glamorous 2010 return with this rather lovely poster for Count Yorga, Vampire.



They just don't make them like that any more...

IMDb here

Trailer here: