Non-Alamo Graphic Art Movie Posters

[brude]

Very nice, Fallen...and a nice price, too...
Should look great in your home theater...

[guest8]

I need more frames now though !!

[kovacs01]

Been waiting for that release for quite a while Fallen.  I definitely picked one up as well.  Its the closest thing I have seen to the Blade Runner print from way back that I haven't been able to find a copy of.

[holiday]

Yeah, got one for me too.  I wish I could have gotten the other print that was the more limited release, but I guess it sold out even before I got the email.  I don't normally buy these kind of posters, but Blade Runner remains my favorite movie of all time, so I made an exception for this. 

[guest8]

I just cant wait to see this in person .. I keep looking at that picture and I may just have to get an ornate frame like they are showing it in as well .. I dont know if after looking at that picture so many times any of my low key/cheap frames will look as good !

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Let The Right Poster In:

[guest8]

Let The Right Poster In:

LOL .. That looks nice as well .. To bad framing the real thing isnt as easy as with photoshop

[eatbrie]

I just received the Ansin/El Topo variant.  The printing is amazing.  The red hands and the blood on the kid's lips really pop out.  Another amazing job from Martin. 



I know he checks this forum (I've harassed him enough ), so Martin, congrats.

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[Dr Hackenbush]

I found this design pretty enjoyable and well executed

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

I like Tom Whalen's (aka strongstuff) retro style (these are not for sale, apparently):

[Dr Hackenbush]

For those who may have watched AMC's THE WALKING DEAD, Drew Struczan is autographing 100 of the posters he did for the show.  Like the poster, but wouldn't shell out $500 for the autographed version

[eatbrie]

This is my first concert poster.  I am not into that scene, but this one was just too damn nice to pass on.

Ken Taylor for Phish



Poster went on sale at 12 Noon PST and was sold out less than 1 minute later.  These were APs, so I don't know how many got sold.  The initial print run was 600.

Following Alien, T2 and the recent amazing Poltergeist, this Ken Taylor dude is really starting to grow in me!!!



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[eatbrie]

As a big Aliens fan, I really dig this one.



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[paul waines]

As a big Aliens fan, I really dig this one.



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T

Now that is one I really like.

[holiday]

As a big Aliens fan, I really dig this one.



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Yup.  Picked it up yesterday when it came out. 

[eatbrie]

A great day for prints...

First, there is the fantastic Leon Cinema Overdrive print.  Great work, Matt.



Then, Gallery 88 in Venice had an opening tonight with artwork inspired by John Hughes.  A lot of original art, and a few prints, in very limited quantity (and of course, one per customer).

First, this Ferris Bueller by Joshua Budich (75 prints total).  Looks gorgeous in person and 24x36in.



And another smaller Ferris Bueller by Max Dalton called The Board Game.  Quite inspired, 16x20in (86 prints total).



I also scored one of my most wanted with this Stout's The Lost Boys.



And a couple of weeks ago, another of my most wanted, this Leon by Jeff Boyes.



So, a good day, week and month.

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[stewart boyle]

The Joshua Budich,Ferris Bueller, is an inspiration..Great Artwork,combined with an obvious love of the characters fom the film.
Wonderful.

Stew

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

First, this Ferris Bueller by Joshua Budich (75 prints total).  Looks gorgeous in person and 24x36in.

Man, that is great, especially showing the joyriding valets:



The artist will be selling the remaining 40 copies in March.  Sign up for his newsletter for more info:

I will have the additional 40 prints in the edition of 75 + a few (VERY FEW) APs for sale. Hopefully some time in early March when Gallery 1988 gives me the A-OK to sell them. I will send around an email with an official drop-date to my mailing list when the time comes.

[Ari]

I'm gonna sound like Archie (and he knows I Love him), but CRIPES, really? its scenes from the film, projected and traced, I have nothing against the easy way out but it AINT ART. For a film IMHO that is RIDICULOUSLY OVERRATED and art that is seriously CHEAPLY DONE. I might (and often are) out of the loop, but youch, I wouldn't touch this with my aunties, mother in laws, brothers, cousins ten foot pole.
Then again I have thousands of posters that mean a lot to me and nobody else wants.
Horses for courses.

[guest8]

I'm gonna sound like Archie (and he knows I Love him), but CRIPES, really? its scenes from the film, projected and traced, I have nothing against the easy way out but it AINT ART. For a film IMHO that is RIDICULOUSLY OVERRATED and art that is seriously CHEAPLY DONE. I might (and often are) out of the loop, but youch, I wouldn't touch this with my aunties, mother in laws, brothers, cousins ten foot pole.
Then again I have thousands of posters that mean a lot to me and nobody else wants.
Horses for courses.

Although I understand your plight with calling this "art" but I think you underestimate the skill it takes to be a great illustrator .. Not to mention, show me any modern theatrical poster that is hand drawn anymore ..  Its either photos from scenes in the movies collage'd together or an illustrator using photoshop to showcase character faces .. It seems that illustrators are the new rock stars of the art world ..

[Ari]

BUT the difference is someone who sees a scene and draws compared to projecting a scene and tracing the image.
I admit I CANNOT DO IT, he/she/it is more talented than me. But there is a difference between art and colour by numbers.
I agree re modern posters, I RARELY collect them, but AT LEAST they might be legit theatrical posters. I really do not care, enjoy what you do. but to ME this is a cheap shot at what i think is a mediocre movie.
Then again MANIAC I consider a superb movie that changed a genre and an important part in horror history.
To each his own.

[stewart boyle]

BUT the difference is someone who sees a scene and draws compared to projecting a scene and tracing the image.
I admit I CANNOT DO IT, he/she/it is more talented than me. But there is a difference between art and colour by numbers.
I agree re modern posters, I RARELY collect them, but AT LEAST they might be legit theatrical posters. I really do not care, enjoy what you do. but to ME this is a cheap shot at what i think is a mediocre movie.
Then again MANIAC I consider a superb movie that changed a genre and an important part in horror history.
To each his own.

I use the term "artwork" generally Ari,thats all. I agree it isnt even close to being classified in the generally accepted definition of "art",illustration is a more fitting term..
I cant believe you dont like the movie,yeah the Shake it up baby scene sucks big time,but thats John Hughes for you !

Stew

[Dread_Pirate_Mel]

Keep in mind that the US one sheet is mediocre and the very cool international one sheet is impossible to find, so this poster "fills in the gap" well by offering detailed character illustrations.  I like the character poses too.  Here's a larger size:



BTW Doesn't Mia Sara look like Hillary Clinton in this poster?

[guest8]

I think the trouble is we generalize the term art .. it encompasses painters, sculptures, photographers as well as those illustrators and people who draw freehand works .. and yes even those "performance" artists So we cant get hung up on a single definition of the term art ..  

DAMN it MEL !! Stop posting pictures !!! Im trying to NOT buy any more posters !!! 

[wonka]

I picked one of these up, if nothing else, because of the different art in terms of 'filler' as Mel coined it.  I agree with this assessment.

It's not breaking any artistic molds, but the new art of classic 80s characters with the original title font/design makes this a great addition to my 80s horde.  While the art direction on it is just OK, it is nowhere near as bad as Bertmer's or Doyle's stuff.  Their work literally annoys me, an emotion I don't like to feel when looking at art.  I dig this piece because it doesn't try to be anything other than what it is, which is what the glory days of 80s posters used to be in the first place.  

I give stuff from this decade a pass, need be, design-wise if a particular poster evokes certain memories of the Happy Childhood Decade, that is all that matters.  (See: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...the best Hughes film, IMO with a poster that can be written off as just OK but I think its perfect...it makes me so happy just to look at it).  

I don't think the work on it can be downplayed though, especially since we don't know the process and time it went into it.  Determining what is art and what isn't is a waste of time, art is supposed to polarize folks, that's the beauty of it.

As you have said before, Ari...if you like it, buy it...if not, that's cool too.