I couldn’t come up with an original post after the long holiday — so let’s turn it over to the lovely Tuesday Weld…
Category Archives: 1970s posters
Remember The Memorial Day
In honor of the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, Premiere has a list of The 60 Greatest American War Movies.
Sketchy Sketchy
I’ve always enjoyed the old-fashioned hand-drawn posters and I’m pretty sure this low-fi style from the 70’s and early 80’s will soon be making a comeback on the indie film scene. (BTW, an artist named J. Isom was credited with the artwork for Honkytonk Man, but I cannot confirm if this same artist also did Breezy.)
Supermodels At The Movies!
Supermodels have always been great at selling magazines, but not so bankable at the box office — unless you count Zoolander (although, to be fair, that didn’t become a cult hit until well after it was released on DVD/cable).
Let’s take a look at some of the best and worst beauties over the years…
Remake Monday in 60 Seconds
If you like fast cars and fast women and somewhat shaky story development (at least in the 2000 version since I haven’t seen the ’74 original), then you’ll probably get revved up for Gone In 60 Seconds.
Hoffpenn
Is it me or do 90’s Sean Penn and 70’s Dustin Hoffman strangely resemble each other? Maybe it’s just the posters — and some of their choices of roles.
Hofffuss!
Or wait, maybe it’s Dustin Hoffman and Richard Dreyfuss that look alike? (The Big Fix is brought to you by Birney Lettick, of course!)
RIP: Frank Frazetta (1928-2010)
Sad day for the poster world. Fantastic fantasy art illustrator, Frank Frazetta, died today at the age of 82.
Let’s hope he made up with his son, Frank Frazetta Jr., who reportedly tried breaking into dad’s museum last year with a backhoe.
Foxy Baby!
Pam Grier was the queen of 70’s blaxploitation movies — and seemed stuck there in cinematic history — until Quentin Tarantino rejuvenated her career in 1997 with Jackie Brown (which had one of the coolest opening credit sequences ever right here).
And now Miss Foxy has pulled out the big guns with a new book!
Movie Poster Museum 