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Celluloid-lovers,Anyone else here collect movie posters?
I started in High School with a 2-sheet copy of "Platoon" and now have more than 40 really good ones.
My Best?
Original U.S. release of Stalag 17, Exodus, an Italian Lawrence of Arabia, and Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Yojimbo in the original Japanese.
Tosh
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
Follow Ups:
Back in the early 80's, I used to visit the dumpsters in the back of movie rental places. They through away dozens of posters for the new movies they get in. I had 50 or so.....then gave up on it. Blockbuster and Hollywood video and others may still just throw out the posters they put up in thier stores for the new movies they get in after they are done with them.
I started collecting movie posters in 1976 when I got a job with a film distributor. I've still got around 75 or so put away, most in new condition, but they're not at all collectable: films like Tommy, White Line Fever, just a bunch of lackluster 70's films that I doubt anyone cares about.
I would not consider myself a bonafide collector, but I became fascinated with the poster art and graphic design of Poland some time back and have a number of very nice posters from the '60's and'70's. These include Blow Up, Derszu Uzala, The Incident, Planet of the Apes, The Passenger, several westerns and a few more aside from that. The Polish designers' merging of modernist design, abstraction and pop art is very compelling. At least two friends of mine, after being exposed to my collection, ended up buying several posters from the poster dealer in Poland I had been working with. These posters can still be had for reasonable prices depending on where you look.
Bryan K.,
Music Lover & President-elect of C.C.A.C. (Concerned Citizens Against Cilantro)
I have many HUGE nice old movie posters I've collected over the years (like for old French New Wave films), but they aren't displayed.How do you frame or put up a large (40x60) poster without spending $800 on a frame?
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One of these days I gotta get myself organizized.
If you go to a frame shop you will most likely pay arm and a leg.Instead, look in the stores like TJmax, Marshalls, etc, that sell the excess inventory. The one here has a huge selection of framed prints and... ahem... "paintings". They often sell very inexpensively, and when you consider the price of glass and even the cheapest frame, that is always a trmendous bargain. As these are usually made in Mexico, etc, and sold in bulk to the furniture stores, etc, their prices are wonderful. I often buy frames that way. You can easily find a $100 frame there for around $20.
I have seen large framed posters there, but never paid attention to them.
I always dreamed to do it, but failed miserably. In the mean time some posters are so high in price that you can only but dream of...Patrick
Mon Ami,The prices have become crazy. I bought most of my good ones more than 10 years ago when they were "relatively" cheap. I paid a lot for the Kurosawa posters but they were gorgeous pieces of art. They were the FIRST things I removed from the house when I left the ex.
Didn't someone pay more than $1,000,000 for the first King Kong?
I'll tell you what I would pay good money for:
Rashomon: Original Japanese signed on the back by Kurosawa
Birth of a NationI remember as a kid walking past a beautiful theatre in Toronto that was demolished for condos, and seeing a "Revenge of the Jedi" poster. Lucas changed the name and the rare posters vanished. I saw it in a store once signed on the back by Lucas, David Prowse, and Carrie Fisher - $2,900.
Tosh
"I think this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them you're Jewish"
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