I've always loved vintage posters--travel, advertising, music, whatever. But lately, I've been really intrigued by Czech and Polish film posters. It started with a Hitchcock, probably the coolest poster I've ever seen:
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| Czech film poster for The Birds |
And then the madness began....If I had an extra hallway or two, these things would be on every square inch of wall. I love the graphic quality, and the fact that when I look at the posters, I have no idea what the movie is actually about, but I kind of understand how I'm supposed to
feel about the movie. That
Birds poster makes me uneasy. And so do these, but for different reasons:
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| Czech poster The Parallex View, 1977 |
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| Vintage Czech poster for 8 1/2 |
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| Czech poster, 1959 |
I LOVE THESE!
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| Czech poster by Karel Tiessel, 1965 |
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| Czech Cleo From 5 to 7; by Jaroslav Fiser |
The colors of this one are amazing:
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| 1970 Czech poster for Les Gauloises Bleues |
I really love the slightly altered take on this iconic character:
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| Czech Breakfast at Tiffany's |
This one makes me want to sit in the dark and listen to sexy music:
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| 1920s Czech poster for Erotikon |
And then we have an interesting comparison of artwork for the same film, the Czech version on the left and the Polish version on the right. I think I'd rather see this one in Czechoslovakia (but I would hang both of them in my house!)....
