Picture House Posters

Welcome to Picture House Posters, the home of both original vintage and contemporary movie posters, where cinematic artistry meets collectable memorabilia.

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This week we mark the 45th Anniversary of John Carpenters cult classic ‘Escape from New York’ inspired by 1970s distrust of government, Watergate scandals, and urban decay.
"1997. New York City is now a maximum-security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane."

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A story of corporate ambition meeting small-town charm and resistance.
An original French petite poster for the 1983 release of “Local Hero” subtitled 'The Scottish Miracle'.
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#PeterRiegert #BurtLancaster #davidputtnam #billforsyth #localhero

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With the World Cup now at the knockout stage, surely it is time to pay homage to football's greatest movie: ‘Escape to Victory’
“The actors wanted to be footballers, and the footballers wanted to be actors”
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In the workshop today, we have the U.S. advance one-sheet poster for the cult classic B-movie from ’96, ‘From Dusk Till Dawn’, directed by Robert Rodriguez and written & starring Quentin Tarantino and supported by Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Salma Hayek and Juliette Lewis.

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A full set of 8 American lobby cards for the 1964 epic "Zulu", most likely intended for the Canadian market.
The opening and closing narration is spoken by Richard Burton.
https://t.co/bHq8AJEDnd...
#StanleyBaker #MichaelCaine #JackHawkins #RichardBurton #zuluculture

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WOW ... 45 years to the day - 24th June, 1981 since the Royal World Charity Premiere of FOR YOUR EYES ONLY held at the Odeon, Leicester Square in London. Starring a spritely 53 your old Roger Moore as BOND.
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#JulianGlover #rogermoore #CaroleBouquet

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Drive (2011) has been described as a tough, hard-edged, neo-noir, art house feature, extremely violent and very stylish, with European art and exploitation influences.
‘A Blood Pumping Thrill Ride of a Movie’
https://t.co/H3k8sTxjHP
#ryangosling #CareyMulligan #bryancranston

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Hot on the heels of Tuesday's post, this little beauty arrived in the gallery - 'little' being figuratively speaking, as at 2 metres it truly is a statement poster of the grandest proportions.
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On this day 66 years ago - June 16th 1960, the greatest horror movie ever made was premiered in New York … end of.
Based on R. Bloch's 1959 novel of the same name and inspired by the case of murderer and grave robber Ed Gein.
… PSYCHO the greatest horror movie ever made.

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Earlier today in Richmond-upon-Thames, walking past the Ted Lasso shop, I found myself reminiscing about Anthony Head and his days in The Rocky Horror Show ...
Check out the original Piccadilly Theatre poster 1991 -
https://t.co/40z49pB2lG...
#AnthonyHead #rockyhorrorpictureshow

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The Grand Budapest Hotel is a 2014 comedy-drama film written and directed by Wes Anderson. Ralph Fiennes leads a seventeen-actor ensemble cast.
Link below to this rather sought-after quad -
https://t.co/2K4Xcp8SLJ...
#wesanderson #ralphfiennes #grandbudapesthotel

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Check out the latest acquisitions to arrive at the gallery. https://t.co/d2eMdTwHyg
#killbill #thegoonies #blowup

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Anthony Head best-known for playing Rupert Giles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, has died aged 72.
Head also appeared in BBCs Little Britain & Merlin as well as film roles - The Iron Lady and The Inbetweeners Movie. More recently, he played a former football club owner in Ted Lasso.

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Young Fiver has just hopped into the gallery, which reminded me of a local restaurant that had a rabbit dish on the menu with the rather controversial tagline 'Watership Down - you've read the book, you've seen the film ... now try the stew." Brilliant.
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This week, we mourn the loss of film editor Marcia Lucas, who passed away at her home in California. Referred to as her husband George Lucas' 'secret weapon', she co-edited Lucas’ 'American Graffiti' before going on to edit 'Star Wars' as well as Martin Scorsese’s 'Taxi Driver'.

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From the guys at Bottleneck Gallery, here's one of the most iconic posters of the late 2000s: the ‘Why so serious?’ Joker 3D Lenticular poster from Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight!
https://t.co/9v3jRL40at
#ChristopherNolan #heathledger #michaelcaine

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One of our latest acquisitions is this stunning U.S. one-sheet poster for the 1969 release of Downhill Racer, featuring artwork by Steven Frankfurt.

"How fast must a man go to get from where he's at?"

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#robertredford #jamescaan

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'I love the smell of facts in the morning’ The film's three year production was shot in the Philippines and not Vietnam. Coppola hired a young actor named Harrison Ford in what previous Coppola production had Ford appeared?
Check out our insert poster at
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An original poster for Metropolis, a sci-fi film by Fritz Lang, was sold in London UK, to a US collector for £393,300 on 15 Nov 2005, one of only four copies known to exist.
Check out our variants of Metropolis at -
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