1970S

1960s

1980S

1990S

2000S

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Glad you stopped by! My name is Mel. I’m a 44yo attorney living in Washington DC working for Uncle Sam. That’s me standing standing next to a United States six sheet movie poster hanging in my hallway. (It is 81” x 81” and I am 71” tall by comparison!)

Although I had previously purchased a few movie posters here and there, my collecting “saga” really begins on March 20, 2009. I was wandering around downtown Denver during a ski trip when I spotted a movie poster store (Hollywood Movie Posters). I was immediately hooked! I’d joined art appreciation groups before and - frankly - the “prestige” art at museums bored me to tears. I could RELATE to these movie posters!  Some of them featured artwork much more creative and intriguing than sleepy museum fare, some brought to mind my favorite movie memories, some were hilarious, and some were amazingly creative.

Since then, I’ve accumulated about 1150 posters and prints (as of May 2013). Approximately ninety percent of them are “original” movie posters, which were used in - or printed for use in - movie theaters.  The rest of them are TV show posters, commercial posters, limited edition art prints, music posters, etc.  I originally focused on modern US posters (1980+) but later expanded to posters from earlier decades and other countries, especially Italy, France, UK, and Japan.

I have 70+ frames in my “bachelor apartment.”  Every month I change most of the posters in the frames.  You can check out the photos I’ve taken of this ever-changing “wallpaper” in this section. (Below is a collage of pictures taken over the last year of my framed posters.)

I’ve collected the best posters from some of my favorite movie series. Click on any image to see the gallery.

When I tell people how many posters I have, they usually say “wow - you’re really obsessed with movies!” That’s not really true. I probably watch only 10-12 movies a year. I truly consider my movie posters an art collection. I buy posters based on artistry, rarity, creativity, and overall coolness. However, I will sometimes buy a mediocre poster (e.g. Caddyshack) just because I really like the movie. I’ve watched about half of the movies for which I have posters.  The following quote sums up the situation very well:

"Movie poster collectors are a strange lot. The reason they spend so many precious hours seeking out and find comfort in the artistry of people who are long dead cannot be entirely explained by logic, but in that respect collecting film posters is no different from becoming lost in the works of Charles Dickens, or devoting oneself to studying Victorian paintings or restoring an old house."  (Ira Resnick, Starstruck: Vintage Movie Posters)

I’ve organized my posters in several ways - rating, decade, series, genre, country of origin, etc.  Follow the links below to reach each separate gallery. (I organized and created these galleries in Aperture, which I strongly recommend to other poster collectors.)

To contact me, send an email to AlphaMel1968(“at”)gmail(“dot”)com. Also, be sure to check out www.moviepostercollectors.com, my general reference movie poster website, and its link page to exceptional movie poster collections on the Internet. Finally, consider joining AllPosterForum.com to discuss movie posters, prints, and all other posters with other new and veteran collectors.

Like many collectors, I started off solely collecting US one sheets.  Over time, I realized that international posters are often far more creative and artistic than their US counterparts.

2010S

The vast majority of my US posters are 27x40/41 one sheets but I have picked up a few of other sizes.  (In the early 1980s the studios dropped all other sizes than one sheets and bus shelters).  My favorites are the ginormous 40” x 60” posters, which usually have the same art as the one sheets, just twice the size!

I occasionally buy outstanding commercial movie, TV, or video posters.  The Killian posters (produced from 1985-1995), for example, are exceptional.

I’ve purchased a few movie art prints, including Mondo and S2 “recreation” posters.  Many of them are superior to the original posters and the screenprint colors really “pop”!

HOW TO NAVIGATE THE GALLERIES: Each image below is a link to a separate gallery, which will open in a separate tab or window.  When you have finished looking through that gallery, close the window or tab to return to this home page. (The separate galleries at present do not have links back to this home page, although I will add them in the future.)

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Me vs. a US six sheet poster!

Click the icon below to peruse my last 100 purchases, which I try to update every couple of weeks or so.

1930s

1950s

All posters are not created equal.  The following galleries show my “very best” (about 100 or so) and “almost best” (about 400 or so) posters.

Note on re-release posters: I listed all re-release posters released in the first 10 years after the first release in the decade of the original release.  All other re-release posters I listed in the decade of the re-release.

1940s

When I began collecting, I focused mostly on modern post-1980 posters.  Over time, I learned to appreciate the superior artistry of older posters and have focused my collecting on earlier decades.