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SITE LAST UPDATED MARCH 25, 2012
Glad you stopped by. My name is Mel. I’m a 43yo 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 purchased a few movie posters here and there in the years prior to 2009, 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 (as of March 2012). 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 (1990+) but later expanded to posters from earlier decades and other countries, especially Italy, France, UK, and Japan.
I have 60+ frames in my 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.
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 sign)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.
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.)
Following are poster galleries arranged by decade. “First release original” posters were issued by the studios (usually through the National Screen Service (NSS) when the movie initially played in theaters. “Re-release originals” were printed and issued by the studios in later years. (I have relatively few post-1980 re-releases, so I have not separated the releases after 1980).
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. I now have 125 or so international posters. I particularly like the large size Italian and French one panel posters.
Click on the icon below to see the posters I’ve acquired in the last several months.
NON-ONE SHEET US POSTERS
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!
Kilian Enterprises produced some spectacular one sheet commercial posters from 1985-1995 and they are some of my favorites, especially va-voom Jessica Rabbit!
I’ve sold most of my movie art prints to concentrate on original movie posters but I’ve kept a few near and dear to my heart....