Some posters and covers (old and new) for Terry's movies

[TlatoSMD]

(Warning: Picture flood! Images too large to be shown here or that were barred from getting hotlinked have been put as simple links.)

(Packer's thread he started about the VHS copy for Jabberwocky sent me on a bit of a googling frenzy. When I saw in the editing tab what abomination of a post I'd created, I decided to make it its own thread in order not to risk getting banned for one of my very first posts on the new forum over the issue of SPAM SPAM LOVELY SPAM!)

While we're at the topic of covers/posters, by far my favorite poster for Munchausen is still the original German one which is the one I have on the wall in my office (copy shown here could use a little brightening up of either the blacks or the mids, and some saturation added overall):



Just look how blandly the English/American poster pales in comparison, making the Baron to be all about hot air in his head as Horatio Jackson thought:



And I know that even way more asinine covers have been used for English-language VHS and DVD releases. It's no surprise then that with the anniversary edition, they went with a bit more Baroque version then:



My only regret is I still favor the original German release poster that was replaced with the Blue Baroque version even for the German anniversary edition. I wonder if the people choosing the Blue Baroque version even knew about the German version.

My second-favorite poster for Munchausen is still the Italian one:



Smaller English version (but lighter and with better saturation):



Larger English version, closer to the Italian original (notice head of King of the Moon at the top):

http://www.eatbrie.com/large_posters_fil...hausen.jpg

And while I was googling for the above, once again it's been proven fact that, as I've been saying over on Theresa's place one time, Italians obviously know beauty when they see it. Have you guys ever seen this awesome cover/poster for Time Bandits?

http://www.copertinedvd.org/copertine-dv..._tempo.jpg

The above has a bit of a greenish cast, so here's a smaller version with better colors:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/66/...pocf6.jpg/

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Speaking of what I also found via googling for the above, here's some more bits of delightful weirdness I've come across (gee, I wish some of these woulda been around, especially at this resolution, a few years ago when I designed my own collage of favorite Brazil posters!):





















http://projectormagazine.files.wordpress...1_1280.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/earlofportl.../lightbox/

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/33395243@N03/8555794546

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/33395243@N03/8555794546

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/33395243@N03/8555794546

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/33395243@N03/8555794546

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Gee, I'm sorry about the last bit (one poster and one URL) repeating several times! Musta been some browser hiccup on my end. Would be great if you could fix it, Phil.

[Packer]

No sweat there! My topic was simply on the Python misconception (thankfully the PAL release of Jabberwocky didn't make the same mistake).

Looking through the Brazil posters, I'm under the impression that most of them were fan made (to clarify, the Universal logo on them wasn't adopted until 1997.) Still, these "mondo" posters seem to be more creative than the actual ones.

[bruttenholm]

For Jabberwocky :

The german poster, banking on Monty Python's fame :

and the french one, by René Ferracci :

[cclark]

I've posted this one before. Mondo really creates some of the best poster designs:

[Donald McKinney]

I like what came out of Poland during the Cold War, it's almost like from another planet.

Brazil



Jabberwocky

[TlatoSMD]

That reminds me some of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner:







http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catego...g_Kirchner

The Beatles Songbook also has some similarly-styled neat imagery by 1960s artists.

[Donald McKinney]

Here's a few foreign ones I found...

Time Bandits



The Fisher King



Twelve Monkeys





Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas



The Brothers Grimm

[TlatoSMD]

Only in Japan...

[TlatoSMD]

Found some more interesting alternative covers and such:





The mint-colored one above should be additionally tagged with the following tagline:



The Black Knight Rises:



(Available as a t-shirt from: http://tshirtspotlight.com/2012/08/01/th...han-davis/)

This one looks in style like a great mash-up combination of Terry's entire 1980s Trilogy of Imagination, plus some Parnassus and maybe 12 Monkeys thrown in for good measure, with another great subtle reference to Holy Grail in the central character:



I like this one for the sake of simplicity:



Somebody should re-build this one in Photoshop (or the likes) using the proper original materials (screenshots, stills, posters, promotional materials, etc.):



And now for something completely antique! As a bonus: Could this be the oldest known photo of Terry during his active career (counting from his work at Help onward)?



He looks a little like John Entwistle in this one. Or is it more like Jim Morrison, or Neil Innes? Anyways, found this one in a cached version on Pinterest (where it was named "A Tribute to Terry Gilliam"). The original had already been deleted, Google Similar Image search turned up nothing but the cached Pinterest version.

Bonus no. 2: I also rather like this one, also for its nifty vintage-colored photo stock (or is it the golden and orange sunset on them?):

[Donald McKinney]

I found this, the original UK Quad for Twelve Monkeys (1995), I remember when the film came out this was EVERYWHERE!! On billboards and bus stops...