A poster of twelve different species of flowers of the Asteraceae family, belonging to the three most representative subfamilies: Asteroideae, Cichorioideae and Carduoideae.

The difference between Bas Jan and me is that I wouldn’t have to take that boat trip; a flyer would have been enough…. I would have treated it as pure theater.

– Jack Goldstein on Bas Jan Ader, Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia

Here’s to hoping the Pentagram documentary eventually comes out…

They said the bass player has too bad acne, the guitar player looks like a statue, the singer is ugly, and the drummer is fat. But they still love the material.

I’ve posted some of these before, but I saw some pop up on Cold Splinters and figured the Boston Public Library’s collection of vintage travel posters on Flickr was worth another mention.

The bottom poster, by Dorothy Waugh, is available for purchase from the Library of Congress.

1974 poster for Levi’s by Charles E. White III. Grab a signed version here, or donate one to Modcult Central.

From a collection of posters for William Peter Blatty’s The Ninth Configuration.

A poster by Sam Smith for Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 film House. A new 35mm print is currently making the rounds in the USA, courtesy of Janus. Here is a list of screenings.

From the NY Times review:

The yelps you’ll hear and possibly emit, though, will be of surprise and delight, not terror. “House,” which turns on a misbegotten, increasingly violent trip taken by seven teenage girls, is not in the least scary, despite its body count and gore. If the hairs on your neck snap to attention, it will be only because of Mr. Obayashi’s flamboyant visual style, his comic flights of fancy and genre manipulations. This might be about a haunted house, but it’s the film that is more truly possessed: in one scene a piano bites off the fingers of a musician tickling its keys; in another a severed head tries to take a bite out of a girl’s rear, snapping at the derrière as if it were an apple. Later a roomful of futons goes on the attack.

View the trailer here.

Posters from 1970’s Theatre of Eternal Music related events by Marian Zazeela.

While perusing the latest trailers, the above poster for The House of the Devil caught my eye. Nice vintage 80’s feel to match the style and setting of the film. Nice casting, with Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov.

Here are some alternate posters via the film’s Facebook page.

Update: This poster was designed by Kellerhouse, whose work has also graced several Criterion Collection covers and promotional materials for various films.

An avalanche of killer worms… writhing across the land in a tidal wave of terror!

Poster art from Drew Struzan including many images that will be much more familiar:

• The Goonies (full size)
• Big Trouble in Little China (full size)
• Blade Runner (full size)
• Coming to America (full size)
• E.T. (full size)
• Return of the Jedi (full size)
• The Thing (full size)

New print and issue of Uptight from Jordan Crane.

From a set of travel posters from the Boston Public Library.