We’ve been admiring posters for new films like Avatar, Solomon Kane, Edge of Darkness, The Last Airbender, and Legion.

They inspired us to have another look at the 25 greatest and most intriguing movie posters of all time, not listed in any particular order, each being uniquely cool in its own right.

Straw Dogs, 1971	Apocalypse Now, 1979	Metropolis, 1927	Lawrence of Arabia, 1962	2001: A Space Odyssey, 1968
Anatomy of a Murder, 1959	Barry Lyndon, 1975	The Graduate, 1967	Full Metal Jacket, 1987	Lolita, 1962
The Silence of the Lambs, 1991	MASH, 1970	The Seven Year Itch, 1955	Showgirls, 1995	Chinatown, 1974
Blonde Venus, 1932	The French Lieutenant’s Woman, 1981	Jaws, 1975	Star Wars, 1977	A Clockwork Orange, 1971
The Shawshank Redemption, 1994	Titanic, 1997	Sullivan’s Travels, 1941	The Godfather, 1972	American Beauty, 1999

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Maggie Van Ostrand is ashamed to not be a geek, but she’s proud to have once attended a Star Trek convention where Bill Shatner spoke to her. He said “Hi. Are you anybody?” Maggie graduated from college so long ago, she can’t remember the name of it but thinks it was somewhere in New York. She majored in stuff that has nothing to do with anything she does today, except the classes she audited at the AFI. She knows little or nothing about comic book characters unless they’re drawn by Robert Crumb. She knows nothing of gaming outside of Vegas, and still thinks Moonlight was way better than True Blood. She is here because she reminds the publisher of his grandmother and he felt sorry for her. Her favorites are anything by Billy Wilder, Godfather I and II, Lawrence of Arabia, & Young Frankenstein. She writes political satire for Huffington Post, was head writer for movie trivia TV show; writes a column about Old West characters; was TV comedy ghostwriter; humor columnist for newspapers and online publications, and other boring stuff. Twitter: @magpie99 Website: www.maggievanostrand.com

4 Comments

tim cronin February 1, 2010 at 4:42 pm

Good call on Sullivan’s Travels, Anatomy of a Murder and Straw Dogs
Matt Cronin February 1, 2010 at 7:21 pm

I’m surprised that’s the image they used for the poster of 2001: A Space Odyssey. I’ve never seen the movie but the “Sullivan’s Travels” poster is so simple and beautiful, without a clue of what the movie’s about. Interesting choice of MASH, I’m not sure that’s “beautiful” but all in all good choices.
Steven Severt February 2, 2010 at 8:46 am

A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, American Beauty, The Silence of the Lambs, and the original Star Wars posters were all excellent and represented the films well. I don’t know if I’d call all of these beautiful, but you picked some good stuff that should be recognized.
Big Boss July 8, 2010 at 4:04 pm

Very cool posters! I think the original Alien poster should be there as well.

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