trying to locate a movie poster

October 4, 2011 1:20 PM

Trying to locate an affordable version of this movie poster for Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
posted by crunchland to Media & Arts (6 answers total)

Best answer: I have that hanging in my living room! It's this one, and just your luck it seems to be on sale.
posted by griphus at 1:50 PM on October 4, 2011

(That seller, by the way, has all sorts of foreign movie posters. I decorated my new apartment with them: a Polish Die Hard, a Japanese Annie Hall, that Metropolis one, and an Italian 2001.)
posted by griphus at 1:52 PM on October 4, 2011

Read the seller reviews before you order, some people have complained that they received images that appeared to be photographs of posters and/or pixellated enlargements.
posted by slmorri at 2:27 PM on October 4, 2011

Oh, yeah, that's what they are, in fact, the vintage foreign ones at least. So they're not great for up-close viewing, but one couch-width away, the Metropolis one looks perfectly fine. My 2001 one has a crease in it that was from the original poster they photographed.
posted by griphus at 2:40 PM on October 4, 2011

As genuine posters go, I don't think this price is out of line, but ymmv. This is the 2010 re-release, not an original from 1926, which would be vastly more expensive.
posted by Ideefixe at 3:01 PM on October 4, 2011

Note that Ideefixe's poster has terribly underthought New And Improved! ugliness in the top left.
posted by Sys Rq at 4:07 PM on October 4, 2011