"As far as I’m concerned this poster should be on display in the Louvre"

April 21, 2014 11:02 AM

[Fritz Lang's] Metropolis and the posters of Boris Bilinsky.
posted by griphus (11 comments total)

Yes, it's pretty awesome. I've run across it before when doing general image searches for Metropolis the movie.
posted by Slothrop at 11:15 AM on April 21, 2014

I would watch the heck out of all these movies.

And Bilitinsky knew how to draw a train!
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:17 AM on April 21, 2014

That poster is so damn great.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to purchase a reprint? A quick search yields nothing.
posted by context adventure at 11:26 AM on April 21, 2014

You can get a poster-sized copy of a high-resolution scan on Amazon. I have a few of them from that shop and they looks pretty good.
posted by griphus at 11:31 AM on April 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

context adventure it's here. $14
posted by Wretch729 at 11:32 AM on April 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

If you can access the dread facebook, here is the poster just done for a local showing of Metropolis
posted by edgeways at 11:34 AM on April 21, 2014

There *must* be posters available, because I had this poster on the wall of the hostel where I stayed in Berlin. I even took a picture of it because it was so cool. But I'd begin searching in the shop of the Kinemathek near Potsdamer Platz.
posted by sukeban at 12:17 PM on April 21, 2014

i happen to be the editor of a science fiction magazine. One of our earliest articles was on the subject of "The Art of Science Fiction." One of the key pieces discussed in that article was Fritz Lang/s Metropolis poster.
posted by 256 at 2:57 PM on April 21, 2014

I have the poster from Amazon and it is a good reproduction. I found reference to it here on Mefi from a comment and knew that I had to have it for Mr. Jadepearl.
posted by jadepearl at 4:47 PM on April 21, 2014

I will never stop loving every minutely trimmed-and-lost-yet-then-rediscovered corpuscle, typeface, woodcut, remastered soundtrack and dust-covered artifact that bears the legacy of this film's immaculate perfection.

That is all.
posted by Unicorn on the cob at 9:41 PM on April 21, 2014 [2 favorites]

Welp, I'm in love.
We have a poster for Metropolis on our wall (this one), but now I have poster envy.

I love this era of posters and art.
There is A Princess Of Mars print I covet, but no one seems to sell a print.
posted by Mezentian at 5:36 PM on April 23, 2014