Throughout a stunningly successful career, entailing a wide variety of commercial illustration work, it is perhaps Richard Amsel's movie posters that remain the most popular. Indeed, "popular" is something of an understatement, as some of his pieces remain engrained within contemporary culture decades after the artist's death. Amsel's artwork was often more accomplished than the films they promoted.

In organizing these movie posters, I opted to present them chronologically rather than alphabetically, out of a desire to show how the artist's work evolved over time. (The order they're listed here are my "best guesses" based on the respective films' years of release, and may not exactly reflect the order that Amsel created them.) No doubt Amsel would have continued to explore new techniques while heightening his creative powers. One can only imagine how he would have taken command of the Photoshop revolution, as well as animation!

Many illustrators "peak" at a certain point. Even if their work remains consistantly good afterward, seldom is there further exploration, or bold, new discoveries made. Richard Amsel was a notable exception, as his latter work -- RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK and MAD MAX BEYOND THUNDERDOME in particular -- demonstrated an artist climbing ever higher and higher upon his mountainous talent. If Amsel were still with us, I'd like to think that he'd still be climbing. Surely the rest of us would still be looking up at him, whatever our altitude.

Here is a breakdown of all the films and their respective pages within the galleries. Some titles feature variant or unused designs, foreign or re-release posters, or concept sketches that never made it to final completion.