Framing Movie Posters?

I.J.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to be asking but considering its about movies in one way I'm trying here.

Like many great movie enthusiasts I have loads of movie posters of my favourite films, too many to fit on walls. However, I have decided in order to make my room somewhat tidy, to pick a few of my most favourite and frame them. Framing posters doesn't seem as easy as one would think. I have spent months trying to find frames in shops the size of movie posters. Very few places do them. I have eventually found places where the prices mysteriously change. A little shop off Henry St. in town quote me two different prices with a difference of 15euro on two different days for the same frame so Im abandoning them. Then I find places suggesting I dry mount and frame the posters which means they could cost as much as 100euro a frame. Without dry mounting the poster may eventually start to slip inside the frame and wrinkle. I have found plastic clip frames for 25euro which is more what I can afford but I do want to get whats practical too. Is anybody who frames their movie posters who have these plastic clip frames statisfied? Does dust get in easy and do the posters begin to slide inside the frame eventually?

3nero

you won't find many shops with the right size frames. ikea have frames that are very close in size (€19.99)but you still need to trim or fold the poster.
i got my frames made in a frame shop in Bray and it cost €100 per poster:eek:
but they are original '70s posters i didn't want to cut or fold them.

also if you are getting someone to frame posters you need to tell them to use acid free backing. and make sure they don't trim off the borders:rolleyes:

indough

clip frames

Tusky

Theres a shop on Liffey street across from Marks and Spencers that sells frames that fit the standard movie poster. They are pretty reasonably priced too.

Wacker

OP, where do you live? If you're anywhere around my neck of the woods (Southeast Dublin), I'd recommend Images on the top floor of Dun Laoghaire Shopping Centre. Their number is 01 280 6542. I've bought loads of posters there; I have nine framed posters in my room, and I bought them all there. They charged me 55 euro for the first three (as in, I select a poster there which they mount on hardboard behind a frame), and from that point on I got them at a discount rate of 50 for being regular. They're entirely decent; every few months I get sick of one of my posters and switch it up. They only charge ten or fifteen euro for that. They once phoned me up when they got in a picture of Grace Kelly, because I mentioned my love of her many times while in there.

I'm not an employee or a partner by the way, regardless of how much it might sound like I am!