Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Martin Scorsese classic thriller, TAXI DRIVER (1976) starring Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd, and Harvey Keitel. Art by Belgian airbrush artist Guy Peelleart . This wonderful piece of cinema history deals with a mentally unstable Vietnam veteran (De Niro), who works as a nighttime taxi driver in New York City, where decadence and sleaze feed his overwhelming desire to lash out and also to save a teenage prostitute (Foster). In this masterpiece of urban alienation, Paul Schrader’s iconic script paints a portrait of hopeless loneliness in the largest city in the world. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards—including Best Picture, Best Original Score for Bernard Hermann, Best Actress for Foster, and Best Actor for De Niro. This original one sheet poster was folded slightly irregularly, but has no fold separations and is, overall, a very fine example of the poster. Would look stellar linen backed. Ask us about poster conservation and backing.

Original Paramount Pictures Pressbook and Merchandising Manual (13×15) for the Francis Ford Coppola epic crime drama, THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974)—starring Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, and Diane Keeton. Considered by many to be one of the best movies of all time and arguably the best gangster movie of all time, this Coppola masterpiece won six academy awards including Best Picture, Best Director to Coppola, and Best Supporting Actor to Robert DeNiro, much of his dazzling performance being spoken in Italian with English subtitles. This beautifully crafted film presents two parallel storylines of the slow moral decline of Michael Corleone in late 1950′s (excellently portrayed by Al Pacino who was nominated for Best Actor) and flashbacks of the rise of Michael’s father Vito Corleone (in an Oscar-winning performance by DeNiro) from his youth in Sicily to the founding of the Corleone family in New York. The beautiful cinematography by Gordon Willis used a tint in the flashback sequences giving them a softer, richer look than the very sharp image of the contemporary story. This is a relatively modest pressbook in well-worn used condition. However nothing has been excised from the book, which is actually more of a press folder. Two advertising supplements which contain the newspaper ads come with the press material. GOOD CONDITION. Pressbook material is generally more difficult to find than posters for the same film.