Original Polish Poster (26×37) for the Bernardo Bertolucci epic, THE LAST EMPEROR (1987) starring John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter O’Toole, Dennis Dun, Ryuichi Sakamoto and Vivian Wu. This grand and opulent saga recounts the life of Pu Yi, once the child Emperor of China, following his young, dissolute life and exploitation by the Japanese in WWII through his inevitable disgrace at the hands of the Maoist revolutionaries of the Cultural Revolution. Bertolucci’s film was his greatest international success garnering multiple Academy Awards. The artwork on this Polish poster is colorful, dramatic and striking in its rendering of Lone’s character. Art is by Waldemar Swierzy.

Original United Artists Insert Poster (14×36) for the Bernardo Bertolucci romantic drama, LAST TANGO IN PARIS (1972). Marlon Brando plays a middle aged man in an obsessive relationship with a young woman in Bernardo Bertolucci’s seminal film. The man explains to the young girl that their affair is merely to be regarded as a sexual one. The free love ethos of the sexual revolution is put on full display in this film. Because of the nudity and near-explicit sexuality, the movie was the subject of worldwide sensationalistic press in 1973, and was dismissed by some critics as inconsequential. Yet almost forty years later, this film has held its own as one of the influential films of the seventies. The actress Maria Schneider, who plays the young girl, denounced Bertolucci as more of a gangster than a film director and blamed both Brando and Bertolucci for manipulating her into making a salacious movie. One of the lasting attributes of the film is an wonderful jazz score by Gato Barbieri. The insert poster is in very fine, unfolded condition.