U.S. Presskit and with three black and white stills in very fine condition for the 1980 Jean-Luc Godard film EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF, starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc and Nathalie Baye. Very Fine.

Original French One-Panel Poster (47×63) for the Jean-Luc Godard dramatic masterpiece, LE MEPRIS (1963) starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, and Jack Palance. LE MEPRIS is a profound and complex film about filmmaking in the 1960′s. Bardot gives a magnificent performance as Camille Javal, the wife of an aspiring screenwriter Paul Javal (Piccoli). “Contempt” was the US title of this film, and Jack Palance delivers a stunning performance as the “contemptuous” producer Jeremy Prokosch, whom Bardot initially disdains but comes to like more than her screenwriter husband. Most interesting for cineastes today is the appearance of director Fritz Lang as a film director. A corner was torn off of the poster. The small fragment was retained and reattached to the poster in the linen backing. Beautifullly linen backed. A very nice example of this poster

Original French One Panel Poster (47×63) for the Jean-Luc Godard film, ALPHAVILLE (1965)–starring Eddie Constantine, Anna Karina, and Akim Tamiroff. Lemmy Caution (Constantine), a French private investigator, is on a mission to liquidate the tyrannical Dr. Vonbraun, inventor of the “death ray” and an Orwellian supercomputer. First and foremost, this film spoofs everything it touches– science fiction, comic books, private detectives, etc. Even the fun score by Paul Misraki is tongue in cheek. This original French one panel poster is folded and in fine plus condition.

Original Cannon Film Distributors One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Jean-Luc Godard contemporary punk-apocalyptic updating of the Shakespeare classic, KING LEAR (1987) starring Woody Allen, Freddy Buache, Leos Carax, and Julie Delpy. A strange and surreal film that asks the question: what would we do if all the great works of literature were suddenly lost? Godard’s usual Marxist rhetoric, though not entirely absent, is less strident here than in earlier works. But often the film is truly incomprehensible. Critics seem to be either very much impressed or completely bored to death. One critic admits to having watched the film over a 100 times, “and many of those times I feel as if I’m watching it for the first time.” But other critics lament: “Not content merely to bore us, Godard assaults us with shot after shot of crudely filmed, irrelevant imagery, accompanied by unintelligible overlapping speech.” This original one sheet poster, which is clever, is folded and in very fine condition.

Original silkscreen Special Poster (34×47) for the Jean-Luc Godard documentary/concert film/dramatic polemic, SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (1969) starring The Rolling Stones and narrated by Sean Lynch. Known as ONE PLUS ONE in Britain, this hybrid drama-documentary intersperses scenes of The Rolling Stones recording their landmark anthem for the very popular Beggar’s Banquet album with segments concerning the Black Panthers, an African-American revolutionary organization, with special attention on heroes like LeRoi Jones and Eldridge Cleaver. The film had no distributor in the United States, but a theater owner in Ann Arbor wanted to exhibit the film. There were no promotional materials available for the film; so, the exhibitor, who had some experience in poster production, decided to create his own poster for the film. Originally a press run of around 100 copies of the silkscreen were produced, but today only a few copies have survived. This very rare original silkscreen special poster is in very fine to near mint condition.

Several of these have been auctioned recently, but none have enjoyed
this superior condition. New Line Cinema reproduced the poster for its
initial distribution after acquiring the rights, but those posters are printed differently and lack the panache of the original edition.