Movie Art

Original MGM One Sheet Poster, Style D, for the Ernst Lubtisch film THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan and Frank Morgan. There are two one sheets for this film, and this is the painterly style D. The other style has a comic caricature image of the two principals. According to THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE: “While THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER does not come out and strike at the audience like the more spectacular TO BE OR NOT TO BE or HEAVEN CAN WAIT, this latter-period Lubitsch picture reaches out to the viewer’s heart. It is a rare moment in film when the characters on the screen perfectly reflect those people who are sitting in the theater watching them. But such is the case with THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. In the characters who work at [the shop] one can see all human emotions – happiness, love, devotion, dishonesty, jealousy, and sorrow. In a letter to Herman G. Weinberg, author of the directorial study THE LUBITSCH TOUCH, Lubitsch listed what he felt were the best pictures of his career. After citing TROUBLE IN PARADISE as his best film stylistically and NINOTCHKA as his sharpest satire, he mentioned THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER: ‘As for human comedy, I think I never was as good as in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. Never did I make a picture in which the atmosphere and the characters were truer than in this picture.’ ” The one-sheet is in fine plus to very fine condition, with some very minor toning. Colors are vivid. The poster is linen backed and has a short linen lip around the poster. Here is the rarer style poster for an already rare title, clearly one of the great Hollywood films. painterly style D. The other style has a comic caricature image of the two principals. According to THE MOTION PICTURE GUIDE: “While THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER does not come out and strike at the audience like the more spectacular TO BE OR NOT TO BE or HEAVEN CAN WAIT, this latter-period Lubitsch picture reaches out to the viewer’s heart. It is a rare moment in film when the characters on the screen perfectly reflect those people who are sitting in the theater watching them. But such is the case with THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. In the characters who work at [the shop] one can see all human emotions – happiness, love, devotion, dishonesty, jealousy, and sorrow. In a letter to Herman G. Weinberg, author of the directorial study THE LUBITSCH TOUCH, Lubitsch listed what he felt were the best pictures of his career. After citing TROUBLE IN PARADISE as his best film stylistically and NINOTCHKA as his sharpest satire, he mentioned THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER: ‘As for human comedy, I think I never was as good as in THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER. Never did I make a picture in which the atmosphere and the characters were truer than in this picture.’ ” The one-sheet is in fine plus to very fine condition, with some very minor toning. Colors are vivid. The poster is linen backed and has a short linen lip around the poster. Here is the rarer style poster for an already rare title, clearly one of the great Hollywood films.

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 Teleculture One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama, THE STATIONMASTER’S WIFE (1977) starring Elisabeth Trissenaar, Kurt Raab, and Bernhard Helfrich. The story chronicles a railroad stationmaster and petty Nazi Party official (Raab) who not only has a secure and respectable job but also is married to the most desirable woman in town (Trissenaar). After tolerating numerous humiliations for her husband, she begins to have numerous affairs with her husband’s friends. Originally made as a two-part German TV mini-series, the film was re-edited into a shorter theatrical version. This original one sheet poster is folded and in fine condition.

Three Original Columbia Pictures Lithographic Color Stills (8×10) for the Bill L. Norton drama, CISCO PIKE (1972) starring Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black, Gene Hackman, and Harry Dean Stanton. Kristofferson is memorable in his first starring role about a modern day troubadour down on his luck. He is amazingly charismatic and even sympathetic even though he is a drunken pothead who cheats on his girlfriend (Black) and races to unload $10,000 worth of marijuana in a single weekend. The film is a wonderful time capsule of the hippie music scene in L.A. in the early 1970s. These original color stills are in very fine plus condition.

Original Warner Brothers Style C One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Sydney Pollack western drama, JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972) starring Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, and Josh Albee. This film is the story of a man (Redford) who wants to re-make himself. Johnson becomes disillusioned with the Mexican War and deserts to become a mountain man. An old trapper (Geer) teaches him how to survive in this harsh and unforgiving land. Besides the breathtaking cinematography of the Utah Mountains, Redford gives one of his most memorable performances in one of the best true-life western dramas ever made. This original style C one sheet poster is folded and in very good plus condition.

Original British Film Institute 2004 Re-Release British Quad Poster (30×40) for the Georges Franju horror mystery, EYES WITHOUT A FACE (1960) starring Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli, Juliette Mayniel, and Edith Scob. The film tells the story of a brilliant but obsessed surgeon (Brasseur) who kidnaps young women and attempts to graft their faces onto the head of his daughter, who was horribly maimed in a car crash. The film was originally released in the U.S. in an edited version under the title THE HORROR CHAMBER OF DR. FAUSTUS. In 2003 the film was re-released uncut (and under its original title) to American theaters for the first time on Halloween night. This original re-release British quad poster is in very fine plus condition.

Original Warner Brothers Insert Poster (14×36) for the Sydney Pollack western drama, JEREMIAH JOHNSON (1972) starring Robert Redford, Will Geer, Delle Bolton, and Josh Albee. This film is the story of a man (Redford) who wants to re-make himself. Johnson becomes disillusioned with the Mexican War and deserts to become a mountain man. An old trapper (Geer) teaches him how to survive in this harsh and unforgiving land. Besides the breathtaking cinematography of the Utah Mountains, Redford gives one of his most memorable performances in one of the best true-life western dramas ever made. This original insert poster is rolled and in very fine plus condition.

Original German Poster (24×33) for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder crime comedy, DIE DRITTE GENERATION (1979) starring Harry Baer, Hark Bohm, and Margit Carstensen. The story revolves around a mogul who funds terrorists to boost his security sytems sales and also cause the government to resort to more authoritarian measures to counter the violence. The film is critical of the bourgeois values of both the industrialists and the terrorists. Besides the weird visual quality of the interior scenes, the soundtrack has a constant drone of TV news coverage in the background, which competes with the dialogue at every turn. The film reflects Fassbinder’s increasing alienation from violent leftist groups in Germany. This original German poster is rolled and in very fine plus condition.