Movie Art

Original MGM Six Sheet Poster (81×81) for the Joseph L. Mankiewicz Shakespearean tragedy, JULIUS CAESAR (1953) starring Marlon Brando, James Mason, and John Gielgud. This excellent production of the famous tragedy tells the story of the assassination of Caesar by Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans who believe that Caesar’s overarching ambition will lead to tyranny. But a moving speech by Caesar’s friend Antony forces the conspirators to flee Rome and eventually to kill themselves to avoid capture. The film won the Oscar for Best Art Direction and was nominated for Best Actor for Brando, Best Cinematography for Joseph Ruttenberg, Best Music for Miklos Rozsa, and Best Picture. This original six sheet poster is in fine condition. Six sheet posters were generally published in four separate panels. We have photographed each of the panels separately and displayed them individually so that the buyer may assess the condition of each piece. Six sheet posters may be linen backed to display as one continuous poster. Feel free to call us and ask us about poster conservation and linen backing.

Original New Yorker Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Louis Malle docu-drama, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE (1981) starring Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory. Shawn and Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Wallace is a struggling playwright who as fallen back to acting. Andre is a former actor and director who has left the theater entirely. This low budget film was shot in an abandoned hotel in Virginia—in the winter. The crew kept warm by wearing ski clothes, but the actors had to depend on long johns and the lights to keep them warm. This original one sheet poster is folded and in very fine plus condition.

Original 20th Century-Fox One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the David Cronenberg surreal drama, NAKED LUNCH (1991) starring Peter Weller, Judy Davis, and Ian Holm. This film is not so much an adaptation of beat icon William S. Burroughs’ famous novel; rather, it is mix of Burroughs’ biography combined with elements of his writings to produce a bizarre, drug-induced fantasy. Director Cronenberg brings his own interpretation and experience of reading Burroughs in this visually intense film, and it is significant that the author gave his enthusiastic permission for this project. This original single sided one sheet poster is unfolded and in very fine plus condition.

Original Columbia PIctures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the George Sidney musical comedy, BYE BYE BIRDIE (1963)– starring Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret. The film was based on a successful Broadway Musical with Van Dyke and Chita Rivera. The Broadway show was originally conceived as a musical called LET’S GO STEADY and was essentially a satire on American Life in the fifties. The film kept the basic plot, but adopted a someone lighter tone. It’s about a rocker who comes to a small town in Ohio to make a farewell appearance on television before he is drafted into the Army. If all this sounds a bit like Elvis, that is no surprise. The rocker character is played in the film by Jesse Pearson. Ed Sullivan played himself in a cameo appearance. This was the film that made Ann Margret a real star and paved the way for her to appear with the Real Birdie, Elvis Presley in a now iconic film VIVA LAS VEGAS. This original one sheet poster is folded and in fine condition, with only minor bleed-through of of the title in black marker on the reverse side.
Would look great linen-backed. Ask us about poster restoration.

Fans of MAD MEN will recognize BYE BYE BIRDIE as the film the guys at Sterling Cooper cribbed for a commercial for Patio Cola.

Incidentally, here is a link to what inspired them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wKoVAQkGLc

Original Six sheet poster for the Daniel Mann drama BUTTERFIELD 8 starring Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, and Eddie Fisher. Elizabeth Taylor was facing the scorn of a nation – for “stealing” Debbie Reynold’s husband Eddie Fisher – when MGM decided to cash in on the scandal and make Taylor take this role of bad-girl-from-hell as the final film in her contract to the studio. Taylor purportedly hated the movie, but it turned out to be Gold for her. The film is adapted from John O’Hara’s prohibition-era novel about a high class call-girl. But in this film, set contemporaneously, Elizabeth Taylor plays a hard-drinking, sexed-up, bed-hopping model, who gets her kicks from seducing and then dumping one man after another. Taylor always complained that the film was a total piece of trash. But her over-the-top performance was just what the role required and won her the first of her two Oscars for Best Actress. What is unfathomable is how anyone could be interested in cold-fish Laurence Harvey. When Taylor grinds her stiletto heels into Harvey’s toes, we cheer. Elizabeth’s best line in the film: “I’m not like anyone; I”m me.” Taylor never had, in any film, a more biographical line. This handsome poster is shown in four individual photos of the four panels. The poster is unassembled. The four panels are joined together to make one large format poster. The lower right panel is soiled, but not irreparably. We recommend restoration for this poster. There are some chips out of the poster, some small holes. We have therefore graded the poster as good plus. Ask us about poster conservation and linen backing.

Original Continental Distributing One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the George Romero horror classic, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968) starring Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, and Karl Hardman. This landmark horror shocker is the story of a group of people who have to hide in a farmhouse from bloodthirsty zombies. Romero’s ability to take a small budget and turn it into a great movie is unparalleled. This is certainly one of the best and one of the most influential horror films ever made. This original one sheet poster is in very good plus condition, with some fold separations at the fold intersections and some minor marks on the reverse side.

Original Polish Poster for the Ingmar Bergman mystery thriller, THE SERPENT’S EGG (1977) starring David Carradine, Liv Ullmann, Heinz Bennent, and Gert Frobe. This film was Bergman’s second film in English and dealt with a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg (Carradine), an unemployed circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin after Germany’s defeat in World War I. With artwork by Jan Mlodzeniec, this original Polish poster is in very fine condition.

Original Polish Poster (26×38) for the Robert Altman drama, 3 WOMEN (1977) starring Sissy Spacek, Shelley Duvall, Janice Rule, Robert Forster and Ruth Nelson. In classic Altman style, the quirky director examines the lives of three mid-1970s women living in the California desert. While alternately offbeat and depressed, they are not without their charm and unique personae as the director examines the minutia of their lives. The poster design is of a set of dinnerware — knife, fork and spoon, complimentary and opposing, each with the face of one of the women in profile on the edge. Art on this poster is by Mieczyslaw Wasilewski. Condition is Very Fine.