Movie Art

Original Columbia Pictures One Sheet poster for Wes Anderson’s first feature film, BOTTLE ROCKET (1996), starring Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson and Ned Dowd. Shot in Dallas, the film features a trio of bungling would be crooks who exude more charm than mayhem. This one sheet has achieved cult status among collectors and is relatively difficult to acquired. A bit rumpled, but never folded. Very Fine Plus. Wes Anderson would go on to direct some of the most discussed films of the last decade, including the masterpiece RUSHMORE.

Original Zeitgeist Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay fantasy drama, THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (2005) starring Amira Casar, Gottfired John, and Assumpta Serna. The film is a dark fairytale about a demonic doctor who abducts a beautiful opera singer and wants to transform her into an automaton. With wonderfully rich cinematography and art direction plus an eerie and haunting sound track—this film proves that surrealism did not die out in the 1930s. This rare one sheet poster is rolled and in very fine plus condition.

Original Warner Brothers Mini poster, 11×17, handed out to patrons at the very first screenings, for the Ridley Scott science fiction masterpiece, BLADE RUNNER (1982) starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos. Ford, in one of his best screen performances, plays a former Blade Runner, a cop who specializes in terminating replicants, who are human clones developed to serve in the colonies outside earth. Truly one of the few true science fiction “art” films, Director Scott creates a future unlike any we’ve ever seen before. The film requires the audience to seriously think about the impact of technology on human society. These themes play out in a fairly basic detective story, but the ultimate power of the film comes from its stunning visual imagery of a dark futuristic cityscape. Indeed, the outstanding visual quality of the film garnered it Academy Award nominations for Best Art Direction and Best Visual Effects. Unfolded. Very Fine Plus.

Original United Artists Mini Poster (11×17) for the Rainer Werner Fassbinder drama, THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN (1979) starring Hanna Schygulla, Klaus Lowitsch, Ivan Desny, and Gisela Uhlen. The film chronicles the life of a young German woman married to a soldier in the waning days of World War II and continuing after the war. Indeed, the film offers intimate insight into what life was really like in Germany from 1945 to roughly 1970. These mini posters were distributed at screenings and are, therefore, rare and unusual to find. This original German mini poster is folded and in very fine plus condition.

Original German Poster (24×33) for the Giuseppe De Santis drama, BITTER RICE (1949) starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, and Raf Vallone. In this earthy drama, two small-time criminals (Gassman and Dowling) team up with a voluptuous rice worker (Mangano) and a former soldier (Vallone) in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder. The film was one of the biggest worldwide box-office hits of Neo-Realism. This original German poster folded and in very fine condition.

Original Orion Pictures One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the John Sayles baseball drama, EIGHT MEN OUT (1988) starring John Cusack, Clifton James, Michael Lerner, and Christopher Lloyd. One of the best baseball movies ever made, the film is a dramatization of the scandal in 1919 surrounding charges that the Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the World Series. The Chicago players involved in the payoff were banned from baseball for life. This original one sheet poster is rolled and in near mint condition.

Original U.S. One sheet poster, never folded, for Federico Fellini’s GIULIETTA DEGLI SPIRITI (JULIET OF THE SPIRITS) [1965] starring Giulietta Masina, Sylva Koscina, Sandra Milo and Lou Gilbert. Hallucinatory – that’s the word that is often used to describe Fellini’s color extravaganza. Fellini starred his wife, the amazing Giulietta Masina. This American one sheet is unusual in that it was never folded, odd for a U.S. poster from that time. There is some significant edgewear on one border, however. Nevertheless, unfolded. Rare.

Two Original Columbia Pictures Scene Lobby Cards (11×14) for the Ishiro Honda science fiction thriller, THE H-MAN (1958) starring Kenji Sahara and Yumi Shirakawa. This film blends film noir with 1950s Japanese science fiction. When a narcotics suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes behind, a young scientist claims that H-bomb tests in the Pacific have created radioactive creatures—“H-Men” who ooze slime and dissolve anyone they touch. These two original scene cards are in good condition.