Original Gaumont/New Yorker Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Federico Fellini pseudo-documentary, ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL (1978) starring Balduin Baas, Clara Colosimo, Elizabeth Labi, and Ronaldo Bonacchi. One of the finest make-believe documentaries ever made, this film tells the story of the members of an orchestra as they assemble for rehearsal in a medieval Roman chapel. But the film moves from realism to pure hyperbole when it degenerates into major pandemonium by the end of the film. The music score by Nino Rota is excellent as always; indeed, this score was perhaps more important than his earlier Fellini scores. Alas, this will be the last score from Rota as he would die the following year. This original one sheet poster with artwork by Bonhomme is folded and in very fine condition.

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 New Yorker Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for SHOAH (1985), Claude Lanzmann’s remarkable documentary film of survivor recollections of The Holocaust. Shoah is the Hebrew word which describes the genocide directed against the Jewish People in Europe during World War II. Lanzmann, a French filmmaker, made this nine hour film of interviews with survivors, and it is generally considered to me the definitive Holocaust documentary film. In SHOAH, one sees few feet of the documentary footage shot of the camps, but rather the camera brings the viewer up close to people who lived through the unspeakable. I think it helpful here to relay the entry on Lanzmann from Wikipedia.com : “Claude Lanzmann (born 1925 in Paris) is a French filmmaker. Lanzmann attended the Lycee Blaise-Pascal in Clermont-Ferrand. He joined the French resistance at the age of 18 and fought in Auvergne. Lanzmann opposed the French war in Algeria and signed the 1960 antiwar petition Manifesto of the 121. Lanzmann’s most renowned work is the nine-and-a-half hour documentary film Shoah (1985), which is an oral history of the Holocaust, and is broadly considered to be the foremost film on the subject. Of particular note is that Shoah is made without the use of any historical footage, and only utilizes first-person testimony from Jewish, Polish, and German individuals, and current footage of several Holocaust-related sites. Lanzmann persuaded Polish resistance fighter Jan Karski to be a witness in Shoah by calling forth—once again—his historical responsibility. Simultaneously, the complete text appeared in English translation, with introductions by Lanzmann and Simone de Beauvoir, providing multiple keys to the philosophical and linguistic preoccupations of the producers. It was also through Shoah that many viewers were first introduced to the work of American Holocaust historian Raul Hilberg. Lanzmann has disagreed, sometimes angrily, with attempts to understand the why of Hitler, stating that the evil of Hitler cannot or should not be explained and that to do so is immoral and an obscenity. Lanzmann is chief editor of the journal Les Temps Modernes, which was founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. In 2009, Lanzmann published his memoirs under the title “Le lievre de Patagonie” (The Patagonian Hare).” The American one sheet poster for this important documentary is actually scarce, due to the relatively small U.S. distribution. This slightly irregularly folded copy is in very fine plus condition.

Original New Yorker Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Fred Schepisi stark social drama, THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH (1978) starring Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Ray Barrett, and Jack Thompson. Produced during the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s, this is a true story of a part aboriginal man who cannot successfully adapt to white culture and eventually turns to horrific violence after he suffers one humiliation after another by white settlers in 19th Century Australia. The film poignantly asks the question—is it morally justified to use violence against a corrupt, racist, violent system in which there is no lawful means to receive justice? This one sheet poster was originally folded and is in very fine condition.

Original New Yorker Films One Sheet Poster (27×41) for the Wayne Wang crime drama, CHAN IS MISSING (1982) starring Wood Moy, Marc Hayashi, and Laureen Chew. This film is the story of two San Francisco cabbies, who go in search of the mysterious Chan Hong who has disappeared with their $4,000. This excellent independent film was shot in black and white and featured humble everyday settings in Chinatown. Their quest leads the two cabbies on a humorous journey, which also illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese-Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society. Originally folded, this one sheet poster is in very fine condition.