Helen McCrory

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  Interview with the Vampire

  £225.00

  “1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now. But times were different then, I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans. I had lost my wife in childbirth, and she and the infant had been buried less than half a year. I would have been happy to join them. I couldn’t bear the pain of their loss. I longed to be released from it. I wanted to lose it all… my wealth, my estate, my sanity. Most of all, I longed for death. I know that now. I invited it. A release from the pain of living. My invitation was open to anyone. To the whore at my side. To the pimp that followed. But it was a vampire that accepted it.”

  A superb and eye-catching alternative movie poster by Enzo Sciotti for the cult dark horror adaptation of the best selling Anne Rice novel “Interview with the Vampire”. Each vampire Lestat (Cruise), Louis (Pitt), Armand (Banderas) and the young Claudia (Kirsten Dunst) is beautifully portrayed by Sciotti on this 2020 Hand-Numbered (# 16/45) Private Commission Screen Print. Printed using eighteen (18) coloured inks onto Neenah Stardream Eris Metallic Paper, the colours truly pop from the paper (the photo doesn’t do this justice) it almost appears to be painted. Presented in rolled (as issued) condition it represents an outstanding, piece of cinematic memorabilia and artwork.

  Trivia: Upon learning that Tom Cruise had been cast as Lestat, Rice was livid and stated Cruise could not carry the part, calling the casting “so bizarre; it’s almost impossible to imagine how it’s going to work”. Rice recused herself from the production and did not view the film until a producer sent her a VHS copy. Rice was so impressed by Cruise’s performance that she wrote him a letter of apology and recorded a two-minute video endorsing the film that was included as a pre-feature on mid-1990s VHS releases.

   

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  James Bond: Skyfall

  £195.00

  “The Walther PPK/S has a nine-millimeter short. It’s been coded to your palmprint so only you can fire it. Less of a random killing machine, more of a personal statement”

  Daniel Craig’s James Bond takes centre stage in this striking original Japanese B1 cinema poster for Sam Mendes’ “Skyfall”. The stark monochrome design places Bond within the franchise’s legendary gun-barrel motif, walking forward with pistol in hand against an intensely shadowed background. Minimal Japanese typography and a restrained gold 007 logo complete the sophisticated composition.

  Released during the 50th anniversary year of the Bond film series, “Skyfall”follows 007 as an attack on MI6 forces him to confront the mysterious Raoul Silva. Craig stars alongside Judi Dench, Javier Bardem, Naomie Harris, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Whishaw, with Adele providing the Academy Award-winning title song.

  At approximately 29 × 41 inches, the Japanese B1 is comparable to a conventional one sheet but is a notably rarer format for this poster. Presented rolled, as issued, and remaining in excellent condition, its iconic gun-barrel imagery has tremendous visual impact and makes a superb display piece for collectors of James Bond, Daniel Craig and modern cinema advertising.

  Trivia: In fifty years of James Bond movies, this is only the second one in which Bond suffers a gunshot wound. (He was also shot in Thunderball (1965) during the Junkanoo chase.)

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