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  The Shape of Water

  £295.00

  “A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times”

  One of the best looking and finest ‘faux’ film poster’s ever produced…Award winning country of origin (US) movie poster for Guillermo Del Toro’s multi award winning (& nominated) dark sci-fi fantasy movie “The Shape of Water”. A very special promotional piece that was created as a unique ‘gift’ for a lucky few Fox Studio executives and industry insiders. It is a “faux” poster created to look like it is a historical poster created many years ago, showing ‘Anatomy of Homo Piscis’ (which is the creature from the movie), and it is set up like an old fashioned medical anatomy chart from a doctor’s office. The poster itself is printed on a canvas like parchment material that has been artificially “aged” to make it look old. It has wooden stretchers attached to the top and bottom of the poster with screws, and the bottom wood has a metal plate attached to the middle and within the plate ‘Dr. Guillermo del Toro’. There is a string attached to the top piece of wood to allow it to be hung. The poster rolls and comes in a specially made tube designed to hold it which has two stickers attached to it with the name of the movie, the year of “1962” (when the movie is set, the name of the director and “Classified”. Included with the poster is a 8 1/4″ x 11 3/4″ ‘official top secret memo’, printed on artificially aged paper which purports to be a ‘confidential memorandum’ about ‘a new discovery in London’ and describing the recent discovery of a vivisection of a fish-man which confirms that the government was not the ‘first to encounter such a species’. The ends of the tube have a printed space image with “Department of Defense Aerospace Research” in a circle around it. A very special collectible that is surely one of the most elaborate promotional poster packages I have ever seen…it just exudes quality and goes without saying is an incredibly scarce item and represents a truly outstanding piece of original film movie memorabilia.

  Trivia: First science fiction fantasy film to win Best Picture at the 2018 Oscars Awards.

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  The Shape of Water

  £75.00

  “A Fairy Tale for Troubled Times”

  One of the best looking ‘modern’ film posters produced in a long time…Award winning British UK quad film poster for Guillermo Del Toro’s multi award winning (& nominated) dark sci-fi fantasy movie “The Shape of Water”. With beautiful painted artwork by design agency ‘Midnight Oil’ this design is perfectly suited to the landscape format of the British quad. A whole range of green and blue colour tones is used with the background incredibly detailed and made up the ‘Creature’s’  scales; this is very subtle and only evident on close inspection. This originally rolled (as issued) example displays and presents to excellent effect with stunning graphics and represents a truly impressive piece of collectable original film movie memorabilia.

  Trivia: The creature design is heavily inspired by the film Creature from the Black Lagoon(1954). Michael Shannon’s character says they picked it up in the Amazon river in South America, which is the setting of The Creature from the film.

   

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  The Whale

  £395.00

  “A reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter.”

  The poster marketing campaign for any Darren Aronofsky movie is always special, with Aronofsky himself always personally involved with the design. For his Academy Award winning “The Whale” in 2022, a signed and numbered limited edition giclée print by James Jean was commissioned for the film. The print features a custom embossment and gold foil embellishments, each signed by both the artistJames Jean and Darren Aronofsky. There are very few in existence, with the example offered here, an even scarcer Artist Proof, hand-numbered #22/50 HC. One of the best looking movie related posters of recent years presented in high grade investment condition.

  James Jean had this to say on the commission – “After Darren screened The Whale for me last year and asked me to create its poster, I immediately thought of Lucien Freud’s paintings of Leigh Bowery, and Kiki Smith’s self portrait, My Blue Lake. In the latter, Smith used a special camera to capture the periphery of her torso, resulting in an image that reads like a topographical map of her skin. While drawing Charlie (Brendan Fraser), I tried to channel Freud’s intimate yet unforgiving observations of Bowery. The depth of Charlie’s grief in the film is manifest in the expansive landscape of his body, barely able to contain all the feeling within. The skin is but a thin boundary between the external and internal worlds. In my drawing, his pain is full bleed and stretches beyond the margins, but his humanity and optimism breach the surface in the peaks and valleys of his face. A subtle texture of crumpled paper is embedded in the portrait, referencing the essay Charlie clutches in his hands throughout the film, an artifact from his daughter’s childhood that he cherishes for years and keeps him anchored away from the brink”

  Trivia: Following its debut screening at the Venice Film Festival, both the movie and lead actor, Brendan Fraser, were given a six-minute standing ovation. The moment, caught on camera, brought Fraser to tears.

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