Category: Film and TV

We're very excited to see the launch of the BFI Printstore, especially with the prospect of being able to buy over 75,000 classic, cult and rare film images for very little money.

There aren't 75,000 online as yet – just 300 – but they are well worth looking at, featuring London Film Festival posters (dating back to 1957), BFI Production titles, European and Hollywood portraits from the 1920s and 30s, British Quota movies,  Mitchell and Kenyon stills, the art of Lotte Reiniger and best of all (from our point of view), the classic Academy Cinema posters from Peter Strausfeld.

The one above (for Tonite Let's All Make Love In London) sells for as much as £800, so it's great that you can now pick it up from as little as £4.99 (although the price rises up to £199.99 for a super-sized 55-inch canvas option).

Check out the full range via the link below.

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If you have any interest in the 60s London art scene, you might want to get down to Robert Fraser: Groovy Curator on 27th January 2009 at London’s Barbican.

The event is a mix of talk and rare art films, the former being a Q&A with Harriet Vyner, the biographer of famed London art dealer Robert Fraser, the man responsible for introducing the London art world to Peter Blake, Jim Dine, Richard Hamilton, Bridget Riley and Andy Warhol among others. Vyner’s book – Groovy Bob – tells Fraser’s story through the voices of those who new him best, which includes the likes of Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Marianne Faithfull, Kenneth Anger, Dennis Hopper and Vyner herself.

Aside from the Q&A, four rarely-seen associated films are also showing – see over the page for full details of those. Tickets are available now, priced at £7.50.

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Some months back, we featured the Vintage Poster Auction at Bloomsbury, pointing out some rather stylish Cuban film posters, which were selling for upwards of £500. If you liked them, but didn’t like the price, you might want to check out the Cuban Posters website, home of the vintage Cuban film poster prints.

All the posters are handmade silkscreen prints, sourced in Cuba and guaranteed to brighten up any room. Check out the site for the full range, with the two above being typical of the pop art style – Los Tres Mosqueteros (aka Richard Lester’s The Three Musketeers) from 1974 and Mi Hermano Fidel from 1977

Both are sized at 20 x 30 inches and both sell for just over £30.

Find out more at the Cuban Posters website