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Christie's Bond Bonanza
8th March, 2008
The Vintage Film Posters section of the Christie's London Interiors sale this week featured strong performance and high prices across a number of genres. In particular, it showed the continued and growing popularity of original James Bond 007 material. 29 lots, with a total guide price of around £24,000, sold for a total of almost £65,000. So although you should be buying original film posters because you like them, this suggests that the sooner you do so, the better........
The Coens' Year
27th February, 2008
It may not be their blackest film. Or their most violent film. Or their cleverest film. Or their funniest film. Or even their best film. But "No Country for Old Men" has achieved 4 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director for the Coen Brothers, Joel and Ethan. So congratulations to perhaps the best film-makers of the last 15 years, and we're sure that the Oscar will really tie the room together.
Deborah Kerr: Impeccable Grace and Beauty
20th October, 2007
Scottish actress Deborah Kerr died this week at 86. One of our greatest exports to Hollywood, she appeared in some of the great romantic movies of the fifties, including The King and I and From Here to Eternity. Despite being nominated six times, she never won an Oscar, but finally received an Honorary Oscar in 1994, when she was described by the Academy as "an artiste of impeccable grace and beauty". Those qualities were seen in many films, and are equally well displayed in the posters and lobby cards in which she appears.
Elvis: Long Live the King
17th August, 2007
16th August marked the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. But three decades haven't dimmed his popularity, and his influence on popular music remains. He graduated early in his career from music to films, and made a number of memorable performances. Unfortunately, most of his Sixties movie output was predictable and often bland, but most of those films weren't really as bad as the critics would have it. For the Elvis fan, they also produced some great Elvis images, and original Presley film posters and lobby cards are increasingly hard to find as they become ever more popular.
Goldfinger is Back
27th July, 2007
Daniel Craig in Casino Royale has revived and re-invigorated the 007 James Bond franchise. Hot on his heels comes a digitally re-mastered version of the original Bond, Sean Connery. Up against Gert Froebe as Goldfinger, the third in the series is back on the big screen from today. (And even the BBC is on the bandwagon - with its premiere of From Russia With Love on Sunday). Little wonder that original poster artwork from the Bond films becomes harder and harder to find and ever more collectable.
