Blue Velvet 1986 dir: David Lynch Italian Locandina

Blue Velvet (1986) - (David Lynch) Italian locandina

This is a 13" x 26" Italian locandina poster for the 1986 David Lynch film Blue Velvet written and directed by David Lynch and starring Isabella Rossellini as Dorothy Vallens. Plot summary: Jeffrey Beaumont [Kyle MacLachlan] is a college student returning to his quiet home in Lumberton North Carolina to see his hospitalized father, who has almost died from a stroke. While crossing a field one day on his way home he finds a severed ear, an important element in an ongoing murder and sexual abuse case. His police inquiry leads to a connection with future girlfriend Sandy, [Laura Dern] then gets him involved in a series of mysterious and violent events. The film quickly achieved cult status and is now considered one of the greatest American movies.

Cast and crew: David Lynch, Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MachLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, Hope Lange, Dean Stockwell, George Dickerson, Priscilla Pointer, Frances Bay, Jack Harvey, Ken STovitz, Brad Dourif, Jack Nance, J. Michael Hunter, Dick Green

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Paris, Texas (1984) - (Harry Dean Stanton) Polish poster

Paris, Texas (1984) - (Harry Dean Stanton) Polish one-sheet

This is a 26.5" x 38.5" Polish poster designed by Witold Dybowski for the 1984 Wim Wenders film Paris, Texas written by L.M. Kit Carson and Sam Shepard and starring Harry Dean Stanton as Travis Henderson. Plot summary: Travis Henderson is a broken, slowly recovering amnesiac longing to reconnect with but not to resume his former life as he wanders around on foot in south Texas. His former life includes his abandoned son Hunter [Hunter Carson] and his estranged wife Jane [Nastassja Kinski]. The film's spare, haunting soundtrack is made up almost entirely of Ry Cooder performing variations on a song by Blind Willie Johnson (1897 - 1945) called Dark Is the Night (AKA Dark Was the Night for Cooder's recorded version).

Cast and crew: Witold Dybowski, Wim Wenders, Ry Cooder, Blind Willie Johnson, Kit Carson, Sam Shepard, Harry Dean Stanton, Nastassja Kinski, Dean Stockwell, Sam Berry, Bernhard Wicki, Aurore Clement, Claresie Mobley, Hunter Carson, Viva, Socorro Valdez, Edward Fayton, Justin Hogg, Tom Farrell, John Lurie, Jeni Vici

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Two 1947 Antisemitism Films

Crossfire (1947) - (Robert Young)

Gentleman's Agreement (1947) - (Gregory Peck)

Edward Dmytryk's Crossfire was an adaption from a novel by Richard Brooks which was originally about the murder of a soldier by fellow soldiers because he was gay. The gay issue was not acceptable to the film industry in that year, so in the screeenplay the murdered solder was made to be a Jew instead. The social machinations of antisemitism are not carefully explored for various reasons, but primarily because this was mostly a low-budget murder mystery.

Elia Kazan's Gentleman's Agreement got the Academy Award for best picture that year. It was deliberately written in the original novel by Laura Z. Hobson as a story about antisemitism in which Gregory Peck as a journalist takes on the assignment of writing about the subject and tells his story with insights he gained by posing as a Jew himself. Many facets of the insidious phenomenon of antisemitism in American society are illustrated in this film. The "gentleman's agreement" was apparently some kind of tacit understanding that Jews would be kept out of certain areas of American life. Dean Stockwell does a great job here at age eleven as Tommy Green, the son of Peck's character Philip Schuyler Green.

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