![]() ![]() May have tape, writing, stains in image area. May have medium or major restoration.Ī poster with faded colors and brittle paper, showing significant signs of use. May have a small amount of writing in an unobtrusive place. Paper may be brittle due to age, may have minor stains. May have tears, minor paper loss, minor hazing. It may have some fold seperation.Īn average poster with overall fresh color. It may have minor tears small paper loss and minor stains. This is the highest grade allowed for a poster that has been restored either on linen or on paper.Ī poster with good colors and overall clean appearance. It may have pin holes or very minor tears. It may have very general signs of use including slight fold separation and fold wear. Has no significant holes, no paper loss, may have minor tears along edges, may have fine pin holes.Ī poster with bright colour and crisp overall appearance. The poster should have no holes or tears.Ī generally unused poster with fresh, saturated colors. Despite the cinematic leitmotiv, from Bergman’s The Seventh Seal, of Death playing chess with Wilko on the shore of Canvey Island, it’s Johnson’s rock’n’roll stoicism, and his love of life that live on in the viewer’s mind, and make you feel you’ve had a glimpse of both death and resurrection, pulsating with R&B urgency.Ī poster that has never been used or displayed and may show the most minor signs of age and wear. It’s a moving account of a man looking at death without an ounce of self-pity or false piety, while the verbal and visual richness provide a bouncy metaphysical trampoline of ideas. And Temple’s overflowing visual cocktail serves up Bunuel, Tarkovsky, Cocteau and Michael Powell as fellow travellers on this death trip, with literary contributions from Shakespeare and Thomas Traherne (“And all the world was mine and I the only spectator and enjoyer of it”), while the terminally articulate Wilko happily quotes Blake and Milton straight to camera. ![]() Served a death sentence by pancreatic cancer, Johnson vows to live in the moment. “ The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson“ is an intoxicating meditation on mortality by legendary axe man Wilko Johnson. The poster offered here is a genuine UK quad film poster from the initial 2015 release, not a copy. Printed on heavy stock paper with a four colour silk screen print finish this originally rolled example displays superbly…An incredibly rare and collectable piece of music/film memorabilia.įilm Description The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson Movie Poster “ Tells the extraordinary story of legendary musician Wilko Johnson who, diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and given a few months to live, managed to accept his fate with uplifting positivity and defy the death sentence handed down to him.“ ![]() After the film’s cinematic premiere held in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust in London at the Picturehouse on Shaftesbury Avenue on 17th July 2015 it was only screened in a very limited number of select ‘art-house’ cinemas making any paper from the release exceptionally scarce and sought after with the artist himself releasing limited edition prints of the artwork which immediately sold out and have become collectors items in their own right. ![]() Designed by Jonny Halifax for Julien Temple’s film ‘The Ecstasy Of Wilko Johnson’, and winner of the SXSW 2015 Excellence in Poster Design Special Jury Recognition Award this is a special and very rare film poster. In these days of digital design it’s a pleasure to see and handle such a beautiful item. Quite honestly some of the finest poster artwork I have seen on a ‘modern’ poster. ![]()
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