Original Arkush, Allan Movie Posters

Allan Arkush movie posters are anchored by Rock 'n' Roll High School — the Ramones vehicle — the director whose debut feature Hollywood Boulevard (1976) — produced by Roger Corman's New World Pictures as a knowing celebration and satire of B-movie filmmaking itself — launched a career that placed him at the heart of American cult and exploitation cinema's most creative period.

Rock 'n' Roll High School (1979), featuring the Ramones in their only starring vehicle, is one of the great cult movies of its era: a genuine act of love for punk music and teenage rebellion, made with more formal intelligence than its premise suggests. New World Pictures' theatrical campaign captured the film's anarchic energy with a poster of corresponding directness — the Ramones, the school, the rock and roll. The film has never lost its audience and its theatrical materials are among the most sought-after punk-era film posters in collecting.

Heartbeeps (1981), a studio misfire with Andy Kaufman and Bernadette Peters as robots, was a costly commercial failure, but Arkush's television work — he directed numerous episodes of acclaimed drama series — demonstrates the professional range that exploitation-era training tends to produce. The combination of Corman school apprenticeship and genuine punk sensibility makes his theatrical materials of particular interest to collectors of the period. Original US one-sheets from Rock 'n' Roll High School are now scarce and seldom found in fine condition.

Find original theatrical prints from this exploitation and punk cinema era.

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