Original Aurel, Jean Movie Posters

Jean Aurel movie posters document the French filmmaker who moved between literary documentary portraits and popular entertainment — working between mainstream commercial filmmaking and more personal projects, and bringing the cultural connections of the Parisian literary world to his most interesting work.

Aurel is perhaps most celebrated for his documentary work on literary and artistic subjects — productions that approached French cultural figures with a journalist's curiosity and a filmmaker's visual sensibility. His documentary on the poet Paul Eluard and other cultural portraits belong to a French tradition of arts documentary filmmaking that takes seriously the connection between cinema and literature.

His commercial fiction films moved within the tradition of French entertainment cinema of the period, their theatrical materials reflecting the graphic language of French film advertising in its most commercially polished form. French grandes affiches and lobby materials from his productions are documents of French studio filmmaking's craftsmanship — the typography, the photographic composition, the design conventions of French film advertising at its most accomplished — and of interest to collectors of French cinema's post-New Wave commercial period. Original French theatrical paper from his documentary and fiction work is now scarce in fine condition.

Find original French theatrical prints from his filmmaking career — documents of French popular cinema's craftsmanship in the years between the nouvelle vague and the commercial films of the 1970s.

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