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The background is a black-and-white photograph of a young man feigning surprise, against a white wall. Overlaid midway is a cut-out of a black-and-orange fan-shaped diagram of piano keys, music notation, the printed words "SUN", and two cut-outs in place of the man's eyes, transforming them into slits. At three-quarters, lower left, is an image of a train, from a newspaper or book, appearing to run into the young man's mouth, which is colored lipstick-red. At the top is the inscription "MYSTERY TRAIN", followed by a listing of the credits for the making of this film.

Poster, Mystery Train, 1989
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-10

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On the left, taking up the entire height of the poster, is a green-toned black-and-white photograph of a man's face. On the right is an insert of a telescopic image of stars. Layered over these is a cartoon depiction of a blue globe encircled by orange cars, and a hand, apparently a newspaper cut-out, pointing to the globe and framing the eye of the man. At top, is the inscription: "NOC NA ZIEMI a film JIMA JARMUSCHA / night on earth muzyaka TOM WAITS / produkcja JVC-LOCUS SOLUS".

Poster, Noc na Ziemi [Night on Earth], 1992
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-9

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, Nieustajace Wakacje [Permanent Vacation], 1991
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-11

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On white background, a painted sketch of a man's German military Imperial uniform, with the actual soldier supposedly inside a grey shadow. A print of two clasped hands covers the area where the mouth would be. Inscription is divided in two columns, at left and at right of the central uniform-figure. At left, starting at top: "mit: Jean Gabin Erich von Stroheim Pierre Fresnay Dita Parlo / Verleih: Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner / Pradikat Besonders Wertvoll". At right, starting at top: "Die Grosse Illusion / Jean Renoir Buch and Dialoge: Charles Spaak, Jean Renoir Kamera: Christian Matras Musik: Joseph Kosma Produktion: R.A.C. Film Paris".

Poster, Die Grosse Illusion, 1960
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-75

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Close up of a man frowning, wrinkles and pores on skin accentuated; eye colored in with green, blue, purple, magenta, and red blood vessels (in corner). Inscription top center: "Bostonsky pripad," and lower left: "Americky film s Tony Curtisem, / Henry Fondou a Jirim Voskoveem / Rezie: Richard Fleischer."

Poster, Bostonský prípad, ca. 1971
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-6

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

The face of a man holding a cigarette, at left; face of woman upper right. Small-sized text in lower right, in Chinese, running vertically. At right, the text "fallen angels" In English, followed by vertical text in Chinese, followed by English text along right edge: " a film by Wong Kar-Wai." Color scheme: black, orange, blue, green.

Poster, Fallen Angels, 1995
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-4

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On black background lined like an electronic monitor, the text: "Number Two x // A Film by Jean-Luc Godard." Followed by a photograph of a woman's face in lower right. Inscription: "It's my body, it's my kitchen, my kids. It's too much, and yet, it's not enough", lower left; "Distributed by The Other Cinema", bottom left.

Poster, Number Two, 1975
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-2

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Night scene in incandescent-light-bulb orange, blue, green, and black. A man in sunglasses in upper left points a gun; another man in lower right nervously looks over his shoulder. In lower center: a man holding a gun in each hand, a woman's face obscured in long hair. Vertical Chinese text at left, vertical English text in center: "fallen angels" and "a film by Wong Kar-Wai." Text in Chinese upper right.

Poster, Fallen Angels, 1995
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-3

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Scene appropriated from Rogier van der Weyden's 1435 painting "The Descent from the Cross." A bearded old man holds a swooning body (Christ in van der Weyden) with all features besides the loincloth whited-out. Across the torso, various foods (Del Monte Golden Corn, pear, tomato-asparagus salad, fish fillet with tomatoes and onion, wine, cherries, et al.). Across the top, inscribed: "Ro Go Pa G / Roberto Rossellini Jean-Luc Godard Pier Paolo Pasolini Ugo Gregorenti." Text at bottom: "Italsky film. Kriticky pohled do zivota problemu dnesni doby."

Poster, Ro.Go.Pa.G., 1963
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-5

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Solarised, abstract, black-and-white photograph of people running down wide stairs, with a red vertical bar at upper left, and a red "spill" at lower center.
Inscriptions: the title "PANCERNIK / POTIOMKIN" at upper right, at upper left: "slynny bunt / marynarzy / w wielkim filmie / SERGIUSZA / EISENSTEINA", at upper center: "Produkcja "GOSKINO" / WYCONAWCY: A. Antonow / W. Barski / G. Aleksandrow".

Poster, Pancernik Potiomkin [Battleship Potiomkin], 1967
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-27

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster for a Dutch graphic design exhibition showing type against a ground of vertical bars resembling a bar code reading. This work, like all of Crouwel posters, is based on a grid system (upon close inspection the pre-printed gridded paper is visible; each line represents 1 cm). The letters of the major text are square, 4.5 x 4.5 cm, while the smaller letters in the subtext are also square, 1.3 x 1.3 cm.

Poster, Visuele Communicatie Nederland (Visual Communication in the...
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Museum purchase from General Acquisitions Endowment Fund.
2009-13-1

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On white background, a white egg painted with black strokes to indicate hair, eyes, and mustache of Adolf Hitler. The lower jaw is "cracked" off and replaced with dangling human legs in red and blue. Followed by inscription at bottom center: "Sein Oder Nicht Sein / Lustspiel einer Tragodie Regie Ernst Lubitsch / (To Be or Not to Be / (Comedy a tragedy Directed by Ernst Lubitsch)) Pradikat besonders wertvoll Mit / Jack Benny Carole Lombard Felix Bressart Robert Stack / Sig Ruman u.v.a. Eine Ernst Lubitsch Produktion der / Romaine Film Verleih: Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner".

Poster, Sein oder Nichtsein (To Be or Not to Be), 1964
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-78

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On a scarlet-red field, is the image of four women's legs in black stockings and high heels, arranged in a Swastika, with a face of a heavily made-up screaming androgynous character in the center. The inscriptions are: on the black strip at the top, in white- "KABARET". On the red main field: at left- "Producja: Feurer and Martin", at right-"Amerycanski musical filmowy / nagrodzony 7 Oscarami", and at center- "Rezyseria / BOB FOSSE / W glownych rolach / LIZA MINELLI / Michael York / Joel Grey".

Poster, Kabaret, 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-100

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

A white background is divided in four by irregular yellow, red, magenta, and blue rectangular shapes. At the center is a triangular burst of black and white text "A / TA / ME!" flanked by schematic black arms, all interlaced with a jagged red ribbon.
At upper left is the inscription: "EL DESEO S.A. / PRESENTA / UN FILM DE / ALMODOVAR". At bottom, run the credits: "VICTORIA ABRIL - ANTONIO BANDERAS - LOLES LEON", continuing to the end of the page in increasingly smaller type.

Poster, Atame! [Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down!], 1989
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-13

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On gold background, appearing as irregular spots, fragmentary blue-toned photograph of a man's face. At mid-left, in green, the title "ZLOTO". At lower center, the credits in smaller type.

Poster, Zloto [Gold], 1962
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-18

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

A high-contrast photograph of a man with half-closed eyes and drooping mouth, digitally "colored" with black pixillated "patches" and tinted magenta and blue, with traces of cyan and yellow. On the white field below the man's chin, in lower left, the inscription: "FILM POSLKI / PRESENTE LE FILM DE / ANDRZEJ WAJDA / Les Demoiselles de Wilko / PANNY Z WILKA", and in the lower right: "film polski / 6/8 mazowlecka / 00-048 warsaw / poland".

Poster, Les Damoiselles de Wilko, 1979–80
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-90

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On beige background, a plum gorilla with purple highlights and orange-and-yellow glowing eyes is diagonally arranged. In upper left, the inscriptions are, in brown: "japonski film fantastyczny / UCIECZKA KING KONGA / Rezyceria: Inoshira Honda / W rolach glownych: Rhodes Reason, Akira Takarada, / Linda Miller. Mie Hama / Produkja: Toho".

Poster, Ucieczka King Konga [King Kong Escapes], 1968
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-104

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Background: black-and-white photograph of a man's face against foliage on left, mirrored onto right, joined at center, toned red. Inscription in white, starting at top: "ORPHEE / der Tod und die Liebe des Dichters / Ein Film von Jean Cocteau / Mit Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Marie Dea and Francois Perier/ Pradikat: besonders wertvoll/ Neue Filmkunst Walter Kirchner".

Poster, Orphée, 1958
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-77

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On crème background, a midnight-blue toned black-and-white photograph of a man in a wide-brimmed cowboy hat, his lips accentuated in lipstick-red and sensuous like a woman's. Starting top center, the inscriptions: "DUSTIN HOFFMAN / w filmie amerykanskim nagroozonym OSKAREM / NOCNY KOWBOJ / rezyseria: / JOHN SCHLESINGER / w pozostalych rolach: / john voight, sylvia miles, / brenda vaccaro". And at lower left: "produkcia: jerome hellman / -- united artists".

Poster, Nocny Kowboj [Midnight Cowboy], 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-103

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

Cartoon-like, bright image: blue sky, green-skinned man with brown hair and sunglasses, wearing a blue shirt and yellow cowboy hat, holding a blue steering wheel and sitting in purple car seat. On his hat are two crouching police officers, and circling the hat is a helicopter seeking to land. At upper right, in magenta, is the title: "MISTRZ / KIEROWNICY / UCIEKA", surrounded by credits in smaller type.

Poster, Mistrz kierownicy ucieka (Smokey and the Bandit), 1978–79
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-17

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On red background, a photograph of a polished black high-heeled shoe, the heel in the shape of a handgun, and framed by the inscription "TACONES" at top, and 'LEJANOS" at bottom. At the very top is written: "EL DESEO S.A. PRESENTA UN FILM DE PEDRO ALMODOVAR", and at bottom are the credits: "VICTORIA ABRIL MARISA PAREDES MIGUEL BOSE" followed by further credits in smaller type.

Poster, Tacones Lejanos [High Heels], 1991
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-14

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

The image is divided in two major color fields: red, taking up three quarters of the area from the top, and white, taking up one quarter of the area from the bottom. The red "bleeds" into the white. Centered at quarter length from top is a high-contrast image of a man and woman, in black, white, magenta, and red. Inscriptions are in yellow letters: "Rainer W. Fassbinders / Die Zartlichkeit der Wolfe" on red, followed by credits in the white field.

Poster, Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe [The Tenderness of Wolves], 1973
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-15

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On white background:
(1)An inscription at top: "a sezession DER SCHATTEN / Atlas Film presentiert: Clen (Polen 1956) Ein Film von Jerzy Kawalerowicz mit Zygmunt Kestowicz, / Adolf Chronicki / Ein Exklusiv-Programm weltbekannter Filme. Festival-Sieger, umstrittene Filme, beruhmte Aussenseiter und klassische Meisterwerke werden erstmals in deutschen Filmtheatern volgerstellt".
(2)An image: a 3 x 3 grid, the same image of a inkblot-like human head is repeated with minor alteration in details: in certain sections of the grid, a Nazi swastika, the numbers O5, a stamp with a royal eagle, black dots, black arrow, while some of the heads have cut-out ears, eye, or mouth.

Poster, Cien [Shadow], 1966
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-12

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

Poster, Die 3 Groschen-Oper [The Three-Penny Opera], 1957
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-89

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 4 images of this object.

Poster, Publicity Pays on the Underground, 1931–1932
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer.
1963-39-48

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 2 images of this object.

On off-white ground, the image in black: silhouetted figures of men and women in black, in voluminous clothes, carrying large bundles and bags. At lower left, inscription: " Pociag w sniegu / Jugoslawianski przygodowy dla dzieci mlodziezy / Rezyseria: Mate Relia W rolach glownych: / Slavko Stimac, Zeliko Malcic, Eduard Perocevic Produkcja: Croatia Film ".

Poster, Pociag w Sniegu [Train in the Snow], 1976–77
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-23

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.

On white ground: the outline of a woman's waist and thighs, with an image of a horned devil in the center. Inscription: upper center: "THE / BEST OF THE / NEW YORK / EROTIC / FILM FESTIVAL", and at lower center: "Ausgewahlt von: / ANDY WARHOL, SILVIA MILES, TERRY SOUTHERN, / MILOS FORMAN, XAVIERA HOLLANDER und GORE VIDAL. / Produktion SALIVA FILMS - Verleih ENDFILM", followed by "EIN FILM, DEN SIE FUR LANGE, LANGE ZEIT / NICHT IM FERNSEHEN SEHEN WERDEN / FSK: ab 18".

Poster, Best of the New York Erotic Film Festival, 1977
offset lithograph on wove paper.
Gift of Sara and Marc Benda.
2010-21-26

This object is part of the Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design collection.
There are 3 images of this object.