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• Steve McQueen

  Original posters with Steve McQueen are one of Posterissim's specialties. From The Great Escape to Butterfly, including The Cincinnati Kid, The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullitt or Le Mans, find here the most cult or rare old posters of the films of one of the most emblematic actors of the sixties. With his tender smile and steely gaze, the man rightly nicknamed the King of Cool is one of cinema's most enduring icons. A look back at the triumph of the king of Hollywood, who set the box office on fire for twenty years in roles of tailor-made anti-heroes.

  A former Marine, Steve McQueen was revealed in 1958 in the series In the Name of the Law, before his career took off thanks to his role in John Sturges' The Seven Mercenaries. He had a string of successes and built up his image as a fearless and lonely hothead, a seducer and a heartbreaker - he married Neile Adams and then Ali MacGraw. An absolute fan of motorcycles and Formula 1 racing, he is known to perform most of his stunts himself, when they are not dubbed, among others, by his friend Bud Ekins. The man who shared a love of the Triumph Bonneville with McQueen throughout their lives was seen on the Triumph Trophy TR6 in The Great Escape in 1963.

  In 1968, he played in Norman Jewison's The Thomas Crown Affair. He played a jaded businessman, a billionaire improvising as a bank robber, with his emblematic Persol on his nose, and let his passion for cars express itself. We see him driving his mythical Meyers Manx buggy, his Rolls Royce Silver Shadow or his Ferrari 250GT. It is in this film that we witness the longest kiss in the history of cinema, between McQueen and Faye Dunaway, on the timeless soundtrack of Michel Legrand.

  The following year, one of the other great successes of the bad boy was released: Bullitt, by Peter Yates. This time he drives a Ford Mustang GT 390, at the center of one of the most important car chases in the history of cinema. In California, Steve McQueen plays the role of Frank Bullitt, a rebel cop who roams the streets of San Francisco. He followed this with Le Mans, where he played Michael Delaney, a racing driver at the wheel of a Porsche 917, who made a cult following with his Tag Heuer Monaco watch - in the city, it was a Rolex Submariner 5513 that completed Steve McQueen's often copied but never equalled style. Like On Any Sunday, the film was released in 1971, a year driven by the exhilaration of speed and his passion for motor sports. It was with Solar Production that he participated in Bruce Brown's feature documentary, nominated for an Oscar in 1972.

• Walt Disney & animation

  In 1928, the most famous mouse was born on the screens and marked the beginning of the Walt Disney adventure. Find here all the most beautiful original old posters of the cartoons of the genius who revolutionized animation and cinema in the 1940s. For young and old alike, Posterissim has put together in this category childhood memories and masterpieces of Walt Disney, one of the greatest visionaries of our time.

  After the creation of the Walt Disney Company in 1923, the revolution in the world of cartoons began. More than 50 years after his death in 1966, Walt Disney is still the most Oscar-winning individual artist: 22 awards for 59 nominations. A pioneer of animation and a pioneer of dream factories, the American producer, director and screenwriter embodies his country and his era and has become a true icon of the 20th century.

  Walt Disney's artistic and technical innovations made animation a major art form, bringing the great classics of literature to the big screen. From Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs to The Jungle Book and Fantasia, Disney also never hesitated to put his financially troubled company and its reputation at risk in the service of his utopian universe.

  One of the first animated feature films in the history of cinema, Snow White was mocked at the beginning but received a standing ovation from Hollywood when it was released in 1937 and was a huge success worldwide. Jean-Jacques Launier says that "never had a cartoon aroused so much emotion". Until the 1970s, the first golden age of the Disney Studios took shape. Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, The 101 Dalmatians, The Jungle Book and Bambi - for which Walt Disney introduced live models of fawns into the studios - created a world of princes, princesses, talking, singing and dancing animals, animated objects, enchanted castles and terrifying villains. So many films and old posters that are today the legacy of this imaginary world, and of a storyteller who became one of the most famous film producers.

  In addition to the old French and foreign posters of the greatest Disney classics, you will also find their alternative posters and original creations around other masterpieces of animated cinema.

• Legendary Actresses

• Alain Delon

• Jean-Paul Belmondo

• Louis de Funès

• Alfred Hitchcock

  A British director, screenwriter and producer who became a naturalized American, Alfred Hitchcock is one of the most emblematic figures of cinema from the 1950s to the end of the 1960s. Nicknamed the master of suspense, he left behind more than fifty films! A prolific career during which his gift for storytelling and unique aestheticism are illustrated, and throughout which the cinematographic genre of the thriller takes a whole new turn. Discover here the most beautiful original vintage posters of the great Alfred Hitchcock's films, which, like his films, continue to haunt our minds.

  A clever combination of tension and humor, Alfred Hitchcock's style is recognizable among thousands. He directed his first film at the age of 23, and began his meteoric rise. Very quickly, he shaped modern cinema and became one of the most influential directors in terms of style. In particular, he introduced the notion of suspense and redefined the MacGuffin, the pretext necessary for the development of a scenario. Hitchcock, eager to manipulate the viewer and to be cruel in his scripts, used to mock those who demanded a rational explanation for all the elements of a film.

  Fear, loss of identity, guilt, pursuit: certain themes are dear to the director, as well as certain actors. Indeed, we find James Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too Much, in Cold Sweats alongside Kim Novak, and in Rear Window, this time accompanied by Grace Kelly at the height of her fame. Also starring in The Crime Was Almost Perfect, Kelly followed the director again the following year and played in The Snare Hand with Cary Grant. The latter also climbed Mount Rushmore in a memorable scene in North by Northwest.

  Anthony Perkins played the legendary Norman Bates in Psycho, a masterpiece of fear, whose subsequent parts he directed himself. Who doesn't remember the scene of Janet Leigh's murder in her shower? Along with Kim Novak and Grace Kelly, or Tippi Hedren in the terrifying The Birds, Ingrid Bergman in The House of Dr. Edwardes and Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest, she helped create the myth of the Hichcockian blonde. A heroine of icy, sophisticated, sculptural and subversive beauty, this figure sometimes appears to be the true subject of the films of the director, who had a habit of shaping his actresses in the image of their characters.

  So many thriller masterpieces, and almost as many famous cameos by Alfred Hitchcock in his own films. We can count 37 of them, the most famous being perhaps his boarding the train in The Unknown in the North Express with a double bass. The master of suspense and intrigue even slipped onto one of the original vintage posters, can you find him?

• Brigitte Bardot