The Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville has a gallery show running through February 2027 about how one London cinema advertised its films. Art for Art House: The Posters of Peter Strausfeld collects the linocut posters a German-born artist cut by hand for the Academy Cinema in London, an art house that ran from 1931 to 1986. The exhibit is presented with Poster House, the poster museum in New York City.

Who Peter Strausfeld was

Strausfeld began making posters for the Academy in 1945 and produced more than 300 of them over the years that followed. Each was carved into linoleum and printed from the block, and together the posters shaped the visual identity of the cinema.

Most of the posters on the walls in Pleasantville come from the collection of Michael Lellouche; the rest are credited individually on their labels.

Where to find it

The show hangs in the Jane Peck Gallery on the third floor of the building, next to the Take 3 Wine Bar and Café. The gallery is open whenever the theater is, so it can be seen before or after a screening or on its own.

The Burns announced the exhibit in September, and it is one of two poster shows in the building: a separate exhibition of posters from Ron Howard’s films is also listed on the center’s visitor pages.

On the screens this season

The film center’s Starring Amy Irving series runs through January 9. New releases on the schedule include I Play Rocky, opening November 20, and Paper Tiger and Elsinore, both opening November 25. A 35mm print of Werwulf is booked for December 25.

Plan a visit

The Jacob Burns Film Center is at 364 Manville Road in Pleasantville, Westchester County, near the Pleasantville station on Metro-North’s Harlem Line. Show times and tickets for films are on the center’s website. Art for Art House remains on view through February 2027.

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