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A coffee-table book called Translating Hollywood: The World of Movie Posters was profiled yesterday by Boston Pheonix writer Chris Wangler. The poster images came from the collection of gallery owner Sam Sarowitz.

"Most of the posters come from the late 1950s and after, " Wangler writes. "Hollywood classics are the focus, but there'ss a nice selection of French New Wave, world cinema classics, and genre pictures.
"As movies began to gain worldwide attention, Hollywood studios tailored their marketing to specific geographic locations, allowing local distributors to create their own publicity campaigns. As a result, writes New York Times DVD critic Dave Kehr in the introduction, films 'were dressed up in native costumes for the different countries they happened to be visiting.'"

Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 2, 2008 at 11:15 AM
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Josh Massey says ...
I've always loved the Czech poster for The Terminator.
Posted by Josh Massey at August 2, 2008 11:57 AM
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btwnproductions says ...
The painted billboards that Hong Kong cinemas had up when I lived there 20 years ago were terrific. I wish I had more pix of them. I don't recall seeing any on my last visit early last year.
Posted by btwnproductions at August 2, 2008 12:43 PM
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TheJeff says ...
Here is the Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/Translating-Hollywood-Posteritati-Gallery-Collection/dp/0977282791/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217717948&sr=1-1
Posted by TheJeff at August 2, 2008 4:02 PM
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