This American will always buy foreign paper over US if the image is nicer.
I'm still trying to buy a French DARK PASSAGE, CASABLANCA and any KING KONG if I can afford it. So I'll keep dreaming. The Haunting - French is great as is Planet of the Apes and the Japanese Apocalypse Now. I love German and Swedish silents to 1930s which I have a few. The art is lovely. One of my faves: Kiss Before The Mirror. Toochis Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 24, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Adrian Cowdry <jboh...@aol.com> wrote: > > In my humble opinion and my experience US Buyers are not big fans of foreign > language posters - there are exceptions of course and I will not put forward > examples but even if the art is far superior many US collector/buyers do not > like to buy European language posters. > > There are exceptions of course but for example say Magnum Force - the quad is > far superior to the US One sheet yet the Americans will only buy the US. > There is this inherent country of origin mentality.Most movies are of course > US made - Seven Year Itch will always be American Paper yet the UK DC is far > batter than any US paper. > > There are some recent discoveries in Italy of some awesome titles which when > they emerge will have tongues out yet many American collectors will over look > these posters - For me this is a travesty that makes people blind to the art > on show. > > A good example is Oceans 11 - the US Insert and three sheet are the better > art world wide with the rat pack walking down sunset strip - the US one sheet > is quite boring - the Italian Two Foglio is superb and a great study of > Sinatra and the rat pack. Hud is another the Italian 4 Foglio is one of the > best study's on Newman (except his eyes have been coloured brown) - but far > superior to the US paper. > > Empire Strikes Back - the Australian Daybill is the green Millinieum Falcon > art - truly beautiful. > > So I think Grey is possibly correct about doing a Sunday auction of European > paper - but I also feel that American buyers need to be a little less narrow > minded - yes that is a sweeping statement but the majority of the end buyers > are a little narrow minded on this subject. The dealers are very open to the > art on show - but if it doesn't sell then a dealer ain't gonna buy it. > > > This Never Happened to the Other Fella.... > > Adrian Cowdry > jboh...@aol.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tommy Barr <tommymb...@gmail.com> > To: MoPo-L <MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU> > Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2014 13:33 > Subject: [MOPO] European bidders and non-us posters > > OK, here's the thing - Bruce is of the opinion that having special Sunday > auctions of non-US posters will be a benefit to European bidders. While I do > not wish to seem ungrateful, that suggests that if you are a non-US citizen > then you buy non -US posters. Does Bruce base that on empirical data or > simply geographical assumption? Although UK based I mainly collect US poster > formats, with the occasional Daybill or Quad. I would be very interested to > hear from other non-US bidders as to whether or not they agree with Bruce's > view. > > Tommy > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 > > To unsubscribe from the MoPo-L list, click the following link: > https://listserv.american.edu/scripts/wa-american.exe?SUBED1=MoPo-L&A=1 Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
