correspondant 'Renan' (just one name, like 'Cher') has
discovered a very 'tuhaf' piece of Turkish news in the
Northern Virgina restaurant-movie theater 'Alamo
Drafthouse' - American movie posters with Turkish
captions (!). 'Alamo Drafthouse' also operates in
Brooklyn and other places around the USA.//
And after relentless sleuthing, 'Renan' came up with
the explanation:
interview with collector Tim League click here for the
entire interview.
"The collection at the new Brooklyn theater is made up of
Turkish posters that came from a few sources. My wife
did a destination swim in Turkey a few years ago—she
swam across the Hellespont—and while she was doing
that, I found out through friends that there was a poster
depot still around in Istanbul. I spent an entire day going
through stacks of tens of thousands of Turkish posters, so
I got a bunch then. And last year, at Fantastic Fest, the
theme was Turkish exploitation cinema, so we brought in
a bunch of Turkish filmmakers. The lead programmer at
the festival is Turkish, so he augmented the collection. I
particularly love hand-drawn posters. There are about sixty
frames in the theater now, and the posters will be swapped
out probably twice a year. There’s an Indian collection
that’s ready to go up, and we’re working on building an
Egyptian poster collection for later next year."
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