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Ever since my first job in the film industry I’ve been obsessed with film posters. I remember gazing at the film poster saturated walls, wishing one day to see my own feature film post up there. I still hope for that day.
We actually have several framed film still posters in our toilet (what? we have a glam downstairs loo don’t you know) where some of my all time favourite movie stills in black and white take pride of place. These include Godfather Part 1 , Casablanca, Scarface, Goodfellas, Cinema Paradiso and Zorba the Greek. Our toilet is truly ‘gangster’!
All those film posters instantly transport me to a certain time in my life-Cinema Paradiso as an eight year old child-I fell in love with the child actor Salvatore Cascio at the time (and the cinema) watching that film and have rewatched it countless times, Godfather, my late teens and first taste of what became a cinematic education in gangster films from my Dad, Papa G. I treasure those times. Casablanca is the film Peter my husband and I first watched together on an early date and no Greek can be without Zorba the Greek in their life of course. In fact you have to hand in your ethnicity if you haven’t seen Zorba the Greek. I actually must read the book the film it is based on too…
I also have my own short film posters (which I directed and co produced and have screened worldwide) in large poster frames in my office and they also feature in my parents’ restaurants (bless their proud cotton socks). I love the process of taking on set film stills and Vanessa Scott-Thompson captured the ones above. You can read more about my film work on my film website here.
I now want to add a few more kids’ film posters to Oliver’s room-a local indie cinema The Cottage Road Cinema (the oldest in Leeds) gave us a huge Muppet Babies’ cinema poster ready to be framed so I will be heading to the poster frame depot to sort this. I also want to add Monsters Inc and possibly Finding Nemo to the collection of prints we have hanging on the wall, including an original Winnie the Pooh pencil sketch my Mum gave him. I hope he, like me, will remember these early films he has enjoyed so much and that have touched him dearly…and that one day, he will watch my own films too.
Stills ©Vicki Psarias.