Month: November 2018

  • Times Square movie poster, Thailand, 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail       Movie posters in Thailand are an art form unto themselves. Google “Thai movie posters” and you will go down a rabbit hole you may take days to emerge from. Thai film distributors discard the authorized promotional materials and commission original painted montages in glorious colors. Some of the pages I looked…

  • Filmstar, Vol 1 No. 3, Thailand, August 1981

    FacebookTwitterTumblrRedditPinterestGoogleEmail       By August 1981, Robin might already have figured out that neither she nor Andy Gibb were going to get a call telling them when to report to the Grease 2 set. Most of the world had already forgotten about Times Square. But it wasn’t quite over yet.   Thailand’s Filmstar magazine…