Thanks It's From eBay: For The Love of Movies
Thanks It's From eBay 117: Ezgi Eren, Guest Curator
Ezgi Eren is a movie aficionado and founder of 11am Saturday, a Substack with a mission to preserve the collective and irreplaceable experience of watching movies in a theater.
A real artifact of a bygone era when movie promo included concise pressbooks instead of… all this. For a movie with one of the most inspired casting decisions ever made in my opinion. I love the detail of the release date and theater being left blank, this must have been an unused extra copy.
One thing Japanese movie theaters are gonna do is print an incredible booklet to go with every movie release. This one is for one of my favorites, Mulholland Drive, and while I don’t speak Japanese, I’m grateful for any tangible media that immortalizes films that take up space in our collective consciousness.
While I love the convenience of scanning my little barcode on my little AMC Stubs app, I wish we never stopped printing physical tickets. I love finding old movie tickets in purses I haven’t used in a while and being transported right back to the day I saw that movie. The illustration on this Funny Girl ticket is so quaint, such a special collector’s item.
I know this is a mass-produced reprint that doesn’t really hold collector’s value, but I mean, still. Who doesn’t love You’ve Got Mail? And this is such a fun one-page to frame to get a whiff of that romanticized “Autumn in New York” feeling every time you look at it.
I’m not sure if A24 still prints these zines but I like that they did. This one’s an ode to the 90’s & early 2000’s multiplex, which we still try to keep alive over on my Substack (excuse the shameless plug).
“In Dream Theater, we return to the multiplex, remembering as a universe unto itself and a labyrinth of infinite possibilities, starting the moment you touch down in the lobby until you hazily wind your way through the parking lot under a night time sky.” I just love it.
This is straight-up a book full of maps and addresses that dox actors & actresses in LA in the 60s. Oh, the good old terrible days of lack of boundaries. I just love it as an archeological relic that marks a moment in time in the city that I love despite everything.
A 5-piece poster set of one of the greatest films ever made. I’d kinda love to turn this into a mural and cover my office wall with it.
Another incredible movie ticket for Jacques Tati’s Playtime. I actually love the minor bents and wrinkles on it, no doubt found in the bottom of someone’s forgotten purse.
Last but not least, a photobook for one of the most consequential movies in American cinema, The Virgin Suicides. I’ve devoured my copy of Sofia Coppola Archive: 1999-2023 and still can’t get enough of the beautiful photos that accompany her films, giving so much context to every single choice she makes.
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In case you missed it, asked me to do a deep dive of Versace on eBay. While I probably barely scratched the surface of the colorful, funky, sexy Versace universe, you can shop it and read Liana’s incredible writing here.
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I watched In the Mood for Love for the first time a couple of months ago and started swooning all over the place