Party Pictures 9/29/03 - Italian Film Posters

A reception for Italian Film Posters release

Irina Dvorovenko, Dave Kehr, and Maxim Belotserkovsky

Jeffry Karp and Austin Stark

Bergdorf Goodman, Loro Piana and The Museum of Modern Art hosted a pre-launch book party in the new Loro Piana Boutique in the Bergdorf Goodman’s Men’s Store, for Italian Film Posters by The New York Times Film Critic Dave Kehr (available October 2003).

Italian Film Posters by The New York Times film critic, Dave Kehr

Guests included Jay McInerney, Cornelia Guest, Patrick McMullan, Amanda Hearst, Patricia and Bernard Hearst Shaw, CeCe Cord, Joanne and Roberto de Guardiola, James Ginty, Elizabeth Kieselstein-Cord, Austin Stark, Richard and Marcia Mishaan, Nick Scotti, Tory Burch, Somers and Jonathan Farkas, Kimberly and Steven Rockefeller, Karen and Richard LeFrak, Mark Gilbertson, Steven Jacobi, Candace Bushnell, Charles Cecil, Muffie Potter Aston, Amy Sacco, Michèle Gerber Klein, Felicia Taylor, Samantha Boardman, Audrey and Martin Gruss, Patricia Duff, Royce Pinkwater, Mark Epstein, and Lisa Jackson.

Italy has produced the finest film posters in the world for much of the 20th century. Though the distinctive tradition of Italian film posters is well known to European collectors and cinephiles, this national genre remains largely unknown to the American public. The book offers essays by Dave Kehr with an Introduction by Martin Scorses, and features posters from: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; Rear Window; The Fountainhead; A Fistful of Dollars; The Long Haul and more.