As some of you may or may not know, one of my cherished sub collection is Spielberg.
It's more than posters to me. I grew up watching his movies in Paris, decided I wanted to live in America because of the world he depicted, went to school in the US based on his personal recommendation, met my wife working at his company (DreamWorks) and worked a few doors down from him for a year (at Amblin).
Still, after collecting more than 1,700 posters from movies he shepherded, a few pieces were eluding me.
One was a Jaws 7-sheet I won a month ago. The others were a bunch of Thai posters I could not find. Well, the search is officially over. Thanks to the help of a few people, one of them who nagged a collector in Thailand for a long time. The four I was after the most were Gremlins, Back to the Future, Goonies and Poltergeist.
As of this morning, Poltergeist is finally mine and I can pretty much, save for a few pieces I can acquire anytime, call my Spielberg collection COMPLETE. Yeah!!!
This is what collecting is all about for me.
Here are the Thai posters...
And Poltergeist!!!
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