by Martin Scorsese about the importance of posters of movies

In GQ this month published an article by Martin Scorsese about the importance of posters of movies. For the director of "Taxi Driver" and "The island of fear," the posters are the DNA of his era: "You look at them, or do you remember what it was like living at the time, or imagine how it must have been. " In the text from the book "Starstruck: Vintage Classic Movie Posters from Hollywood, Scorsese cites ten of his favorite posters (which you see below) and reflects on how they influence the imagination of the public:

"For me and for anyone who has grown up before a certain time - something in the years around 1980, I would say - the posters were a key part of the experience of going to the movies. You walked through the lobby, looking at the poster usually accompanied by cards, and often of stills and promotional language of the movie you were to see and another that is due for release then. You absorbs and stores the image in your mind's eye. Part of the excitement at that time was to watch this movie and compare it with the fictional movie that you created during the few seconds it looked to the poster."