CIAO MANHATTAN Rare Original '73 poster Edie Sedgwick Andy Warhol filmartgallery

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Original, first release British "Double Crown" poster for the 1972 film 'Ciao! Manhattan', a quasi-documentary starring the beautiful but doomed Andy Warhol superstar Edie Sedgwick. Original release posters (with the exception of the German poster)  for this cult classic are extremely difficult to find! The reason is that this film was barely distributed in most countries. It premiered in Amsterdam in July 1972 to critical acclaim.  However, its distribution was very spotty and it only played in a very few cinemas in some of cities in Germany & France, then a few more brief exclusive runs in a handful of cities in the USA: San Diego, New York, Denver and Tempe, Arizona, then a cinema in London in 1973 (when this poster was printed) and one in Canada. That's it. It never made it to most major cities during those years and specific posters had to be printed for each engagement. As a result (besides the relatively common German poster) there is a rare 1975 French poster; there was a 1972 San Diego poster and this one - but those are the only ones we have seen for the original release engagements. Very few people saw this film when it was first released, very few cinemas showed the film and very few posters were printed (and fewer still survived). The film essentially disappeared for nearly a decade until interest in Edie Sedgwick was sparked again by the best-selling book "Edie: An American Biography" by George Plimpton and Jean Stein in 1982 - at which time the film was rediscovered and shown and posters were printed for that release and subsequent re-releases (which have continued sporadically since 1982, due to the enduring fascination with Sedgwick and Warhol). But the poster here is original release.
The poster is printed with a process that resulted in an extremely vibrant, richly colored poster - even after all these years!
Poster measures 20x30 inches and is in fine/very fine condition: folded as issued, it was never used and has only some creasing, minor fold and edge wear and a distributor stamp on the reverse
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