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Walking around the brilliant and intensely quiet Andy Warhol exhibition in the Tate Modern recently got me wondering if the pop artist had ever produced a cinema poster. Warhol produced his own films and numerous portraits of famous actors (Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor can be seen in the Tate exhibition), so why not a movie poster(s)? Exiting through the gift shop I found a book – Andy Warhol: The Complete Commissioned Posters 1964-1987 by Paul Marechal – that answered my question. The book indexes fifty-two posters produced by Warhol to promote a product or event, raise funds or support [...]