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Matchbox Cine has events called "Unsee" where the extra hour of the fall time change is programmed with sixty minutes of one-time-only curated weirdness. At the end you get your hour back. Previous editions programmed by Vera Drew and Louise Weard. makeitweird.co.uk/louiseweardu...
THE WOMAN CHASER (Devor, 1999)
Ah, but there are 14 bits, so when Jude goes astray, it’s not for too long… until he goes astray in a different way.
Best bits were Vlad/Drac going on a modern day tour of his childhood home, and Vlad/Drac lashing out against a strike by the staff at his game level grinding company.
One day, our high school American History teacher wheeled in the TV and said "All right, we're watching PSYCHO." No reason given. Yes, over multiple days. The first day ended with the shower scene, blood going down the drain and... the bell.
So, unlike the calendar cinemas and arthouses of yore where a monthly marathon was run to book the titles, paste up the calendars and thread the changeover projectors, the answer to this very legitimate question is simply that it's the easy out for everyone on the business side of things.
The increased work of having a different title each showtime ultimately requires full-time (or equivalent) staff to make happen whereas a contract booker can place three movies on a theater's three screens each week for peanuts, with just three DCPs quickly automated in the booth to run the week.
This programming-intense strategy is why two screens like the Metrograph or the Roxie or AFS can show 8-12 different niche titles on weekends having just two screens each, whereas a three screener like the River Oaks just has... three mass-market titles and maybe a rep show.
It is possible to negotiate a week-long run of smaller arthouse films to have single daily screenings these days - resulting in more titles on any given screen - but the amount of admin involved in booking, scheduling, promoting and tech to have so many different titles on one screen is substantial.
The end result of that strategy, when there are limited arthouse screens, is that there are fewer niche arthouse titles in the market. Titles that need to play the market get pushed off to distant multiplexes with many screens and excess capacity.
@msicism.bsky.social @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social Both distributors and exhibitors generally prefer to do a full run, having a single title take up all or most showtimes on any given screen for an entire week. It's not incompetence, but it is laziness, less work for everyone involved.
Not at Taco Bell, with sour cream and Rotten Tomatoes?
I love Night Flight Plus, but I end up mostly watching it for under-the-radar indie music things rather than movies. The Geneva Jacuzzi Lamaze Special is a modern Night Flight classic. www.nightflightplus.com/videos/night...
I'm baffled that HBO continues to use the TV static opening. We haven't really had static on TVs for around 15 years now, and analog broadcasting ended in 2021. Static is one of the the hardest things to compress, and the intro looks like pixelated garbage on both streaming and digital cable. Why?
Joining a CSA always starts out so fun, and yet invariably devolves into an endless deluge of radishes.
A fully garnished bagel and lox is truly the Chicago-style hot dog of bagels.
HAMNET - catch it in theaters now!
My favorite photo of her, for me the moment that she went from the sad, emaciated dog we adopted to the nutty, furry "Friday!!" we know.
Oh, someone cut THE GUEST to Annie's Antonio. "It was the right thing to do."
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Almodóvar coupled with "drink at the bar". Sold! Best banger since WE GOT THE MOVES.
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He's credited as a writer on it, which I understand doesn't mean "control over the direction" but it's still clearly his thing.
It may be worthwhile to just watch the last episode of THE CURSE which is sort of a standalone thing, and surprisingly seems to exist outside of all the Safdie/Fielder/Stone galaxies. It is genuinely something.
I'm unconvinced by Benny's acting career but THE CURSE was something truly remarkable that I don't think Josh had much to do with.
Yes, UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE is quite different than THE TWENTIETH CENTURY but Matthew Rankin has a very clear understanding of people, politics and places.
TONIGHT! Taking my MS-20 to a knife fight.
Cloves?? In this economy??
I'm very glad I got the two Shingrix shots, and I'd far prefer the side effects of the shots to actually getting shingles, and I'd recommend others get the shots, but I truly do believe that the wildly extreme side effects of newer shots like Shingrix are fueling general anti-vax behaviors.
My daughter famously hates cake, to the point where she had only a tiny, symbolic cake at her wedding. She engaged in the traditional cake cutting, and then proceeded to totally not eat it. (They had a nice dessert table for the guests.)
I think we need to start having clandestine MEGALOPOLIS viewing parties.