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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!
Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999
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posted 02-12-2000 03:02 AM
I too have run just about all the big 'midnight cult hits' in my career, Night of the Living Dead, Heavy Metal, Fritz The Cat, the 'big three' XXX cult titles (Deep Throat, Devil in Miss Jones, and Debbie Does Dallas), Pink Floyd:The Wall, etc etc...I remember showing 'Song Remains The Same'back in 1983 at the Phoenix (where the CP50's LCR output was fed into the VERY POWERFUL (read LOUD) rock-n-roll concert sound system that was in there at the time) and playing that to a sold-out crowd at midnight (950 seats with full balcony) and having the owner come in and ask for it to be turned up LOUDER... this CP had a fader that went to '20' and it was already running about '15' so what the hell.... I cranked that sucker to 20! it was so loud that the left channel amp would thermal cutout, and after the show a couple people came and praised the sound system, caliming they have seen Led Zeppelin live and that the movie here was LOUDER than Zeppelin LIVE!! I guess that was cool back in the 80s  I do miss that system, it was a lot of fun for tapes (CDs were out widely yet) as well... Oh well enough already Aaron
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Mark Ogden
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 943
From: Little Falls, N.J.
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-13-2000 11:17 AM
You had to be here in the NYC area in the seventies to see ALL the cult hits, a lot of them didn't play other spots in the country. How many remember/ran "El Topo", "Flaming Creatures", the notorious "Pink Flamingos" (absolutly the single worst date movie of all time, trust me), "Basket Case", "Liquid Sky", "Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii", "A Boy and His Dog", "Cafe Flesh" and the eystrain inducing "Eraserhead" (where it is rumoured that Ben Barenholtz asked the projectionist over at the Waverly to turn the bulb current DOWN). Them was the days.
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Jim Bedford
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 597
From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 02-13-2000 12:33 PM
Has anyone looked critically at "Harold and Maude" lately? DATED!! Reminds me of when I saw "Steelyard Blues" recently. Donald Sutherland, Peter Boyle, Jane Fonda, John Savage. Boy, for a film I loved when it came out, it is certainly from another place and time.Last fall, the New Yorker opined about "Blair Witch:" "If it doesn't play at midnight on every campus in the US, then midnights aren't like they used to be." Well? Is "Blair Witch" playing anywhere? I guess everyone is just waiting for "Blair Witche Deux." "Disposible product" is the term for it.
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John Wilson
Film God
Posts: 5438
From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 02-13-2000 05:33 PM
I ran Harold and Maude just the other day as a double with Manhattan. A very good crowd came along for that double. Harold was made in the early seventies and, yeah, it looks and sounds like it...but dated? Well, I kinda like the idea of going back to that time when a film could be made and released and 'find' an audience. In a few years, all that was to change with 'Star Wars'. From then on, if it didn't cost at least 20 million to make and then go on to make 2 billion dollars in its opening weekend, it was a flop and unworthy of even being made. 'Koyaanisqatsi' was probably the biggest late show we had. We used to have a 6 monthly calendar and every Friday night for years was 'Koyaanisqatsi'. Then out came the sequel, 'Powaqqatsi' and THAT grabbed the Saturday spot. To this day I can still smell the odd odour in the auditorium. And on that topic we ran a double once of 'Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii' and 'A Film About Jimi Hendrix'. I started up the show and checked everything. A few minutes later I walked inthe auditorium to check the sound and was stopped dead in my tracks by marijuana smoke so thick you could cut it with a knife. Honestly, SOooo thick. Of course, the sound needed an AWFUL lot of checking that night.
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