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Topic: Tryon, North Carolina says it for the rest of us...
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Bruce McGee
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From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular.
Registered: Aug 1999
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posted 10-26-2000 11:48 AM
Here's an item that ran in the Thursday Asheville Citizen newspaper:TRYON THEATER CLOSES UNTIL MOVIES IMPROVE (AP) Tryon-- The owner of a movie theater, disapointed with the quality of films, has closed the theater until better movies are available. Owner Barry Flood closed the Tryon Theatre after showing the Sunday matinee of "Space Cowboys" on Oct. 8. He said he hoped to reopen in late November, when he can show some of the better movies that are popular now. Until then, the marquee reads "Closed Until Better Movies Are Available." The theater will open twice monthly for film society showings. "My customers deserve better than what Hollywood is currently producing, and I will not subject them to the trash that is currently on the screens," Flood said. Every movie released in September was rate R or PG-13 except for the PG-rated "Remember the Titans," Flood said. Gary Vanderhorst, owner and operator of Complete Booking Services in Charlotte, (NC) said September and October are traditionally slow months for movie theaters. "Hollywood uses September and October as a dumping ground," said Vanderhorst, whose company gets films from movie companies to theater owners. Some decent movies are out, Flood said, but he only shows movies for five nights and he cannot get the top hits until about six to eight weeks after their relese. Flood said Hollywood targets movies to the under-30 crowd, while his clientele is mostly over 30. ------------------- I hate that this has to be done. Tryon is 45 miles away, down the mountain from here. When I go, I will get a picture of the theater.
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Wayne Cope
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From: Micanopy, FL, USA
Registered: Apr 2000
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posted 10-28-2000 07:50 AM
I agree there are other options. There are great films on the art house circuit that are overlooked by everyone else. But there, too, it's a matter of digging for the good stuff. There are a lot of films on that circuit, about which the most flattering thing one can say is, "It must be art".  As for the good stuff, even the Academy agrees on rare occasion, as when they voted Il Postino (The Postman) Best Film - NOT Best Foreign Film. I think the better work floating in the art house circuit is just what a more mature audience, as well as some of the younger audience, would enjoy.
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seems like a feast or famine time these next few months. 
Glenda Cockrum
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