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Topic: Amid the gloom, some good news
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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 09-14-2001 12:27 PM
With all the warmongering and breast-beating on this forum, I have some news to cheer you up.By a quirk of product flow and bookings the UA East Hampton on Long Island NY has all arthouse pictures this week: Together (opening), Tortilla Soup (opening), L.I.E., Ghost World, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, The Deep End. Ian, Brad: You'd kill to run a theater like that, wouldn't you? All others: Have you worked in a mainstream theater that had a week with mostly arthouse product?
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Pete Naples
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1565
From: Dunfermline, Scotland
Registered: Feb 2001
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posted 09-14-2001 01:42 PM
I spent my last five years before I came out of the box in an art house cinema.I liked it for a lot of reasons. I had the chance to show film properly, with lights, tabs, correct aspect ratio, sound format, running speed and so on. The equipment was old but well loved, we screened a lot of old films, and a lot of new ones. That old cinema (opened January 1914) has an amazing atmosphere and is something of a local landmark. All helped by a great staff, from the GM down. All in all five very good years, and it continues as I now service and repair all the gear in there.
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Charles Everett
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1470
From: New Jersey
Registered: May 2001
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posted 09-15-2001 11:17 AM
Brad: UA East Hampton runs arthouse titles when product flow permits.L.I.E. opened in East Hampton day-and-date with Manhattan. Together expanded to New York suburbs yesterday. The Deep End, Ghost World and Hedwig were all new prints. To make room UA moved The Others to its Southampton theater and dropped Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back.
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Ky Boyd
Hey I'm #23
Posts: 314
From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 09-15-2001 09:41 PM
Actually, Brad, as an arthouse, we usually get very good quality prints with low mileage and in some instances we get brand new prints. Of the prints we are currently playing, Deep End, Ghost World, and The Closet came to us as brand new prints. Songcatcher, An American Rhapsody and All Over the Guy all came from other arthouses having played only a few weeks and arrived in great shape. It's true we do occasionally get a clunker of a print but because we play many films as part of a Bay Area wide arthouse break (San Francisco, San Jose, Berkeley, Palo Alto, Marin, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz) we get good stuff and very low mileage stuff. Even the prints that circuit from other arthouses are usually in good shape, its the stuff that circuits from the megaplexes and the mall theatres where we go yuk!And for all who might think arthouse films = gay, well at the moment that may be true, but most of the time there are very few films with gay content. And the majority of our audience is decidedly hetero.
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