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Adam Fraser www.pinestheatre.com

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The Loews Palisades Center drops it tonight after only 1 week. The Princeton Garden Theatre moves it tomorrow to a double-up (4:30 only). OTOH the Clairidge (Montclair), AMC Hamilton and UA Southampton keep it for a 2nd week with a full round of shows.

Mike S: Miramax already has made its money back on Full Frontal thanks to foreign pre-sales. Also, Miramax expands Tadpole to NYC suburbs tomorrow but isn't putting it in any megaplexes.

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Fortunately for us Film-Techers the real-life numbers tell the truth:

Loews Palisades Center -- 1 week and out.

UA Southampton -- 2 weeks and out.

Montclair NJ -- 2 weeks in the Clairidge, then 1 week in the Screening Zone (spillover theater down the street). Ends today.

Princeton Garden -- 1st week full schedule, 2nd and 3rd weeks a late matinee only. Ends today.

AMC Hamilton -- 1st 3 weeks full schedule, 4th week (from tomorrow) last show only in a double-up.

Based on these numbers Steven Soderburgh should have directed Pluto Nash.

why do people storm out of movies like this? perhaps because they have a very narrow conception of what films are and aren't often given the chance to see something that might widen their horizons. i say "given" but in fact they have to pay on the order of $10 and if they aren't grabbed within the first 5 minutes of the film they start thinking of other things they could do with that money and get resentful and closed-minded. i imagine.

look at what the impressionists were doing 100+ years ago in the world of painting. their work was far less "photographic" than much of what was done then (i think partly because of the invention of photography, but that's another barrel of monkeys), and they took a lot of flack at the time but are now revered and set the ball rolling for a lot of other movements that greatly enriched the world of art (and filmmaking is/can be an art). oh, and they fetch millions at auction.

it is, unfortunately, very important for exhibitors to think about a movie's opening weekend grosses (which are affected by many factors extrinsic to the film itself). but i think it is very sad when film people cannot appreciate a work on its own merits, as art (or entertainment if you prefer), without letting the bottom line color their judgment.

sorry if that sounds high-and-mighty.

By the way, I thought Road to Perdition looked fantastic. I don't need colors to be able to appreciate good cinematography. In fact, I'm quite fond of the possibilities with black and white over color.

I will second what Brad wrote. "Beauty lies in the eys of the beholder" and I am very happy you had enjoyed "FULL FRONTAL" and felt it had lot of artistic merits. "ROAD TO PERDITION" was another artistic creation by another filmmaker and like Brad, I happen to have enjoyed that film very much because of the creative use of color in it's cinematography and for other other reasons including the performance by the leads. You seem to disagree and have negative opinion of that film but I feel that you are only contradicting yourself when you said you did not like the "drab" use of color in "THE ROAD TO PERDITION" thus making you feel that the film is a 'loser' and the erratic videography in "FULL FRONTAL" which you enjoyed makes the film a masterpiece. We all have our likes and dislikes when we see films and know what we like and do not like and that is why there is always a difference of opinion and that is very good. To say one film is bad because you did not like drab colors and another film great because of what I consider erratic camera work goes against your comments about the public failing to accept a new art form in cinema when we did did not share your favorable opinion of "FULL FRONTAL". What you are actually expressing is your own personal opinion. By the way, as far as I know, all of the artists during the Impressionism period over a hundred years ago including such reknowned painters such as Manet, Degas,Daumier and Monet were very popular in the art world and the painting methods they had established was appreciated by everyone at that time.

-Claude