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Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 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?
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-14-2001, 12:48 PM:
Actually I'm not much of an arthouse movie fan. Some of them are fantastic, but most of what I've seen are a waste of film. (Then again, most of what Hollywood has released this year is a waste of film too.) Also, I couldn't stand dealing with the used and beat up prints. Few art houses seem to get new prints. That's not for me.
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-14-2001, 12:48 PM:
Brad has told me on several occasions that he'd kill to run nothing but art films.
Posted by Pete Naples (Member # 761) on 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.
Posted by Paul Turner (Member # 832) on 09-14-2001, 09:42 PM:
What I love most about running an art house: Few KIDS! If they dare to show up I tell them we're showing a Hugaian retospective of VD films. Sends them screaming from the lobby . . .
Posted by Wes Hughes (Member # 981) on 09-15-2001, 12:02 AM:
My Chains first 3 theatres were art/indy only. We do have a couple more mainstream theatres now, but I MUCH prefer the art screens anyday!I second the comment about less kids!
Posted by Charles Everett (Member # 889) on 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.
Posted by Ethan Harper (Member # 472) on 09-15-2001, 09:01 PM:
Brad watches nothing but arthouse films. He is just in the closet and doesnt want anybody to know about it.------------------
--"That's my story and i'm sticking to it!"--
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 09-15-2001, 09:21 PM:
Hardy har, E-Than. I'm sure you'll make lots of friends with the assumption that arthouse films are for gays. Just wait until I tell your new wife about your secret sexuality since I think you like more arthouse flicks than I do. 
Posted by Ky Boyd (Member # 23) on 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.
Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 09-15-2001, 11:34 PM:
Ethan, I was puzzled about your comment, but then I noticed you were from Texas and that explained it. 
BTW, I like art films. Last time I checked I was hetero and had been since birth. Care to make something of it? 
(Things that make Texans go "Hmmmmm... Now what did He mean by that?")
Matthew 6:6 "When thou prayest, enter into thy closet."