Jason Seaver
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Does anyone else get as much of a thrill out of these as I do? Whether you receive them in the mail or just happen to be walking by the theater and see that there's a new one out, they're a promise of two months of film that you might not otherwise get to see on the big screen (or at all).
Take, for example, the November/December Brattle Theater schedule I just picked up. Right away, I can see that my Mondays and Thursdays are going to be spoken for, with screwball comedies on the former and Brigitte Lin/Michelle Yeoh double features on the latter. Thanksgiving weekend promises a single-admission double feature of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Christmas weekend delivers another double feature, It's A Wonderful Life and Wings Of Desire (an inspired pairing, and it fits into the Tuesday Jim Jarmusch/Wim Wenders series). The weekends feature new films by Allison Anders, Marc Forster, and Jan Svankmajer. And it almost kills me that I'll have to leave the French Connection DVDs on the shelf for a while because the Brattle will feature a new 35mm print (if you can see a movie in a crowded, enthusiastic theater before seeing it on DVD... Well, do it, right?).
The anticipation two months ago was even more extreme, since they closed the theater down for a week or so for renovations and I had no idea what was coming until just a few days before they re-opened. At the same time, I was waiting for the Boston Film Festival schedule... It was torture, I tell you!
I've got a friend who's a big football fan, and when the NFL releases their schedule, he spends the next day or so poring over it, figuring out which matchups intrigue him most and which ones he hopes get on TV in our area. It's sort of the same excitement I get looking over the new Brattle calendar and, to a lesser extent, the Coolidge Corner emails. I never got really excited about the programs Portland, Maine's "The Movies At Exchange Street" sent out, since they only tended to feature one movie a week and then, seldom any real variety (as Portland's only boutique house, they would wind up showing Il Postino for three weeks), but then again, I wasn't casting my net quite as wide then.
So, who else eagerly awaits the rep-house calendars? And tell us what they're promising for the next few weeks; even if we're far away, they tend to have great rental suggestions (which is why I don't throw them away).
BTW, for those in the Boston area who have never been to The Brattle, what's wrong with you? Especially with the new facelift! Their site - www.brattlefilm.org - doesn't have the November/December schedule up yet, but should soon. Also check out Coolidge Corner www.coolidge.org .
[Edited last by Jason Seaver on October 22, 2001 at 11:10 AM]
Take, for example, the November/December Brattle Theater schedule I just picked up. Right away, I can see that my Mondays and Thursdays are going to be spoken for, with screwball comedies on the former and Brigitte Lin/Michelle Yeoh double features on the latter. Thanksgiving weekend promises a single-admission double feature of Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Christmas weekend delivers another double feature, It's A Wonderful Life and Wings Of Desire (an inspired pairing, and it fits into the Tuesday Jim Jarmusch/Wim Wenders series). The weekends feature new films by Allison Anders, Marc Forster, and Jan Svankmajer. And it almost kills me that I'll have to leave the French Connection DVDs on the shelf for a while because the Brattle will feature a new 35mm print (if you can see a movie in a crowded, enthusiastic theater before seeing it on DVD... Well, do it, right?).
The anticipation two months ago was even more extreme, since they closed the theater down for a week or so for renovations and I had no idea what was coming until just a few days before they re-opened. At the same time, I was waiting for the Boston Film Festival schedule... It was torture, I tell you!
I've got a friend who's a big football fan, and when the NFL releases their schedule, he spends the next day or so poring over it, figuring out which matchups intrigue him most and which ones he hopes get on TV in our area. It's sort of the same excitement I get looking over the new Brattle calendar and, to a lesser extent, the Coolidge Corner emails. I never got really excited about the programs Portland, Maine's "The Movies At Exchange Street" sent out, since they only tended to feature one movie a week and then, seldom any real variety (as Portland's only boutique house, they would wind up showing Il Postino for three weeks), but then again, I wasn't casting my net quite as wide then.
So, who else eagerly awaits the rep-house calendars? And tell us what they're promising for the next few weeks; even if we're far away, they tend to have great rental suggestions (which is why I don't throw them away).
BTW, for those in the Boston area who have never been to The Brattle, what's wrong with you? Especially with the new facelift! Their site - www.brattlefilm.org - doesn't have the November/December schedule up yet, but should soon. Also check out Coolidge Corner www.coolidge.org .
[Edited last by Jason Seaver on October 22, 2001 at 11:10 AM]
