Topic: HOW TO SELL A MOVIE (Read 640 times)

Jrand75 · « **Reply #30 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:08:57 AM »

No DR RODZINSKI - just what's there.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #31 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:09:07 AM »

Page Two.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #32 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:13:12 AM »

TOD

TV -- Well, let's see. Last night on TCM (it was Angela Lansbury night) I got through both Gaslight and The Picture of Dorian Gray before conking out. And the first couple of scenes of The Manchurian Candidate. (I fought bravely, but Mr. Sandman won out.)

Blu-ray -- A few nights ago in my Twilight Time travels, I watched The Sound and the Fury (1959). (Did I already post this? I hope not.) I thought I hadn't watched this one, but I recognized one thread running through it, so I guess I'd simply forgotten much of it. But what a movie, and what a story. And the cast -- I'd never appreciated the young Joanne Woodward like I did in this. Confession: To the best of my recollection, I've never read any Faulkner. This makes me want to begin.

CD -- I've been listening to some of the Kritzerland / Ben Bagley albums in the car, and have been hugely enjoying a few that I hadn't previously heard. This week's pleasure was George Gershwin Revisited, but it contained a real surprise for me, which brings us to: Confession #2. I somehow never knew about the 1928 Paul Whiteman version of the Concerto in F, so when it started playing, I was stunned ... at the arrangement, the orchestration, the playing style, the recorded sound ... all of it. This will require further study on the Big Speakers.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #33 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:16:10 AM »

I know I've watched Macabre. But I literally never remember it. The couple or few times I've watched, I always hoped it was something really great that I'd forgotten. It's too bad it's his worst, with such a perfect title.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #34 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:24:16 AM »

The first time I saw Gaslight - I believe it was my first year living in L.A. (1972) - it was run as a double feature with North by Northwest at either the Fine Arts or Music Hall. I'm thinking the latter, but I'll have to look it up. I just always remember it being on Wilshire. Anyway, I thrilled to it, and I thought that seeing NxNW after it made it one of the best revival double features ever. You got a magnificent 1940s b&w thriller followed by the most magnificent 1959 color thriller, and life didn't get much better than that.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #35 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:28:44 AM »

What's funny is that a few weeks (or a couple of months?) later, this little storefront place a block west of the Chinese showed the same double feature ... in 16mm! I was still learning the theeders around town, and went to that address not knowing what I'd find. I believe we sat on chairs set up in the room (not an auditorium, a "room"), and the projector was just behind a partition of sorts. Crazy. But you know what? I enjoyed the two films together all over again. I'd told a friend about that pairing. He went to it there and agreed it was a winner.

EDIT: According to Cinema Treasures where I'd researched this once, it was called the Bijou from August 1971 to August 1973, showing mainstream films. For years before and after that period, it showed all-male adult movies under various names.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #36 on:** October 17, 2025, 07:40:55 AM »

Quote from: Rodzinski on October 17, 2025, 05:29:23 AM

Wonder what it was like to see Windjammer in the Cinemiracle process.

Wish I'd been around to see it there!

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** October 17, 2025, 08:28:35 AM »

Quote from: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:02:38 AM

It is 65 degrees here headed for 75 degrees.

A few clouds but mostly clear.

That's something that depresses me around this time of year - the difference between the glorious Midwest and the damned Northeast. My family in Ohio and DRs Ginny and Jrand75 enjoy an extended warm season. We're barely scraping 60 degrees these past few days, and DR Jrand75 is looking at 75. You have some cool weather, but then it bounces back.

Along with that, y'all get extended evening hours! The difference between the eastern and western edges of a given time zone makes the Ohio-Indiana daylight hours an hour or so longer than ours in the evening.

DR Jrand75, Indiana is split between eastern and central, is it not? And you're just inside the eastern portion?

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** October 17, 2025, 08:29:56 AM »

I sure have taken up a lot of space here this morning. It's time to get offen ~~the bush~~ my ASS and do something.

Freddie · « **Reply #39 on:** October 17, 2025, 08:44:00 AM »

Keep going, Chas. That nice round 39,000 Millstone could be here by the weekend if not sooner.

Laura · « **Reply #40 on:** October 17, 2025, 08:53:46 AM »

Good morning.

Laura · « **Reply #41 on:** October 17, 2025, 08:54:34 AM »

Went to another plant sale. I only had cash to buy two plants, which is almost a shame, because these are two non-commercially available native plants. I would have loved to have bought more.

Jrand75 · « **Reply #42 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:17:11 AM »

Yes DR CHAS SMITH I am in the Eastern Time Zone.

Central Time is observed in the northwest and southwest counties of the state.

Every year during the legislative term, someone starts arguing that the state should be in ONE zone and the idiots spend a couple of days talking about it but NEVER reach a conclusion.

https://www.ncsl.org/state-legislatures-news/details/navigating-two-time-zones-is-a-way-of-life-in-the-hoosier-state

Jane · « **Reply #43 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:21:22 AM »

From DR George:

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‘Jekyll and Hyde The Musical’: Evergreen Playhouse ready for first fall performance

Thank you for the link

Jane · « **Reply #44 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:22:22 AM »

Nice photo of the old man aka Henry Jekyll's father.

Jane · « **Reply #45 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:23:15 AM »

I especially like the photo of the "patron of the arts"

Jane · « **Reply #46 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:28:09 AM »

George, thanks for the congrats to Keith.

Jane · « **Reply #47 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:32:14 AM »

Bruce, I hope your day is better, and that you didn't need to call your neurologist.

Jane · « **Reply #48 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:32:34 AM »

Quote from: George on October 17, 2025, 01:54:15 AM

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Jane · « **Reply #49 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:32:50 AM »

Quote from: George on October 17, 2025, 01:56:35 AM

And tonight is opening night for Evergreen Playhouse's production of Frank Wildhorn and Leslie Bricusse's Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical!

Have a great evening.

Jane · « **Reply #50 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:42:09 AM »

Quote from: ChasSmith on October 17, 2025, 08:28:35 AM

Quote from: Jrand75 on October 17, 2025, 07:02:38 AM
It is 65 degrees here headed for 75 degrees.

A few clouds but mostly clear.

That's something that depresses me around this time of year - the difference between the glorious Midwest and the damned Northeast. My family in Ohio and DRs Ginny and Jrand75 enjoy an extended warm season. We're barely scraping 60 degrees these past few days, and DR Jrand75 is looking at 75. You have some cool weather, but then it bounces back.

Along with that, y'all get extended evening hours! The difference between the eastern and western edges of a given time zone makes the Ohio-Indiana daylight hours an hour or so longer than ours in the evening.

DR Jrand75, Indiana is split between eastern and central, is it not? And you're just inside the eastern portion?

I did like that it stayed lighter later when we lived in Michigan. Other than that I don't recall preferring the weather to the East Coast-lol

Jane · « **Reply #51 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:43:16 AM »

Quote from: Laura on October 17, 2025, 08:54:34 AM

Went to another plant sale. I only had cash to buy two plants, which is almost a shame, because these are two non-commercially available native plants. I would have loved to have bought more.

Too bad you could only get two of these.

Jane · « **Reply #52 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:43:48 AM »

It was a shock for us to leave at 7:00am IN THE DARK!

Jane · « **Reply #53 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:44:18 AM »

We went to my new rheumatologist who created an early appointment time in order to see me quickly.

Jane · « **Reply #54 on:** October 17, 2025, 09:44:34 AM »

I could cry with relief she is so wonderful.

MichaelG · « **Reply #55 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:12:35 AM »

Break a leg, DR George!

MichaelG · « **Reply #56 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:14:48 AM »

Last night in film class we watched I'll See You in My Dreams, a 2015 film starring Blythe Danner. It was an example of the "timeless" theme for great movies - dealing with timeless themes in a real way. It sure delivered - highly recommended.

MichaelG · « **Reply #57 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:16:18 AM »

Originally he was going to screen Before Sunrise, but someone reminded him of this movie and he correctly surmised that lots of us had already seen Before Sunrise, but few if any of us would have seen I'll See You in My Dreams. I'm very happy he made that switch.

MichaelG · « **Reply #58 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:25:01 AM »

As an example of how it's not enough to have timeless themes, you have to make them real, he showed three examples of the scene where Romeo and Juliet meet: Petrie's 2017 version, Cukor's 1936 version, and Zeffirelli's 1968 version. Only one of those three scenes really work.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #59 on:** October 17, 2025, 10:32:51 AM »

Oy! Dare I confess to not having seen any of those? The Before... movies or I'll See You In My Dreams?

(Confession #3. That's about enough confessin' for one day.)

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