A Modern Marvel: The One Man Movie Theatre

One Man Movie Theater

This is the precursor to those little coin-op TVs they used to have in airports.

Our modern marvel utilizes the power of the world wide web to bring you a carefully selected collection of streaming videos!

Get you drinks and snacks now, so you don’t interrupt the show later!

Please, no shutting down of the show once it has started.

Enjoy the show!

Cartoon

Whimsy

“Reel Geezers- Forgetting Sarah Marshall”

“Reel Geezers- No Country for Old Men”

Coming Attractions

Short Subjects

“Tan Hong Ming”

“In My Language”

“A Tribute to Cinema”

For the Cinephile

I saw the tribute to Andrei Tarkovsky at the 1983 Telluride Film Festival. I have seen Nostalgia, The Sacrifice, Solaris and Andrei Rublev. They are very demanding films; my favorite is Andrei Rublev. But the clips of his oeuvre shown at this tribute were amazing. After the his film tribute Andrei took the stage for a twenty minute disquisition on Cinema as Art. Dressed in a black leather vest, large black boots, with long black hair and a black moustache he was quite a presence. I felt as if we had been transported to the Russian revolution. We listen to him speak in Russian which was translated to English by Krzysztof Zanussi.

The Telluride Film Festival falls on Labor Day Weekend and in 1983 it closely followed the he shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007. This high altitude festival, adventurous film experience, and sense of immanent apocalypse became magnified when the Richard Witmark tribute ran the next night. I was not there but the work spread immediately through out the fest-goers that Witmark’s reacted strongly to Tarkovsky’s Cinema is Art. I heard that he said bull-shit Cinema is Entertainment.

This most fundamental argument about the nature and value of cinema animated the rest of the festival.

Jim Emerson has a nice essay on the Witmark vs. Tarkovsky exchange and the debate that ensued.

Richard Witmark just passed away; Tarkovsky died in 1986.

Richard Witmark