Well, we are two days away from the screening of our first film “BOUNCE!”. Are
you excited? I am. I contacted David McLain a couple of weeks ago. At that
point he had not been summoned away to a work assignment and was still planning
to be with us. I think we have been doing a pretty good job in promoting our
series and, specifically, promoting his appearance this coming Sunday. The
CINEMA EXPLORATIONS FB page has posted a short video about his sense of calling
to do the work that he does. I will be contacting him for a final check on his
appearance—his plans and expectations. If you haven’t seen it, I certainly
would recommend it. We have ordered the bagels and will be bringing those up on
Saturday as usual.
Shannon: Typically, we have made arrangements for a meal with our guest either
at Buen Apetito or Grand Central Café, but Grand Central Café is closed on
Sundays and Buen Apetito doesn’t open on Sundays until 4:00 pm. Obviously, an
invitation for lunch (should it be accepted) would need to be for another
establishment. Do you have any suggestions?
Bill: Are you all set for the discussion/program around “PEACE OFFICER” ? Are
there going to be any guest contributors?
Abbott: How are things going in the preparation for a discussion on “THE WORLD
OF APU” ? There was a suggestion that a hand-out providing some background on
the trilogy and helping people to understand what had previously transpired in
Apu’s story might be helpful. Are you planning to do that?
Shannon: We have Kyle Stevens set for “HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT,” but my recall is
that we were still trying to find possible special guests to contribute to our
discussions for “JAFAR PANAHI’S TAXI” and “DUKHTAR (DAUGHTER)”.
We have discussed having a couple of additional screenings after our
Saturday/Sunday morning film series in the spring. Shannon provided dates of
film events already on the schedule and those are below. I would suggest that
we could have a one-night screening of a film during the second week of April
(Tuesday, April 12th; Wednesday, April 13th; or Thursday, April 14th) and have
another one-night screening the first week of May (Tuesday, May 3rd; Wednesday,
May 4th; or Thursday, May 5th). I don’t know if it matters to the theater which
weekday evening we would take. Since we were not able to integrate any current
Foreign-language Oscar submissions into our schedule, this would be a good
opportunity to rectify that. Here is a link to a listing of all the submissions
with many having trailers and information about US distribution (however, this
information is not completely accurate. For example, Romania’s “AFERIM” is
distributed by Big World Pictures and Spain’s “LOREAK (FLOWERS)” is distributed
by Music Box Films. This can be quite fluid):
http://awardswatch.com/news/official-submissions-list-for-2016-foreign-language-film-oscar-updating/
Here is an article predicting who will receive nominations from those films
that were selected for the Foreign-language Oscar shortlist. The predictions
don’t matter as they are likely to not be fully accurate. However, it is likely
that Ken would be interested in showing the nominees whichever ones get
nominated and those on the shortlist are still in play for getting a
nomination. We will know the nominees in a couple of weeks. Since “THEEB”
already showed during MIFF, we probably should pass on that.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/2016-oscar-predictions-best-foreign-language-film-20150921
This would also be a good opportunity to show “THE GOLDEN DREAM” which we liked
a lot when we screened it during the fall.
Does anyone have any suggestions—either from the list of Foreign-language Oscar
submissions or something else—for showing during the spring.
From: cinemaexp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:cinemaexp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On ;
Behalf Of Shannon Haines
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2015 2:20 PM
To: cinemaexp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [cinemaexp] Promo Materials at the cinema; dates for spring evenings
Greetings, all! The CinEx posters, programs and all access passes are available
at Railroad Square Cinema for pick up and distribution. We will be mailing a
copy of the program to each of our members this week as well.
Stay tuned for the press release!
In terms of evening events in the spring, we currently have special events on
the following dates, so these would be out. We are also planning to add at
least 2 or 3 other events in April for Earth Day, Sexual Assault Prevention
Awareness Month, and a special screening with Colby’s Oak Institute, so it will
get even a bit more crowded. May is pretty wide open, though...
· Sat Mar 12 - Tue March 15 – Maine Jewish Film Festival Satellite
screenings - Railroad Square Cinema
· Tue Mar 22, 2016, 7:00pm – 9:30pm National Evening of Science on
Screen: COMPUTER CHESS - Railroad Square Cinema
· Mon Apr 18, 2016, 7:00pm – 9:00pm Vincent and Theo (Monday Night
Movies) - Waterville Opera House
· Tue Apr 26, 2016, 7:00pm – 9:30pm, Science on Screen: SOLARIS -
Railroad Square Cinema
· Thu Apr 28, 2016, 7:00 – 9:00pm, Maine Short Film Festival 2016 -
Railroad Square Cinema
Shannon
