YES! YES! YES!

 Keep film culture alive! 

Join the Film Forum (NYC) or Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, NY, where 
its founder Vic Skolnick, who died about a year ago, now watches films in 
Cinema Paradiso!

Join and support your non-profit cinema society so that it stays alive!


Lisa Flanzraich
Media and Reference Librarian
Benjamin S. Rosenthal Library
Queens College
Room 344
718-997-3673 



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I'm with you, Jessica. The thought of trying to watch a movie or reading a 
book on my cell phone (I have an EVO) is unthinkable. I'd be blind! There 
is so much more to the movie experience than just being able to see the 
image, especially an undersized one.
 
Christine Crowley
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Adjunct Faculty--Theatre
Northwest Vista College
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San Antonio, TX 78251
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Sent: Sun 4/10/2011 5:40 PM
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 I could not agree with this article more, but I think a bit too much 
emphasis is placed in the article on the first run movie experience.. Most 
of us will be the last generation to remember  the joy of seeing old 
movies & art  movies at a rep theater, library, college or film society. I 
am very old school. I rarely watch a film on DVD and I spent my off time 
going to weird little gatherings of old and mostly obscure films shown 
mostly in hotel banquet  rooms. I argue often with friends who brag about 
watching some film they found on an illegal ( or heck legal) download. I 
get physically ill watching commercials advertising the latest cell phones 
showing movies on 1 inch screen. I am not a purist on format though I 
still love 16mm & 35mm  prints. I am less worried about losing the social 
elements of film going like waiting in line or making a night of it, than 
I am the experience of seeing a film with a group of other people, most of 
whom you don't know. I can remember going to see  THE THIRD MAN, I KNOW 
WHERE I  AM GOING, IT'S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER and others here in New York. I 
had actually seen all of them several times before, but it was and is 
special to see them with others, especially people who have NOT seen them. 
There is genuine electricity in the room. 

We have gotten "access" to probably tens of thousands of films via legal 
or illegal means while losing the entire experience of film going. Getting 
a DVD to watch on your lap top or even your home theater system of a 
previously rare or hard to see film is not remotely the same as seeing it 
in a theater and it is in fact NOT better than not seeing it all in my 
view.  It is very, very sad.


On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Dennis Doros <milefi...@gmail.com> wrote:


                 This is definitely how I feel when we talk about the 
digital future. That in return for easy access, we've given up the wonder 
of (and complete attention to) the experience. I just asked my son about 
seeing silent comedies at the Castro last year. He does realize how 
special that was.
 
                 Dennis Doros
                 Milestone Film & Video
                 milefi...@gmail.com
                 201-767-3117
 
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                 On Apr 10, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Deg Farrelly 
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                 >> From Sunday's NY Times:
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