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    Guy Maddin:
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    Night Mayor (2009)
    The Saddest Music in the World (2003)


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    Cowards Bend the Knee (2002)
    Keyhole (2011)
    Send Me to the 'lectric Chair (2009)


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    Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)

    I need to revisit Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary, which bored me when I saw it in 2003 (but then, so did Ordet). For some reason, I've never been able to get into his earlier, slower films, although I suspect that's my fault more than the films.
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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Okay, so no Regal or Cinemark in my future, lol.
    It sucks because I am doing the Cinemark member thing which drastically cuts the ticket prices and it's my main theater. There are too many fucking previews as it is.
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    Is it a Canada / US thing?

    Every movie I’ve ever been to in my entire life, the listed start time is actually when the commercials and previews play.

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Ummm...I’ve never seen a movie in a theatre that didn’t play that way.
    Yeah wtf are they changing? This sounds like every theater trip since 1997. Isnt it public knowledge that the movie starts 10-30 minutes after the showtime (based on summer blockbusteryness)?

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    I ADORED the long string of trailers back in the day. Then we got internet and trailers dropped every day. Now I hate it in theater. Gimme 3, and let's move on, because god knows you got to show me 10 minutes of Coke trailers and "Arent theaters great? You should go to theaters." Ads. Hey fucko, I'm ALREADY FUCKING HERE.

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    Start time is when the previews start. Maybe a coke commercial directed by some high school kid, but that's it.

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    Quote Quoting Skitch (view post)
    I ADORED the long string of trailers back in the day. Then we got internet and trailers dropped every day. Now I hate it in theater. Gimme 3, and let's move on, because god knows you got to show me 10 minutes of Coke trailers and "Arent theaters great? You should go to theaters." Ads. Hey fucko, I'm ALREADY FUCKING HERE.
    Remember when people went and bought tickets for other movies just so they could watch the Star Wars Episode One trailer?
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    Uwe Boll movies > all Marvel U movies
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    Quote Quoting Dukefrukem (view post)
    Remember when people went and bought tickets for other movies just so they could watch the Star Wars Episode One trailer?
    An old co-worker of mine used to manage a big theatre, and his first day at that job was opening day of Episode 1.

    He said in all of his retail experience, all of the Black Fridays and Boxing Days and Christmas Eves he has worked, nothing even came close to the madness he experienced that day.
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    Quote Quoting Ezee E (view post)
    Start time is when the previews start. Maybe a coke commercial directed by some high school kid, but that's it.
    Right. There are ads that run with the lights on in the time just before the start time. Start time is when the lights go down and previews begin. There's usually an ad for the theater chain combined with coca cola at the end of the previews. In total it's 15-20 minutes.

    This is saying that now at the start time with the lights on, the ads will begin. Then there will be ads un between the previews. Then at the end of the previews, another long ad. Sounds like it will be 20-30 minutes worth. Sucks big hairy balls.
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    Ah, okay. I misunderstood then.

    Yes, that is awful.

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    Oh were definitely closer 30 minutes around here. If you're saying that's now gonna be the start time for the preshow lights up ads, were going to 45.

    At least for summer fare. For lesser pop films and indy stuff it's always shorter because they want your ass out of there.

    You know, for an industry so hell bent on keeping things to a certain runtime so they can cram in as many showings per day, they sure must make some bank on ads. But half of them are for the theater you're already sitting in so I dont know who the hell this benefits.

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    Ads and trailers are why I go during off-peak hours and arrive 20-25 minutes "late." I did this for "The Avengers," "Force Awakens," and "Blade Runner 2049" and it worked out beautifully. Saw those movies with a minimum of fuss and bullshit.

    I used to enjoy movie trailers until they started showing 10 or 15 of them, back to back, and half of those repeats of what's already online.

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    I love the Korean theater experience because 99% of the time, everyone is quiet and it has assigned seating and comfortable theaters everywhere. (and the start time listed on the ticket used to always be the start of the actual movie, but I've noticed that creeping out, so that now a film listed to start at 9:30 will have the ads start at around 9:20 and the movie start playing at 9:35-40).

    Except..... how they treat trailers sucks majorly. In the 15 minutes before the movie itself starts, the lights never go down, and about 3 or 4 short shitty versions of trailers (around 30 sec to maybe a minute each if you are lucky) are randomly inserted in between the millions of car and make up ads endorsed by some random KPop or drama star I don't care about.
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    Recent conversation between Tarantino and Scorsese, 2 of the biggest film nerds around:

    https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-A...Tarantino.aspx

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    Quote Quoting megladon8 (view post)
    Sorry where’s The Shadow?

    Deep Rising?
    The Shadow is ok at best. Deep Rising is...not good imo.
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    It's almost impossible to be late for a movie in America these days. Marcus Theatres must get paid a lot by Chevy because those lame Chevy ads appear before the previews even start.
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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    Recent conversation between Tarantino and Scorsese, 2 of the biggest film nerds around:

    https://www.dga.org/Craft/DGAQ/All-A...Tarantino.aspx
    Wow, thank you for this. So incredibly awesome, I wonder how it had never happened before.

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    In the annual special event On Cinema, New York Film Festival Director Kent Jones sits down with world-renowned filmmakers for in-depth talks about films from other directors that have influenced them, their discussion illustrated with film clips. In the first of two On Cinema events that the festival is pleased to present this year, Jones talked with Martin Scorsese, known as much for his work as a film historian as for his unparalleled, decades-spanning cinematic career.

    Check out a list below of the films discussed:

    0:00 - Bait (Hugo Haas)
    7:19 - Strange Fascination (Hugo Haas)
    16:43 - Hereditary (Ari Aster)
    25:14 - Archipelago (Joanna Hogg)
    I heard Aster was in the audience for this and didn't realize Scorsese was gonna talk about "Hereditary." Can you imagine?

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    Quote Quoting Irish (view post)
    I heard Aster was in the audience for this and didn't realize Scorsese was gonna talk about "Hereditary." Can you imagine?
    My head would fucking explode. I'd probably cry.

    Didn't Aster have a friend who posted here? Can't remember who it was, but maybe he can ask him.

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    That was cool listening to the Hereditary part.
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    Quote Quoting Grouchy (view post)
    My head would fucking explode. I'd probably cry.

    Didn't Aster have a friend who posted here? Can't remember who it was, but maybe he can ask him.
    Pretty sure it’s Pop Trash.

    Edit: Yup - http://matchcut.artboiled.com/showth...l=1#post591352

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    Martin Scorsese, when asked about the MCU in the latest issue of Empire magazine:

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    I don’t see them. I tried, you know? But that’s not cinema. Honestly, the closest I can think of them, as well made as they are, with actors doing the best they can under the circumstances, is theme parks. It isn’t the cinema of human beings trying to convey emotional, psychological experiences to another human being.
    Cue 10,000 nerds on social media closely parsing what Scorsese meant by "cinema," exactly.

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    Martin Scorsese, when asked about the MCU in the latest issue of Empire magazine:

    Cue 10,000 nerds on social media closely parsing what Scorsese meant by "cinema," exactly.
    DC comic book movies, obviously.
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    Quote Quoting James Gunn
    Martin Scorsese is one of my 5 favorite living filmmakers. I was outraged when people picketed The Last Temptation of Christ without having seen the film. I’m saddened that he’s now judging my films in the same way.
    https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status...58383070105606

    oh this just keeps getting better and better lol

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    RANK THE MCU BY CINEMA-NESS, MATCH-CUT.

    NOW.
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