Dr Strangelove to screen on Monday 10/22

"Dr Strangelove" will be playing on Monday night, October 22nd
at 7 p.m. @IFS/Muenzinger Auditorium

The Doctor came to the silver screen for the first time in 1964 when i was just 11. Living in a very small town with a mother who only let us go to Disney movies (and, okay, forced us to accompany her to Charleton Heston movies like "Ben Hur," "El Cid," and "The Ten Commandments"--so my repulsion for Mr. Big Guns began very early). Even if "Doctor Strangelove" did play The Barstow Theater, I certainly wouldn't have been in the audience...nor would i have gotten much of what was going on. I don't think many of the residents of any age would have--except, that is, the parts where Slim Pickens as the man with the biggest gun in the universe is on screen!

While we don't have Ninja's at the IFS, there is always one staff member in the audience to help protect you from rude customers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/09/ninjas-keep-patrons-in-line-at-london-cinema.html

Manohla Dargis and A.O. Scott talk about how digital technologies are changing the movies (New York Times):

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/09/movies/how-digital-is-changing-the-nature-of-movies.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all

"...a photochemical image contains the mass of the subject and dimension; a digital image often feels as if it is mass-less. " (Keanu Reeves)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/10/steven-spielberg-martin-scorsese-celluloid?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9037&#start-of-comments

Many theaters are facing "a last picture show."

"... major Hollywood studios are planning to complete the switch to digital by ceasing to release 35-millimeter film altogether; 20th Century Fox promises to phase out film by the end of next year, and the others are expected to follow. Which means that the analog projectors that have whirred along for decades will be suddenly rendered incapable of playing modern movies."

To read more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/25/movies/resort-towns-face-a-last-picture-show.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&hpw

July 20, 2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/opinion/weve-seen-this-movie-before.html?_r=1

A detailed post from another arthouse exhibitor regarding their path to digital conversion.

http://www.renewtheaters.org/blog/2012/county-theaters-journey-digital-cinema/#more-6336