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Sounds like Movie Heaven

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Posted by Harmonia on September 24, 2002 at 10:10:36

In Reply to: My 35mm home theater posted by Dave on September 24, 2002 at 07:52:31:

Cool!

In the 70's, I was a student at the Art Institue of Chicago. Not only did I take Stan Brakhage's film history course for 3 years, I also hung out with the 'toot film buffs in the Film Society. We had access to everything in the Art Institute's library. One or more evenings a week consisted of us watching movies til the wee hours in a spare room of the school, which at that time, while the new school was under construction, was almost entirely underground. (See the film "Mahogany", which was filmed at the School of the Art Institute - we had yellow arrows painted on the floors to help us navigate the labrynthine subterrenean reaches of the basements.)

During those years in Chicago, "repertory cinema" was still a functional concept. The Playboy Theater, on the near north, ran a double feature at midnight every Friday and Saturday - classic, cult, foreign, independent, avante garde, Hammer horror, sci-fi - you name it. There were a couple other theaters that programmed rep sporadically too. Where else could you see a double bill of Top Hat & The Boy Friend, Blow Up and Performance, Putney Swope & Blow Out, The Fearless Vampire Killers & Bride of Frankenstein, A Hard Days Night and Yellow Submarine????

Ahhh...those were the pre ome video days.

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