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iW ROUND UP | Thursday, November 6th
indieWIRE Recent —
indieWIRE's snapshot of news and views from around the web on Thursday.
BritDoc Shift AJ Schnack reports, the three year old British doc festival shifts, will collaborate with Sheffield doc fest. Pamela Cohn weighs in as well. [ATWT]
RIP: Pioneer Theater An East Village venue closes. [REELER]
"Milk" It David Poland suggests connecting Gus Van Sant's "Milk" more overtly to the California battle over gay marriage. [HOT BLOG]
Landslide of hope Michael Moore's letter the day ...
Pioneer Theater Goodbye Party Tonight
SpoutBlog —
... It’s where the Donnie Darko cult was born, via midnight screenings that began four months after Richard Kelly’s film had opened in mainstream theaters and lasted for 28 consecutive months. It’s also where a number of recent indies we’ve supported at Spout had their first and/or only New York engagements, including Dance Party USA, LOL, Jones and Kamp Katrina. And now it’s gone, the victim of a rent increase and general economic fatigue.
The theater had its ...
ENDANGERED CINEMA NOLITA STRUGGLES TO STAY AFLOAT
Filmmaker Magazine —
... much as the ailing video store at the northern end of Little Italy will late tonight. Rarely have the winds of economic and technological change that threaten to sweep what remains of lower Manhattan Film Culture away seemed more insurmountable then one recent afternoon when I received notice from our friends at Cinema Nolita that the rumored closing of the store was in fact inevitable unless some new sources of revenue arose. With Kim's Video's demise , along with the shuttering of Two Boot's Pioneer Theatre and recently its adjacent video store, ...
