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I wanted to make the folks here aware of a grassroots effort related to the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, GA. Below is a flier related to the controversy, followed by links to the Facebook pages of this campaign as well as the Fox Theatre itself. My apologies if this is posted in the wrong sub-forum or violates any board guidelines (feel free to move or remove as needed).

Save Joe The Phantom of The Fox Theatre

Thank you.

Anyone here remember the Janus Film Society, Washington, DC?

Didn't really know where to post this, so here goes:

A Golden Age of Foreign Films, Mostly Unseen

A.O. Scott wrote:My point here is not really to pick on the Academy, nor to mystify readers with effusions over movies you may never have heard of and most likely have not had an opportunity to see. My complaint, really, is about the peculiar and growing irrelevance of world cinema in American movie culture, which the Academy Awards help to perpetuate.

Commercial for art house cinema in Tallinn.

The Kodak bankruptcy plan, does anyone know what's going on? Most articles focus on their shareholders and creditors and USA Today says they will still produce "camera film" for "personalized imaging" but does this extend to motion picture stock? There seems to be nothing in the trades. Did the world just end?

I just took a look at Eastman Kodak on my Bloomberg terminal, and the under their reorg plan they will "...continue producing film for the movie industry."

Actually, there was an article in Salon not too long about the overall death of film culture thanks to TV and video. I do admit that especially with the rise of digital projection and lack of like-minded viewers, I find myself going to the cinema less frequently. I jump at 35mm screenings, but I have a feeling this will be the last year we'll see pretty much any of those :(. Maybe it's just because I live in the suburbs, but as appeal as it sounds, the notion of having an intellectual discussion without someone on the way out of the art house has yet to reach me. And if the French are even slowing down, I fear that's not a good sign.