Category Archives: MovieNight stuff

Happy-Go-Lucky, Smoke-No-More

Mr. Leigh at his funniest. I found myself weeping with laughter for extended periods of time. We kept the subtitles on for this one… the spoken English would have been rather challenging to many, and to be perfectly honest, I picked up a lot of things that I’d missed before. Since the subtitles were actually intended as captions for the hearing impaired, they carried their own bits of hilarity… you didn’t really need to read that Poppy giggled (Giggles)!

Smoking goes out the window

You know that, as a former smoker, I remember the pleasure of sitting at a bar with a cocktail and a “fag”, but really, how many cigarettes does a person need to smoke in 3 hours? Apparently, for some people, about 10. We’ve been trying to get smokers to ease up, but it’s clear that that’s not going to happen on its own. So… smoking will no longer be allowed at MovieNight. There will be an ashtray and an open window in the staircase, but we’re not planning on putting a monitor out there anytime soon.

Punch-drunk Love and Miracle at MovieNight!

As promised, Adam Sandler delivered a knockout punch under the direction of Paul Thomas Anderson! I’m sure there were a lot of folks who simply couldn’t get passed the fact that it was Adam Sandler, and stayed away… oh well.

And speaking of deliveries… in what is the first short produced specifically for the MovieNight audience, Zofi “gave birth” to our new projector. Funny. I’m sure you’ll get a chance to see “Miracle at MovieNight” again, hopefully with a little bit tighter edit (although never slick!). THANKS to everyone who contributed to the New Projector Appeal. It still needs to be tweaked a bit, but what color! Hopefully the new, wider screen will be in play this week. Deluxe.

MovieNight launches New Projector Appeal as “Old Faithful” shines no more!

Well… it had to happen, of course. It’s just that I thought it would be a bit more subtle. A gradual dimming, loosing color and turning grey, getting slow to start up (the projector… not me!).  But no. Old faithful (above left) just plain died. She (he?) had served for almost 4 years with hardly a problem, aside from the inevitable bulb change. A moment of silence, please.

OK. So that’s that. Time to move on and, to be honest, projectors have come so far in the last four years that the new one is going to blow your socks off. That peskilly bright street light outside of Trader Joe’s will bother us no longer! We’ve launched a “New Projector Appeal”, by urging you to buy tickets online for the MovieNight season prize raffle, the draw for which will take place at the season finalé at the end of May. If you buy 3 tickets, there’ll be a special treat waiting for you upon your next MovieNight visit. Details here. The other two projectors shown above are candidates to replace O.F. Depending on how raffle ticket sales go in the next week, it will either be the Panasonic (middle), which is great, or the Epson (right), which is greater.

Bring it on peoples!