Reading Response to the Article.

I started reading the article tonight and I can tell you that when it describes small art houses, I immediately think of Jengo's play house. For those that don't know, Jengo's is the small theater here in Wilmington that is home to Cucalorus and weekly small scale weekend screenings. I work there about 8 hours a week for my internship. Just this past weekend we screened a movie called banished. It's not well known like the feature length narratives that one might catch at Mayfaire. OH no, these films that we screen rarely even have multiple hits on major search engines. I love it. I love that I see some of the same people every weekend. Many of them don't even know whats playing, but they come anyway to support their local cinema art house.

This Saturday night I was working at Jengo's and we were screning a movie called Banished. It was rainy out and I was hoping that nobody would come so I could go home. About 5 people finally did show up. I realized that Thank God people came! Thank god people support their local movie theaters or they would fail and the option wouldn't even be there. So yes I am glad that those 5 brave souls came and watched a 2 hour documentary about race relations. It's tough watching for sure.

Continued 10/21

So I finished the article tonight. I need to reread the article I guess because all I got from the author is that art-houses suck and for preppy yuppies and that microcinemas are cool and trendy and you can play for tickets with muffins and shit.
I think it would be badass if the tickettaker at the screening started to give birth.

I got excited when I read the article because it made it seem like there are little microcinemas and art houses all over the country. So even if the worst scenario in the entire world comes true and I wind up in the midewest in a two stoplight town...... at least I can start my own sweet cinema in my basement.