The Eclectic Screening Room #21

Fall 2008
20 pages half-legal


A Tribute to Late Night Television

UFOs Are Real …. and other things I learned from the late late show.

Night Walk – Night Ride – Night Moves: how a steadicam on late night city streets became comfort food for insomniacs.

The night that City TV began playing in my town.

The dead-on satire of the late night movie in the sketch film, Amazon Women on the Moon.

Laraine Newman hosts Canned Film Festival, a short-lived Fox series that showed the best of the worst.

It’s a mad pad, dad, at Off Beat Cinema, in which beatniks host movies out of Buffalo, New York. (BONUS: David Faris reviews the DVD, The Best of Off Beat Cinema.)

Simon St. Laurent remembers Chuck The Security Guard, host of Toronto’s The All-Night Show.

70s made-for-TV movies were great fun on the late late movie: thrills and chills in 74 minutes!

CBCs late night filler, Lions for Breakfast.

Tail Slate: fragments of movies remembered while falling to sleep in front of the tube.


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