The Eclectic Screening Room #1

Vol. 1 No. #1
Spring, 2001
40 pgs. Digest-sized


Remembering The Cat’s Pajamas: I deliberately began the print run (page one, issue one) with a piece on the all-night movie program, The Cat’s Pajamas, so important was it to my cinematic upbringing.

Words on the Bottom (foreign films)
The films of Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki.

Midnite Movies
The career of cult icon Arch Hall Jr.

49th Parallel:
The peculiar Canadian road movie, Candy Mountain (1987).

Non-Linear Motion (experimental, avant garde cinema)
Jack Smith’s notorious Flaming Creatures (1963).

The Analog Video Enthusiast (capsule reviews – this section later renamed as Short Takes)
Celine and Judy Go Boating (1974), The Doll Squad (1973), Dream of Light (1992), Eternity and a Day (1998), The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1962), Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1969), Thieves After Dark (1984), Tragic Ceremony (1972), Trekkies (1998)… all of them on good old VHS!

Print Film
Book reviews: Midnight Movies, by J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum; The Phantom Empire, by Geoffrey O’Brien.

The Back Pages
Good old VHS clearance sales.


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