Are you still with us out there? At last. This site has been a long time coming.
The new, improved (we hope) website for The Eclectic Screening Room has been four years in the making. I wasn’t working it on it “regularly” during that time, but suffice it to say that this has been pushed back several times while “life stuff” got in the way.
This website is a continuation of my film zine that published 25 issues and three monographs from 2001 to 2012, offering reviews and articles of films that existed beyond the multiplex. It focused on cult movies, independent-underground-experimental films, plus interesting, overlooked and unusual pieces of cinema culture from yesteryear.
What you will see are pieces from the original print run by talented authors who have generously allowed their work live again online, plus anything of mine that isn’t too embarrassing. (And if any of our contributors are reading this, come back any time!)
I was also endeavouring to add some more new, unpublished content. As of this writing, there are some new pieces, but not as many as I would have liked, as I kept messing around with this project. Finally, I decided “enough is enough”. Make the site live. With this comes that guarantee that we’ve got a ton of more material coming in the pipeline, now that we’ve finally got our groove back.
Articles and reviews will be added regularly, so check back soon! Be sure to sign up for our newsletter (to your right, on big enough screens) to receive updates of new reviews, articles and other things ESR-related. We’re also working in the background, for a long overdue return to our print run. But for now, baby steps, beginning with making our web presence greater than ever.
Welcome to friends new and old, and we hope you enjoy the site. Also, I’d like to thank the following authors for allowing their work to live again on the site: Brian Random, David Faris, Dion Conflict, Gordon Phinn, Jason Pankoke, JC Culp, Simon St. Laurent, skot deeming, Will Sloan.
Greg Woods
Greg Woods has been a film enthusiast since his teens, and began his writing "career" at the same time- prolific in capsule reviews of everything he had watched, first on index cards, then those hardcover dollar store black journals, then an old Mac IIsi. He founded The Eclectic Screening Room in 2001, as a portal to share his film love with the world, and find some like-minded enthusiasts along the way. In addition to having worked in the film industry for over two decades, he has been a co-programmer of films at Trash Palace, and a programmer/co-founder of the Toronto Film Noir Syndicate. He has also written for Broken Pencil, CU-Confidential, Micro-Film, and is currently working on his first novel. His secret desire is for someone to interview him for a podcast or a DVD extra.
Finally! The Gman is back! Looking forward to this.
Hope it was worth the wait, Jeff! And remember, you always have a home here.