Bill Thompson: Indie Film Stalworth and Dear Friend
Bill Thompson, who passed away earlier this week, was a true mensch. I first met Bill in 1977, when we both worked at Cinema 5, and we remained friends over all these years. Through his long career,...
View ArticlePremature Obituaries Part 1: Is The Movie Theater Business Dead?
With each passing week of meager reported box office, conventional wisdom in the press is that the tea leaves are pointing to the eventual death of theatrical moviegoing. While the numbers speak for...
View ArticlePremature Obituaries Part 2: The Case For Twitter
As the new year begins, I’m going to pick up where I left off last month, discussing another media platform that is being prematurely written off by the pundits—Twitter. For years, when I’ve discussed...
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The Upper West Side Needs More Art Film Screens
When the Lincoln Plaza Theater closed in January of 2018, it was like a body blow to the Upper West Side, an area that historically housed a huge community of arts lovers who were educated,...
View ArticleMovie Theater Update, Missing Movies and More…
I have a number of things on my mind right now, the first of which is to give you all a quick and overdue update on the Upper West Side Movie Project I wrote about last month, which brought a...
View ArticleThe VCR Will Be The Death of Commercials!
I was rummaging around in some old VHS tapes yesterday and came across a tape of a news item from 1984 about this new problem that had arisen–television viewers could now fast-forward through...
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“All I Wanna Do”– Time for a Re-Release?
A few weeks ago, I was pleased to hear that Sarah Kernochan’s “All I Wanna Do” (as it is currently known in the U.S.) was going to be screened at New York’s Metrograph Theater. I reached out to them...
View ArticleExciting News about “Hester Street”
After many years of development, a pandemic delay and a lot of sweat, I’m pleased that the theatrical production of “Hester Street,” based on the film by Joan Micklin Silver, is finally happening. Joan...
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New Years Resolution: Go to the Movies (Especially THESE Movies)
Happy New Year everyone. As you think about your resolutions, I would like to suggest one to add to your list…It’s time to head back to the movies. In conversations with friends over the holidays, I’ve...
View ArticleRehearsals Begin For Hester Street
Last week, we began rehearsals for our much-anticipated world premiere, Hester Street, the adaptation of the beloved 1975 film Hester Street by Joan Micklin Silver. The company and friends of Theater J...
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