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Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

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Brattle Street woes

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The ballad of the sad arthouse -- i.e., the struggling and (for now) still-hanging-in-there Brattle Street theatre in Cambridge, as reported by the Toronto Star's Peter Howell.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on April 29, 2007 at 12:22 PM

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PaulKolas says ...

Living in Worcester, MA, it's not always convenient to see esoteric or hard to find movies, so the Brattle is a movie lover's haven that needs to survive in an era of multiplex pablum. One of the great pleasures of the Brattle is to be surrounded by astute filmgoers attuned to every nuance of what is flickering off the screen. It's the difference between going to a great restaurant and wolfing down a quarter pounder with cheese. The Brattle is one of the few remaining sanctuaries of civilized moviegoing.

Posted by PaulKolas at April 29, 2007 08:47 PM

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corey3rd says ...

Running a retro house can be such a pain since people will debate whether they'll pay for a ticket or just buy the DVD. Plus a lot of titles are no longer out on 35mm. Although we ran The Dark Crystal on 70mm.

Like the CBGB, this is one of those moments where you wonder why people don't buy their building at some point instead of being at the mercy of a landlord that will screw you over in a heartbeat - legacy be damned.

Posted by corey3rd at April 30, 2007 07:41 AM