Sweet Trash
(1970, Dir: John Haynes)
“Some people are born to be Sweet Trash”
Michael (Duncan McLeod, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) is a down on his luck drunken longshoreman whose life takes a weird and potentially deadly twist when he clashes with Dan (William Connors in his only role), a loan shark with a thirst for blood as big as his hunger for money. After losing big at one of Dan’s back room card games, Michael gets an opportunity to settle his $6,000 debt by joining Dan’s operation, but ultimately turns it down. This leads him to have his hand roughed up by a couple of heavies. After taking some drastic measures, Michael is forced to flea for his life. Does he go to Mexico or Columbia? No, he fleas to Coney Island of all places where he meets a seductive blonde carnival girl and then gets seduced...
(1970, Dir: John Haynes)
“Some people are born to be Sweet Trash”
Michael (Duncan McLeod, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) is a down on his luck drunken longshoreman whose life takes a weird and potentially deadly twist when he clashes with Dan (William Connors in his only role), a loan shark with a thirst for blood as big as his hunger for money. After losing big at one of Dan’s back room card games, Michael gets an opportunity to settle his $6,000 debt by joining Dan’s operation, but ultimately turns it down. This leads him to have his hand roughed up by a couple of heavies. After taking some drastic measures, Michael is forced to flea for his life. Does he go to Mexico or Columbia? No, he fleas to Coney Island of all places where he meets a seductive blonde carnival girl and then gets seduced...
- 9/13/2015
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Perhaps you remember my Movie Theater Etiquette Manifesto and Petition which I published earlier this summer. Perhaps you remember its second bullet point, which followed a call for patrons to shut their mouths when the movie's playing. It was "Turn Off Your Cell Phone When the Movie Starts." That means no answering calls on your phone, no texting on your phone, no checking the time on your phone, no nothing. If you have a job that requires your phone stay on during a movie, you should sit in the last row of the theater so you don't disturb anyone when you use it. And if you're waiting on an emergency call at the movie theater, maybe you should have picked another time to catch "Happy Feet Two."
In the months since this I wrote my Manifesto, I've spoken to many people who agree with me about this rule and witnessed...
In the months since this I wrote my Manifesto, I've spoken to many people who agree with me about this rule and witnessed...
- 12/6/2011
- by Matt Singer
- ifc.com
Texting on your mobile phone is usually met with hatred from other movie goers and in most cases being thrown out of the theater. We have shared some funny PSA videos that show what happens to people at the Alamo Drafthouse.
According to an article in the New York Times, the Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Washington (which opens in 2014) is taking a completely different approach. They have decided to do away with all cellphone restrictions in an effort to attract younger patrons, who they see as the future of their theater.
Here is what John Haynes, the theater executivve director had to say: “This is the wave of the future for the people we worry about attracting. Simply forbidding it and embarrassing people is not the way to go. So we are wiring the building in anticipation of finding ways to make it work over time.” The same type of...
According to an article in the New York Times, the Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Washington (which opens in 2014) is taking a completely different approach. They have decided to do away with all cellphone restrictions in an effort to attract younger patrons, who they see as the future of their theater.
Here is what John Haynes, the theater executivve director had to say: “This is the wave of the future for the people we worry about attracting. Simply forbidding it and embarrassing people is not the way to go. So we are wiring the building in anticipation of finding ways to make it work over time.” The same type of...
- 12/6/2011
- by Tiberius
- GeekTyrant
It.s common knowledge that texting, talking or updating social media on your cellphone while sitting in a darkened theater is frowned upon. Heck, the infamous Alamo Drafthouse ridiculed one of its patrons for doing just that in one of the most memorable PSAs of recent memory. But what if a theater were to sprint in the opposite direction and actually encourage cellphone use? Would you bother attending? The Tateuchi Center in Bellevue, Wash., is banking on it, according to the New York Times, targeting younger patrons by losing its cellphone restrictions for the performance space that.s expected to open in 2014. .This is the wave of the future for the people we worry about attracting,. said John Haynes, the theater.s executive director. .Simply forbidding it and embarrassing people is not the way to go. So we are wiring the building in anticipation of finding ways to make it...
- 12/5/2011
- cinemablend.com
What's worse than overpriced popcorn and ticket prices equivalent to the mortgage on your house? The answer: theaters encouraging brain-dead patrons to use mobile devices during showtime.
By Lee Pfeiffer
There's plenty of speculation that the traditional experience of movie-going (i.e. people enjoying a film in a collective environment) will go the way of the dinosaur. The encroachment of on-demand entertainment coupled with the younger generation's willingness to watch widescreen movies on mobile phones is causing theater chains to take drastic action to keep audiences flocking to hardtop venues. The New York Times reports that one major 2,000 movie theater in Seattle that is set to open in 2014 will boast a policy of encouraging audience members to utilize cameras, mobile phones and other portable devices while the movie is playing. The clueless soul involved in this war on culture is the theater's executive director John Haynes who feels that sleeping...
By Lee Pfeiffer
There's plenty of speculation that the traditional experience of movie-going (i.e. people enjoying a film in a collective environment) will go the way of the dinosaur. The encroachment of on-demand entertainment coupled with the younger generation's willingness to watch widescreen movies on mobile phones is causing theater chains to take drastic action to keep audiences flocking to hardtop venues. The New York Times reports that one major 2,000 movie theater in Seattle that is set to open in 2014 will boast a policy of encouraging audience members to utilize cameras, mobile phones and other portable devices while the movie is playing. The clueless soul involved in this war on culture is the theater's executive director John Haynes who feels that sleeping...
- 12/1/2011
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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