Jay Seaver wrote on Mar 16^th, 2015 at 11:24pm:


LEVIATHAN is a great movie. On my top 10 list from 2014. So, yes, write that one first.

Jay Seaver wrote on Mar 21^st, 2015 at 1:24am:


Hmm. Interesting. How many loyal folks showed up during that snowy Festival week on a nightly basis? A dozen or so (not counting filmmakers and their friends).

And, FANTASCHIERRE getting not shown that night might explain how it ended up at the Marathon?

Jay Seaver wrote on Mar 22^nd, 2015 at 11:26pm:


Except, BOY 7 was never officially announced on the main site, email or Faccebook. Maybe, at the Festival in front of the teeming one dozen folks?

I told the usher that there were no subtitles, but apparently the message didn't make it upstairs.  Bizarre.

Garen also claimed that they weren't going to be able to resolve the language issue until he could get through to Amsterdam, but, well, grains of salt and all.

Jay Seaver wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2015 at 10:13pm:




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David the Projectionist wrote on Mar 24^th, 2015 at 10:27am:


I wasn't accusing you of anything, David - just noting that when I informed the usher that there were no subtitles, I was told that there wasn't anything to be done.  It wasn't completely on autopilot because when Boy 7 started early, it was stopped and restarted at the correct time, so there was some communication going on but, apparently, nobody believed subtitles could be activated, that day or the next(*).  It was weird but mostly harmless (heck, I'll probably remember that movie far better than I would have if everything went right because of it), what you're saying makes me wonder just what was going on - whether folks were just distracted because blizzard and/or there was  a bunch of crappy communication/not knowing what they are doing coming from the festival staff.

(*) Presuming we take Garen at his word, just like every time when he says the distributors told him something was a world/national/Boston premiere.

L.A. Connection wrote on Mar 24^th, 2015 at 1:50pm:

Well, to be fair, I don't know that it would have made sense showing either during the marathon - The Noah is kind of an acquired taste and part of the appeal was having the director there, and I don't know if that was something you'd stop the 'thon for.  It's a niche thing that probably fits more in the festival than the marathon even if it's not new, and probably could have used some outreach to other local cinephile groups as well (co-present it at the HFA, it perhaps does OK).

I also don't know if I'd put both Dalek movies in the same marathon, and they may have been a package deal (and if not, that still leaves Daleks' Invasion Earth kind of an orphan later).  A standalone double feature isn't an unreasonable call.

As to the sparse attendance, that is the festival.  The only things that really got noteworthy audiences were Douglas Trumbull (where someone seemed to get the word out to people beyond the mailing list), Blessid (local production), and maybe Robot Overlords.  I don't think you can even particularly blame the crappy February weather for it - it's just a low-visibility event, and has not built any sort of reputation (for either great movies or just being run capably) in order to draw people in via word-of-mouth.