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I saw this last night and it made me think of ILX in a weird way.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Or maybe that isn't weird at all.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

It also made me miss New York City quite bitterly.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Those names - Film Forum, Screening Room, Moma, Anthology Film Archive - wonderful.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:24 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the art museum in Queens called again? I saw Chelsea Girls there, projected onto two screens. It was great.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

museum of the moving image?

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i really want to see this movie

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, museum of the moving image!

I remember how going to Queens after spending a few months right in the middle of the city felt really strange. It was quiet and the buildings all seemed so low!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread is going to be partly about Cinemania and partly about me imagining myself living in NYC.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

s1ocki, it's an okay movie, nothing revelatory.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

if you were here you could take advantage of my 2-for-1 film forum discount.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

OMG lauren's let's go see Control Room and whatever else is playing!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't taunt me.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

: p

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

we missed Godzilla though.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw Godzilla last night! (and fell asleep)

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was about the Microsoft CD-ROM from the early 90s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:53 (twenty-two years ago)

For those that thought this thread was about the Microsoft CD-ROM from the early 90s:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0281724/

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

They should make an LA version of this with the Movie Geek from Beat the Geeks in it.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought this thread was about the Microsoft CD-ROM from the early 90s.

OMG! That was the beginning of my cinematic education! I still have my "to watch" list somewhere at my parents house.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Swygart, I know about the movie, too!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 May 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, as someone with vaguely obsessive compulsive tendencies in his blood, parts of this movie scared the shit out of me. I really didn't want to see inside that woman's apartment. And even though my own cinephilia is pretty mild, I found myself empathising with the people who felt that they hadn't properly seen the whole film if a sliver of the image was concealed!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Empathy is so dangerous sometimes.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I feel like Jean Grey.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

That was the beginning of my cinematic education!

Me, I contented myself with a copy of Leonard Maltin's 1994 Movie & Video Guide and a two-year subscription to Premiere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Aaaah, Premiere. Does it still exist?

Have you seen this film, j? They are crazy about Maltin.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't seen it, no. "Crazy about Maltin"? In what way? Apoplectic that he loves every fucking Disney film ever made?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

@d@m, I think that you've pointed out what was my main problem with this movie is that the filmmakers are either trying to make obsessive movie fans feel guilty and shameful or to make non-obsessive movie fans feel better than the film's subjects.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Filmmakers are the scum of the earth.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 21 May 2004 16:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Dean - yes, although some of the subjects totally played up the whole undersexed obsessive geek thing.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Especially when they were talking about what it means to be "normal".

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, the kind of people who love to spend all of their time sitting in the dark don't necessarily represent themselves on camera very well, usually.

We should make a documentary about ILX.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

It HAS crossed my mind!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You want to make the most boring movie ever?

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

You won't be in it, fatso.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

WELL THAT'S WHY IT WOULD BE BORING!

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought about filming headshots of every ILXer I meet and then making them all morph into each other.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

then you'd get your ass sued by Michael Jackson for ripping off the "Black and White" video.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

or Godley and Creme, even.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyway, gygax prob. wouldn't let me film him. So scratch that.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:18 (twenty-two years ago)

just insert a frame of Jay from Dianogah.

― hstencil (hstencil), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

*googles Dianogah*

Haha!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Godzilla is moving to Cinema Village, thank God, as I missed it too.

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 21 May 2004 16:53 (twenty-two years ago)

three years pass...

I saw Roberta from this film at MoMA last weekend (co-star Bill was there too) at a Goran Paskaljevic film -- she had just come from that Diane Keaton-Latifah-Katie H Mad Money thing. God in heaven!

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

Roberta was on WFMU yesterday, and recommended Swing Vote. :o

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/28153

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

NY Times obit crossposted from NYC Film Snob thread:

HILL-- Roberta, died on July 18, 2009 shortly after her 73rd birthday. Roberta was born in Washington, DC to Dorothy Dyar Hill and Robert Lindsay Hill. She was a consummate collector and animal lover. When she moved to New York in 1983, her love of cinema took center stage. She has been a fixture at almost every film festival and movie house in the City ever since, as captured in the film Cinemania (2002). She was a true New York character and will be missed by many.

― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Friday, 28 August 2009 16:27 (sixteen years ago)

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