Word: bijou
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...AMMI exudes the comfortable musk of a neighborhood Bijou miraculously restored, London's MOMI has eyes to play the Palladium. Not that the two institutions have radically different means or ends. Both occupy about 9,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space. Both display a Nam June Paik piece, clips from the compilation film Precious Images, and a model of a drive-in theater. Both have been ages in the planning, though MOMI's 1978 prospectus preceded AMMI's by three years, and a trace of bantering rancor shows through the Brits' geniality toward their upstart colonial rival. Perhaps because MOMI...
...RAISING Arizona had been made only three only years ago, you'd likely be standing in line tonight to see the special added showing of the film at the local Bijou. This crazed, self-referential comic scamper through the New South hopes to defy categorization, yet fits neatly into American cinema's newest genre: the Crazed, Self-Referential Comic Scamper through American Culture Movie...
Potentially the most prolific tape dispenser is the video vending machine, which will accept a charge card for payment and deposit. More than 20 companies are developing devices with names like Le Bijou and the Movie Machine. U.S. Video Vending of Iselin, N.J., has already installed 100 soda- machine-size devices in apartment buildings, supermarkets and malls. One manufacturer predicts that 60,000 video vendors will be in operation...
...Cotton Club is just one of a growing number of Hollywood films that are packing them in at the video stores after playing to empty seats at the Bijou. Crimes of Passion, Ken Russell's flamboyantly seedy sex drama, was a flop at the box office last October, but has earned nearly $3.6 million in cassette sales thus far. Dune, a big-budget bomb last Christmas, has made $7.5 million in sales to video stores and has been on Billboard's Top 40 chart for 13 weeks. Even the most famous box-office fiasco of all, Michael Cimino's Heaven...
...VCRs use them to record programs off the air and watch them at a later time. They then re-use the tape, thus erasing the program and undercutting the dire conjectures of the movie companies that VCR owners would stockpile films at home and stop going to the neighborhood Bijou. Some 75% of the VCR owners questioned did admit they had tape libraries, but most meant 15 tapes or fewer. Only 23% said they were building substantial cassette libraries...