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Here comes independent regional cinema...
...directors who made these films didn't go "on location." Most of them live where they work: on their own, away from the Hollywood movie machine. They are evidence that independent regional cinema-the hope of every film maker with big ideas and a tiny budget-is beginning to achieve the vitality and clout of America's burgeoning regional theater. George A. Romero's Knightriders (Pittsburgh) opened last week to a flurry of critical raves. Earl Owensby (Shelby), who built himself the largest single film studio outside Los Angeles, announces in Variety that Living Legend, which...
...working-class jousters. The Camelot caravan juggles lofty ideals and hand-to-mouth reality as it journeys from one small town to another, exhibiting swordsmanship in battles where fellowship precariously reigns and only feelings get hurt. They are the most benign of outlaws; they embody the spirit of regional cinema...
...movie bars when they had to fill some vacant space in a shopping center between Disney World and Orlando, Fla. Their aim was to build a theater with an atmosphere as close as possible to the customers' own living rooms. There are only 175 seats in their Village Cinema 'n' Drafthouse. Early arrivers get to see old movies and slides from the Duffy brothers' collection of W.C. Fields, Charlie Chaplin and the Marx brothers. Admission is only $1 a head. Food and drinks cost less than they do at competing entertainment spots: deli sandwiches average...
...excellence and unique social and political perspective. Resident Exile was overlooked by the sponsors at the Public Broadcasting System (PBS). The production--originally slated to be shown nationally on PBS's Nonfiction Television series--was subsequently cancelled. Only the persistence of these local filmmakers and the Off the Wall Cinema have enabled the film to make its world premiere here in Boston. Of course, in deference to the PBS network one might point to the very real possibility that many zealous Americans might have been outraged by a program that concerned itself with the plight of one Iranian much...