Just found these two articles posted on another site. They both are about the Fair Theater in New York City which is supposedly the last real surviving grindhouse. I recommend reading the NY Post article first and then going to the second article. Just a note, the second article does contain a bit of graphic language, but it's hilarious and well worth a read.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282007/entertainment/movies/schlock_around_the_clock_movies_lou_lumenick.htm?page=0 (http://www.nypost.com/seven/03282007/entertainment/movies/schlock_around_the_clock_movies_lou_lumenick.htm?page=0)
http://moroccomole.livejournal.com/233663.html (http://moroccomole.livejournal.com/233663.html)
After reading the first article, I thought that the place sounded pretty cool. Something I would check out if I visit NYC again.
After reading the second article....all thoughts of visiting the place have disappeared.
Quote from: Skaboi on March 31, 2007, 09:16:29 AM
After reading the first article, I thought that the place sounded pretty cool. Something I would check out if I visit NYC again.
After reading the second article....all thoughts of visiting the place have disappeared.
You gotta check out Bill Landis' "Sleazoid Express"(and Landis's attendant writings).
Wait a minute...with 2,600 posts here, I'm sure you probably have already. :wink:
I try to use the descriptives of "trenchcoat Popeye with a Lucky Strikes cough" as often as I possibly can.
Sadly, this Tarantino/Rodriguez GRINDHOUSE thing comes a bit too late to curtail the extinction level event that was Rudy Giuliani's administration. :bluesad:
Thanks for the recommendation Soylent. Actually, I've not read anything by Bill Landis. Will have to check it out.
Let's organize a field trip to this grindhouse. Everyone will need to submit a permission slip signed by their parents.
Man, I'd LOVE to visit a grindhouse, but in New York? To far away. Maybe ill establish on in St. Louis. YEA! that would be AWXSOME!
I've been to a grindhouse before. They weren't showing a movie there but I got a good deal on a pound of ground beef. Sadly, I found out it was infected with The Thing symbiote.
A friend and I went to see Misty Beethoven in DC a few years ago. There were a couple of crack whores (female) around, and a guy a couple of rows ahead was getting some oral satisfaction.
Sorry, but there are some places I ain't puttin' my johnson.
I should check this out as I live in Queens!!
If you guys every come to Queens to see this drop me a line.
Quote from: raj on April 02, 2007, 08:05:28 PM
A friend and I went to see Misty Beethoven in DC a few years ago. There were a couple of crack whores (female) around, and a guy a couple of rows ahead was getting some oral satisfaction.
Sorry, but there are some places I ain't puttin' my johnson.
So there's a grindhouse in D.C.? Dang. still to far away.
i have a grindhouse near me in Asbury Park, NJ i belive its called the Benoit Theatre? ive looked up some listings, but there hasn been anything in a while that i would have liked to see.
I saw alot of grindhouses in NYC when I was living there for a short while in the 80's...never went in one though. Saw Halloween in a theater in Queens though,on it's first release! With my Ma and brother Glenn.
Manhattan really was a sh!thole(certain parts...down near 42nd st.NEVER went there at night. I was from Michigan! )I stayed mostly in the Bronx,and got drunk at Poe Park,near Fordum Road. I just watched CHILLER on channel 9, First time I saw DON'T LOOK in the BASEMENT and CHILDREN SHOULDN'T PLAY with DEAD THINGS. I only lived there a year.,in 1979-1980. Lived on LI for another year in 84...saw RETURN of the LIVING DEAD at a drive in outside of Mastic-Shirley...(we called it Spastic-Squirlly.) Didnt' have a car...me and my brothers just sat on a hill just outside of the park,and watched it without sound...and got drunk.I got drunk alot back then.
this one comes pretty close http://www.originalalamo.com/ (http://www.originalalamo.com/)
My brother used to live in austin and damn if I regret not having gone to some of their showings...i remember reading the paper and seeing what was playing and wanting to go.
I only live 3 hours away but dealing with austin traffic is a hell of a thing so I don't think it's worth it unless i was on vacation or something. if I lived in austin I would be there ALL THE TIME, check out the link for "SIGNATURE EVENTS" to see the types of movies they show on certain nights.
Terror thursdays are FREE!
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They should open up more theaters like this in big cities. Austin, admittedly, is a very hip place when it comes to cinematic culture...and well, the arts
I might be visiting NY some this summer so I'm planning on trying to check out this place when I get there.