The only time I saw the sun was running between screenings.' Later, when he moved into producing films such as The Crying Game and Scandal, 'it got to the point where I would go for three days just for meetings'.
Organiser Michael Pierce says: "Whilst the initial season was a way of commemorating old repertory cinemas, Scala Forever has developed as a network and a mission to bring national attention to the current state of rep and second run screenings and inspire exhibitor organisations to work together to achieve this".
Film companies run test screenings of uncompleted films to see how they fare with the public.
(The same company runs more screenings at the nearby Hackney Downs Studios).
WHAT TO DO The Alliance Française (58 rue Suffren; 91-413-2338-146; weeklyindia.org/pondichery) runscreeningscreenings of English, French and Indian movies, and its library is a nice place to hang out and flip through old policiers and copies of Paris Match.
Saturday was my first full day running around catching screenings, navigating the shuttle system that whisks the 50,000+ attendees from theater to theater, and interviewing actors and filmmakers.
That's a phenomenon more common with nerd-friendly fantasies like the "Star Wars" series, or long-running screenings of cult films like "The Rocky Horror Picture Show".
By 1953, Mekas was running his own film screenings "just a couple of blocks from here in the East Village.
While child tickets to traditional screenings run about $8.75 in large cities like New York and Los Angeles, child admission for 3-D screenings is $13.
The film premiered at Moonlight Cinema, ran Friday 13 screenings at major exhibitors (playing on about 70 screens across the country) and is currently screening at various cinemas in Australia through a user-generated model called Fan Force.
Screenings run from July 31 to September 11.
