"But cinemas were palaces. It was a place that took us out of our ordinary world, because you worked 47 hours a week. Some people worked in shops -they worked 54 hours a week. None of this 40 hours and skip off quick. And so your cinema at the end of this week was out of this world. It was a dream. You dreamed -you lived the picture. It took you out of your job." BFI is asking old folks about going to the movies between the 20s and 60s

ACLU + Rock ....+ avante garde composers, playwrites, foksingers, rappers, and token liberal actors.... Paul Simon, Lou Reed, Phillip Glass, Mos Def, Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Tony Kushner, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edie Brickell, Lila Downs, Me'shell Ndegocello, Sarah Jones, and Nanci Griffith are assembling in New York City for the ACLU.

Japanese, Nihilistic, Genre-Pic Autuer The Works Of Seijun Suzuki. Apparently, your freindly, neighborhood, Japanese Embassy has been know to screen a film or two.