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David Stambaugh
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posted 05-08-2007 02:00 PM

I think Brad's having some fun with us. Or maybe it's the pain meds. [Wink]

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The Abel Gance featured the best projection "team" in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival, comprised single-handedly of Gary Stanley.

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The Chuck Jones Theater featured the best projection team in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival. Bruce Mazen, Peter Halter, Ryan G. Smith, Ian Price.

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The Galaxy featured the best projection team in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival. "The Reel" Bill Hill, Joel Rice, Brad Jones and Dean Silver.

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The Masons Hall featured the best projection team in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival. John Gadja, Brad Miller, Graef Allen and Barbara Grassia.

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The Nugget featured the best projection team in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival. Booth Chief Payal Doctor, Mark Schoenveld, Nugget Owner Luci Reeve who only does projection for the Fest, and Scott Snare.

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Unfortunately even though the Opera House featured the best projection team in the 2006 Telluride Film Festival, the team was unable to assemble for a photo.

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Jim Bedford
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posted 05-08-2007 02:29 PM

I don't know.... I've asked all the operators in those booths and I believe they feel the comments under those pix are absolutely accurate.

There are still two more booths to go. Anyone want to bet against them getting similar captions?

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Brad Miller
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posted 05-08-2007 03:28 PM

I guess I better change the captions for the Palm or the La Pierre now. [evil]

Fact of the matter is everyone there is pretty good. It is definitely a festival like no other.

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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-08-2007 04:53 PM

People are just now catching on with these captions?

Anyway I remember watching some random movie in the Opera House. I was towards the back of the theater in one of the sideways chairs against the wall. I've gotta say, those seats really need to be removed. My neck hurt like a BITCH for hours afterwards. I would like to kick the person in the testes who thought to put those seats there like that.

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Brad Miller
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posted 05-08-2007 06:26 PM

And yet I didn't watch anything at last year's festival.

There was just nothing that interested me. I didn't want to sit and watch a depressing movie, and that was mostly what was programmed. That's my only real beef was the emo programming. The town and the people working the festival are fantastic though, so I found my entertainment without watching the movies.

(Hey Jim, any chance of getting some "less serious" films in there this year? [Razz]

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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-08-2007 07:34 PM

Usually none of the movies sound very intriguing to me (I like movies with explosions), but the year that I was there I managed to watch at least 3 at the coaxing of Ian. 2 of them were actually really good. The other was some depressing Italian thing in the Opera House.

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Jon Miller
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posted 05-15-2007 08:05 PM

So how does one (with the "right stuff," of course) become a member of one of the "best" projection teams at Telluride? Do you start as a Production Apprentice?

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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-15-2007 09:06 PM

You ask. I don't think any "qualifications" are necessary, especially since many of the people ONLY ever project at the festival itself. They even let Ian project.

Looking at the PALM pictures, I am convinced that there is some law in Telluride that reads something like "It is required by law to have sideways-facing seats in auditoriums to comply with our other law of hating people and wanting to make them as uncomfortable as humanly possible".

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Sam D. Chavez
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posted 05-15-2007 09:31 PM

One would be lucky to get on the projection staff as all these people are very, very good. No one does it for the money, that's for sure.

Jim Bedford has a number of sayings, but his best is
"You're not being paid enough to have a bad time".

My other favorite is "If it rains, we'll let it".

They kind of go downhill from there. Kidding!

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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-15-2007 09:51 PM

I think my answer is far more accurate.

To be honest, I really didn't enjoy working the festival very much. It wasn't as fun as my 16-screen.

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Scott Norwood
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posted 05-16-2007 03:31 PM

You're crazy, Joe. The special-event stuff is what makes this business interesting. The gigaplexes are continuing along their path to self-destruction with crappy presentation and obnoxious advertising, combined with bad movies. Not to mention that the job is almost always unappreciated.

I don't think that anyone could afford to pay me enough to step into a 16-plex booth again, but I do enjoy doing film and video projection for festivals and special engagements. It's a chance to do something out of the ordinary, see interesting films, meet the filmmakers, and put on a real show (often in older, classier theatres with curtains instead of slide/video advertising). What's not to like?

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Bill Gabel
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posted 05-16-2007 03:46 PM

If your running screening room duty, it's like working a film festival every day of the week at work. [thumbsup]

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Joe Redifer
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posted 05-16-2007 04:59 PM

quote: Scott Norwood
It's a chance to do something out of the ordinary, see interesting films, meet the filmmakers, and put on a real show (often in older, classier theatres with curtains instead of slide/video advertising).

My 16-screen had curtains. And older, "classier" theaters often means much poorer presentation since they were designed to look "grand" and all of that nonsense. The sound will usually suck balls, the picture will be tiny and the keystoning from the extreme angle of the throw will be unacceptable. Personally I'd rather watch a VHS tape recorded in EP (and dubbed 6 times) than watch a show in a theater like that. Visual accouterments matter not when the lights are down.

Fortunately Telluride's theaters aren't too "fancy", at least not when I was there. But they did feature non-sloped seating in many of the venues, which doesn't exactly enhance the enjoyability of watching a movie there. Still, the festival gig is not for me. The Denver Film Festival was much worse, as it has some of the most horribly maintained equipment ever, plus the auditoriums were tiny with no presentation value whatsoever. My living room was bigger.

I knew hearts would be broken and bitter tears would fall if I mentioned things like this. I was right.

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Scott Norwood
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posted 05-17-2007 07:19 PM

To each, his own, I guess. I enjoy festivals and special events and the challenge of putting on a great show under non-ideal conditions, as well as working with people who appreciate the work. It's nice to have a chance to show quality films (true, 50% of typical festival material is crap, but there are always some gems) and, often, meet the filmmakers as well (some are great, some are jerks). It's nice to hear a director say that his film has never looked better.

That said, I can understand why you feel that absolute picture and sound quality will often be better in a modern multiplex than in a typical festival venue.

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Jon Miller
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posted 05-18-2007 01:54 PM

Agreed with Scott. Film festivals and special screenings have that certain je ne sais quoi (French for "if you don't know what this phrase means, you don't know" [Big Grin]

) that is missing from regular showings. It is a real test of man (or woman) and machine.

If it wasn't for other commitments I'd love to help run Telluride. To me, having run local film festivals in a platter house, running changeovers would be a walk in the park. And I'd have no qualms about the level of presentation quality possible from their venues, even the locations running well-tuned fifty-year-old Brenkerts.

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