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Directors and producers with Townsend's kind of moxie are storming the film industry like the Bedouin warriors in Beau Geste. No longer do the seven major studios and several so-called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films...
The Nickolodeon joins a market already full of theaters running "artsy" or classic films. The recently reopened Brattle Street Theater has a commitment to show mainly classic and foreign films and the Janus Theater shows classic and popular films.
For the present, however, there will not be anydramatic changes in the docket of films, accordingto Cuberley. Such first-run films as Platoon and RadioDays, which are currently being shown, areconsidered sufficiently "artsy," Cuberley said.
Some Harvard students reacted favorably to thetransformation of the theater and its insistenceon playing "artsy" films. "I'm glad that they willonly show quality films instead of the mindlessHollywood rubbish that is normally put out," saidJ. William G. Chettle '89.
AS A CONVENTIONAL film-maker, Avildsen said he had no secret dreams waiting to burst onto the screen, no particular places to show or tales to tell. A good story and good characters, in the median sense of the word, is what he likes. His opinion of artsy films, such...