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...setting for a good Saturday matinee must be carefully selected. The theater should be old, cavernous and dirty, with lots of balcony railing to prop sneakers on. The popcorn butter should be on the congealed side, and the popcorn itself sold in hard wax containers, which, when stomped, produce a report like an 18th century cannon. The candy counter should be well stocked with small, hard sweets that can be hurled at antagonists below...
...Following Day. Universal Pictures apparently has little faith or interest in the film, and is consequently treating it with tender, loving indifference. In many cities, Night is opening in second-run houses with a minimum of publicity, thus practically guaranteeing that it will be seen mostly by popcorn addicts, teenagers on dates and those looking for a cozy place to sleep. But diligent moviegoers who do manage to search out Night will be rewarded by a keenly conducted seminar in the poetics of psychological terror, with up-to-date touches of sadism...
...didn't like the Boston Garden last Tuesday night. I thought I would. But I didn't like the smell of the old wooden floor that is rotting from years of Coke, popcorn, cigar butts, and spittle...
...exclusive club-something to be seen by black-tied, be-minked audiences only." Michael Howard, artistic director of the Repertory Theater, feels that "people ought to be able to go to the theater without a necktie if they want to. They ought to be able to buy popcorn. Theater should be part of their lives...
...London's National Film Theater has held a retrospective season of his work. Critics have ranked him with Hawks and Hitchcock for his economic style and strong sense of form. Yet to the average moviegoer, the name of Director Donald Siegel means no more than the brand of popcorn on sale in the lobby...