08 May, 2008
Jeffrey M. Anderson’s 400 Screens, 400 Blows - Remembering the Shooting Gallery
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A few weeks ago a DVD of Laurent Cantet’s 2000 film Human Resources arrived on my doorstep. I hadn’t seen it, but it rung a bell for me, and it took me a little while to remember: the Shooting Gallery series! I couldn’t believe I had forgotten about it. It was a huge event in less-than-400-screen lore, successful as well as artistically daring. I poked around and discovered that this brave little distributor had — of course — gone out of business. In 2000 and 2001, the Shooting Gallery lined up three series of six movies each, releasing each one for a two-week period, usually on a specific movie screen in selected cities, and then replaced it with the next in the series. If something took off and became a hit, it could play longer. I didn’t see all the films, but [...]
Original post by Jeffrey M. Anderson