Tuesday, January 17, 2023

Now Go Home and Get Your Schein Box!


Pictured onstage at the Rio Theatre is retired film exhibitor and VIFF founder Leonard Schein (foreground) and Rio programmer Rachel Fox (facing), in advance of Rachel's questions.

Two of us had had an earlier go at cracking Leonard's pleasant carapace, but it was the steely-eyed Rachel I had my money on.

She began brilliantly, with a glossary: "Leonard, what is the difference between a first-run movie and a second-run movie?" "Leonard, what is a move-through?"Etc.

From there the questions moved to specifics, from Famous Players Theatres' historic hold on film content distributors to upstart Cineplex's complaint of FP's market monopolization to Cineplex's eventual replacement of Famous Players as market monopolizer -- and the amnesia that follows.

Yesterday was our first day of shooting and it went well.

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