2008 Woodie Awards
Clarkson Cinema showtime
Aaron Fetterman
Issue date: 2/4/08 Section: Entertainment
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The show starts at 7:00 and at 9:00 on Saturdays and Sundays, in Snell 214. Each movie runs for two weeks.
The profits go to the Potsdam Neighborhood Center, which donates money and supplies to the Potsdam community. Unfortunately, to make a profit on a given movie, the Cinema needs to sell about eighty tickets.
So while their opening show had a solid attendance of around thirty people, it's easy to see interest trailing off. Perhaps this is just a starting pain. With two shows on two days for two weekends, each movie shows about eight times. This last weekend, they neglected to advertise any of their 9:00 shows, and the 7:00 Sunday show conflicted with the Super Bowl, so I'd expect the initial numbers to look a little frightening.
The Cinema is something between a movie theater and renting a movie and watching it in Snell yourself. It's certainly priced that way - a Roxy ticket is $7.00, and renting something is $3.50. Their movies aren't on DVD yet, but they're also not in the theaters anymore. The screen is somewhere between a theater and watching it on your TV. Big, but not hugely engrossing.
This week and next week, the cinema will be showing Dan in Real Life, which is a comedy that is also somewhat a romantic comedy. If you like laughing at really awkward moments, then it's great. It is about Dan, a newspaper columnist with three young daughters and whose wife died four years ago. He has not dated, or been interested in anyone since.
Then he meets a girl in the bookstore while he's visiting his parents for a family reunion. Huzzah - but wait, that girl is his brother's girlfriend! Awkwardness ensues. Or humor.
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