Next Week's Films Jan 16 - 22

There were two films available for next week.

Quantum of Solace: I've been waiting for this one so I booked it in for the 7pm show.

Seven Pounds: I was actually quite surprised this one was available already. I decided to hold off on it for a week as I think it needs to play as a 7pm show.

Since I was playing Quantum I couldn't play Australia both because of its' length and Fox's no splitting rule.

That left the late show to fill. I tried the following:

FLOW: a documentary about water that a few people had asked about. I saw it at The Hyland and thought it would be a good thing to play here, Unfortunately there is only one print for the entire country and it's out west. It comes out on DVD next week so I probably won't play it at all.

SYNDOCHE N.Y. Charlie Kaufman's directorial debut, I've had a few requests for it and I think it could do okay here. It's currently playing at the Hyland and for some reason they wouldn't have known until Tuesday morning whether they were keeping it or not. I know they did well with it Friday night so I figured they would keep it and decided not to wait for an answer. I don't like to wait until Tuesday to make decisions unless I absolutely have to as we don't have a lot of time to get advertising going even when the decision is made on Monday.

I ended up booking in Zack and Miri Make a Porno for another week. The first week we played it was during exams so there are probably (hopefully) a lot of students who didn't have time to see it.

I think Twilight is another two weeks away so I'm not sure what I'll play with Seven Pounds the following week. Valkyrie may come off.

Update: As it turns out The Hyland did drop Syndoche N.Y. I might try again the following week but there may be no prints available. The Hyland also kept Australia which seems odd to me. I hope they aren't keeping it just to keep me from playing it.