katsuben: Ever since I read your post I have been driven insane... Your story about having seen Cockfighter on a Steenbeck, after the projector broke down reminded me of the exact same story I read in some article on Monte Hellman’s work.  I thought it was Chuck Steven’s article in film comment, but I re-read it and it is not… so are you that film critic?  If so, where is the article?  If not, did you notice any film critics in the room with you that night?  Please help, or else my head will explode trying to remember this.  

By the way, my greatest theatrical experiences have been Van Gogh (Pialat), Puppetmaster, all the Sembene, Godard, and Kiarostami I've been able to see in New York, the Sayles Retrospective, Regaurding Penelope's Wake, Dorsky's The Visistation, and Lewis Kalahr's Daylight Moon at the Walter Reed (in fact, everything I've ever seen at the Walter Reed), and the Straight Story and Thin Red Line at my local multiplex, and the hundreds of others at any time, at any place I get a chance to see a movie on the big screen... ALSO: seeing Pootie Tang and Kundun alone, in empty theaters.