The fate of the Oak Street Cinema is up in the air, thanks to financial mismanagement at Minnesota Film Arts. MFA staff called an impromptu meeting last Saturday before screening Citizen Kane. The house was packed, a few board members were present, and accusations flew. Here's a video recap, a bit longer than usual at six minutes.
Sorry the video has a strange animation look to it – I went overboard trying to reduce video noise.
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that was really interesting, chuck. thanks for posting it!
Posted by: honey bunny at January 17, 2006 07:25 PM
On April 10th the Oak Street Cinema's founders (Bob Cowgill, Randy Carpenter and Barry Hans) along with the former Oak St staff and volunteers, will host a free event at the Varsity Theater. There will be a classic short silent film, accompanied by Prairie Home Companion pianist Rich Dworski.
The Oak Street's founders will explain the theater's current situation and ask the public for support of their plan to take over the challenge of funding and operating the publicly owned theater, while staying true to the original vision of the Oak Street Cinema.
this would be such a major loss. i've since moved from the cities, but the oak street cinema should be near and dear to every film-lover's heart.
a worthy cause if ever one existed.
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