[Imc-auckland] Auckland Indymedia Meeting // FILM EVENINGS.

[Bruce Grenville]

I won't be able to make that meeting on Saturday either.  But I'd like to 
repeat my offer of 16mm movie films to Auckland Indymedia, for possible film 
evenings.

Just last weekend, I was involved in a major find: I had bought an old film 
cheaply on Trademe, and had to drive many miles south to collect it.  When 
at the guy’s house, after paying him and getting the film, I said “Do you 
have any other old films to sell?” and he showed me into his spare room 
where there was a mountain of old films, mostly in brown cardboard film 
cartons.  Glancing over a few titles, I recognized them as the “better half” 
of the old Russian KGB film library, the poorer half of which I rescued from 
a dumpster bin back in the early 90s, after the KGB closed its Auckland 
office when the USSR disbanded.  I made him a low offer for the lot, we 
haggled a bit, then I paid him and we loaded the lot into my car.  A full 
boot load, and the entire back seat full: I did not think the car so heavily 
laden would make it back up the motorway!  But fortunately it did, and when 
I got home and unloaded them, I was staggered to find “Battleship Potemkin” 
(1925), a classic epic by Sergei Eisenstein (though mine is the 1950 release 
with a soundtrack added and English subtitles), "Peter the Great" part 1, 
"Peter the Great" part 2, "Quiet flows the Don" (unsure which of the 3 
versions of this film yet but I guess the mid 1950s one), "Bleak Morning", 
"The Cranes are Flying", "Glinka", "900 Unforgettable Days", plus many other 
full-length feature films, and a number unlabeled, waiting to be screened to 
identify.  I am viewing as many as I can each evening.   You are welcome to 
drop over to join in a viewing session, which happens most evenings till 1 
a.m.

regards, Bruce.


>From: "Omar Hamed" <omarhamed123 at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: List for Aotearoa IMC organising in 
>Auckland<imc-auckland at lists.indymedia.org>
>To: "List for Aotearoa IMC organising in 
>Auckland"<imc-auckland at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: [Imc-auckland] Auckland Indymedia Meeting
>Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:20:53 +1300
>
>Hi all,
>As was planned at the convergence we were planning to have a meeting on
>March 3rd. I wouldn't be able to make it to that meeting. If other people 
>on
>the list really want to have a meeting then I think it should go on, 
>someone
>just needs to take minutes and post them to the list. If people don't then
>theres no point having a meeting.
>cheers
>Omar
>(Post back to the list if you want to have a AK IMc meeting on March 3rd)


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