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“What I like about The CineForum and Reg Hartt and what makes him a valuable figure is his belief in cinema as a living, breathing thing, something to be enjoyed and argued about, not genuflected at or framed on a wall and revered at a respected distance. In his presentations he refutes the conventional wisdom that films like THE BIRTH OF A NATION (1915), THE BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN (1925), and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1925) are better appreciated as historical artifacts than entertainments. To see KID DRACULA, his show that pairs F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU (1922) with Radiohead to surprisingly effective results is to be reminded that the classics were made for the raw public before they were made for cinema studies syllabi. I have rarely felt a film’s greatness in a classroom but I have often felt it at Reg Hartt’s CineForum.”—a cinema studies student.

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The problem with the movies and why we stop going to them.

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June 10, 2020

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Reading Terry Ramsaye’s A MILLION AND ONE NIGHTS AT THE MOVIES ( https://www.amazon.com/Million-One-Nights-History-Touchstone/dp/0671624040 ) I, learned that the audience for motion pictures in 1926 was between the age of 11 to 3o, primarily between 14 and 24 and primarily female.

Today the audience for the movies is between the age of 11 to 3o, primarily between 14 and 24 and primarily male.

At that time over 65% went to the movies.

Today less than 10% do.

The movies have lost their audience. The movies have lost it big.

–Reg Hartt