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I'm harrassing many of you again, but only because the situation is completely new and different now—the Watch-A-Thon's officially begun and donations are now deductible for *this* year's taxes! Besides, you might have missed my earlier blast with all the holiday hooha going on, right? Also, I've edited my spiel just a bit and included a plug for LINDA LINDA LINDA at the Brattle at the very end. Please pass this email or the firstgiving link on to anyone you think would be interested in supporting the Brattle. Thank you!
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the quick pitch
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Okay, picture this! It's a sequel to last winter's very successful and critically acclaimed Watch-A-Thon, only this time, you are even smarter, more generous, and, as impossible as it seems, more good-looking than you were then!
The tag-line: "Sponsor* me and help me help the Brattle Theater keep on keepin on!"
Well, that or... "Save the Brattle, save the world..."
Which in phase 2 promotion would change to... "Are you on the list?"
Whaddyasay? We've even got a website up for it already!
* Sponsor, as in to pledge support, not as in to play my guide and mentor in a 12-step program...
Which is not to say that I wouldn't benefit from such help, but that's a completely different email, thankyouverymuch.
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the wordier treatment
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Hey, Brother---
Will you sponsor my fundraising effort? I'm participating in the Brattle Theater Movie Watch-A-Thon, running from January 12 thru February 18. This 'thon is like other 'thons you're probably familiar with in that it's a fundraising event, but instead of covering miles of asphalt, I'll be screening miles of film, watching as many movies on the big screen as possible in that time, and with your sponsorship or donation, helping to raise funds for the continued operation of the Brattle Theater in Cambridge. Maybe I've mentioned the place to you once or twice...?
They're responsible for keeping myself, and any other movie-digging Bostonian, supplied with the Good Stuff. Check out their schedule and see what I mean!
If you feel like you need a sample before showing me the money, I'd be happy to split some popcorn with you at a screening or three sometime. I *highly* recommend LINDA LINDA LINDA, playing now through Thursday night, for some irresistible schoolgirl band-that-could Goodness, charm, and fun. Do let me know. =)
I hope you'll sponsor me by making a pledge per movie watched (beware, that might cost more than you first think--I'm happy to "cap" your pledge, tho =) or make a one-time donation of support, easily done online with a (non-AmEx) credit card here...
Also, the Brattle is a non-profit 503c, which, according to Bob Loblaw, means that all contributions are tax deductible. Bonus!
From THE GOONIES to THREE NEEDLES to EVIL DEAD 2 to SERENITY to BICYCLE THIEF to KUNG FU HUSTLE to CASABLANCA to Bugs Bunny marathons--these deserving films would go homeless in Boston without the Brattle, one of the last independently run businesses in Harvard Square today. Thanks for any support you can offer to help keep the Brattle's screen glowing with the best in classic, contemporary, documentary, foreign, and cult film... and me off the streets. =)
Keep on keepin on~
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now playing: LINDA LINDA LINDA!
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High school. An all-girl band loses their lead guitarist and singer to an injury three days before their school festival. Unable to decide on a replacement, the remaining band members agree to let fate decide in a "whoever walks by next" kind of way. And who does fate choose? The foreign exchange student, of course! Can these girls turn her into their lead singer and together learn three new songs in time for their performance? One last musical blast together before they leave their high school days behind?
Oh, it also all happens to be set in Japan, with dialogue mostly in Japanese (subtitled in English).
It may read as cheezy, but it's good cheese, authentic cheese. Thoughtful, heartfelt, and joyful cheese. There's a lot of great sweet and awkward teenagey/high school moments throughout, and all so very naturally delivered. The girls have all got their own little things going on, of course, boys, old and new, nosiness, infighting, beef darts (amazingly, not a typo or bad translation! =), but it's nothing that some undeniably catchy Japanese punk rock can't solve!
GO SEE IT! site | Brattle
I also recommend RED DOORS, also currently playing, for a light and dark comic portrayal of a Chinese family growing up in suburban America. Father has just retired and spends his new free time listless, a ghost in his own home who can only manage a smile when reviewing home movies of his three daughters' childhoods. The oldest is now planning her wedding, but is he the right man for her? The middle daughter, med student, is having trouble meeting a nice boy. The youngest is in high school, leading a step-dance troupe and engaged in an escalating prank war with the kid across the street. Meanwhile, mother is trying to find a comfortable place between old ways and new. Family dysfunction served up by a Chinese-American writer-director.
I hafta say, tho. If you've got to choose between the two for some reason, go with LINDA 3x. (RED DOORS is due on dvd at the end of the month =).
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