Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Changes at the Charles

It should be noted that the nine o'clock round of film screenings on Mondays and Tuesdays at the Charles has been cut, starting this week. So, if you show up and the doors are locked, there is a reason.

Also, handmade posters for a series of midnight movies have been placed in the lobby of the theater. Robocop, Back to the Future, and Home Alone are the chosen films. They will be shown on Fridays and Saturdays at midnight over weekends in December. I did not jot down the order, but will edit when the information becomes available.

These three are certainly not traditional "midnight movie" picks. They may reflect the tastes of the current crop of college students who would be in a position to make it out to such screenings. Have such films been screened in New York and Los Angeles in such a way sucessfully? I am curious to know.

2 comments:

Onetet said...

oops, i dropped this comment under your last entry, but it was intended as a response to this one:

I've long been baffled by the Senator/Rotunda's treatment of 7:00-hour screenings as the "late show" on weekdays and am dismayed to see the Charles following suit. Are more people REALLY coming to movies at 4-something on weekdays that at 9-something? I can't believe that's true. Meanwhile, in many suburbs films can be seen beginning at the hours of 10 or 11pm.

Onetet said...

I'm now hearing that the 9-something screening at the Charles have also been slashed on Wednesdays? Really? If so, WTF.

Their site lists only one Wednesday 9-something screening this week: Slumdog Millionaire. Given the unlikelihood of keeping a 5-screen theatre open for one screening (even of this intensely popular faux-Bollywood mediciocrity), I'm guessing that listing is an error and the Charles is closing after its 7-something screenings Monday-Wednesday.

I mean... really? Even if one thought it made sense to implement such a plan, to do so in December -- and when they have a money-making line-up for once, no less? I don't see any logic in this whatsoever, other than further alienating the younger demographic the Charles needs to win back, after years of neglecting them for the affluent seniors of Roland Park and Reisterstown.