Survival of the American Avant-Garde - lecture/screening
"These are desperate times for avant-garde films," he exclaimed. During the early 1980s when the City of New York was in the planning stages of renovating and redeveloping its run-down 42nd Street, Times Square area, which included closing many arthouses showing B-movies on double and triple bills around the clock, as well as many avant-garde experimental film theatres, many expressed great opposition. Many cinephiles encouraged a "Postcard Fu" campaign, i.e., encouraging film fans to write to officials and pressure them into saving "the one place in New York City you could see a decent drive-in movie." He felt that 42nd Street movie houses rightfully belonged to all Americans and should be preserved as places where "Charles Bronson can be seen thirty feet high, as God intended."
