Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby. Let's all go to the lobby. Hello, my name is Justin the Clue, and I'm here today with Rochelle Charcot. And this is a special episode of the Important Cinema Club, because we're going to be going through the calendar of the Royal Cinema in Toronto. And I know you may be listening, and you're like, wait, I don't live in Toronto. How do this affect me? Well, we're going to be talking about some amazing movies, some that you may have heard about, some that you may not have heard about. So, you know, keep listening because we're still talking about movies. So, Rochelle, you are the programming director of the Royal Cinema, am I right? That's me. And how long have you been doing it for?

In some capacity or another, it's been about three years.

And has it been like 30 years in real life?

Or do you go in every day to work and you're like, I can just program my dreams up on the screen?

I think definitely the most mad with power I got was when I did World Contact Day with

Fire in the Sky and Communion.

That was pretty fun.

That was very fun.

It was a table filled with paperback books of just like alien abduction stuff.

Beautiful.

My favorite.

So we're a little bit late in the month of July, but I want to talk about what happened last night, which was Dave Foley's The Wrong Guy. It's so good. Which may be one of the most underseen comedies of all time compared to how funny it is. It is so, like, there's so many jokes per minute in that movie, and Dave Foley is so insanely well cast as just like a bumbling dummy. Yeah. I watched that movie recently for the first time, maybe like six months ago. And I was just, I was floored by it and watching in the theater it was a completely different experience. Yeah. How was it was like the audience laughing around you? Was it like that much extra funny? Yes. It's very difficult for me not to just go into like just go into like listing gags and people will be like, well, I haven't seen the movie. It's written by a Simpsons writer and it definitely has that kind of tone to it all. It absolutely does. The Enema Big Jones. When I started to get set up for that, I started cackling before the joke even happened. Yeah. What's your name? Uh, looking around the room. My name is, uh, Jones.

And then she's like, that's not your name. And it's like, uh, yeah, my name is Laura. She's like,

that's my name. That's so good. Oh, no, I did it. I just started talking about the jokes.

Well, check it out. I just started talking about the jokes.

Well, check it out. I think Kino put out a Blu-ray, but actually movies that are coming up on Sunday, July 14th, there's Eastern Promises and he's showing Throne of Blood.

Yes.

Now, Eastern You is a pal of mine, and he's been on quite a Kour Sawah kick lately with his series. Yeah, he wanted to do a little kind of like mini-series tribute to Kurosawa. He's been getting into like the epics for the next couple of months. Oh, that's great. I mean, Throne of Blood is definitely a movie that most cinephiles have seen, but if you haven't, you should see it up on the big screen. Because again, is a different experience. He's all about like the moments of silence between like the burst of action. So Throne of Blood specifically is one that works very well. We're bringing in a print for that as well. You are? Oh, wow. Yeah, Janice has shipped it over and I'm very excited. Speaking of prints, the next day you have Amelie on 35mm. And why did you pick this one? Because people like Amelie. Yeah. And you're like, we had a hole in the schedule. No, I knew that that was a pretty easy one to kind of toss the win. Obviously, people love that film. And I was really fortunate to find a print in Toronto. You know, prints are often very expensive. And we are an independent business, so it can be kind of, it's costly. You know what I mean? Like, people don't understand when something plays on film and it needs to be shipped in, how expensive it is for, like, it's, how many cans usually is one film? Like two. Two? Two, sometimes three, depending on length. But, yeah, it can cost like 500, 600, extra dollars. Oh, God. And that's not even counting the, like, actual rights that you have to pay for this stuff. Exactly, exactly. And the promotional costs. Do people show up for a film like Emily? Like, are those the ones that do the best? Yeah, Amelie's been, uh, I booked in three screenings of it. Uh, uh, it's been doing really well. There's been about like 100 people a night. So yeah, I'm hoping. It's like that magic level of people know the movie, but they may also go, I haven't seen it in a while. Yeah, yeah. When I, new programmers, my biggest advice is, actually, our mutual

friend Nate Wilson put it really perfectly. He was like, it's those movies that most people

have lied about having already seen. That's a great way to say it. That's the advice they give to

programmers like all the time. I mean, the movie that plays after that dog toots is one that I have not seen.

Oh, yeah.

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