This is Gala Avery reporting to you from inside the Video Archive Cinema Club, the 20-seat Secret Cinema, located within the Vista.

Today, I am joined by Video Archive Cinema Club manager Matt Lansman to chat about the calendar for the week of Monday, November 19th.

Hey, Matt.

Welcome back, Gala.

Thank you. Thank you.

So let's start out by doing one of my favorite things about the month.

Let's talk a little bit about this calendar design.

So we're looking over the November print calendar now, and I got to say this one was a bit of a challenge for me to put together from a visual standpoint.

Because I always try to make the calendars as visually pleasing as possible.

And frankly, a lot of these 1930s and 40s movies didn't have a lot of high-res poster art

available. So I had to painstakingly restore and up-res a lot of these images so that they would

come out in as good of quality as possible on the print

calendar. And I put a lot of love and care into this one to try to not just represent the movie's

titles, but get a little picture on almost every square there. This is one of the things that

I love about these calendars is that every single movie I look at, I kind of get a feel for what the movie is.

And if it would be interesting to me, if it's funny, if it's scary, if it's English language, if it's foreign, et cetera.

I've a lot of fun putting this front page together.

Like I said, it was a bit of a challenge from a layout standpoint.

And a lot of these movies just don't have a lot of great art out there for them. I loved making the square for

fever pitch with Ryan O'Neill because for that one, I actually scanned and up-res the image of

Ryan O'Neill from a foreign VHS release because the typical theatrical poster for a fever pitch is

almost all black and very hard to see. And it's just sort of this image of Ryan O'Neill holding

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