Beginning this October 1, and running thru November 1, I will be participating in the Brattle Theater's Movie Watch-A-Thon fundraiser and hope that you will support me and help the Brattle Theater! For one month, I will watch as many movies as possible—at the Brattle and other venues—and seek sponsors to contribute to the Brattle Film Foundation per movie-I-see, or encourage one-time donations in support of my movie madness. I hope you'll help me in this effort to preserve the legacy of repertory film programming at Boston's Unofficial Film School, the non-profit Brattle Theater.

The Brattle is a unique, modest little theater located in Harvard Square. No teeth-shattering THX, no stadium seats, but behind the counter there's freshly popped popcorn, real melted butter, and Toscanini's ice cream. Up on the screen are the coolest, smartest, classiest, campiest, funniest, and scariest rectangles of light in Boston. On stage you'll meet directors, authors, actors, and musicians, including the likes of Bruce Campbell, Rob Moss, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Junot Diaz, Kid Koala, and Juliana Hatfield. And, in the seats, you'll find people loving and digging them all.

Maybe even YOU!

What would I do without the Brattle? I'm pretty sure no one wants to know. Really.  I mean, isn't your mind more at ease knowing that I'm preoccupied with my movies, rather than otherwise engaged in some shadowy, unknown, shenanigans? ...left to my own devices?

Actual devices, not figurative ones.

Better for everyone, I'm sure, if I remain focused on the pretty pictures.

The doctors agree.

Anyhow...

Please contact me if you'd like to sponsor my Watch-A-Thon, and let me know how much you wish to pledge per movie. Feel free to specify a cap (if you're familiar with my moviegoing habits, you'll understand why). Or if you like, make a one-time (not per-movie) flat donation now through this webpage by credit card. And of course, going to see a movie at the theater itself wouldn't hurt any. =)

The Brattle is where the world tilted on its axis just a little bit when I watched Chow Yun Fat step-and-slide his way down that tea-house stairway railing, two guns a-blazin', partnered with Tony Leung in John Woo's HARD-BOILED! The darkened theater where I first experienced movies like CITIZEN KANE, DONNIE DARKO, FALLEN ANGELS, and CASABLANCA... Where I can go to see "What's Opera, Doc?" ("Kill the wab-bit!") on the big screen, the Boston Fantastic Film Festival, and BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN on Valentine's Day... and where I consistently go to see the best of film's past (THREE OUTLAW SAMURAI, VANISHING POINT), present (SON OF RAMBOW, LINDA LINDA LINDA), and future (Johnnie To's EXILED).

Thank you for any little something you can give to keep the Brattle's screen lit up, either as a donation or a pledge for my Watch-A-Thon. Help the Brattle keep on keepin on~

=)