I happily dance on the remnants of the Rialto. It captured so much good film coming into Wellington and *wasted it*. Pan's Labyrinth was the last Rialto film for me - they screened the first reel slightly off-centre, which was fine except the subtitles were HIDDEN FROM VIEW.
I should have given up on them much earlier than that. I was avoiding them for ages but now and then they lured me with their exclusive access to the filmic gold. Pan's Lab was the final straw. Truly, waiting for DVD = better in every way than terrible Rialto.
But there were good times there in its early days, almost entirely due to cool staff. I remember a random last-minute ringaround summoning 20 people to a late screening of 'Lord of Illusions', of all films. Weird.
I happily dance on the remnants of the Rialto. It captured so much good film coming into Wellington and *wasted it*. Pan's Labyrinth was the last Rialto film for me - they screened the first reel slightly off-centre, which was fine except the subtitles were HIDDEN FROM VIEW.
I should have given up on them much earlier than that. I was avoiding them for ages but now and then they lured me with their exclusive access to the filmic gold. Pan's Lab was the final straw. Truly, waiting for DVD = better in every way than terrible Rialto.
But there were good times there in its early days, almost entirely due to cool staff. I remember a random last-minute ringaround summoning 20 people to a late screening of 'Lord of Illusions', of all films. Weird.