From: Fred Davidson (email suppressed)
Date: Thu Jun 05 2008 - 08:32:49 PDT
Here is the article.
http://theguide.latimes.com/blogs/soundboard/2008/03/11/largo-is-
moving-from-its-current-spot-to-coronet-theatre/
On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:48 AM, Adam Hyman wrote:
> The Coronet was just leased by Largo and is now having musical
> presentations.
> Largo at the Coronet.
>
> Best,
>
> Adam
>
>
> On 6/5/08 5:30 AM, "Fred Davidson" <email suppressed> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for confirming what I thought to be true Myron. I do
>> not have Brakhage's Film at Wit's End: Eight Avant-Garde
>> Filmmakers but I do have his Film Biographies in paperback
>> published by Turtle Island for the Netzahualcoyotl Historical
>> Society on my shelf. I am proud to have it. I bought it at a time
>> when there was no such a thing as the internet. I bought it at a
>> time when Brakhage's books were not always that easy to come across.
>> I grew up in Cleveland. I don't know too much about L.A. I
>> had never heard of the Coronet Cinema or of La Cienega Blvd. until
>> just now when you mentioned it. Whether the Coronet Cinema at 366
>> N. La Cienega Blvd. in the Beverly Center neighborhood of L.A. is
>> still open or not I do not know. It's web site seems to be down
>> this morning.* Most of the avant-garde film I saw growing up in
>> high school was at CWRU. I used to go to Strosacker Auditorium on
>> the Case Western Reserve University campus. Do you know, or, for
>> that matter, does anyone following along here know, if Hollis
>> Frampton used to frequent Strosacker while he was a student at
>> Western Reserve? Although he may not have because in those days,
>> before 1967, Case and Western Reserve were two separate schools.
>> Strosacker is on the Case side. It is not on the Reserve side
>> sweetie.
>> Speaking of Hollis Frampton, I watched his Zorns Lemma for
>> the very first time ever on the web, not on dvd, but on the web,
>> Ubuweb** to be exact, and I came away thinking that, Wow!, this is
>> very powerful. I thought the same thing about it that Leo
>> Castelli, Andy Warhol's art dealer, thought about Andy Warhol's
>> Campbell's Soup Cans, in 1962, when they were first displayed in
>> his gallery in L.A.. Very powerful. Now before anyone flies off
>> the handle in a violent rage ready to burn down the whole house,
>> be assured that I don't believe I could watch, say, Peter
>> Kubelka's Unsere Afrikareise on the web and come away thinking
>> that I had truly seen the film. I couldn't.
>> What I think you mean is that you took the path of least
>> resistance. I mean that is the best way to go, isn't it?
>>
>> It was nice talking to you Myron,
>>
>> Fred Davidson
>>
>> * http://www.coronet-theatrela.com/
>> **http://ubu.com/film/frampton_zorns.html
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 10:26 PM, Myron Ort wrote:
>>
>>> You got it pretty much right Fred. From what I read in Brakhage's
>>> book he went from tweaked to bizarre to totally dysfunctional. I
>>> think some drug abuse and mental disorder was involved. btw, I
>>> highly recommend Stan's book and of course all of his writings.....
>>>
>>> I myself have not seen his films yet since they were not
>>> presented along with the historical avant garde cinema I was
>>> initially exposed to at SF State U film dept. in the mid 60s, and
>>> somehow I have missed local showings over the years here.
>>> Apparently they are not yet readily available in dvd format.
>>> I am looking forward to seeing them at some point along with all
>>> (or at least many) of the films I have missed seeing these many
>>> years. For example, I only recently "saw" (dvd if that counts)
>>> the Isou film since it was included in those recent avant garde
>>> compilations of Rohouer's collection that are on the market.
>>>
>>> Incidentally, when I was in high school in 50s LA we used to go
>>> regularly to the neighborhood Coronet cinema on LaCienega Blvd.
>>> Little did I know then.......
>>> probably saw early Brakhage films there at some point.....(I
>>> wouldn't discover filmmaking (as a path) until many years later
>>> when all other "majors" didn't seem to click.....if you know what
>>> I mean.....
>>>
>>> ps. the Coronet still seems to be there last time I visited (not
>>> long ago).
>>>
>>> MO
>>>
>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 4:35 PM, Fred Davidson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Yes, that's right, Christopher Maclaine was his name.
>>>> Thanks Myron. Christopher Maclaine. No relation to Senator John
>>>> McCain or Bruce Willis's character Officer John McClane. Are the
>>>> rest of my facts pretty much right Myron? I don't remember
>>>> exactly. Have I grossly misstated anything here?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:49 PM, Myron Ort wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 4, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Fred Davidson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Where would avant-garde film be without junkies and
>>>>>> psychos? Well, it would be without the director of "The End".
>>>>>> What was his name? Marilyn? Fred? Anyone? Who am I trying to
>>>>>> think of? The speed freak that Stan Brakhage championed. He
>>>>>> ultimately died young in a mental hospital didn't he? He was a
>>>>>> junkie and a psycho wasn't he?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Christopher Maclaine. (see Brahage: Film At Wit's End)
>>>>>
>>>>> Myron Ort
>>>>>
>>>>>
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