ARTHOUSE FILM NEWS - Cosmic Disco Detective Rene at Facets, Chicago 11/29/23

Over the next few days I'll add directions from various local points to the Armory Building in Kensington, for people who want to come check out Date Number One 7/12 - 18 & want to know how they can get to the venue. :: Directions - driving - from Adams-Morgan, DC to Armory Building, Kensington, MD : http://maps.google.com/maps?z=1&hl=en&q=3710+Mitchell+Street+Kensington,+MD+20895 From : 18th St NW & Columbia Rd NW Washington, DC 20009 Drive : 8.2 mi – about 23 mins 1 . Head north on Adams Mill Rd NW toward Calvert St NW 220 ft 2 . Slight left at Calvert St NW 0.5 mi 1 min 3 . Turn right at Connecticut Ave NW 3.3 mi 10 mins 4 . At Chevy Chase Cir NW, take the 3rd exit onto Connecticut Ave/MD-185 N Entering Maryland 4.2 mi 11 mins 5 . Turn right at Warner St 413 ft 6 . Turn left at Armory Ave 85 ft 7 . Turn right at Mitchell St 331 ft To : 3710 Mitchell St Kensington, MD 20895

The Armory Building in Kensington houses the town government & other facilities & the performance space there (often used for plays) is also used for elections & town meetings, so the venue is also known as the Town Hall. There's a nice small town feel to this brief mention of the Date Number One 7/12 -18 run in today's (July 4) Kensington Gazette (there should be a larger article about the event in next week's paper), it's like something out of that TV show Ed or Northern Exposure or something :) , very cool : " Kensington filmmaker screens in Town Hall Kensington filmmaker Sujewa Ekanayake will hit the lights in town hall and screen his film ‘‘Date Number One” for a week. He will be on hand at 7:30 p.m. each night from July 12-18 at 3710 Mitchell St., screening the comedy about five first dates. The movie costs $7 per person. Ekanayake said the movie is split up into five first dates including a ninja’s blind date, one with a woman constantly

Check it out here . Thanks H.I.T! - Sujewa

Fox's Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman (which I probably won't get to see fully - all 6 hours - until late July) opens at NYC's Film Forum today! Go check it out & celebrate yer independence. Read the Still in Motion interview with Fox here . I recently watched the second hour of Flying, liked it a lot - it is lighter than the first hour, in tone, and the world-travelin' by the lead character (Fox herself) is fun to watch. Will have a full review on this blog in late July. - Sujewa

Check out this DCist article about the conflict between photographers vs. DC area security people & a developer, and what's being done about it. Here's a little bit from the article: " The lease signed by the county to the developers contains an easement "for public access," though it allows the private company to "enforce reasonable rules and regulations." Both of these statements seem pretty obvious: photography is allowed on Ellsworth Drive. Non-commercial photography of the area in downtown Silver Spring is not only reasonable, but it constitutes part of "public access," just like walking down Constitution Avenue. The Peterson Company has issued a laughable statement in reaction to the recent publicity over this issue, and has somehow deemed itself the authority to "give" these rights to photographers, stating in a press release, "We permit all [photography, videography and other filming at our Center]." The dev

Matt Dentler mentions the upcoming IFC center event The New Talkies: Generation DIY here . - Sujewa

Ms. Amanda just called me & told me that today's Kensington Gazette has a nice mention of the upcoming 7/12 - 18 run of Date Number One . So I did a search on line to find the article, it does not seem to be on line yet (i'll pick up a hard copy of the paper later). But I did find this 1999 article re: my film Wild Diner (my first feature) on the Gazette site. Nice flashback, thanks for all the support over the years Gazette! - Sujewa