What genre would you like for the next Summer Cinema series at the Courthouse?
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| Westerns | 34% | 44 votes |
| Cartoons | 15% | 20 votes |
| Other (specified below) | 15% | 20 votes |
| 129 total votes | ||
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Animated films!
EastBeach (anonymous profile)
August 23, 2012 at 12:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Screwball Comedies, or:
Huston, Hitchcock & Hawks
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 23, 2012 at 12:35 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Art films like this that are not widely shown
Samsara
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp967Y...
And socially conscious films like this:
Forks Over Knives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7ijuk...
MarkMark (anonymous profile)
August 24, 2012 at 11:18 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A Pasolini Festival
I'll pass on the "socially conscious" snoozefest
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 24, 2012 at 11:32 a.m. (Suggest removal)
A Hitchcock festival --- especially Strangers on a Train and other less frequently mentioned films.
Also: a shorts program.
at_large (anonymous profile)
August 25, 2012 at 9:12 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Bring on The Duke!
Num1UofAn (anonymous profile)
August 25, 2012 at 3:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hitchcock!
sblinda (anonymous profile)
August 25, 2012 at 7:49 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How about a Hitchcock-Lang-DePalma salute.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 25, 2012 at 8:36 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I think these summer screenings really enrich the quality of life here. I gripe but it's only because certain standards were set in the past.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 25, 2012 at 8:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How about all local films?
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
August 26, 2012 at 12:59 a.m. (Suggest removal)
jazz documentaries
ahem (anonymous profile)
August 26, 2012 at 7:38 p.m. (Suggest removal)
All the Christopher Guest ensemble comedies (including This Is Spinal Tap, of course).
For Best In Show, people could bring their dogs.
mtndriver (anonymous profile)
August 28, 2012 at 4:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Toad fliks
tlacuache (anonymous profile)
August 29, 2012 at 7:57 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Two ideas
Kevin Bacon films or
films starring Santa Barbara actors
GB72 (anonymous profile)
October 6, 2012 at 12:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Better yet, films made by local Santa Barbarans.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
October 6, 2012 at 12:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)