Landmark in bloom at BAM Rose
Freed takes booking chores
The booking chores for the four- screen BAM Rose are now handled out of L.A. by Landmark Theater's VP and film buyer Doug Freed.
The BAM Rose's first three Landmark-booked films, "Hands on a Hard Body," "Lovers of the Arctic Circle" and "Windhorse," open today.
At the same time it has been hired to book the BAM Rose, Landmark continues construction on the five-screen arthouse Sunshine Cinemas on Houston and 2nd Ave., which it owns and will operate.
That theater should be operational toward the end of the year, and Fried promises that programming at the two Landmark venues will compliment each other.
Talbot, who had been hired exclusively for the Rose's launch and had never intended to remain there as full- time booker, had recommended Freed and Landmark to BAM president Harvey Lichtenstein.
According to Freed and Talbot, the only noticeable change in films played at the Rose will play will take place midsummer, when one of the four screens becomes a calendar screen, featuring classic American and foreign films.
BAM film curator Florence Almozini, who had previously booked the Ocularis in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, will be in charge of programming the repertory screen.
It will open July 1 with a 30-day, 15-film, Spike Lee retrospective, "Summer of Spike."
Talbot will continue to serve the BAM Rose as consultant.
