Five Easy Pieces

This was tough, but Nicholson's chicken salad sandwich scene helps this film classic easily beat out Slaughterhouse Five.  If memory serves, because I was only eleven when these films were first released, I saw both of these films as part of a retrospective double feature at an old movie theater in Uniondale, Long Island called the Mini Cinema (sort-of named after Groucho's Mother). It's also where I first saw Harold and Maude, Clockwork Orange, Where's Poppa, The Groove Tube, and Kentucky Fried Movie, all of which were R-rated and therefore out of the question to see when they were first released. Not to mention two X-rated ones, Last Tango In Paris and Midnight Cowboy. There was no place on earth like the Mini. 

Today's discussion in the office was whether or not to forego our film festival premiere for a public showing in Los Angeles at theaters at USC and UCLA. Last year's tactics to gain theatrical distribution tell us this isn't a good idea, but after getting rejected by top festivals about a half dozen times we're getting antsy. We're just looking to create some buzz, and if we can make it fun and stay out of trouble, it could be a very pro active thing to do.