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Premiere night program notes 11/2/95 |
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Start Talking |
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The first person I met when I arrived in S.F. in 1978 was Lowell Williams. He ran a super 8 showcase called Off The Wall Cinema and showed my first feature legnth film at the now defunct Above Board Theatre where the natural smello-vision was the scent of freshly baked fortune cookies. He took me to his favorite restuarants and generally made me feel comfortable in a new city. Lowell became a wine sleuth, drove a Greyhound bus and operated a mail-order record business called Radioactive Records. We remained friends through the years and Lowell was unquestionably a good one. When the going got tough for him I was happy to have a chance to help out.
The soundtrack is taken from Lowell's answering machine. The support in the voices of his friends and neighbors inspired me to finish the film. The title is Lowell's as well as the occasional spinning captions. And though absent, he still gets in the last word.
Lowell's Off The Wall Cinema had presented several shows at The Roxie Theatre so it seemed only fitting that this film memento be shown here tonight. Musical accompaniment by Nik Phelps. |
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"The grey fox! We're waiting for you." |
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Fortune Cookie |
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Hey Lowell,
Where did you go?
Wasn't it just yesterday we met?
"Hello. Off The Wall Cinema -
A super 8 feature?
Never heard of such a thing.
Let's show it!"
Above Board,
The smell of fortune cookies...
(Please don't read yours.)
Restaurants and movie houses,
Now relics of a friendship-
Fade-out.
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