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Interests: Candlepins, frappes and mocking the pathetic Boston accents of out-of-town actors.
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Cool, Jan. Thanks for the info!
Commented Apr 17, 2010 on 'Billy in the Lowlands' tonight! at 'Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond' by Paul Sherman -- Web special: $12 including shipping!
'Billy in the Lowlands' tonight!
LAST NIGHT, A SMALL but appreciative audience at the Brattle Theater got to see the first local screening of Kate Davis' Girltalk in many years. Up tonight at the Brattle is Jan Egleson's groundbreaking Billy in the Lowlands, the most influential indie film ever made in Boston. Full of locations...
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Mar 15, 2010
Better late than never... I know the Jan Egleson, the writer-director, is exploring ways to get those movies out on DVD. By the way, the Faces building is still sitting there, unoccupied, as it has been for the past 25 years. Just getting more decrepit as each day passes.
Commented Feb 23, 2010 on 'Billy in the Lowlands' tonight! at 'Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond' by Paul Sherman -- Web special: $12 including shipping!
'Billy in the Lowlands' tonight!
LAST NIGHT, A SMALL but appreciative audience at the Brattle Theater got to see the first local screening of Kate Davis' Girltalk in many years. Up tonight at the Brattle is Jan Egleson's groundbreaking Billy in the Lowlands, the most influential indie film ever made in Boston. Full of locations...
Cool. Which part did he play in Walk East?
Commented Sep 24, 2009 on 'Walk East on Beacon!' reactions at 'Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond' by Paul Sherman -- Web special: $12 including shipping!
'Walk East on Beacon!' reactions
So... now that the little-seen (and not on VHS/DVD) Walk East on Beacon! has had its TCM airing, I'm interesting in hearing people's reaction to Boston's unwitting contribution to the early 1950s' Red Scare. Let's get some comments going here. Also--sales pitch time--click on the PayPal recta...
Netflix has it, and you should also be able to find it inexpensively on eBay. It's definitely Boston-movie buried treasure.
Commented Apr 2, 2009 on Book excerpt: 'The Blue Diner' at 'Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond' by Paul Sherman -- Web special: $12 including shipping!
Book excerpt: 'The Blue Diner'
Those really familiar with Boston independent moviemaking know that Jan Egleson mounted the first sustained attempt at making homegrown fiction features in the area. His Billy in the Lowlands and The Dark End of the Street are the best of the "Beanstreet movies" of the late 1970s and early 1980s...
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