My new @FilmComment column is up. All about watching movies with an audience. Nothing quite like it. Anecdotes a-plenty. filmcomment.com/blog/present-t… 
@FilmComment Hopefully you can segue from Charles Manson up the chimney to Jeanne Dielman. Welcome to my world. This column was inspired by some thoughts I shared here a while back about Wolf of Wall Street and THAT SCENE.
@FilmComment The Jeanne Dielman anecdote is my favorite.
@FilmComment But I loved the woman screaming during NOTORIOUS too. The look on Grant's face ... the whole audience felt it.
@FilmComment And the WAITING FOR LEFTY anecdote is one of my favorite "spontaneous audience eruptions" stories, although there are many other candidates.
@FilmComment and seeing DO THE RIGHT THING on its opening weekend - when I was living in Philadelphia (w/aforementioned boyfriend from the Halloween thread, i.e. Atlas) ... It seriously was one of the most exciting atmospheres I've ever felt in a movie theatre.
@FilmComment All of the above I mention in the column. I would love to hear your stories - not just stuff like "this lady talked all the way through Shoah" - although if that's what you've got, I'll take it - but also when an audience fed into the experience in a positive way!
@FilmComment Or, as in my Wolf of Wall Street story: if a movie seemed like a totally different movie when you saw it alone as opposed to seeing it with a group. Bring it!
