Someone screwed up. Sundance Channel was supposed to run the 1970 movie, The Projectionist, this morning. And right there on the TiVo listing, it says that it's that movie, starring Chuck McCann, Rodney Dangerfield and Ina Balin. But if you were sharper than some of us, you'd have noticed it gave the running time as 20 minutes, which is not the length of that great movie. Turns out, what they actually ran was a short film from 2002 that happened to have the same title. We are not happy.
Fortunately, you can purchase what I think is the right version from the folks at Amazon by clicking this link. At least, they give the running time for the DVD as 85 minutes, which is correct. If you're unfamiliar with this clever film, you might want to take the gamble that the one they're selling is the one with Chuck and Rodney. It's the story of a nerdy projectionist and it utilizes clips from old films and…well, you kind of have to see it to understand what the filmmakers had in mind. And I'll be talking about it and many other things when I interview Chuck on Friday afternoon at the Comic-Con International.