{"id":1170,"date":"2012-12-02T04:45:49","date_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2012-12-02T04:47:20","modified_gmt":"2012-12-02T12:47:20","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s2e23-stumptown-shaolin-with-dan-halsted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=1170","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S2E23: Stumptown Shaolin with Dan Halsted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1171\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"PENTAX Image\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/halsted.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down in the basement of Portland&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/hollywoodtheatre.org\/\">Hollywood Theatre<\/a> with Dan Halsted, head programmer there and founder of the <a href=\"http:\/\/35mmshaolinarchive.com\/\">35mm Shaolin Archive<\/a>. They discuss fake Bruce Lee films; his adventure of rescuing classic kung-fu film prints, including gems like <em>The Eight Diagram Pole Fighter<\/em>\u00a0and <em>The\u00a0Boxer&#8217;s Omen<\/em>\u00a0from a shuttered, junkie-surrounded theater in Vancouver; his youth in a distant Oregon town with 600 people, his move to Portland, and his discovery of kung-fu cinema; how much more kung-fu movies offer than the fighting; the advantageous openmindedness of Portland filmgoing culture; exploitation films and Quentin Tarantino&#8217;s high-profile love thereof; how different cities react to kung-fu movies, like the robust Chinese turnout in San Francisco or the disappointing attendance in St. Louis; kung-fu movies as a gateway to Chinese culture; <em>36 Chamber of Shaolin<\/em>\u00a0as a gateway to kung-fu movies; the evaporation of celluloid film, and the apparently dramatic shift in the way those under age twenty experience cinema; the various meanings of terms like &#8220;exploitation&#8221; and &#8220;grindhouse,&#8221; and how the attendant concepts cannot be separated from the seventies, a time when Hollywood acted serious and independent film acted frivolous; what Portland&#8217;s smallness affords a film programmer; why audiences sometimes prefer watching a beaten-up print to a pristine one; how Portland has successfully integrated food and alcohol with filmgoing; his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/local\/City-to-pay-man-250000-after-police-mistake-him-as-a-tagger-149012465.html\">experience getting tased<\/a>, and how the Portland police force, known for its own aggression, tried to use kung-fu movies against him in court; and his never-ending task of pushing outward the limits of local film taste.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview from\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e23-stumptown-shaolin-with-dan-halsted\">Notebook on Cities and Culture<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/colinmarshall.libsyn.com\/s2e23-stumptown-shaolin-with-dan-halsted\">\u2019s feed<\/a>\u00a0or on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/notebook-on-cities-culture\/id266539442\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colin Marshall sits down in the basement of Portland&#8217;s Hollywood Theatre with Dan Halsted, head programmer there and founder of the 35mm Shaolin Archive. 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