{"id":2013,"date":"2013-12-23T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2013-12-24T01:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2013-12-23T17:16:55","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T01:16:55","slug":"notebook-on-cities-and-culture-s4e17-off-cinema-on-radhusstraede-with-jack-stevenson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Notebook on Cities and Culture S4E17: Off Cinema on R\u00e5dhusstr\u00e6de with Jack Stevenson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2014\" style=\"margin: 5px; border: 0px;\" title=\"jackstevenson\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jackstevenson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jackstevenson.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/jackstevenson-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Colin Marshall sits down at Copenhagen&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huset-kbh.dk\">Husets Biograf<\/a> with Jack Stevenson, programmer of the theater and author of books on both Scandinavian and American film. They discuss Lars von Trier as the world&#8217;s representative of Danish cinema; the difficulty of creating scandal within unshockable Denmark; revival theaters across the world as a nation of their own; the film education he drew from haunting the revival houses of Boston; his plan to serve ten White Russians during a screening of <em>The Big Lebowski<\/em>; Copenhagen as Scandinavia&#8217;s most &#8220;real urban environment&#8221; in which to show films; the slow emergence of the strengths of the current generation of independent cinemas; the question asked about both Denmark and Korea, &#8220;How does that small country make such interesting films?&#8221;; his own introduction to Danish film, through Lars von Trier and others; how, in the era in America when &#8220;Scandinavian movie&#8221; meant, more or less, &#8220;porno movie,&#8221; Danish film helped make porn chic; the ideal grind house experience evoked by Jack Kerouac in <em>On the Road<\/em>; the days when every train station in Germany, &#8220;a special place,&#8221; had a porno theater;\u00a0America&#8217;s lack of an &#8220;off cinema&#8221; scene like the ones in European countries; why Danes can&#8217;t accept film noir (and don&#8217;t know about soul food); the history of the Husets Biograf&#8217;s 19th-century industrial building, overtaken by anarchist squatters in the sixties; the surprises of filmgoing in Brussels; his resolve to program Halloween shows in the face of Danish indifference to Halloween; and his current work with traditional Danish ghost stories.<\/p>\n<p>Download the interview\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/colinmarshall\/NCC_S4E17_Jack_Stevenson.mp3\">here as an MP3<\/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 at Copenhagen&#8217;s Husets Biograf with Jack Stevenson, programmer of the theater and author of books on both Scandinavian and American film. 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