And walking into Rosefelt's office is like entering some sacred film temple. Photographs of everyone from Hal Hartley , Errol Morris , and Jim Jarmusch to Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Jeanne Moreau and Gerard Depardieu cover the back wall. Eugene Hernandez and Mark Rabinowitz recently spoke with Rosefelt in the star-studded offices of Magic Lantern in midtown Manhattan about Jim, Sundance , Miramax , marketing, and magazines. And Sundance means that when you make a film, if you can get it done in time and they can pick you, the whole world is going to come in and look at you.
People keep focusing on how that's changed, spending more money or striving for larger results.
People all over the country who had theaters were people who wanted to bring out movies that they wanted to play in their theaters. But I'm speaking of specialty films, and there are exceptions to this. But generally, a good portion of these people, Meyer Ackerman who had the 68th Street Playhouse , had a distribution company. And guess what, we played the films in his theater. And a lot of the New Yorker films would play at the Cinema Studio and later on, as now, they open at the Lincoln Plaza .