I STILL need some help with organising this end of "Film night"!

Can you tell me a bit more about film night in general? This is the first iv'e got wind of it. interested.

I used to attend a weekly film night run on a Saturday evening by my dope dealer in the nineteen eighties.

As an undiagnosed Aspergery kid trying to come to terms with a very difficult life I found it to be an oasis where I could go and be with a load of people without all that boring small talk.

AND IT WAS FREE, most important for a poor person that is. 

When reading of some other people here's general lack of social opportunity (and in some cases skills) and having recently used zoom to keep a mate who's wife had died in a foreign country and who had other problems living in my garage in a virtual way for a few weeks, I believed I could see a way of watching a bucket load of really good films AND giving a bunch of isolated souls an opportunity to expose themselves socially and safely to others.

With Zoom etc. You don't HAVE to share video or sound, the least socially adapted could just watch the film and listen to other peoples conversations for weeks on end I thought, but eventually, people would want to say something about the film I reasoned, then maybe people who normally live in splendid isolation might find themselves eased in to things a bit. etc.

I only had about ten or so films that I know to be "universally good" and since the service wasn't attended by strangers me and my mate took breaks whenever we wanted, talked across the film etc, but the good films people DON;T talk across.

That's how you know they are good. and I've got quite a few now. We are just about to filter out the experimental ones that don't make the grade last year and see how many I actually do have. 

It takes a special sort of person I found to persistenlty advertise the weeks film, remind people of how it works and keep the post bumped up the listings so it can be seen, and whilst I tried quite hard last year, it seems I am not that person. 

I enlisted a non spergy friend to help me remember each week to "put the bloody film on" (what I sought for myself out of the excercise, was an asessment of how reliable I can be, when not being paid a lot of money to be..) and when film nght failed it turned out that HE really looked forwards to it, so since he is a good, (honest and helpful, useful, and he finds me useful, type of) friend, I kept it going last year for his beneoft and actually came to enjoy it myself. 

And yes, this year I plan to watch most of the films again! (just phoned him to confirm that he actually wants to do it all again) and later tonight we will winnow down the shelf to the "brilliant" films, sort out the order of the first half a dozen and make a shopping list for the next years "experimental" section. but some films like "caveman" and "tomorrow I shall be scalding myself with tea" and "galaxy quest" will ALWAYS make the cut... 

I used to attend a weekly film night run on a Saturday evening by my dope dealer in the nineteen eighties.

As an undiagnosed Aspergery kid trying to come to terms with a very difficult life I found it to be an oasis where I could go and be with a load of people without all that boring small talk.

AND IT WAS FREE, most important for a poor person that is. 

When reading of some other people here's general lack of social opportunity (and in some cases skills) and having recently used zoom to keep a mate who's wife had died in a foreign country and who had other problems living in my garage in a virtual way for a few weeks, I believed I could see a way of watching a bucket load of really good films AND giving a bunch of isolated souls an opportunity to expose themselves socially and safely to others.

With Zoom etc. You don't HAVE to share video or sound, the least socially adapted could just watch the film and listen to other peoples conversations for weeks on end I thought, but eventually, people would want to say something about the film I reasoned, then maybe people who normally live in splendid isolation might find themselves eased in to things a bit. etc.

I only had about ten or so films that I know to be "universally good" and since the service wasn't attended by strangers me and my mate took breaks whenever we wanted, talked across the film etc, but the good films people DON;T talk across.

That's how you know they are good. and I've got quite a few now. We are just about to filter out the experimental ones that don't make the grade last year and see how many I actually do have. 

It takes a special sort of person I found to persistenlty advertise the weeks film, remind people of how it works and keep the post bumped up the listings so it can be seen, and whilst I tried quite hard last year, it seems I am not that person. 

I enlisted a non spergy friend to help me remember each week to "put the bloody film on" (what I sought for myself out of the excercise, was an asessment of how reliable I can be, when not being paid a lot of money to be..) and when film nght failed it turned out that HE really looked forwards to it, so since he is a good, (honest and helpful, useful, and he finds me useful, type of) friend, I kept it going last year for his beneoft and actually came to enjoy it myself. 

And yes, this year I plan to watch most of the films again! (just phoned him to confirm that he actually wants to do it all again) and later tonight we will winnow down the shelf to the "brilliant" films, sort out the order of the first half a dozen and make a shopping list for the next years "experimental" section. but some films like "caveman" and "tomorrow I shall be scalding myself with tea" and "galaxy quest" will ALWAYS make the cut...