— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
The smaller, neighborhood-focused Dolores Park Movie Nights have been going down on Thursday nights for years, giving us all a chance to watch iconic old movies while eating fresh popcorn and drinking cheap wine. But as many have noticed, the event hasn't been happening since last fall. Dolores Park Works caught up with one of the promoters, who confirmed the event is over for the time being:
“We have decided not to produce the event this year for various reasons, among them being the park renovation, cost, and different priorities amongst the team members.”
DPMN always seemed to be a DIY effort with low key calls for funds and the “boys” always seeming to get it do somehow. But now they were calling for a break. ”We need to regroup and see if we are jazzed to make a commitment for our regular April-October timeframe next year.” Sean wrote. ”It was a great 6 year run for us, and we enjoyed it.”
Comments (4)
San Francisco is a fleeting, bitter mistress. I would have thought you guys would have figured that out by now. Thanks for the memories, thanks for the movies, thanks for growing on and moving on. Otherwise it would have become The San Francisco Movie Troupe and showed the same one movie over and over like Rocky Horror.
What Movie? My bet would be something low brow like Dirty Harry.
I see you’ve been to the Huffington Post seminar on “How to Make a Sensationalized Headline”. Nice job turning “We have decided not to produce the event this year” into “DOLORES PARK MOVIE NIGHT NO MORE FOREVARRRR!!!!”
Yes, Let’s all pour a tallboy out for poor old Dolores Park because we’re too impatient to wait a year while the city does it’s job and makes improvements to our so called “national treasure” and too lazy to go visit many of the other fine parks in this city.
Glad to someone’s on top of this one. I also tried e-mailing them and got no response.
The sad thing about Dolores Park Movie Night is it went from being a small, fun event to a clusterfuck. You couldn’t even hear the movie because there were too many people who were all talking too loud. It might as well have been renamed “Pretend it’s Saturday Afternoon on a Thursday Night in Dolores Park.”
they were at least a responsible event group in the park, they’d always clean up after unlike 90% of the events there.
I hope that a permanent stage, or at least the foundation/tiedowns for a movie screen gets built in phase II of the renovation