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If you are of blog-reading age there is a good chance you either didn't see Star Wars in its initial theatrical release or were taken by your parents not too long after kicking that whole toilet-training thing.

, perhaps the most well known work of the great Russian master, and film student hero, Dziga Vertov. Tonight's program is called 'City of Ruttmann/City of Vertov' and will feature a discussion with film prof about town Seth Feldman. Tomorrow's program 'Absolute Film in Berlin 1925,' is all about the confluence of abstract film and that year, and other superimportant ideas. Best of all, the screenings only cost five bucks - that's your reduced Famous Players pirce halved by the munificent gods of low-cost-high-art screenings.

Call off the boycott, brothers and sisters. According to the Globe and Mail, Famous Players has dropped the same-sex marriage ads from their theatres. The "issue-driven" adverts have been pulled from 79 theatres after threats were made to the Players staff. Though the ads have ceased, the Calgary-based still wants to see balance in movie theatres, and is demanding Famous Players run an anti-same-sex marriage ad.

The casualty buried amidst the revelation of new low prices is cheapskate Tuesday. Indeed, that early week staple day of cost-effective cinema is no more. What's more, Famous Players has done this before. Here's hoping the frugal film fares aren't just a temporary way to sucker audiences back in before jacking prices up again. And here's double hoping this doesn't influence burrito prices at the Paramount's flagship fastfood emporium, Taco Bell.