# Need a name for a serious film discussion group **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769 "2020-08-22T19:37:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/21 "2020-08-22T22:35:26Z")
Front Row Balcony The Mezzanine Down in Front! The Aisle Seats Illuzion (The name of a famous Stalin-era cinema in Moscow. It has a huge inventory of foreign films, many of which were brought back as loot after WWII.) ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/22 "2020-08-22T22:37:20Z")
Auteurist ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/23 "2020-08-22T22:46:32Z")
Magic Lantern Moving Pictures Zoetrope Edison Company Odeon Peep Show ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/24 "2020-08-22T22:56:57Z")
_No, The Kind Where They Don’t Sell Popcorn_ ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/25 "2020-08-22T23:02:40Z")
Hey, @lissener! Nice to see you back. I still make [your grandmother’s haloushke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-stupid-simple-recipes-you-cant-believe-come-out-so-tasty/511411/34). Make it for your movie night! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/26 "2020-08-22T23:04:51Z")
Hot Buttered Popcorn Green River and Snorkels Raisinets (A nod to _ **Blazing Saddles** _.) ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/27 "2020-08-22T23:09:14Z")
[del]Pop[/del] Culture ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/28 "2020-08-22T23:23:34Z")
Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/29 "2020-08-22T23:34:31Z")
Films, Not Movies ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/30 "2020-08-22T23:44:02Z")
F-Stop The Screening Room The Cutting Room The Electric Theater (The first theater devoted solely to films, opened in Los Angeles in 1902.) ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/31 "2020-08-22T23:46:19Z")
Oooh I like The Cutting Room ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/32 "2020-08-23T00:51:23Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > Hey, @lissener! Nice to see you back. I still make [your grandmother’s haloushke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-stupid-simple-recipes-you-cant-believe-come-out-so-tasty/511411/34). Make it for your movie night! Hey! I just learned how to make that a couple of weeks ago! With homemade noodles too! No cottage cheese for me tho. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/33 "2020-08-23T06:10:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > > [@needscoffee](#): > > > > Hey, @lissener! Nice to see you back. I still make [your grandmother’s haloushke](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ridiculously-stupid-simple-recipes-you-cant-believe-come-out-so-tasty/511411/34). Make it for your movie night! > > Hey! I just learned how to make that a couple of weeks ago! With homemade noodles too! No cottage cheese for me tho Hah! I leave it out, too, because I never remember to buy it. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/34 "2020-08-23T06:13:30Z")
My last batch was with homemade noodles and homemade cottage cheese ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/35 "2020-08-23T06:19:46Z")
Ooh… Did you grow the cabbage, too? 😀 ---
**Author:** ![GreenWyvern](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/greenwyvern/32/2834_2.png) [@GreenWyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GreenWyvern)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/36 "2020-08-23T06:51:14Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Oooh I like The Cutting Room That’s genuinely the name of a hair salon near where I live! 😄 ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/37 "2020-08-23T11:22:27Z")
I’m talkin’ here! I’m talkin’ here! ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/38 "2020-08-23T11:50:45Z")
Auteurs R Us ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/39 "2020-08-23T14:59:35Z")
Silver Screens and Shouting Movietalk FIlmtalk Cineastes Cinefiles Cinemachat Moviemusings ---
**Author:** ![Galactus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galactus/32/3581_2.png) [@Galactus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Galactus)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2020, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/need-a-name-for-a-serious-film-discussion-group/918769/40 "2020-08-23T16:00:33Z")
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