"The Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s With Knives" Premiere
April 24, 2010
by emancipationofjamie
http://nyublogt.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/the-ticked-off-->-bleeped-<-s-with-knives-premiere/Last night Marc and I went to the midnight premiere of the controversial Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s with Knives, which played at the Village East Cinema as a part of the Tribeca Film Festival. A few protestors marched up and down the surrounding blocks on 2nd Avenue, signs in hand, to picket the film, but it didn't seem that they were much of a deterrent for any of the excited movie-goers. Besides for the small protest and the overwhelming police presence, with officers stationed right up to the entrance of the theater itself, the event felt more like any other movie premiere than the unveiling of a film that has been burning up the queer blogosphere for months.
Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s with Knives played in the extravagant main auditorium, which boasts stadium and balcony seating, in addition to a forty-foot ornamental ceiling with a lavish Star of David and chandelier in the center (the building opened in 1926 as the Yiddish Art Theater). I can only assume that all the hype over the film helped it earn the coveted location, rather than being shown in one of the six smaller theaters in the complex. It was a wise move on the part of the festival, because the audience, made up mostly of gay men, nearly filled the house.
