1. The Charles theater was crucial in the development of "underground film" in New York City. It's uninhibited selection process allowed the filmmaker from even the lowest depths of society reach a mass audience. These showings fueled ideas by which other filmmakers prospered. Their early film festival brought a wide array of artists together and encouraged discussion. These showings ignited a passion in artists, it sparked the idea that Hollywood did not have a monopoly on the market, that in America you could create a film of interest to you, without worrying about content, but with the full knowledge that you had a place to showcase your film. This film of yours, even if grotesque, would be, could be seen and that is what spurred the "underground film" sub-culture and that is why The Charles Theater was important to the movement.
2.Baudelairean Cinema is characterized by uninhibited sexual visuals, and dialogue, it is a cinema that brings to the forefront subject matter otherwise cast into the shadows. The cinema was a vehicle of change, that harnessed crudity and captured beauty. It is characteristically shocking, a form that word revolt, confuse the average viewer into territory far beyond a perplexed state.
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Worth noting that Mekas organized the Open Screenings at the Charles Theater. Also be sure you can be specific about the films and filmmakers associated with the Baudelairean Cinema
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