In addition, for four of those six years, the partners ran a small, first-run art house, the Roxy Screening Room, also located in Center City Philadelphia. For the next six years the TLA was a repertory art movie theater. In 1981, the founding partners of TLA Entertainment Group (Raymond Murray, Claire Brown-Kohler, Alex Roberts and Roman Czenchtuch) īy the mid- to late-60s, funding for the Theater was running out and the theater was converted to a movie house showing an eclectic mix of classic and foreign films. The group included Danny DeVito, Judd Hirsch, Sally Kirkland and Ron Leibman who performed exclusively in the Theater of the Living Arts on South Street in Philadelphia. Now a concert venue, it was founded as an experimental theater group in the 1960s under the direction of Andre Gregory (of My Dinner with Andre fame). TLA stands for Theatre of the Living Arts. The catalog began as a pornographic mail order business and grew to include also gay and lesbian non-pornographic films and books and mainstream films.

Originally formed to operate a repertory movie theater, the company subsequently moved into catalog and online sales, retail stores, film festivals and film distribution.

TLA Entertainment Group is a privately held corporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sorry, there is a difference.” So far, wine fans have been kind to Sideways, even though it echoes Gopnik at points-perhaps this is the best testament to how winning the movie is.Privately held corporation based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania … I have been pleasantly drunk on fine wine and cheap lager. “The twin pleasures of the wine and its alcohol combine to produce an intoxicating effect, but to collapse the former into the latter is to effect a fruitless reduction. In online chat rooms, aggrieved wine lovers weighed in: “The enjoyment of wine qua wine, distinct from the joy of imbibing alcohol to get drunk, seems lost on Mr. (Miles is forever getting tanked and nursing hangovers.) In The New Yorker’s recent food issue, Adam Gopnik caused some gnashing of teeth among oenophiles when he claimed that the rituals and rigors of wine appreciation are essentially a smokescreen, a way of prettifying the grubby business of getting bombed. It suggests that all the sniffing, swilling, and pontificating is ultimately BS and that, even for an aficionado like Miles, the real point of tasting fine wine is to catch a nice buzz.

Sideways casts a bemused eye at wine geek culture generally.

Images in the Dark by Raymond Murray