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Film at Eleven is the cable access television show in which Cinemonkey contributors Kerry Fall and D K Holm review current releases, and then are joined by Damon Houx of Binaryflix.com . The program airs Thursdays at 11 pm on Paragon Cable channel 21, in Portland, Oregon, and is repeated at 10:30 pm, Sundays, on channel 21, and then at 5 pm, Tuesdays, on channel 11.

Film at Eleven made its debut on Thursday April 8, 1999. Since then it has appeared every week on Portland cable access's Mount Hood Community College channels 21 and 11.

The hosts are Kerry Fall and D K Holm.

Fall has been a movie reviewer in Portland, Oregon for seven years, and reviewed for the monthly Woman's Journal for four years. Her KBOO radio show, Movie Talk, which she co-hosts with Ed Goldberg, airs the second and fourth Wednesday of every month at 9:00 am. In addition, she writes weekly reviews for the DVDJournal.com. Fall grew up in Northern California and graduated from Evergreen State college. She currently runs her own marketing firm in Portland, Oregon: KF Guerrilla Marketing.

D K Holm was co-editor of Cinemonkey magazine in the late '70s, with Carl Bennett. He attended David Douglas High School, Portland State University, and the University of Oregon. He wrote weekly movie reviews for Willamette Week from 1985 to 1995, and then from 1995 to 1999 he was the movie reviewer for PDXS newspaper.

Film at Eleven tapes every Sunday night at the Aalto Lounge in Southeast Portland (after two years at the still beloved Berbati in downtown Portland) for broadcast three times the following weekend. The program is directed by Matthew Clark, who has 20 years experience in television production (and is a rabid Dr. Who fan), and edited by Clark and the show's producer Cindy Matson. Matson, whose father Dan Mason was a longtime KPTV and KOIN television employee in Portland, Oregon, who has had a long career as a hair dresser and makeup artist in movies and advertising. Among her claims to fame is being an extra in the modern remake of King Kong (she's the one running away in the red sweater). She was also once interviewed by Otto Preminger for a role in a movie about Moshe Dayan (which was never produced).

The premise of Film at Eleven is simple. Three ordinary people sitting at a bar discussing movies the way real film buffs do, over a beer, and with all the contempt or enthusiasm that real people do.

Among the notable shows that have aired are whole episodes dedicated to Eyes Wide Shut, Run Lola Run, the "first" Star Wars episode, the Kubrick and Die Hard boxed DVD sets, along with exclusive interviews with Troma's Lloyd Kaufman, and Indian playwright and director Mahesh Dattani, an interview with Willamette Week's David Walker, a show dedicated to Ghost World, and to the disc, The Matrix Revisited, year end shows about the best movies and DVDs, and a DVD primer.

Updates of what is to be reviewed each week can be found on Cinemonkey's Film Chat page.

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