As we reported final week, the NYC-based, cinema worker-centric zine Cashiers Du Cinéma has curated a 10-film program at Brooklyn’s BAM Cinema that spotlights the oft-unappreciated labor of entrance of home theater employees. At present, filmmaker David Cardoza shares an unique promo for our readers that stars Invoice Heidbreder, a NY author/critic and topic of the 2002 documentary Cinemania.

The promo options Heidbreder donning a film usher’s crimson vest, black sun shades and a microphone headset as he implores commuters within the sixth Ave subway tunnel to take a look at the BAM collection, which is entitled Cinéma Du Cashiers and runs from February 13-19.

“You may acknowledge me—I’m the one who makes the popcorn,” Heidbreder beams at bemused passerby as he palms out flyers designed by Cardoza and Dan Welch, co-editors of Cashiers. “And I sweep the ground—I’m a theater employee.”

The trivia of the job is actually a spotlight of a number of of the movies programmed within the collection, together with The Projectionist (1970), Murmur of Youth (1997) and The Smallest Present on Earth (1957). A number of movies may even be accompanied by readings from Cashiers contributors: A.T. Pratt will current earlier than the cineplex slasher Blood Theater on February 13; Josh Bayer will converse forward of applicable V-Day choose Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore; Katie Lane will introduce Simone Barbès or Advantage on February 15; and J. Malzone will shut the collection out along with his riveting “movie show toilet dissertation” on February 19.

“No one works tougher than me for cinema,” Heidbreder concludes. “I’m the face of the flicks.” Contemplating that he additionally stars in Cardoza’s 2025 quick Life within the Cage, which will display forward of Bette Gordon’s Selection (1983), it might seem that I can’t argue with that!