An avant-garde film sustained near-continuous Manhattan screenings for eight straight months.

Evidence

From October 1966 through May 1967, when Warhol and company brought The Chelsea Girls to the Cannes Film Festival (where, although invited, it did not have a public screening), there was scarcely a week when their movie was not pushing its reckless thing somewhere in Manhattan. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 948

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s argument about material conditions for avant-garde density — a market that could sustain eight months of continuous screenings in one city.