November 13, 2009
Parking Is But One Benefit; or, the Future of a Revival House
The other Michael Phillips in town wrote an article about this weekend's show at the Bank of America Cinema, for which I program and project. The movie is the trippy Dr. Seuss musical The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, and the parking lot is, indeed, large and free. (But it wasn't the only thing we talked about.)
After that appeared on his blog, word came down from the top that I can program another six-month calendar, so we'll have movies at least until June 2010. After that, who knows. You can possibly affect the future by coming out to the movies and bringing your friends.
Here's the rest of this year's schedule:
November 14 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953, Roy Rowland)
November 21 - The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1946, Preston Sturges)
November 28 - Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
December 5 - Rose-Marie: Indian Love Call (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)
December 12 - Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)
December 19 - Scrooge (1951, Brian Desmond Hurst)
November 7, 2009
Lovers and Fathers and Baby Seals
Recent reviews over at the homefront:
Steven Soderbergh's The Girlfriend Experiment... I mean, Experience, is all shiny surface, and it works until it tries to dig a little deeper.
Bobcat Goldthwaite's World's Greatest Dad is so agonizingly funny and uncomfortable that I started to feel as if I had done something wrong and was about to be punished.
The Norwegian kids' movie SOS: Summer of Suspense features great kid actors, a screenplay that doesn't talk down to kids or stuff in inappropriate innuendo for adults, and a really cute baby seal.