On the plus side, we do have THIS going on:
THE BELOIT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
We went down to Bagels & More on Friday night to see GOD IS AMERICAN, a film about the John Frum religion on Tana. The treatment of the movement in the film was very superficial and manipulative, but the footage was great, including sequences of Mount Yasur and the cinder plain, and the annual ceremonial parade and flag-raising. Very cool stuff.
The other short feature, THE WAITLIST, frankly sucked. It's a tepid, stupid movie featuring dozens of selfish dimwits with more money than brains talking about their precious films. For instance, the 'filmmakers' ask people what their favorite 'film' is, leading to cringe-inducing monologues from 'hip film majors'. Dumb, dumb, dumb.
But over the weekend Central Christian Church is opening their state-of-the-art auditorium for movie presentations, and is presenting kids' movies for free, so L and I are goin' to the movies!
So exciting. Though, sadly, on the news today they were talking about "Man on Wire" as the best film nobody saw.. What? *sad face*
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen it, but then to see anything other than blockbusters and kids' movies I have to drive to either Madison, Milwaukee, or Chicago, which rarely happens during the school year.
ReplyDeleteI get most of my less mainstream movies off Netflix, and then have no-one to discuss them with anyway. The cultural hazards of living in a backwater.