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BIG SCREEN SHOWING - L.A. August 24

posted 16 years ago by quikpencil
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Just got back from a visit to the Los Angeles Natural History Museum. Seems they are having showing of THEM on a big screen on SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, at 2:00 pm at the JEAN DELACOUR AUDITORIUM. Though the theatre is attached to the museum its got a seperate entrance closer to the big parking lot ( I know that sounds like too much detail but it is kind of hidden back in a cubby-hole). I thought a little heads-up might help.

If you noticed its at a strange time...its at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. I havent been in the auditorium ( they were running TARANTULA today) but I asked and it seats about 500 people. Sounds cool because its a really classy structure so I assume that the screen for that many people wont be like dropping in at your local multi-plex shoebox. For more info you could go to www.nhm.org/weekends . Its through a series called "B-Movies and BAD SCIENCE!!"

[–] screenman 16 years ago

Thanx for the tip, mate. However, it seems like a long way to go to the cinema from London, England. Pity our own museums aren't a bit more imaginative.

[–] quikpencil 16 years ago

LOL...You know if I had that "Bill Gates" money I'd fly you over in a heart-beat. Any fan of this flick must be a true gentleman deserving of all things great and good in the universe. Cheers mate!!

[–] humbleradio 16 years ago

I'm grateful they're playing it. But I resent the smugness of the series' title, though not surprised by it.
Filmmakers themselves never make fun of the work of others. If they're genuine talents. Only critics, students, and other smug individuals poke fun, or try to, to older movies, making clever statements, they think, about the 'oh so foolish, and naive' professionals of the past.

I can only guess that these same folks probably think the 'science' of global warming is more valid than the entomology expressed in THEM!?

Of course, the fact that the insects have grown is a bit outrageous. But so are a lot of things. It was a fine story, and a scary movie. What more do they want? Reality? Wouldn't it be kind of missing the point then?

Harvard Brattle theater in Cambridge similarly insults old classics, yet screens them with bravado. They actually had the audacity to do a double feature of Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove. Playing Strangelove first. Brilliant. The entire audience was laughing through the horrors implied in Fail Safe. Real brains at work there.

I can only imagine how ridiculous the 'hard science' films of today will look to audiences in 70 years.

Hopefully, the audience in L.A. wasn't snickering and chuckling, like they so often do when watching old movies, particularly so, if the audience is 'educated' as found near universities.

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