Saw it @ the Beverly Arts Center avec Gf. Gf and I were supposed to go to see - are you ready?- "No Country for Old Men" in La Grange, but I'd forgotten to return DVD's from the lib so we decided (well, I decided) to catch this film instead. She came over and we heated up what she'd cooked the day before and enjoyed leftovers.
Beverly Arts Center is a relatively new building that was built in the 'hood to replace the old dilapidated B.A.C. It's built on the corner of 111th and Western - a high profile 'four corners' area that they have tried to keep urban after one of the sides was parking lotted. Not a bad building but not the most beautiful. They fronted it to the sidewalk, meaning it's 'walking city' friendly. The huge parking lot they partially hid on 111th. And it's lots of brick. But I would never say that it's perfect building. Bulky a bit too much, and not enough windows.
Inside, there was a revelation. It's been built to house art stuff, and it would seem natural that there would be a stage. And there was - a big one that is totally good towards the cinmea as well. Seats are not as bedlike as in a ciniplex, but doable for 2h. And they had a balcony !! I'm glad they built it in our hood, and on a conspicuous corner.
And the crowd?? On Wednesdays they now show films that are hard to come by in the hood. (((Funny, where I grew up, there were two movie palaces less than 1/2 miles away (the Marquette and the Colony), plus one less than a mile away that hard been converted to porn by the time I was in later grammar school (Name, guys??). Then there was the Brighton, a small bus ride away on Archer. Only the Colony still exists as a building, and it's not shown a film in years. marquette parks gotta figger it out before they destroy this beautiful urban structure. ))) So it was an interesting mix of youngsters and retirees. Cost $7 a ticket - not cheap in my book for what is essentially a second run place - but cheap enough.
And the movie?? Great. I'd read the Peresoplis books a few years back and totally loved them. Read them, but also see the movie. The movie has lots of great war scenes. Great !!
also = in case you had forgotten ( #4 and #5)
Beverly Arts Center is a relatively new building that was built in the 'hood to replace the old dilapidated B.A.C. It's built on the corner of 111th and Western - a high profile 'four corners' area that they have tried to keep urban after one of the sides was parking lotted. Not a bad building but not the most beautiful. They fronted it to the sidewalk, meaning it's 'walking city' friendly. The huge parking lot they partially hid on 111th. And it's lots of brick. But I would never say that it's perfect building. Bulky a bit too much, and not enough windows.
Inside, there was a revelation. It's been built to house art stuff, and it would seem natural that there would be a stage. And there was - a big one that is totally good towards the cinmea as well. Seats are not as bedlike as in a ciniplex, but doable for 2h. And they had a balcony !! I'm glad they built it in our hood, and on a conspicuous corner.
And the crowd?? On Wednesdays they now show films that are hard to come by in the hood. (((Funny, where I grew up, there were two movie palaces less than 1/2 miles away (the Marquette and the Colony), plus one less than a mile away that hard been converted to porn by the time I was in later grammar school (Name, guys??). Then there was the Brighton, a small bus ride away on Archer. Only the Colony still exists as a building, and it's not shown a film in years. marquette parks gotta figger it out before they destroy this beautiful urban structure. ))) So it was an interesting mix of youngsters and retirees. Cost $7 a ticket - not cheap in my book for what is essentially a second run place - but cheap enough.
And the movie?? Great. I'd read the Peresoplis books a few years back and totally loved them. Read them, but also see the movie. The movie has lots of great war scenes. Great !!
also = in case you had forgotten ( #4 and #5)
2 comments:
I think it was called the Hi-Way?
I loved the Marquette, liked the Brighton, and hated the Colony (probably because the latter refused to let me in to see "The Gauntlet" when I was 11 years old).
Coulndn't run that guantlet, huh.
Hiway it was.
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