Our definition of a good movie is likely to be very different than other people's definition of a good movie. It's not a chic flick. It's not a big action movie. It is powerful. It does make us think. I know we've seen a great movie if we talk about it the entire way home and as we take our evening walk. It's a movie that stirs the heart, that isn't so predictable you see everything falling into place like a puzzle for a kid. Our puzzle is difficult - it has double-sided pieces with no edges.
The whole movie-going experience is fun. Our favorite theaters are The Rialto and Colony. They serve beer and wine and they have incredibly good, fresh popcorn. You walk into these theaters and you are walking back in time. Colony has 70s psychedelic shag carpeting on the walls. Rialto is a really old theater that has a stage down front. (and on Friday's at midnight, you can catch Rocky Horror Picture Show here. man do I feel old when I walk out of a late movie on a Friday night.) But, they play our kinds of movies and have friendly people who remember us. We love these places.
We saw one of those movies tonight. It was called After the Wedding. It was a Danish film and in subtitles. It definitely was a good movie -- very well filmed, very well acted, and very worth seeing. It was complicated. I won't give it away, in case you wanted to go.
Most people have never heard of our movies. We're OK with that. We never have to worry about tickets being sold out. We can just experience our movie, have our wine, eat our popcorn with the other people who like our movies.
Sometimes a movie comes along that you just have to tell others to see. And when it does, I'm happy to talk about our movies.... to educate about a good movie. Plus, it keeps our theatres around. In the meantime, we'll just take all the great films we can get... and we'll stay away from those mainstream kids puzzles.
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