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Finding Forrester in Pagosa...
Mar. 16th, 2001 08:09 amPagosa Springs used to be a one-stoplight town, until someone finally decided that this one other particular intersection really, really needed a light, too. That does not detract from the charm of downtown, and I type "one-stoplight town" with reverence.
The town's movie house is the Liberty Theater. During the "high" tourist season, the business projects its feature twice nightly; during the rest of the year (the part we are in now), it's one show a day. Tuesdays are bargain night, where you can get in for - get this - $2.50, which is half the usual price.
The auditorium is somewhat smallish, and the seats are a little narrow for my frame, and if you stand up in the middle of a show, you're likely to project your shadow onto the screen...but it's a nice place. Back when I lived here in the early 90s, I rented an office suite above the theater, and still remember how the bass would reverberate through my floor for certain films on those nights when I stayed late at the office.
I had to call home to have someone come pick me up after closing yesterday; the car battery had died. Instead of going home, Galina suggested we go do something, so we decided to go see this week's feature, Finding Forrester, starring Sean Connery and newcomer Robert Brown as the two main characters. F. Murray Abraham plays an auxiliary role as an English teacher. The director, Gus Van Sant, is the same fellow who gave the world Good Will Hunting, and based on these two films, he becomes one of my must-see directors.
The story can be said to be somewhat predictable, but then again, learned dramatists say there are only 36 dramatic situations, so I suppose almost any story is going to have some predictability in it. What I liked particularly was the interplay between Connery, who plays a reclusive, famous one-book author who lives behind locked doors in the Bronx, and Brown, who plays the role of a 16-year-old who reads authors such as Chekhov and Kipling, and records his thoughts in a journal, but who hides such activities from his buddies, with whom he plays basketball in the playground across the street from Connery's building.
There were a number of interesting one-liners, particularly from Connery, who plays mentor to Brown in this film. Most of the one-liners apply to the writing business; some others, to life. I think I shall purchase this film when it appears commercially; it's worth a repeat viewing or two (or three).
Time to get ready for the day.
Cheers...
The town's movie house is the Liberty Theater. During the "high" tourist season, the business projects its feature twice nightly; during the rest of the year (the part we are in now), it's one show a day. Tuesdays are bargain night, where you can get in for - get this - $2.50, which is half the usual price.
The auditorium is somewhat smallish, and the seats are a little narrow for my frame, and if you stand up in the middle of a show, you're likely to project your shadow onto the screen...but it's a nice place. Back when I lived here in the early 90s, I rented an office suite above the theater, and still remember how the bass would reverberate through my floor for certain films on those nights when I stayed late at the office.
I had to call home to have someone come pick me up after closing yesterday; the car battery had died. Instead of going home, Galina suggested we go do something, so we decided to go see this week's feature, Finding Forrester, starring Sean Connery and newcomer Robert Brown as the two main characters. F. Murray Abraham plays an auxiliary role as an English teacher. The director, Gus Van Sant, is the same fellow who gave the world Good Will Hunting, and based on these two films, he becomes one of my must-see directors.
The story can be said to be somewhat predictable, but then again, learned dramatists say there are only 36 dramatic situations, so I suppose almost any story is going to have some predictability in it. What I liked particularly was the interplay between Connery, who plays a reclusive, famous one-book author who lives behind locked doors in the Bronx, and Brown, who plays the role of a 16-year-old who reads authors such as Chekhov and Kipling, and records his thoughts in a journal, but who hides such activities from his buddies, with whom he plays basketball in the playground across the street from Connery's building.
There were a number of interesting one-liners, particularly from Connery, who plays mentor to Brown in this film. Most of the one-liners apply to the writing business; some others, to life. I think I shall purchase this film when it appears commercially; it's worth a repeat viewing or two (or three).
Time to get ready for the day.
Cheers...
