Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater Magic BMX Saturday 8/1/09, 10:00 pm Price: Free with my badge. Concessions: A complementary can of Miller Genuine Draft from a tub filled with ice out back Audience: Full, maybe 150 out of 200 seats Trailers/advertising: Trailers for The Blue Lagoon, Caveman (starring Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, and Shelley […]

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The Bing Theater at LACMA 5 Fingers Friday 7/31/09, 7:30 pm Price: Free with my badge. Concessions: None, though I did grab some tacos at Baja down the street beforehand. Audience: Surprisingly full, maybe 200 out of 600 seats Trailers/advertising: None. Projection: 35mm changeover. I made a last-minute change to my movie-going plans for the […]

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Though it was only a few months ago that I took on my first Movie Week here in L.A., there are plenty of theaters to go around, so I thought I’d tackle it again, with an all-new set of cinemas, while Aimee is back in Boston. I’d better hurry, though, as we learned this week […]

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I didn’t got to a movie last night, for the first time in a week, marking the end of my seven nights of moviegoing (sounds like a good idea for a holiday) around Los Angeles. Here’s the lineup, again: Revolutionary Road at the Goldwyn Theater Wendy and Lucy at the Laemmle Music Hall Gran Torino […]

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The New Beverly Cinema Tell No One and A Girl Cut in Two Saturday, 1/3/09, 2:50 pm Price: $4 (one out of 8 punches on a punch card I bought from the owner of the New Beverly, Sherman Torgan, in 2006; he passed away in 2007) Concessions: I bought some Raisinets (now advertised with “Fruit […]

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The Landmark Theatre The Wrestler Friday, 1/2/09, 5:10 pm Price: $13 ($12 + $1 online ticket purchase surcharge) Concessions: Nothing – no time, plus I was saving room for the Apple Pan afterwards. Audience: A surprisingly full 200+ in theater 12, one of the upstairs screens that seats 250. Trailers/advertising: The International, He’s Just Not […]

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American Cinematheque at the Egyptian It’s a Wonderful Life Thursday, 1/1/09, 7:30 pm Price: Free with my badge. Concessions: Just some Red Vines, which I am making my way through. Audience: Approximately 100 or so in this 600+ seat theater. Trailers/advertising: Just one ad for KCRW, the one with the headphones with hundreds of vine-like […]

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The Regency Fairfax Cinemas Synecdoche, New York Wednesday, 12/31/08, 4:00 pm Price: $4.00. Concessions: I brought my Vines and bought a Sobe (for which they had to unlock the mini-fridge, and which cost me only 75¢ less than the movie itself). Audience: Approximately 30 people, in a theater that seats about 175. Trailers/advertising: Slides from […]

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The Bridge Cinema De Lux at the Promenade Gran Torino Tuesday, 12/30/08, 7:30 pm Price: $11.75. Concessions: None (forgot to even smuggle in more Red Vines). Audience: Approximately 75 people, in a theater that seats about 500. Trailers/advertising: Ads, in progress as I entered, for Van Heusen, Verizon, and Scion. It’s just dawning on me […]

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The Laemmle Music Hall Wendy and Lucy Monday, 12/29/08, 7:40 pm Price: $10. Concessions: It looked like they had a full range of snacks, but I brought a few Red Vines from the bucket of leftover gingerbread house building materials Aimee brought back from her classroom. Audience: 30 or 40, out of about 150 seats. […]

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I’ve always wanted to try going to a concert at a different venue in L.A. every night for a week, to visit some places I like to see shows (The Troubadour, the El Rey, Largo) and to get myself out to some places I’ve never been before (The Fonda, The Echo, and so on). I […]

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It was an inside/outside weekend, with nomination screenings mixed in with some L.A. sightseeing and restaurant-going. We found the one moment of sunshine in each day of the weekend to do our outside activities: a hike in Caballero Canyon on Saturday morning, which was a nice little hour-long stroll through some rolling hills with a […]

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It’s time for the end of the year wrap-up, which I haven’t really done with any consistency (see the Best Live Shows of 2004 and Top Ten Films of 2004), but I’m going to give it a shot. 2008 has been an extremely busy year for us, our second full year in Los Angeles, one […]

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