{"id":2290,"date":"2010-09-21T22:37:40","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T06:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=2290"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:09","slug":"movie_week_iii_day_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/21\/movie_week_iii_day_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week III, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/21\/movie_week_iii_day_3\/grove.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"grove\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2293\" \/><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">Pacific&#8217;s The Grove Stadium 14<\/span>  <I>The American<\/I> Tuesday, 9\/21\/10, 7:35 pm<BR><\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $12.75, plus $2 for validated parking. <I>Concessions:<\/I> None <I>Audience<\/I>:  7 people in Theater 9, which seemed like it seated about 100. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: Trailers for <I>Morning Glory<\/I>, <I>Hereafter<\/I>, <I>Conviction<\/I>, <I>Somewhere<\/I>, and <I>Let Me In<\/I>. <I>Projection<\/I>: 35mm platter, looked good, but for some reason, an exit sign was installed on the masking, sticking into the screen. Nice. <\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t been to this theater too many times, but it&#8217;s a decent multiplex in the massively popular Grove shopping complex. It does have a few things going for it, including some beautiful photographs of the interiors of L.A.&#8217;s great movie palaces, a fountain outside designed by the <A HREF=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WET_Design\">same company that created the Bellagio fountain in Las Vegas<\/A>, and the food of the Farmer&#8217;s Market (including Loteria, where I had dinner) nearby. <\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed the film, a meditative and tense and strikingly European film, for something showing in a multiplex. I guess it&#8217;s just the theaters I&#8217;m choosing, but this is proving to be a pricey week of movies. No discounts, no passes, and getting more expensive by the day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pacific&#8217;s The Grove Stadium 14 The American Tuesday, 9\/21\/10, 7:35 pm Price: $12.75, plus $2 for validated parking. Concessions: None Audience: 7 people in Theater 9, which seemed like it seated about 100. Trailers\/advertising: Trailers for Morning Glory, Hereafter, Conviction, Somewhere, and Let Me In. Projection: 35mm platter, looked good, but for some reason, an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,21],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-2290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-los_angeles","tag-movieweek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2290"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3158,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2290\/revisions\/3158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}