{"id":3083,"date":"2012-06-01T22:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T06:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/?p=3083"},"modified":"2012-06-07T16:00:06","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T00:00:06","slug":"movie_week_v_day_3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/archives\/2012\/06\/01\/movie_week_v_day_3.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Week V, Day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/01\/regent.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Regent\" width=\"500\" height=\"373\"><BR><BR><span style=\"background-color:#ccc; padding:6px;\">Landmark Regent Theatre<\/span> <I>The Dictator<\/I> Friday, 6\/1\/12, 7:30 pm <\/p>\n<p><I>Price<\/I>: $10.50 <I>Concessions:<\/I> None. <I>Audience<\/I>: 12 people, in a theater that seats about 400. <I>Trailers\/advertising<\/I>: Ads for Blue Moon beer and Allstate, followed by trailers for <I>Bel Ami<\/I>, <I>Magic Mike<\/I>, <I>People Like Us<\/I>, <I>Nobody Else But You<\/I>, and a teaser for the <I>Anchorman<\/I> sequel. <I>Projection:<\/I> Finally, 35mm<BR><\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to tell you this theater was a Landmark house. In the shadow of two of the showiest theaters in Los Angeles, the Village and the Bruin, this nondescript theater is a single screen that dates from the 1960s but whose lobby was apparently gobbled up at some point since then by retail next door. It was a pretty unremarkable place, but the seats were a step up, probably with Landmark&#8217;s purchase ten years ago, and I was happy to see pretty decent 35mm projection. I found parking in Westwood with atypical ease, and managed enough time to stand in line (25 minutes) and eat (under ten minutes) at 800 Degrees, not far away.<\/p>\n<p>The movie was OK, a Sacha Baron Cohen movie with a bit of a plot, some funny moments, and a lot of &#8220;eh.&#8221; Funny to see no-dialogue appearances from Horatio Sanz and Edward Norton, plus an unexpected scene with our friend Tara. Way to go! Too bad no one told Anna Faris how to pronounce &#8220;Amherst,&#8221; where here character went to school. And majored in &#8220;fem lit.&#8221; Could have used some research on that line, too &#8211; doesn&#8217;t &#8220;Women and Gender Studies&#8221; fit the comic bill just as well as &#8220;fem lit&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>When I left, there was already a line forming outside for the midnight screening of <I>The Room<\/I>, with Tommy in person. I don&#8217;t know when it happened, but there is no way I can imagine starting a movie at midnight. Congratulations, I&#8217;m old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Landmark Regent Theatre The Dictator Friday, 6\/1\/12, 7:30 pm Price: $10.50 Concessions: None. Audience: 12 people, in a theater that seats about 400. Trailers\/advertising: Ads for Blue Moon beer and Allstate, followed by trailers for Bel Ami, Magic Mike, People Like Us, Nobody Else But You, and a teaser for the Anchorman sequel. Projection: Finally, [&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-3083","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\/3083","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=3083"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3142,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3083\/revisions\/3142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doubleperf.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}