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Tuesday, 28. November 2006, 19:51:32
I failed to execute my strategy for an evening plan, which was simply to get to a theater before the last showing.
Typically the last show of any movie anywhere in Oslo is around 8:30. With transportation time and getting a seat, it's pretty easy to miss that last showing.
I know this but still find myself accustomed to the Texas possibility of an 11:30 or later show.
And Austin even has the brilliant Alamo Drafthouse Theater where you can get a good dinner and beer during the movie and they show everything from maistream pop fluff to wild off-beat independent art films and even a few homegrown film related events. Fun atmosphere, silly tangentially related previews, and dinner. Old Hong Kong films with a chinese dinner, free malt liquor with Shaft, a pasta selection for the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, and a good set of normal options for good normal films. This week they start their Coen brothers retrospective and every year Tarantino puts together a festival of his faves for them. Maybe we can talk them into opening their first international venue.
Typically the last show of any movie anywhere in Oslo is around 8:30. With transportation time and getting a seat, it's pretty easy to miss that last showing.
I know this but still find myself accustomed to the Texas possibility of an 11:30 or later show.
And Austin even has the brilliant Alamo Drafthouse Theater where you can get a good dinner and beer during the movie and they show everything from maistream pop fluff to wild off-beat independent art films and even a few homegrown film related events. Fun atmosphere, silly tangentially related previews, and dinner. Old Hong Kong films with a chinese dinner, free malt liquor with Shaft, a pasta selection for the spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone, and a good set of normal options for good normal films. This week they start their Coen brothers retrospective and every year Tarantino puts together a festival of his faves for them. Maybe we can talk them into opening their first international venue.
I miss places like the Alamo when I am in Norway.....that place just makes me happy.
But then, I am also a big matinee-goer, and matinees don't exist in Norway except for baby and senior kino, generally on Tuesdays.
Nothing more decadent than either a nap or a movie in the middle of the day. Once i did both and thought I'd died and gone to heaven.
By anonymous user, # 28. November 2006, 22:25:55
The Coen brothers thing is very exciting. I can't believe they were playing Barton Fink last week and I didn't make it.
You could always come back...you know, for the movies?
By anonymous user, # 29. November 2006, 14:45:44