{"id":244425,"date":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/film-review-decisions-decisions\/"},"modified":"2011-07-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T07:00:00","slug":"film-review-decisions-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/film-review-decisions-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Cr\u00edtica de cine: Decisiones, decisiones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thora Birch in \u201cGhost World.\u201d<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Thora Birch in person with \u201cGhost World\u201d and\/or \u201cThe Maltese Falcon?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Por Scott Marcas |<\/strong> Film Interview<\/p>\n

Repertory cinema in San Diego? It\u2019s the stuff dreams are made of.<\/p>\n

On Saturday night, fans of repertory cinema in San Diego (both of you) had a chance to satisfy cravings for vintage celluloid with 35mm screenings of \u201cThe Maltese Falcon\u201d and \u201cGhost World, for which lead actor Thora Birch appeared in person.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t be (comic) conned! Those over the age of 16\u2014who view movies as something more than a merchandising tool or way to publicly celebrate the fact that they never got laid in high school \u2014will undoubtedly make it their business to steer clear of this weekend\u2019s annual celebration of everything that\u2019s wrong with contemporary cinema.<\/p>\n

For a long time, the San Diego Film Critics Society has been kicking around the notion of public screenings of classic movies. Last month it dawned on us: This is the 10-year anniversary of \u201cGhost World,\u201d the film we selected Best of 2001. The SDFCS also honored the film with Best Director (Terry Zwigoff), Best Adapted Screenplay (Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes) and Best Actress (Thora Birch) awards. All three accepted their awards in person at our (semi) annual awards luncheon.<\/p>\n

After years of waxing vitriolic over the event, I finally figured if you can\u2019t beat \u2019em, you can at least maim \u2019em by glomming onto the hype and pointing those dressed as zombies and Lucas\u00ae<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>creatures in the direction of a good movie they might actually identify with. I put in a call to my pal JoEllen Brantferger at Reading Cinemas and she agreed to obtain a 35mm and allow us access to auditorium #1 (aka the Big House) to screen the film. Thanks also go out to Fantagraphics, the publishers of the original source material, for their support of this event.<\/p>\n

You\u2019re going to have to act fast, but I know you can do it! The Q&A will probably let out at around 11:30. That gives you a half-hour to retrieve your car from Horton Plaza, hop the 94 east to the 15 north, and make it to The Ken Cinema\u2019s Midnight Madness offering of John Huston\u2019s \u201cThe Maltese Falcon.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the first film noir as some have claimed. That honor, and so many others, goes to \u201cCitizen Kane.\u201d \u201cFalcon\u201d is an enormously entertaining page-by-page adaptation of Dashiell Hammett\u2019s hard-boiled detective novel. All except for the last page, that is. There was no way Hollywood censors were going to allow Huston to close his picture on a note of sexual intimacy between Humphrey Bogart and his secretary, Effie (played by Lee Patrick). All this in addition to Peter Lorre on the big screen.<\/p>\n

The two best theatres in San Diego showing a pair of classic movies back-to-back on the same night. This sure beats the hell out of pub crawling!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thora Birch in \u201cGhost World.\u201d Thora Birch in person with \u201cGhost World\u201d and\/or \u201cThe Maltese Falcon?\u201d By Scott Marks | Film Interview Repertory cinema in San Diego? It\u2019s the stuff dreams are made of. On Saturday night, fans of repertory cinema in San Diego (both of you) had a chance to satisfy cravings for vintage […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":244426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11555","_seopress_titles_title":"Film Review: Decisions, decisions","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11549,11551,11555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-entertainment","category-news","category-uptown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}