Ebertfest!
Tickets for individual films at Ebertfest are now on sale. They were selling like meth-laced pancakes this morning when I stopped by.
Sadly, Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival is always at the end of the semester, when time is very hard to come by. Still, this year the festival is looking good, and the man will probably be well enough to come by himself. So, I bought tickets for Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (which I’ve never seen) and Gattaca (hardly overlooked, but I’m enough of a fan to love the idea of viewing it at the Virgina). Only Werner Herzog’s Stroszek was already sold out this morning (Herzog himself will be there to discuss the film). I’m thinking that tomorrow I may zip over to the box office to get tickets for Sadie Thompson, since seeing silent films with orchestra at the Virgina is something I especially enjoy.
April 10th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
Kinda weird. I was just watching Beyond the Valley of the Dolls on IMC the other day. How cool is it that Herzog will be there? I’ve always wanted to meet him ever since I saw Fitzcarraldo when I was a kid. So how was the East coast really? Sometimes I really miss the Northhampton/Amherst axis. It was cool to be able to pop by Dickinson’s or sit on top of Mt. Tom looking up the Pioneer Valley. Don’t miss the travel though, for many of the reasons you outlined. How’s tricks otherwise BFD? Hope you had a good holiday and are getting some work done.
April 11th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
I missed Mt. Tom, I think. But then again, perhaps it gave you an especially exalted sense to stand atop it? Anyway, I was operating as quite a speed tourist the last day or so in the state, so really, who knows what I saw?
It’d be sweet if you could make it here for some of the Ebertfest stuff, btw. I hesitate to promise to be a great host, since Ebertfest always falls during the very worst part of the semester, but still I think you and the fam should consider swinging through town. If not Apr 28, then at some other not-so-distant time.