Well, here we are again. These updates have been few and far between, but they may pick back up again. Since quarantine became the core experience of the year, I’ve been sublimating my desire to go to the movie theater by serving on the screening committee for a film festival. I won’t say which festival it was, as decisions are still being made about what films to feature, but I did end up watching 160 additional films over the last four months. It was daunting, but it’s done now! I may end up going to the festival in the fall (assuming it actually ends up happening in the traditional sense, which is assuming a lot.)
On the topic of going to see movies at theaters, even though I’ve got local theaters who are up and running, I’m not particularly interested in going back into that world until there’s a reliable vaccine out in the world, which feels like its going to be a while. My local theaters have taken to running older movies to fill in the gap left by an essentially abandoned release schedule. Normally, that would be the kind of thing I would love to go do, but now I see many films being featured that I already own on physical media, and it feels like the height of recklessness. Now, if one of my local movie houses decides to show the Back to the Future films, I’m going to have to white-knuckle my way through the exhibition.
As far as new movies are concerned, those are a thing of the past, largely. The only looming film I’m interested in seeing is Bill and Ted Face The Music, and I’m quite relieved that is going to on-demand distribution. Tenet will be a far off fantasy, as I would imagine that Nolan would ultimately rather delay than impede a theatrical distribution, and I think I’ve even come around to the idea of No Time To Die being delayed further, as I would like to see that on the biggest screen possible.