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July 12, 2006
Movie Miscellany
In an effort to start exploring my new 'hood here in the Tar Heel State, I drove up to Raleigh last night to meet the local Drinking Liberally group, which meets at the Flying Saucer, one of the bars we visited when I was in Raleigh for the Convergences symposium a couple of years ago. The Drinking Liberally group was pretty cool, and we even won the evening's team trvia competition. But while I was there, I was tipped off to a number of local film and media events that are worth mentioning, if only so I'll have them for future reference.
While driving up to Raleigh, I happened to notice a billboard advertising the Ava Gardner Museum, which is actually located in Smithfield, about forty minutes north of F'ville because how could I resist missing a museum dedicated to the star of The Barefoot Contessa, The Killers, and The Night of the Iguana, among many other films and TV shows.
The Raleigh DLers also recommended other cool film events, including the First Friday events at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, which typically features a film screening of a classical Hollywood film, including in past months, On The Beach, starring the aforementioned Ms. Gardner, and for June, The Devil Bat, a Bela Lugosi flick featuring Lugosi as a mad scientist who creates a squad of electronic bats to get revenge on his former employers. The Lugosi screening was sponsored by a group called the AV Geeks. The group also suggested Kings, a bar that primarily features live music but also screens a documentary on the second Sunday of every month.
Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, Matthew at Defective Yeti will be on the radio show, The Works, tonight where he will be talking about a subject I think is pretty cool: movie blogs. Here's a direct link to the episode.
Update: This bit of trivia isn't really worth a separate entry, but I just learned via the Fayetteville Observer's daily N.C. trivia series that Carson McCullers wrote The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter here in Fayetteville, just a short walk from downtown in an apartment above the Cool Spring Tavern. According to the folks at Library of America, McCullers spent quite a bit of time here in Fayetteville.
Posted by chuck at July 12, 2006 2:21 PM
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