Hollywood Does Hollywood at the Castro

~ Lincoln Spector

I just found out about this series Wednesday at the Castro. It’s not even on their web site as I write this. As the name implies, Hollywood Does Hollywood features American films about American filmmaking.

Because I didn’t know about the series when I prepared the current newsletter, I’m inserting a newsletter-like listing that would have been in it had I known:

A+ Singin’ in the Rain, Castro, Wednesday. In 1952, the late twenties seemed like a fond memory of an innocent time, and nostalgia was a large part of Singin’ in the singininrain2 Rain’s original appeal. The nostalgia is gone now, and we can clearly see this movie for what it is: the greatest musical ever filmed, and perhaps the best work of pure escapist entertainment to ever come out of Hollywood. Take out the songs, and you still have one of the best comedies of the 1950′s, and the funniest movie Hollywood ever made about itself. But take out the songs, and you take out the best part. On a double-bill with It’s a Great Feeling, which I’ve never seen and have no opinion of.

The Thursday night double bill has one film I’ve never seen (In a Lonely Place) and one that I don’t remember well enough to write about it (The Player). Other scheduled movies include Sunset Boulevard, the 1954 version of A Star is Born, and Boogie Nights.

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Published by Lincoln Spector

Lincoln Spector writes about cinema, technology, and cinema technology. From 1986 through 2008, he wrote Gigglebytes, the first technology-oriented humor column. From 1977 through 2016, he wrote PC World's Answer Line column and blog.