All this week, there's a movie festival in Fairfield, and last night I decided to go check it out. As far as movie festivals go, it's pretty low-key, thematically; two movies a day, one screen, free popcorn. It was science fiction day, so ET was followed by Stanley Kubrik's 2001: Space Odyssey.
I unfortunately didn't get the chance to see ET (featuring fascinating appearances by Drew Barrymore as an adorable girl and Gary Busey as an alien), but I did get to see the second show.
I can say without equivocation that Space Odyssey is the best movie I've ever seen in the genre of "People Breathing Heavy While Nothing Happens For Several Minutes," also known as "building suspense." Furthermore, the movie opens with monkeys, always a crowd-pleaser.
As far as the festival itself, it is taking place at the Fairfield Community Sondheim Center, which is a clean, spacious, high-class place that you can still wear jean shorts into and see a bar, pharmacy, and book store from. The screening took place in a room that smelled way better than normal movie theaters and featured reasonably comfortable chairs. All around, I'd give the experience a ten out of ten (not that anybody asks for, or pays me to offer, my opinion) and I highly encourage any movie buff to acquiant themselves with Stanley Kubrik's greatest movie, Eyes Wide Shut.
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