Angelenos, it's that time again! Apologies for the last-minute reminder.
CINESPIA Presents:
THE BIG SLEEP
Directed by Howard Hawks
Saturday, July 15th
Gates at 7:30 pm Film at 9:00 pm
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Boulevard at Gower
No reservation necessary.
$10 donation. Tickets available at gate.
As a courtesy to other movie-goers: NO TALL CHAIRS
The textbook the cinetrix works with does a nice job of explaining the 180-degree rule using this sequence, where Marlowe meets with General Sternwood in the greenhouse. Of course, it means the following dialogue rabbits around my brain the whole time:
You're looking, sir, at a very dull survival of a very gaudy life: crippled, paralyzed in both legs, I barely eat and my sleep is so near waking it's hardly worth a name. I seem to exist largely on heat like a newborn spider.
Which then leads me, naturally, to the wisdom of Ren: "You know what the Big Sleep is, Stimpy. It's death." Owen Taylor would agree.
