Friday, February 29, 2008

Great Job!


Last night I had the pleasure of seeing Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark at the Oxford Theater in its original, undigitally re-mastered format. The showing was in support of All Rights Reserved Literary Journal. It is the last Raiders reel in Canada.

All Rights Reserved is a great local non profit group supporting local talent.

“All Rights Reserved Literacy Journal & Association is Halifax’s only independent, non-profit literary association. Its mandate is to provide a voice to the artistic community while embracing quality of expression. All Rights Reserved actively seeks to promote original artists within the community and participate in literacy initiatives.”

The feature was fabulous (grainy at times, but that only added to the nostalgia of the evening). All Rights Reserved had a terrific turn out. The theater was full of old and new fans. I must admit, I had not seen Raiders of the Lost Ark until last night; I am now ready for the latest installment due out this summer.

Also, I’d just like to note, there were some young children in attendance, and I think the faces melting off at the end might have been a bit much for them. This begs the question, “how old should you be to see Mr.Jones?”

2 comments:

Benjamin Boudreau said...

Whooooo! We raised over $1000 with the screening and I completely agree with you - the vintage film reel makes for a much more authentic viewing experience.

As for the kids, Kimberly and I were talking about it before the show. She saw it in theatre when she was seven. I saw it probably around the same age but I realized last night that my parents always made me cover my eyes for the ending. Last night was officially the first time that I have EVER seen the full movie :)

That being said, most of the kids coming in were saying how many times they had already seen it on DVD.

Alias Grace said...

I was so excited to see all the little ones there to experience the movie for the first time on the big screen. It brought me back to my childhood (yes, I was seven when I saw it with my "cool" uncle). Although it's rated PG, I was pretty surprised at how much violence the movie contained. Maybe I was more aware of it because there were so many kids in the theatre or maybe I also just covered my eyes when I was little. In any case, most of the kids there had already seen the film on the small screen so I'm hoping we didn't traumatize them!