Free movie passes to Love in the Time of Cholera
Want to see a free advance screening of a movie next week? New Line Cinema is giving LibraryThing members in California* an invitation to see the film Love in the Time of Cholera before it opens. Details below.Does the film do the book justice? Members of the Made into a Movie group, I look to you... (Join the conversation about When the movies are better than the books or vice versa).
The nitty gritty.
There are two screenings:
Los Angeles. 7:30pm, Tuesday November 13th. AMC Century City 15, 10250 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles 90067. (Click here to get the LA pass)
Orange County. 7:30pm, Wednesday November 14th. AMC 30 @ The Block of Orange, 20 City West Blvd, Orange 92868. (Click here to get the OC pass)
Click on the link to get a pass, print it out, and bring it to the screening (each pass admits two people). Both screenings start at 7:30pm, and admittance is on a first come first served basis—so get there early! They'll start letting people in around 7pm.
*Apologies to the non-Californians (hey, I'm one of you!).
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posted by Abby at 2:08 PM
5 Comments:
Leaves out most of the Californians, too -- this is a big state, an those locations aren't close enough to a lot of us.
hey, cool! It's a start. Maybe it will set a precedent.
I didn't know this was going to be a movie. Great.
Thanks for passing along this great opportunity. The Orange County showing was only ten minutes from my work (talk about convenience).
I'd never been to a preview screening before, so I really wasn't prepared when the guys from the local radio station came in to hype up the crowd. If I had been capable of answering their so-called "movie trivia" questions (like "name one of our dee-jays"), I could have left with a free poster or T-shirt. Wow.
At one point, I was so turned off by the self-promoting non-relevance of their questions, that I was tempted to delve into my wallet for a twenty and offer it to anyone in the audience who could tell me in what year Garcia Marquez was awarded the Nobel Prize, or the title of his most recent book, or maybe just his country of origin. I'd probably still have that twenty. I'm guessing that the majority of those in attendance did not get their tickets through LibraryThing. Perhaps I'm being unkind. After all, only half the audience seemed excited about the pre-show freak dance competition...
Once the movie started, however, all was good. It's been nearly 20 years since I read the book, so it was a real joy "rediscovering" the plot. I think the movie did a particularly good job of finding that balance between tenderness and humor that are so much a part of Garcia Marquez's writing. That said, I don't think the movie fully succeeded at duplicating the magic of what I consider to be one of the all-time great love stories. The movie was good, but the novel is special.
Nevertheless, the film clearly appealed to the considerable variety of folk (young & old, hispanic & gringo) in attendance. If it inspires a new generation of readers to check out this classic Latin American novel, who am I to complain about the pre-show hype?
Once again, thanks much for passing along this opportunity.
oh..I was just kidding about the freak dancing, though there was a pre-show competition between two audience members who were instructed to imitate the dance moves of one of the hosts. I guess nothing gets you in the mood for a fine movie quite like krumping in front of an audience. (Spoilsport me stayed in my seat.)
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