Anne Goes to the Movies

Me 'n' movies:

• Movies I've seen recently:   My attempt to get listed as a Useless Page.
• My Favorite Movies Of All Time:   Have you seen any of these films? Did you like them?

The Best Movie Theaters in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota):

• Minnesota Film Arts:   The merger of the University Film Society (UFS) and the Oak Street Cinema is twice as nice. Dedicated to top-class world cinema, especially foreign and independent films. They show some GREAT movies - it's worth the effort to keep track of their schedule.
• Parkway Theatre An old-fashioned movie house, with one large screen, that specializes in sleeper hits. If it's showing at the Parkway, you know it's good. (And the popcorn is good and cheap!)
• Riverview Theater The nicest of the old-fashioned, big-screen movie houses. Second-run hollywood hits with occasional revival or indie movies and great popcorn make this a good choice.
• Heights Theatre:   Mostly mainstream flicks in a classic theater with a real theater organ!
• Walker Art Center Film & Video Program:   Eclectic. Artistic. Challenging. Occasionally obscure, but always interesting.
  The Walker is closed for remodeling from mid-February 2004 until February 2005.
• Lagoon Cinema and Uptown Theater:   A chain multiplex showing some indie and art films, mostly in English. (One screen - the Uptown - is a real, old-style theater.) Expensive, uncomfortable, and biased towards "EZ-viewing" movies, but they've got a lock on many popular art-house films.

Movies on the Web

• The Internet Movie Database:   Still a great resource, despite the recent commercial slide.
• eye weekly movie reviews:   These Canadians have great taste in cinema.
• Mr. Cranky Rates the Movies:   Curmudgeonliness raised to an art form.
• Reviews in Rhyme:   From Ms. Dana's seventh-grade poetry class. Includes such gems as this Titanic review: "He met a girl named Rose, Depressed though she wanted to jump, But Jack would not let her go 'kerplonk'."
• Chicago Reader On Film:   There are some great movies being shown in Chicago.
• Yahoo's Film Festival Links:   Drool over the current festival offerings.
• Plot-o-matic:   Write your own screenplay!
• In Development? Can you spot the real movie-to-be? Test your Hollywood-mogul quotient with this web quiz.
• The Worst Movies... Brunching Shuttlecock's self-made film reviewer lists the movies he didn't see in 1998.