it’s set in the 1860s, in gilded age new york. edith wharton wrote it 50 years later, after wwi, so you can feel the wisdom and hindsight in her writing. it’s a story about artifice, societal rules, and wishful thinking. the characters’ conflicts with these themes directly reflect the conflicts of the time and setting they live in, so it’s a really good piece of historical fiction! it’s one of my favorite books :)
Jan 23, 2024
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the amc a-list is well-known gem, but it is really one of the best deals available, especially after the recent change they made to it. four movies a week! what! However I get sometimes you just have to go to the cinema on a budget, tickets can be expensive. STILL, support your local independent theater if you can!! at least around me there are multiple rep theaters (shoutout the coolidge theater in Boston and the Brattle in Cambridge) that constantly show old films and introduce classics to a new audience. I will die for these theaters, and I try to find a balance between using my a-list for new movies and seeing rep screenings at the indies! you can do both! I LOVE MOVIES!!!!
Feb 17, 2025
Ok like very few people maybe just one recommended this and I liked it maybe more than the motion picture museum it’s very funny and there’s so much packed into it and good stuff!!
Plus they have costumes and stuff too and a Hannibal lecter prison cell recreation and a lot of mannequins with paper cut out heads and displays for movies that are ??? (Van helsing, transformers, quill??)
Mar 2, 2024
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i don't live in england and i never have. but when i go to visit family i will find an excuse to be at an everyman it is maybe the fanciest cinema i've ever been to and the experience i had when i saw all of us strangers there fundamentally changed me
the only thing i don't rate is the 30 minutes of adverts
Dec 23, 2024
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Snow falling and night falling fast, oh, fast
In a field I looked into going past,
And the ground almost covered smooth in snow,
But a few weeds and stubble showing last.
The woods around it have it - it is theirs.
All animals are smothered in their lairs.
I am too absent-spirited to count;
The loneliness includes me unawares.
And lonely as it is, that loneliness
Will be more lonely ere it will be less -
A blanker whiteness of benighted snow
With no expression, nothing to express.
They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars - on stars where no human race is.
I have it in me so much nearer home
To scare myself with my own desert places.
Jul 1, 2024