Warner Brothers Studios
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From the moment I laid eyes on the trailer for The Bride! (one must not skip the exclamation mark) I knew that this was a film I wanted to see. A mash-up of classic Warner Brothers’ 30s gangsters with Frankenstein? That is an idea so wild, so unconventional that to wait for streaming struck me as a crime against cinema. It was a natural for me. I have several WB classic gangster films on Blu-Ray disc and while no direct adaptation of Frankenstein exists in my library of films, it is a property I have seen many movie versions of thus seeing The Bride! became a requirement. It opens this weekend.
My sweetie-wife let me know that she wants to see this new film as well and that means we watch it at our usual time and convenience: the earliest available Sunday morning matinee. She is not a late-night person as I am and so these showings not only fit her circadian rhythm but if it’s early enough also provide an excellence chance for a lunch out.
So far all is well and good, but then San Diego Film Geeks had to go and get into the picture.
San Diego Film Geeks is a local organization, club, association, a something, that hosts cinema screenings throughout the calendar year. In addition to their Secret Morgue, a six-film marathon each September where the titles are kept secret and only a theme is announced, they also host a year-long film festival at a micro theater, the Digital Gym, screening one film, or sometimes a double feature, a month for that year’s theme. Previous festivals have been ‘Get Hammered,’ celebrating Hammer Horror, and ‘Noir on the Boulevard’ for film noir. In the past, I have purchased the year-long pass giving them the maximum support, but this year’s theme is Westerns, a genre that, with a few exceptions, I have never particularly taken to.
March’s western is Blood on the Moon and is described as a film noir western.
Damn, if that one doesn’t interest me. Of course it is screening Sunday at noon. If I want to see the San Diego Film Geeks presentation, I will have to push the trippy gangster/monster movie off for another week.
As if starting a diet this week was painful enough.
