There are some activities that you only participate in with certain people. If Len is in town, we might catch a game at Wrigley or go to Milwaukee for a game at Miller Park. If Ted and Barry are in town, we might check out one of the art museums and if we go to Milwaukee it will be to see the Santiago Calatrava-designed Museum of Modern Art there (which I've been dying to do). I enjoy going to baseball games and I enjoy going to art museums, but I wouldn't suggest a trip to the Art Institute to Len or tell Barry and Ted that's it's a beautiful afternoon to catch a game at Wrigley or the Cell.
Next Saturday Christy is coming to visit. For her, Chicago means good restaurants and bars filled with funky people, people that you actually don't know. Walks in Millennium Park. Shopping. However, checking the upcoming films at the Siskel Film Center, I noticed that Andrei Rublev is playing. And the only possible time I'll be able to see it is next Saturday at 7:30.
For those not familiar with the title, Andrei Rublev is a three-and-a-half hour masterpiece directed by the late, great Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky. Ostensibly about the life of the great icon painter, it is a powerful rumination on cruelty, redemption and the crisis of faith, using Russia in the Middle Ages as the canvas.
That's right. I'm taking Christy to a three-and-a-half hour movie about life in the middle ages. A brooding movie. With really long takes. And subtitles.
Won't she be surprised.
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4 comments:
Soooo asking for trouble! WIll you never, ever, learn, Grasshopper? We have many things to teach you. Yes we do. ;)
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,
Too far in years to be a pupil now;
Richard II, act I, scene 3
I think I can tell where the status quo will lead you. I can see it a mile away. It's like watching a train wreck... a three-and-a-half hour long train wreck with long takes and subtitles.
oh my gosh, I am so interested to hear how that went. wow.
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