Plan 9 From Outer Chiang Mai

Last night, Sow and I went to a screening of Ed Wood at the Chiang Mai Univeristy Art Museum. They were going to show it on the roof of the building, but it was supposed to rain, so instead they held it in one of the class rooms with a digital projector and a DVD that paused whenever the machine needed a breather.



This is one of my favorite films. One of the few truly solid Tim Burton films at that. I couldn't wait to take Sow to see it. I did my best to prepare her for it, but we'd only read about the showing about an hour beforehand. When I asked her if she liked the movie she said, "I don't knows, I don't understand. I don't know what that guy be thinking about?" She did like Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi though.

Apparently the baby liked the soundtrack. He danced thru the whole movie. Especially the Korla Pandit scene in the meat factory, and the "Pull the strings" monologue by Lugosi. That kid's got taste. Can't wait to watch movies with him... on the outside of the womb that is.

By the way, the skys had the proper decency to wait until after the film to start raining, on our ride home.

They're supposed to be doing this all summer, every saturday at 6:30 pm. Next saturday is Gandhi, and the weekend after is The Last Emperor. Doubt we'll be able to make it again, but it was fun. Anyhow, looks like I found an independent film circle here in Chiang Mai.