Summer Movie Memories

We actually saw a film in a movie theater last Friday!

Going to the movies is the one relic of pre-parenthood that I miss the most. We do the same thing at home, but there's just something about buttered popcorn, the air conditioned darkness and holding on to my husband's arm that feels like a real date.

Our film selection was dictated by the start time (7 is too early with our daughter's schedule and is 10 too late) so that left us with the 7:45 show, Oceans 13. It was entertaining, but mostly I enjoyed the Soderbergh lenses and filters that made everything so beautiful, the blues more blue, the yellows almost gold. The film has the same glow that Casino Royale has during those gorgeous scenes of the Ocean Club's beaches in the Bahamas and Bond sailing into the Grand Canal in Venice.



Could anything be better? [BTW, I discovered the Bond boat was a 54 ft Spirit. Va bene!]

Summer movie magic is captured this month in the online New Yorker Summer Fiction Issue which features fiction writers like Jeffrey Eugenides, Dave Eggers and others sharing their real-life summer-movie memories. Both the essays and the graphic art in between the essays are worth a glance.