I used to see movies at the cinema all the time. Since becoming a mother, I see a movie at a cinema once a year, on a good year. Maybe. The last movie I saw was “Black Swan” so it was actually a year and a half ago. I’m not kidding. The year before that, it was “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”
Tonight I saw “Beasts of the Southern Wild.” My neighbor, who owns the Little Art Theatre, had said it was a film like nothing else. Another friend, the writer Laraine Herring, told me I should see it because it features a child narrator (played by then five-year old Quvenzhané Wallis) in a magical, mythic world.
I’m not going to say much about the film. Watching this film during yet another deluge on Louisiana was wrenching. But considering how often I see a movie at the cinema, I’m glad it was this one.
It’s playing again tomorrow night at the Little Art Theatre.
(And when did we stop clapping after a movie? Was it when we began to retreat into our VHS/DVD/internet bubbles for home viewing? Every year or so, you will hear me clapping in a public cinema. Feel free to join me.)
Rebecca Kuder 
So glad you got to see the film in the cinema rather than on DVD. :-) xox
Yes! Thanks again, so much, for mentioning it. Luckily our little theatre held it over a second week, which made it possible for me to see it. I would love to talk to you about the film sometime… truly amazing, and it’s still echoing through me, reverberating, actually. Something about the heartbeats (I typed “heartbeasts”!) of the sound track is still with me…
(And I meant to name you in my post! So I fixed it.)
So it’s the Little Art Cinema? ;) sorry – I am tooootally f’ing w/you a la STB! :) xoxo
Right on!