Hit the Road

I used to see smaller & indie films in Atlanta (about 2 1/2 hrs away) while on the way back from visiting relatives in Florida, and I'm very proud to have seen both Bottle Rocket and Reservoir Dogs in a theatre. This piece about hitting the road for a movie you just have to see brought back memories. (In Contention)

...but the central idea is the annual top 10 list/best of the year online frenzy and how it makes Frank, sitting helplessly in 33-screen Cedar Rapids, Iowa (two hours away from Des Moines, the closest market for limited releases), want to pull his hair out. He compares his annual out-of-the-know agony to being “[t]hat one guy at your college roommate’s sexy art student girlfriend’s party who hasn’t illegally downloaded the latest Bright Eyes album that everyone around him is raving about.”