So it's more than a week later, and I never did add links for any of the titles in that last post. The late-spring snowstorm we got last Monday was the main reason- I had already scheduled a day off from work for that Monday, but the difficulty of getting around in the snow, and having to shovel it and deal with it otherwise, ate up any and all blogging time that I would have had that day.
Moving on, a day or so after I wondered why Indianapolis gets such a lame "variety" of theatrical releases, I found one answer, in this article from the Indianapolis Star. The short version is that we are now considered to be in the "third tier" of cities for big-screen releases, after slipping down from the "second tier", mainly because so many people around here kept buying tickets for mainstream movies all the time, and so very few people (relatively speaking) were buying tickets to more limited releases. Well, I've tried to do my part, by seeing as many theatrical limited releases as my time and budget would allow, and by setting up Meetups for the more interesting alternative fare, but apparently one person buying a ticket or two per week doesn't have much of an impact on the local theatrical scene.
Yeah, I know, big surprise about that.
Still, I would like to make a difference here, and both help to bring a few interesting limited releases to town, and to also somehow get out there and help to do some publicity work (putting flyers, cards, and other publicity materials in local coffee shops, restaurants, etc., and in public locations in places like Broad Ripple and Fountain Square) so that maybe more people would go out to local theaters and see limited releases there. I don't think there's any way that any of this would really help to lift Indy back into the second tier of theatrical release cities, but I'll do what I can.
A few updates regarding the titles mentioned in the last post:
Spring Breakers did indeed open fairly wide, and was not a limited release.
On the Road made it to Indianapolis on March 29, not March 22.
The documentary Murph the Protector, which I had never heard of until a few days before its release date, opened at the Galaxy 14 (where I saw it) and a few other Regal/UA theaters in the area on March 22.
Detour did show at the Yes Cinemas in Columbus on March 29, but it was a one-time-only/one-day-only screening, rather than an actual "opening", as such.
Himmatwala opened at other theaters around the country, but did not show up at the Georgetown 14 in Indy on Friday. Here's hoping that it just got delayed by a week or so in Indy, since this one looks like it could be entertaining.
Now for a few more titles, upcoming in early April;
The drama Any Day Now gets two screenings this week at several Goodrich Theaters across the state, including the Hamilton 16 and IMAX in Noblesville, central Indiana- at 7 PM on Monday, April 1, and at 5 PM on Thursday, April 4. The showings are part of the Goodrich chain's Best of the Key West Film Festival series, which continues on April 8 and 11 with showings of the drama Starlet. The link to the series has a list of participating theaters, by the way.
Also on April 1, the documentary Girl Rising will be screened at both the Circle Centre 9 in downtown Indianapolis (at 7:30 PM) and at the Yes Cinemas in Columbus (at 5:30 PM)- but apparently you have to buy tickets for both screenings through the link at the site of the film itself, and not at the theaters.
In other upcoming documentary news, music doc Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams gets a one-time-only screening at the Keystone Art Cinema in Indy on Tuesday, April 2, at 7 PM. For next week, both Knowing Nick & Nate and The Horse Boy are scheduled to be shown at the Yes Cinemas at on Monday, April 8. Nick and Nate is up first, at 5:30 PM, with The Horse Boy following. Also on April 8, Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry returns to the state with screenings at 5 and 7 PM as part of the Goodrich Theaters' Documentary Days series. The link to the series has a list of the theaters, along with other upcoming titles and dates.
Unfortunately, Manoranjaninc does not have any Indian movies listed on its site for next Friday, or any other Friday, as of now. They were going through a boom cycle lately, with lots of openings for movies in several different Indian languages, at both the Georgetown 14 and the Movie Buff Theatre in Indy- although the boom recently seems to have turned into a bust.
However, Landmark's Indianapolis page now says that both Lore and Ginger & Rosa are supposed to start at the Keystone Art Cinema on Friday, April 5. Starbuck may also start at the theater on that day, but as of now, it is listed only under the "showtimes" function at the far left of the page, and not in the central column of the page; Lore and Ginger & Rosa show up in both locations. That may mean that Starbuck has been postponed, or is off the theater's schedule all together- or it may mean nothing of the sort. Landmark should post the KAC's schedule for the week of April 5 some time on Monday, so all could be revealed about all three of the above titles at that time.
Finally (for now), the Yes Cinemas in Columbus gives April 5 as a "tentative" opening date for On the Road.
More opening dates- for the rest of April, if I have the time- in the next post, which I hope will be up next weekend,
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