(La Rocco) DANCE ON CAMERA (Wednesday and Thursday) Whether your tastes tend toward Busby Berkeley, Russian ballerinas, new media, flamenco or elsewhere, you'll likely find more than a few film offerings worthy of wiling away an afternoon — or three.
The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum is offering something more worthy of a sailor (or at least a cartoon sailor): a spinach-eating competition.
Instead, they will make every effort to convince their peers and managers that whatever you are offering is a worthy investment.
If a niche market characterized by films such as Violent Shit wherein the writer/director plays a serial killer known only as "K. the Butcher Shitter"—intrigues the mind and stimulates the palates, then The Burning Moon is a worthy offering; more casual viewers, however, would be better served by ten thousand different titles.
Restaurant (350 Harbor Drive, Sausalito; 331fish.com) serves a decadent Dungeness crab roll ($25), among many other worthy offerings, at picnic tables overlooking the water.
With the New York Film Festival gearing up once again (opening night is September 24th), it's worth wondering whether any of this year's worthy offerings may be critically hammered into virtual invisibility.
"When we got Mike Piazza, it gave our organization credibility," Steve Phillips said, offering his pennant-worthy retrospective before the Mets and Mike Hampton sent the rickety Cardinals home and won the National League pennant with a 7-0 vintory in Game 5. "We went from being a nice little team on the field and in people's perception to a real contender".
Offering a subscription-worthy service like job boards makes much more sense than, say, begging people to pay for services like e-mail that they already get for free.
So I leave it as a statement of unexplained fact that, despite worthy offerings, Los Angeles is not really a theater town.
