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I saw Blow Out last night. Got my free popcorn plus some Dots. It was another nearly full house; as far as I can tell the noir festival is pretty dang popular, but a lot of Trylon's niche programming ends up being very popular. Everything is probably pretty popular when there's only 90 seats.

I think Blow Out may have been my favorite thus far, at least out of the films I hadn't already seen, for the following reasons:

Brian De Palma has a lot going for him, most notably a unique point of view and use of the camera. You can complain or find fault with other things in his films, but they are never boring. (Or at least the few I've seen: Carrie, The Untouchables, select clips from Scarface...)
It was the first film from the peak Travolta era I saw where I understood why Travolta became a movie star. He seems so genuine - effortlessly charming in moments, even.
Dennis Franz has a small part, and it is THE MOST. He is wearing a white tank undershirt that is FILTHY in such a specific way it makes me think they bought it from an actual dirtbag. And the PERFORMANCE. It's, like, Da Superfans levels of Chicago sausage-eating broad. I was full of bubbly delight every time he was sliming around.
There was an owl.
It was as lean as it was bombastic. Two things I appreciate very much.

A young man sat next to me. He's been to every one of the noir films thus far, and he said he's a Trylon regular, coming at least once a week (though we both agreed we'd not be attending the Gidget/Beach Blanket Bingo double-header coming up this Super Bowl weekend). His favorite movie last year was Babylon, a film I still haven't seen. It was (condescending) cute that he's clearly far more into the film life than me, but thanks to the years I put in I can still sort of keep up. He also (condescending) cutely said he could get me a discount to any Orchestra Hall performances since he works there when I mentioned the film with live score performances were a little expensive. I mean, they're expensive, but... not that expensive, y'know? Sometimes we say expensive when we mean "making a choice to not go to a thing and there are likely several reasons."

Anyway, tonight is my non-gallivant night. Wednesday is River Butcher at Acme; Thursday is Miller's Crossing at the Heights. I will see my young friend there. I don't know that we'll see each other at Miami Blues. I'm on the fence there. It'd be nice to go to the Super Bowl Sunday showing, since I imagine it'll be a little less populated. On the other hand... I will have very much gallivanted this week and weekend. Sometimes the cats need me to stay home to monitor their behavior and to reward them with original songs.