{"id":330,"date":"2009-02-22T00:47:08","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T05:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=330"},"modified":"2011-07-05T11:55:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T16:55:27","slug":"russell-house-theater-usc-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Russell House Theater, USC (changes)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/rh_theater03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Walking through <i>The Russell House<\/i> this fall, I was struck, looking at the <i>Russell House Theater<\/i> coming attractions, how much the place had changed in focus.<\/p>\n<p>When I was at USC, from 1980 through 1985, the theater was mainly a <i>classics<\/i> house.  Sunday through Thursday, they would play a different film every night, and I probably averaged three or four movies a week, and ones I probably never would have seen otherwise.  In particular, I recall <i>Lost Horizon<\/i>, <i>Goodbye, Mr. Chips<\/i>, <i>Lolita<\/i>, <i>The Pound<\/i>, <i>Cinderella Liberty<\/i>, <i>Les Parapluies de Cherbourg<\/i>, <i>Double Indemnity<\/i>, <i>Farewell, My Lovely<\/i>, <i>The Magic Christian<\/i>, <i>Singin' In The Rain<\/i>, <i>Citizen Kane<\/i>, <i>The Philidelphia Story<\/i>, <i>Bringing Up Baby<\/i>, <i>Sahara<\/i>, <i>Casablanca<\/i>, <i>The Maltese Falcon<\/i>, <i>Captain Blood<\/i>, <i>The Private Lives of Elizabeth & Essex<\/i>, <i>Kiss Me Deadly<\/i>, <i>The Man With the X-Ray Eyes<\/i>, <i>The In-Laws<\/i>, <i>Stagecoach<\/i>, <i>Rio Bravo<\/i>, <i>The Quiet Man<\/i>, <i>The African Queen<\/i>, <i>Dr. Strangelove<\/i>, <i>A Clockwork Orange<\/i>, <i>The Lady Vanishes<\/i>, <i>The 39 Steps<\/i>, <i>The Birds<\/i>, <i>The General<\/i>, <i>Intolerance<\/i>, <i>Wings<\/i>, <i>Advise & Consent<\/i>, and <i>The Best Years of Our Lives<\/i> -- to name a few!<\/p>\n<p>I was a bit disheartened that as far as I could see from looking at the lobby placards, the theater is apparently no longer functioning as an exposure to cinema, but more as a second run dollar theather.  Granted anyone who wants can always rent or buy all the pictures I saw, but there's still something about sitting in a theater with a bunch of people and a good movie, or a <i>fun<\/i> movie, and there's something about serendipity -- sitting down to a movie you never heard of because it's just a buck, and it beats studying and finding against the odds that its something you'll remember for the rest of your life..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking through The Russell House this fall, I was struck, looking at the Russell House Theater coming attractions, how much the place had changed in focus. When I was at USC, from 1980 through 1985, the theater was mainly a classics house. Sunday through Thursday, they would play a different film every night, and I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[15,401,630,21],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-entertainment","tag-greene-street","tag-movies","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}