Posted on 11/15/2013 3:42:28 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Message to high-brow movie critics and cultural elites: Stay away from the Grand Hotel on Michigan's Mackinac Island this weekend. No cynicism allowed! Not among the nearly 800 "time travelers" who arrived on Friday at the historic Grand Hotel -- the start of a three-day gathering during which they'll dress up in period garb and (in their minds) transport themselves back to 1912.
The fanciful journey has been an annual ritual for 23 years now, bringing together incurable romantics from all over the country, and even abroad. It's a celebration of the 1980 movie "Somewhere in Time"-- a bittersweet love story involving time travel and shot mostly in and around the majestic 126-year-old Grand Hotel.
The film's message: love is eternal.
Critics hated "Somewhere in Time." Vincent Canby wrote in The New York Times that the film had the year's highest "giggle content," and "does for time-travel what the Hindenburg did for dirigibles." Deriding the film's "romantic idealism," Roger Ebert asked in the Chicago Sun-Times whether it wasn't "a little futile to travel 68 years backward into time for a one-night stand."
Yet "Somewhere in Time" is now a beloved cult classic -- all of which underscores the amusing perception gap that often exists between ordinary movie audiences and cultural elites (and especially movie critics). But that's not news to Jo Addie, an antiques dealer in the Chicago area, who is president of the "Somewhere in Time" fan club and editor of its quarterly magazine. "You could hardly imagine a critic putting words to paper saying they truly love a movie like "Somewhere in Time," she wrote in an e-mail message. "It would have them losing their 'credibility' or their 'edge'. "Somewhere in Time" is not for the jaded or cynical."
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John Barry did the soundtrack for the movie, one of his best ever.
I loved it.
I think I saw it. Thought it was weird and moved on.
I liked this movie. Of course, anytime the critics rave about a film, I never bother watching it. It the artsy-fartsy, tea and croissant crowd love it, it’s usually crap.
The 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini again shot to fame as a result of the movie.
Listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GQbd8CEO4
The 18th variation of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini again shot to fame as a result of the movie.
Listen to it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59GQbd8CEO4
No chemistry between the two main characters.
A movie watching again, because you won’t really like it or get it the first time?
it’s beautiful.
Hm....
O love this movie, and “The Lakehouse” with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock.
Played the flute solo many times. Beautiful score.
The scene where Christopher Reeve pulls the1970’s penny out of his pocket and triggers his return to modern time was really dramatic and really well done. I thought it was a great story and I am a guy who thinks good dramatic movies means anything from Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood, Joe Pesci...
a Penny for your thought.
hated it.
In the book (Bid Time Return) it’s Mahler’s 9th Symphony.
I saw the movie as a kid. I thought it was okay, though at the time it wasn’t something I’d want to see again and again. Never realized it had become a “cult classic.”
Then again, my idea of a cult classic was always more along the lines of Blue Velvet, so there’s that, too. (Good thing we don’t have a annual festival for that one, LOL!).
We should, complete with full kegs of Pabst Blue Ribbon.
I liked this movie!
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