Movieville

I wish this otherwise remarkably original film had managed to avoid a fairly pedestrian mystery plot. But it doesn't completely overshadow some remarkable scenes cross-cutting across time and possible futures. An example of a narrative that could not possibly be told well on the stage or page. B+

I can remember a time when where we went to the movies was just as important as the movies we went to see .... From the moment moviegoers arrived to buy their tickets, there was a sense of something special, a feeling that to step inside was to enter another time and place. - Gene Kelly