The Loft Cinema and Dunkirk

July 23, 2017

The Loft Cinema and Dunkirk

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I saw Dunkirk Thursday evening at 7 p.m. at the Loft Cinema. We don’t do movies at Mark Rubin Writes, Father’s Day 2016, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and the Loft Cinema excepted. But I’m obliged to shout out for the Loft Cinema and independent theaters, and I have some thoughts about movie-watching.

Film—and, for now, I use that word most loosely—and my DNA don’t link up well. I watch almost no television. I never see more than one or two of the Best Picture Academy Award nominees, and a year having seen none happens. (Truth be told, in the last few years the show put on by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts

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Father’s Day – Loft Cinema – Raiders of the Lost Ark

June 23, 2016

This past weekend the Loft Cinema and Raiders of the Lost Ark  subbed for my usual Father’s Day ritual: polishing all of my shoes and watching the final round of U.S. Open. I’m no golfer, for sure—the post provides details—but shoe polish and the tournament have been part of my Father’s Day for almost 20 years. (For details, go to Happy Father’s Day 2016.)

A very good friend mentioned a showing of Raiders on Sunday afternoon at the Loft, Tucson’s independent movie house extraordinaire. She couldn’t make it. I went anyway. (Golf? It was 114° in the shade in Tucson on Sunday. Outdoors was totally unappealing, even on television, and I’ve never

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