Our Wednesday night MovieNight experiment provided no scientific evidence that one night of the week is preferable to another, but I have come to my own conclusion: MovieNight belongs on a Thursday evening. So there you have it.

One thing was abundantly clear, however. Miranda July is a “polarizer” (spell check tells me that this isn’t a real word… why the heck not?). The Future is the highly anticipated (at least by us) sophomoric effort from July. Her debut film, Me and You and Everyone We Know was my introduction to July, and it charmed me silly. A week after first watching it, MandYandEWW screened at MovieNight to a packed house. It was one of those magical evenings when I could look out from my perch behind the bar and see total engagement. Nobody “texted” (also not a word, according to Spelly McCheckinheimer), nobody slept, nobody chatted… just big wide eyes and smiles everywhere. In the weeks that followed, other guests explained that they hadn’t attended it because they’d seen it and hated it! Miranda the Polarizer.  While I confess that we weren’t exactly blown away with The Future when we saw it at IFC this summer, I still thought it would make a good MovieNight. Surprisingly, the second viewing (perhaps due to my preparedness to be underwhelmed?) was highly entertaining, and I found myself weeping with laughter. Maybe it’s about what phase the moon is in. ?

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