The Palais in Cannes 2008

Cannes Harbor

Send in Photos of Your Favorite Cinema

I'm compiling a group of photos of cinema fronts for an upcoming project that you should be able to view sometime in September. So, I'm asking you, the reader, to send in hi-res digital images of the front of your favorite local cinema. I look forward to seeing some beautiful palaces of film.

The Fillmore Towne Cinema

Twice in the past year I’ve had the pleasure of visiting the Fillmore Towne Cinema in the city of Fillmore, California, about 40 minutes from sunny Burbank. This delightful little movie palace only has one screening a day at 7pm, and the $8 ticket admits adults to the balcony section, which is little more than a long single row of perfectly placed seats. In December I saw "Night at the Museum" here and recently screened "Ratatouille." I can’t imagine a more ideal cinema to watch these kinds of movies where the timeless small town family atmosphere envelops you in its movie projector glow. As you can see from the July 2007 photo, the marquee doesn’t even announce the cinema’s name, and so it is that the mystique of this little gem remains a well kept secret in a place where orange groves cover the region.

Ted Rall in the Stans

My friend Ted Rall is currently in Khorog, capital of the Gordo-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast in eastern Tajikistan, working on several assignments about Central Asia. It's no secret that Ted was way ahead of the curve on the significance of the region, and he will surely have some very interesting points to make about the state of affairs there.

Check out his blog at www.tedrall.com to read what he and his talented guest bloggers TheDon and Mikhaela Reid are up to.