I am of the age that “Who Killed Laura Palmer” led to “Laura” the movie.

I caught about 40 minutes last night of Jean Renoir “The Southerner” which in my mind I was comparing to Jeannette Walls “The Glass Castle” recent memoir (and also caught the last 20 minutes of John Ford “Wagon Master” which had me asking the lady at concessions if they were serving Coke that night – -yes.). I go to the movies an hour at a time which is still a bargain for the Packard Foundation subsidized historic theatre — $6 frequent flyers card.

A favorite ritual is to cross check the Stanford Theatre pamphlet with Halliwells and mark my copy *   **   *** or sometime ****. By Halliwells, “Wagonmaster” was a * and “Southerner” a *** which means three reasons to see it or three times better than the other, and infinitely better than the bulk of Hollywood especially recent issues (gesundheit or excuse YOU).