Adventures of a Discoverer

Last week I had the opportunity to see two things that I was very curious about. Let's start with the first one: the Grand Illusion Pop Ups. For many years now, a group of movie enthusiasts has kept a small movie theater that they named  the Grand Illusion Cinema . It was located in a former dentist office in the University District and it was really well put together and manned by volunteers. It had good image and good sound, and it was truly a work of love by people who always wanted to watch all kinds of movies on a bigger screen. As such, it used to show a number of interesting movies from the past, the more obscure the better, and you could watch on a theater screen some particular movie that you had always been curious about. Even better, it partnered with the legendary Scarecrow video rental store to show movies that are actually not available in any media anymore: on occasion you could see a movie being played from an old videocassette that was once distributed in that form...