Oof. Talk about never letting go.

I had to search for context on this one. Apparently several years ago, Mr. K wrote an extensive review to share his disappointment after driving 250 miles round trip to see a documentary about a choreographer, in 3D. As an aside in the review, he mentioned that he had placed a call to the good folks at Regal to discuss his ideas about committing one of their eight screens at the Riviera downtown to show art films for several months, just to see what happens. Inexplicably, they didn’t return his call. Who knows why they wouldn’t want to commit a screen at a busy, successful theater to low ticket sales for a few months? It seems incomprehensible. Anyhoo, I guess I decided to have a little fun with it, given Mr. K’s ongoing affinity for criticizing all things Riviera.

Now, it seems the Big Ears festival is renting out a screen at the Riviera to show art films as part of the festival. I assume this half-decade-old nugget is being revisited now as proof that Mr. K was right all along. That’s absolutely true, of course, so long as you don’t pay attention to the difference between AC Entertainment paying money for a screen for a weekend as part of a highly regarded, well promoted and well attended weekend festival, and some guy calling up and telling the theater how to run its business. But you know, it’s all about the vision, man! This one’s for everyone who didn’t think of that (almost) clever retort until (six years) later.