My adventure from last night is far too sordid to discuss here. So, I want to bring up the two best sources of movie-watching in Memphis: Black Lodge Video and the Orpheum Summer Movie Series. For completely different reasons, each of these venues represent a mandatory Memphis experience.
When I was in high school, the AFI released an official list of the 100 greatest movies of the 20th century. Qualifying their choices with “the past 100 years” seemed a bit banal considering the American movie industry didn’t get churning until the 40s, but I suppose that’s just semantics. Anyway, back then I lived out on the border of Germantown – which is what people referred to Easternmost Memphis as before Cordova and Bartlett started really growing. There’s a little Malco theater out there called the Ridgeway Four.