Midnights at The Baxter: The Princess Bride (May 24, 2008)

By Michelle on May 21, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (2) | Bardstown Road , Baxter Avenue , Film , Highlands , Midnights at The Baxter

Have fun storming the castle and going to see The Princess Bride this Saturday night at midnight. This is one of the most beloved movies of my childhood and it still holds up brilliantly.

From wikipedia: "The Princess Bride is a 1987 film, based on the 1973 novel The Princess Bride by William Goldman, combining comedy, adventure, romance and fantasy.

The movie was directed by Rob Reiner from a screenplay by Goldman. The story is presented in the movie as a fairy tale being read by a grandfather (Peter Falk) to his sick grandson (Fred Savage), thus echoing the book's narrative style.

This film is number 50 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies" and number 88 on The American Film Institute's (AFI) "AFI's 100 Years... 100 Passions" listing the 100 greatest film love stories of all time."

Baxter Avenue Theaters
1250 Bardstown Rd
Louisville, KY 40204

In other news the Baxter Avenue Theater website has been redesigned. When they redesigned they changed some addresses but aren't redirecting traffic to the new pages. So, sadly, most old links to both Baxter Avenue Theaters and Village 8 are broken. Apex Theater web folks: It'd be great if you'd redirect the old links for your theaters to your new pages instead of just letting folks land on 404 errors.

2 Comments

Janelle said:

I saw a midnight showing of The Princess Bride several years ago at The Byrd in Richmond, VA and it was a truly interactive experience. With no prompting from an external source the entire audience would recite some of the more famous lines from the film along with the characters, boo when Prince Humperdinck came on screen and cheer when Westley appeared. I have never felt more in sync with 100+ people; it was a lot of fun.

May 22, 2008 9:38 AM

Michelle

said:

It's way past my bedtime but I just might have to go to this. I love The Princess Bride so very much and I've never actually seen it on the big screen. Your description of the showing you went sounds awesome.

May 22, 2008 12:33 PM