There were a few dozen people on opening night in one of only 4 theaters in which it was playing in the entire state of NY. We had someone get there VERY early because we were concerned we wouldn't be able to get a seat. I sat with muscles clenched, wringing my hands for two hours and tears streamed down my cheeks at the end. It was a powerful and incredible movie about an amazing group of students - the White Rose. I haven't been able to shake the impact and don't really care to. But I am still so sad about how poor a turn-out I saw. I know subtitled foreign films are not wildly popular - but I really thought that given the state of the world - that by sheer word-of-mouth - there should have been crowds.

To locate one of the limited engagement theaters where it is playing now see: http://www.sophieschollmovie.com /

The New Yorker's review: http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/?0...

Find a theater and take friends. 6 of us went and we sat and talked for hours afterward at a late night dinner where no one had much appetite.

I went to my town Board of Trade meeting last night. Ended up sitting with several other small business owners for a while after. I was reading the news this morning about the Dems' caution (to put it kindly) in censuring Bush over the illegal wiretapping. They have no idea how angry people are. This is the local business community and people were raving mad over the political situation - local and national. Furious and frustrated. Our local town supervisor (R) was quoted in the paper last week as saying "Why would anyone want to come here? <to our town> in an article that accurately described his chain-smoking in the town offices (an illegal act) and tried to weasel out of the whole picture in a rebuttal in the paper yesterday that was obviously written by his assistant. (The one-on-one interview was what I'd expect to see from Bush without his handlers - as if that would ever happen.) We have increasing numbers of vacant businesses on our Main Street and I heard that one of our larger employers was scaling way back last week and laid people off. Our supervisor responds by saying "Why would people want to come here?" I couldn't help but wonder if he isn't right - why should anyone want to join a community that would elect him... even if he did win by a 6 vote margin?

Take a look at this:
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/0...