Cinespia: Lee Marvin Kicks All Ass All the Time

by chris cunningham

That’s not Lee Marvin, but it is Jules. She was my roomate in college and did a nice turn in a supacool flash blowout photo from tonight’s Cinespia. Although it doesn’t really look much like her with the jutting chin and all. Her chin does no jutting in real life. It just does normal chin things. Fortunately all these years later she hasn’t held a grudge against me for turning the power off on her computer while she was typing her term paper. That one incident, to this day, has made me double check that whatever outlet I connect a computer to MUST NOT BE CONNECTED TO A LIGHTSWITCH ON THE WALL. Ugh. We were also both at home when the earthquake hit San Francisco in 1989. I remember the radio’s batteries were dead, we had no candles, and when we tried to go to the Safeway near Bernal Heights it was closed because all the front windows were blown out and the glass was all over the parking lot. Mission street, all the way to downtown, was a parking lot and all the electric buses were stuck in the road, some in mid turn. You could even see the fires in the Marina across town. Then when we got back we heard the bay bridge had collapsed from my parents and while we were sitting at the table playing cards the hardware store across the way blew up with a big fireball. What a weird night.

Anyway, nothing like that happened tonight. Her sister Leah was also there, and I remember a picture of her that Jules had in her room while at school and she was wearing something blue. I think it was a fuzzy blue sweater. Bizarre the things you remember. So whenever Jules is talking about her I think “blue” to this day. Tonight’s cinema treasure, Point Blank with Lee F-ing Marvin! Don’t make me slap you around. Cinespia in it’s 4th year has become a little unwieldy in its size.