Cemetery cinema

The past few years, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Boulevard (at Gower) has been hosting, of all things, film screenings.

You pay $10 and schlep to a grassy, graveless lawn, set up a picnic blanket or beach chair and watch a movie screened against the wall of a giant mausoleum.

Revival house? More like revival crypt. Friends of mine have gone off-and-on since Cinespia’s start. It always seemed a little creepy to me — not scary but bad taste and disrespectful. But the cemetery could use the money, apparently, and what the heck. Revival houses are few and far between these days.

So when a couple of friends invited me last Saturday, I went along. The movie was Orson Welles’ amazing “Touch of Evil” and, you know, the whole thing was kinda fun.

Cinespia has a website if you’d like to know more. Upcoming movies: “Sixteen Candles” (tonight), “Phantasm,” (Sunday), “Badlands” and “Rear Window” (next weekend).

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