Cinema St. Louis on Wednesday announced the line-up for the St. Louis International Film Festival (tickets go on sale today), and lo and behold, one of the featured films tells a tall tale about a legendary albino farm out near Springfield.www.cinemastlouis.orgYes, an albino farm. The property on the outskirts of Springfield, a.k.a. the Springlawn Farm, was cultivated in the late nineteenth century by a prominent farming family whose admirable animal husbandry drew visitors from far and away.
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The first local press screening of the Jason Reitman/George Clooney film Up In the Air -- perhaps the most eagerly anticipated movie in St. Louis since that flick about the World's Fair -- happened this morning at the Tivoli in the Delmar Loop.While we've been asked by the PR company to withhold any reviews or features until the theatrical release in December, it can't hurt to share a few first impressions with you, loyal Daily RFT readers.And for anyone lucky (or sneaky)
This weekend, I watched the Breeders' Cup from the hospitable living room of a dear friend, pizza in one hand, PBR in the other, yelling for some very fine horses to beat the spread. That's not particularly sneaky, though sneaking food into horse races is quite enjoyable. The topic of conversation kept coming around to how different the horses, crowd, and track facilities at Santa Anita were from our own dear Fairmount Park. The horses particularly are not the rib-addled, bow-legged, nearly-
