LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth |
Drive-In Theater Days Come Back to Rehoboth |
by Rob Rector |
Remember fun summer nights at your hometown drive-in theater, feeling the warm breeze blowing as you watched films on the big screen? On Sunday, August 16, at 8:30 p.m., you can relive such memories at the Rehoboth Beach Bandstand as the Rehoboth Beach Film Society presents its Drive-In Theater. The film society will offer a free outdoor screening of Walt Disneys James and the Giant Peach, a contemporary telling of the 1961 childrens classic fantasy from author Roald Dahl. The program also will include the award-winning documentary short film Ctenophores, a visually compelling look at our coastal neighbor the jellyfish. The film society also will present the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival November 12-15. James and the Giant Peach follows the journey of a lonely young boy who finds some rather unusual new friends and unexpected adventures when he climbs inside a giant peach and sets sail for New York City. The film - a mixture of live action and animation - was created from the imaginative minds that produced Disneys A Nightmare Before Christmas and features the voices of Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves (Daphne from TVs Frasier) Susan Sarandan and Miriam Margolyes. Ctenophores is from the International Wildlife Film Festival, a group with which the organizers of the Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival are working to provide a number of nautical-theme documentaries for the November event. Members of the film society will be on hand throughout the evening to provide promotional materials about the festival. Plans for Novembers Festival The November Festival will begin with an opening-night gala at the Bottle & Cork in Dewey Beach, which will be catered by the Blue Moon Restaurant. The evening will feature live entertainment and previews of "whats in store" during the festival. More than 80 film and video programs are being selected to be shown on all six screens at the Rehoboth Mall Theaters, as well as throughout the area. The festival will also include lectures, discussion groups and workshops for young and old alike. For information on the festival, call the film society information line at (302) 226-3744 or visit its Web site at http://www.rehobothfilm.com. Rob Rector is President of the Rehoboth Beach Film Society, and Editor of the Delaware Beachcomber. Thanks to Rob for allowing us to use excerpts from this article originally printed in the Delaware Coast Press. CAMP Rehoboth is proud to be a media sponsor of the first ever, Rehoboth Beach Film Festival. |
LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth, Vol. 8, No. 11, August 14, 1998. |