There have been many attempts to get things together to do a film of Confederacy of Dunces, but the most recent pre-production was abandoned some months pre-K.
I havn't reread it post-K, but as I remember it almost all the action takes place in the old Crescent, the part of the city that didn't go under water (though I'm not sure which side of St. Claude Santa Battaglia's house was, if it was specified).
BTW, Ignatius' neighborhood movie theater, the Prytania, is still in business. Technically I should say is in business again; it closed about 8 years ago, lamented as the last of the neighborhood single screen theaters in the city to go, but after being vacant for some time and threatened with demolition was bought by a local film buff and reopened. It was the first movie theater in the Metro area to reopen after the storm, and I believe was the only one for over a month! October and November lots of folks enjoying the luxury of going to the movies while they still didn't have power back in their homes yet. I most recently saw King Kong there.
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Re: A Confederacy of Dunces
Date: 2006-01-16 12:15 pm (UTC)I havn't reread it post-K, but as I remember it almost all the action takes place in the old Crescent, the part of the city that didn't go under water (though I'm not sure which side of St. Claude Santa Battaglia's house was, if it was specified).
BTW, Ignatius' neighborhood movie theater, the Prytania, is still in business. Technically I should say is in business again; it closed about 8 years ago, lamented as the last of the neighborhood single screen theaters in the city to go, but after being vacant for some time and threatened with demolition was bought by a local film buff and reopened. It was the first movie theater in the Metro area to reopen after the storm, and I believe was the only one for over a month! October and November lots of folks enjoying the luxury of going to the movies while they still didn't have power back in their homes yet. I most recently saw King Kong there.