Welcome to The Odyssey Cinema

Hello and welcome to The Odyssey Cinema blog! The Odyssey is Second Life's newest cinema located at The Mill. We are dedicated to showing the best films from around the world; classic, art house, independent, and more. We hope to be an interactive community where our group members can comment and suggest the films played at the theater. We also plan on having a discussion group that will meet regularly to examine the films that have recently played. The blog will hopefully be a big part of communicating within the group and about the films being shown.

The Odyssey Cinema was created because even though Second Life has a ton of movie theaters none seemed to be showing the films I wanted to see. Most were showing old films in the public domain or new commercial titles; none seemed to be showing classic or art house films. And if a theater was showing something that I found interesting it either didn't work, I couldn't figure it out, or I had to join a group. The Odyssey has 5 goals:

1. To show the best films from around the world from some of the most influential directors in cinema
2. Allow anyone to watch a film by just pressing play on their media button(no need to join a group)
3. Films will always start from the beginning and more then one person can watch even if they showed up at different times.
4. Create an interactive community of people who appreciate film as an art.
5. Meet new friends and have fun!

We will post information about the movies playing to help inform our members and in hopes of getting comments or reactions to the films. If we get real motivated we might even post some reviews or analysis of some of the films being played.

Lastly, you don't have to be a film expert to be part of this community. I am far from an expert myself I just have a love for film and enjoy attempting to understand these films on a deeper level. All are welcome to be part of the community.

- Loegan Magic