Opinion: I spent $40 to watch ‘E.T.’ at a drive-in. It was the best money I spent all summer
CNNEditor’s Note: Frank Pallotta is a media reporter for CNN. Rooftop Films, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization that hosts film festivals, helped create the Queens Drive-In with the borough’s Museum of the Moving Image and New York Hall of Science once the coronavirus took hold. Yes, I know I’m likely in the minority here — some people would rather watch movies at home and never go back. “‘E.T.’ is a movie about people coming together… overcoming circumstances, differences and difficulties,” Nuxoll said. “We wanted to make sure that we program a lot of films that are joyful, wondrous and give people an opportunity to escape for a moment from what is otherwise a relatively bleak world.” And as I looked around the cars next to me on that summer evening, that’s what I saw: people leaving the confines of this bleak world and being transfixed by the magic of being at the movies.
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