This is an article of a series having a movie-person watch a favorite movie, commenting along the way.
I know there are a lot of fans of "To Kill a Mockingbird," so you would enjoy this.
In the Arms of Memory
"I think they captured so well how children are drawn to what is mysterious and scary, the way they concoct stories to test and frighten themselves," Ms. Spacek said. "I'm sure I saw this for the first time in a movie theater, probably the Gem Theater in Quitman, where they had a separate entrance for the blacks, who had to sit upstairs in the balcony. And downstairs in the courthouse, I remember, they had separate bathrooms for `colored women' and `white ladies.' I wandered into the `colored' bathroom once, just because I wanted to see what it was like in there, you know, and there was this big black woman who looked at me and said, `What are you doing in here?' I ran out as fast as I could."
In the Arms of Memory - NYTimes.com
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