Yup, I’ll have what she’s having, too.
Although it turns 30 next year, Rob Reiner’s “When Harry Met Sally ...” never gets old, and the comedy starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan screens at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 28, at Oakland’s New Parkway theater.
The dynamics of male-female relationships is always evolving, and certain films serving as cultural markers for relationships haven’t aged well. Example: the then-groundbreaking feminist film “Woman of the Year,” George Stevens’ 1942 Katharine Hepburn-Spencer Tracy rom-com that looks less and less progressive as time goes by.
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But time has treated “When Harry Met Sally ...” well, and that is in large part to Ryan’s and Crystal’s chemistry, which is crucial to a movie in which the characters actually don’t like each other for most of the movie. The fact that Sally and Harry are on the same sexual playing field helps, too.
— G. Allen Johnson
“When Harry Met Sally ... ”: 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 28. $10. The New Parkway, 474 24th St., Oakland. (510) 658-7900. www.thenewparkway.com