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    Play the Dream Theater game...

    Let's say your rich uncle owns and operates a nice old single screen, independent theater in the downtown area of your favorite city. Every summer he has his one-week film festival where he runs his own selections instead of current releases, but this summer he's going out of the country for that week and asks you to come in and select and show the films for his summer film fest. You can have matinees, double-features, midnight movies, theme nights, etc. The format is up to you, but you have to at least sell a few tickets and you can't be shut down by the local authorities while he's gone. (No week long porn fests!) Your week starts at 12:00am Sun. and runs to the end of your Sat. midnight movie ( a week later) if you choose to have one. Since I've obsessed, of late, over this prospect with no basis in reality, I'll start. My format would be one afternoon matinee every day that might appeal to kids of all ages, a double feature each night (some nights are roughly themed) and a somewhat or completely off-the-wall midnight movie each night. Remember, you don't have to turn a profit but you at least have to appeal to some sect of society.

    Sat.midnight movie to kick off the week
    Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Sun.
    matinee - Time Bandits
    double feature - Monty Python and the Holy Grail/This is Spinal Tap
    Midnight - A Clockwork Orange

    Mon.
    matinee - Jason & the Argonauts
    double feature - The Bicycle Thief / 8 1/2
    midnight - Suspiria

    Tues.
    matinee - Batman the Movie (1966)
    double feature - Pulp Fiction/Blue Velvet
    midnight - Akira

    Wed.
    matinee - The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
    double feature - Once Upon a Time in the West/Fistful of Dynamite
    midnight - El Topo

    Thurs.
    matinee - The Ghost & Mr. Chicken
    double feature - Welcome to the Doll House/Baby Doll
    midnight - Faster, Pussycat Kill, Kill

    Fri.
    matinee - Raiders of the Lost Ark
    double feature - Paris, TX/Repo Man
    midnight - Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

    Sat.
    matinee - Star Wars
    double feature - Citizen Kane/Ed Wood
    midnight - Plan 9 from Outer Space

    It would have been nice to have 2 weeks to really develop some themes, but you only get one.

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    now this was fun! alrighty, i went back and already changed around several selections, (damn this was hard!!) and switching one meant leaving off others! argh. (making another change now) will prolly tinker some more with the edit feature, tried to put some common themes throughout the week with each day having a mini theme. but also figured this week could make a good chunk of change (well, by saturday afternoon at least, haha).

    Ok so Friday is a ridiculously doozie of a day (and i've changed the midnight show 4 times already) and probably not practical as far as actually being able to physically sit through, but it'd be interesting. and i took liberties on the monday double feature because.. well, had to! and the sat midnight kickoff because... well, had to again!!! and so much still left out and off! ugh! you really can tinker forever. but.. here goes:


    Sat Midnight kick off:
    Evil Dead 2/ Army of Darkness

    Sunday
    Matinee: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
    Double: A Fistful of Dollars/ Yojimbo
    Midnight: The Exorcist

    Monday:
    Matinee: The Seventh Seal
    Double: Blue/White/ Red
    Midnight: The Kingdom

    Tuesday:
    Matinee: Ran
    Double: Seven Samurai / The Magnificent Seven
    Midnight: Ringu

    Wednesday:
    Matinee: Game of Death
    Double: Enter the Dragon/ Drunken Master II
    Midnight: The Eye

    Thursday:
    Matinee: The City of Lost Children
    Double: Amelie / The Brotherhood of the Wolf
    Midnight: Diabolique

    Friday:
    Matinee: Lawrence of Arabia
    Double: Bridge on the River Kwai / Dr. Zhivago
    Midnight: The Birds

    Saturday:
    Matinee: Star Wars
    Double: Raging Bull/ The Conversation
    Midnight: Jaws

    i need another week!!!!!!!

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    Sounds like fun even if some of mine have been selected already nuts!

    Sat.midnight movie to kick off the week
    Goodfellas

    Sun.
    matinee - The Shawshank Redemption
    double feature - Citizen X / Felicia's Journey
    Midnight - The War Zone

    Mon.
    matinee - The Apartment
    double feature - Waydowntown / Office Space
    midnight - Death of a Salesman (Hoffman)

    Tues.
    matinee - The Englsih Patient
    double feature - Sunshine / Oscar and Lucinda
    midnight - Strange Days

    Wed.
    matinee - Chicken Run
    double feature - The Nasty Girl / Schindler's List
    midnight - Life Is Beautiful

    Thurs.
    matinee - Raiders of the Lost Ark
    double feature - Rabbit Proof Fence/ Walkabout
    midnight - Cabaret

    Fri.
    matinee - Run Lola Run
    double feature - Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill Vol 1&2
    midnight - A Clockwork Orange

    Sat.
    matinee - E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial
    double feature - Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978) / Aliens
    midnight - 2001: A Space Oddysey

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kam
    now this was fun! alrighty, i went back and already changed around several selections, (damn this was hard!!) and switching one meant leaving off others! argh. (making another change now) will prolly tinker some more with the edit feature, tried to put some common themes throughout the week with each day having a mini theme. but also figured this week could make a good chunk of change (well, by saturday afternoon at least, haha).

    Ok so Friday is a ridiculously doozie of a day (and i've changed the midnight show 4 times already) and probably not practical as far as actually being able to physically sit through, but it'd be interesting. and i took liberties on the monday double feature because.. well, had to! and the sat midnight kickoff because... well, had to again!!! and so much still left out and off! ugh! you really can tinker forever. but.. here goes:

    Yep, I had a pretty lengthy list of leftovers myself, made numerous changes and substitutions, but I did have the advantage of thinking about this for a while before posting. I considered having 2 daytime movies but I wanted my daytime movies to have family appeal so I stuck with one matinee. I didn't really get to develop themes like I wanted because of trying to cram in as much in one week as possible/practical. I used a couple of horror movies as midnight flicks rather than having a horror night - did the same thing with anime - I decided to pick just one as a midnight movie. No Hong Kong/Japan night, no blaxploitation night and foreign films are a little Italian-heavy.

    But I was able to keep the Harry Dean Stanton double feature on Fri. night! I amused myself with that one.

    I'll have to do a little research on some of your selections - should be interesting.

    BTW, your introduction reads like a Stewie monologue from Family Guy!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RGA
    Sounds like fun even if some of mine have been selected already nuts!

    Sat.midnight movie to kick off the week
    Goodfellas

    Sun.
    matinee - The Shawshank Redemption
    double feature - Citizen X / Felicia's Journey
    Midnight - The War Zone

    Mon.
    matinee - The Apartment
    double feature - Waydowntown / Office Space
    midnight - Death of a Salesman (Hoffman)

    Tues.
    matinee - The Englsih Patient
    double feature - Sunshine / Oscar and Lucinda
    midnight - Strange Days

    Wed.
    matinee - Chicken Run
    double feature - The Nasty Girl / Schindler's List
    midnight - Life Is Beautiful

    Thurs.
    matinee - Raiders of the Lost Ark
    double feature - Rabbit Proof Fence/ Walkabout
    midnight - Cabaret

    Fri.
    matinee - Run Lola Run
    double feature - Pulp Fiction/Kill Bill Vol 1&2
    midnight - A Clockwork Orange

    Sat.
    matinee - E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial
    double feature - Invasion of the Body Snatchers(1978) / Aliens
    midnight - 2001: A Space Oddysey
    I like the way you open and close the week. I thought about going with 2001 as a closer, but my Sat theme was tongue-in-cheek starting with a great scifi film, then a film considered by many as the greatest of all time, then one about the worst director of all time that mentions the aforementioned greatest of all time, then ending with the worst scifi of all time (according to some) by arguably the worst director of all time of whom the preceding film was about.

    I couldn't squeeze in a gangster/mob night although I considered Goodfellas, Godfather I and urban gangster stuff like King of New York.

    Office Space: Without a doubt contains the coolest stapler ever caught on film! Good comedy.

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    I didn't have much time to because I started it got part way through and had to leave. So I had a kind of Holocaust day, A Ralph Fiennes day, an anti-office day, a Sci-fi day, a funky Pulp Fiction styled ultra-violence night.

    My Sunday doesn't really work - it was going to be a serial killer day with Citizen X and Felicia's Journey but I could not think of others and I'm not the biggest fan of Silence of the Lambs -- so I put in a prison picture and just a disturbing film in the War Zone.

    Thursday also doesn't really work - Raiders and Cabaret have a Nazi backdrop, while Rabbit Proof Fence is Imperialism - Walkabout's only tie in was that like RPF it was set in Australia. Not bad for about 10 minutes minutes though.

    My Thursday might be

    matinee - JFK
    double feature - The Third Man / Fahrenheit 9/11
    midnight - Dave

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    Quote Originally Posted by RGA
    I didn't have much time to because I started it got part way through and had to leave. So I had a kind of Holocaust day, A Ralph Fiennes day, an anti-office day, a Sci-fi day, a funky Pulp Fiction styled ultra-violence night.

    My Sunday doesn't really work - it was going to be a serial killer day with Citizen X and Felicia's Journey but I could not think of others and I'm not the biggest fan of Silence of the Lambs -- so I put in a prison picture and just a disturbing film in the War Zone.

    Thursday also doesn't really work - Raiders and Cabaret have a Nazi backdrop, while Rabbit Proof Fence is Imperialism - Walkabout's only tie in was that like RPF it was set in Australia. Not bad for about 10 minutes minutes though.

    My Thursday might be

    matinee - JFK
    double feature - The Third Man / Fahrenheit 9/11
    midnight - Dave
    rga, i liked your wednesday and saturday lineups. but wed night... phew. could reverse it and end with chicken run on a high note. although i guess it ends with tears of hearfelt joy rather than tears of depression. am a big fan of life is beautiful (own it) but wow, does that leave you with some serious heartache. at the end when he 'play' marches off knowing his son is watching him, ouch does that really take a yank at the heartstrings. movies about what parents sacrifice for their kids always hit me hard. and crap, your third man call makes me think i forgot to stick Touch of Evil in there. argh! so many choices so little space!

    oh and deano, am heavily influenced in my insanity by family guy, simpsons, south park, and now american dad and some british humor (python crew, the office bbc, eddie izzard, etc).
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    Talking Ohh ohh... pick me pick me! Can I play???

    Okay uncle Scrooge is out of town and I git's to play Halleylooya. Slobber, slobber drool.

    Start Up Saturday: Giant Monster Night
    Them/King Kong (orginal)

    Sun and Sandles Sunday:
    Matinee: Quo Vadis
    Double Double: The Robe/Demetrius and the Gladiators
    Midnight Madness:Gladiator

    Moan and Groan Monday: Film Noir to match my black and white mood.
    Matinee: Kiss of Death
    Double Trouble: Scarface(1932)/Little Caeser
    Midnight Madness: The Third Man

    Tippin out Tuesday:
    Matinee: Arthur
    Double Feature: Lost Weekend/Leaving Las Vegas
    Midnight Madness: Drugstore Cowboy.

    Weepin Wednesday:
    Matinee: Wuthering Heights
    Double Dipper: Love Story (Yipes!)/Titanic
    Midnight Madness: A Night to Remember

    Throwdown Thursday: Lace em up!!!!
    Matinee: Rocky
    Double Left Hook: Ragin' Bull/Cinderella Man
    12th Round 12th Hour: "When We Were Kings"

    Freak out Friday:
    Matinee: Psycho
    Double Trouble: The Exorcist/Rosemary's Baby
    Midnight Madness: The Sentinel

    Send-Off Saturday:
    Matinee: Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
    Double Dip: Star Wars/Aliens
    Midnight Ramble: Night of the Living Dead

    Man I could do this all week.

    Da Worfster

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    Quote Originally Posted by Worf101
    Okay uncle Scrooge is out of town and I git's to play Halleylooya. Slobber, slobber drool.

    Start Up Saturday: Giant Monster Night
    Them/King Kong (orginal)

    Sun and Sandles Sunday:
    Matinee: Quo Vadis
    Double Double: The Robe/Demetrius and the Gladiators
    Midnight Madness:Gladiator

    Moan and Groan Monday: Film Noir to match my black and white mood.
    Matinee: Kiss of Death
    Double Trouble: Scarface(1932)/Little Caeser
    Midnight Madness: The Third Man

    Tippin out Tuesday:
    Matinee: Arthur
    Double Feature: Lost Weekend/Leaving Las Vegas
    Midnight Madness: Drugstore Cowboy.

    Weepin Wednesday:
    Matinee: Wuthering Heights
    Double Dipper: Love Story (Yipes!)/Titanic
    Midnight Madness: A Night to Remember

    Throwdown Thursday: Lace em up!!!!
    Matinee: Rocky
    Double Left Hook: Ragin' Bull/Cinderella Man
    12th Round 12th Hour: "When We Were Kings"

    Freak out Friday:
    Matinee: Psycho
    Double Trouble: The Exorcist/Rosemary's Baby
    Midnight Madness: The Sentinel

    Send-Off Saturday:
    Matinee: Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
    Double Dip: Star Wars/Aliens
    Midnight Ramble: Night of the Living Dead

    Man I could do this all week.

    Da Worfster
    Worf, how'd you do that? Swords and sandals, drugs and alcohol, black and white...fight night, fright night, date night, overgrown monsters, and aliens at home and beyond. Sumpin' for everryyyy.....body.

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    Talking Twas easy Deano....

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    Worf, how'd you do that? Swords and sandals, drugs and alcohol, black and white...fight night, fright night, date night, overgrown monsters, and aliens at home and beyond. Sumpin' for everryyyy.....body.
    You should know how as a fellow "Rat Packer" you just make sure the category has the same first letter as the day of hte week. Like Monday could've just as easily been:

    Monday Monday Musicals:
    Matinee: Oklahoma
    TwinBill: South Pacific/Westside Story
    Monday Moonlight: Little Shop of Horrors.

    See... it's easy greasy.

    Da Worfster

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    A "dream theater" like this used to operate around my office in Berkeley. Built in 1912, it seats about 1,500 people and had decent projection equipment (no digital sound though). Not the most modern or best maintained theater, but they had a very original program, a huge screen, and they published a three-month calendar that you could use to plan out your moviegoing. Unlike other revival theaters in the area, they changed programs almost every day. It was great to just take a few steps and just enjoy whatever that theater decided to program on their whim.

    Sadly, the theater operators got into a dispute with the landlord over earthquake retrofitting costs, so it closed and has remained closed for the past four years. The program now occupies a smaller multiplex theater down the street, but they went to a weekly calendar that's not nearly as inspired and random as what they used to show when the movies changed on a daily basis.

    Anyway, this is sort of a tribute to the daily double features that they used to put on. As a rule, any theater I would have control over would have to run Tex Avery cartoon shorts prior to every show.

    Monday - Silent Monday
    Safety Last (classic Harold Lloyd comedy, some of the best stuntwork you'll ever see)
    Metropolis (the Fritz Lang classic; one of the most influential sci-fi flicks ever)
    The General (jawdropping comedy starring Buster Keaton)
    Midnight: Modern Times (can't have a silent movie fest without Charlie Chaplin)

    Tuesday - Musical Mania
    Singin' In The Rain (amazing film that gets better with each viewing; classic musical that doubles as brilliant satire)
    Stormy Weather (one of the greatest collections of jazz-age musicians and dancer ever collected onto one film)
    My Fair Lady (another brilliantly done musical that holds up exceptionally well thru repeated viewings)
    Day At The Races (this Marx Brothers classic is included because it's a funny flick and it has arguably the single greatest dance scene ever filmed, featuring the incomparable swing master Frankie Manning, who by the way still teaches around the world at age 91)
    Midnight: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (what other movie would you play at Midnight?)

    Wednesday - Tune/Trip Out
    Koyaanisqatsi (a time-lapsed view of "life out of balance" captured by Godfrey Reggio with music from Philip Glass without narration, but with a strongly defined theme and exposition)
    Fantasia (stunningly vivid Disney animation set to classical music pieces, again without narration)
    2001: A Space Odyssey ("My God, it's full of stars")
    Midnight: The Wall (basically, it's watching a two-hour drug trip set to Pink Floyd music; bonus feature - Sir Bob Geldof shaves off his eyebrows!)

    Thursday - Post-apocalyptic Redux
    City of Lost Children (visually stunning alternative future fantasy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
    The Road Warrior (one of the greatest car chases ever filmed culminates this classic action pic about a post-nuclear and post-petroleum world)
    Brazil (another alternative vision of the future; brilliantly dark satire)
    Midnight: The Running Man (it's got Arnie, and it's got Richard Dawson, what more could a sci-fi action pic need?)

    Friday - Just Plain Sick
    I Spit On Your Grave (controversial exploitation flick that was banned in some European countries)
    Pink Flamingos (John Waters' delightfully offensive flick; his classic public service announcement about smoking will run prior to this)
    Killer Condom (picture a homicidal condom with bad intentions and sharp teeth designed by Alien designer H.R. Giger, and it's a German movie, need I say more?)
    Midnight: Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival (time to roll out the timeless stuff like Bambi Meets Godzilla, Dogpile, Lupo the Butcher, etc.; midnight screenings for this animation festival used to pass out barf bags to the audience!)

    Saturday - Festival Hong Kong Marathon
    Project A, Part 2 (Star/Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Themesinger Jackie Chan at his creative and comedic best; brilliant display of comedic timing, stuntwork, and choreography)
    Way of the Dragon (original language Hong Kong version of the Bruce Lee classic, originally retitled Return of the Dragon and horribly dubbed for the U.S. market)
    Swordsman II (the audicity and derring do of Hong Kong cinema on full display with Jet Li and Brigitte Lin)
    Iron Monkey (another tour de force stunner, directed by Yuen Woo Ping)
    Hard Boiled (John Woo's final Hong Kong production, culimination of all of his cinematic techniques and themes, stars the incomparably cool Chow Yun-Fat)
    Late-Night: Naked Killer (female assassins, lesbo love triangles, baddies getting impaled and dissected with sewing needles, private parts making their way into hot dog buns, way cool girlfights -- you think Hollywood would ever make something like THIS?)

    Sunday - Die Hard On ________________ (fill in the blank) Marathon
    Passenger 57 (a passenger jet)
    Under Seige (a battleship)
    The Rock (Alcatraz)
    Air Force One (Air Force One)
    Speed (a bus)
    Midnight: Die Hard (the often imitated, but never duplicated, original)
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    Quote Originally Posted by Woochifer
    A "dream theater" like this used to operate around my office in Berkeley. Built in 1912, it seats about 1,500 people and had decent projection equipment (no digital sound though). Not the most modern or best maintained theater, but they had a very original program, a huge screen, and they published a three-month calendar that you could use to plan out your moviegoing. Unlike other revival theaters in the area, they changed programs almost every day. It was great to just take a few steps and just enjoy whatever that theater decided to program on their whim.

    Sadly, the theater operators got into a dispute with the landlord over earthquake retrofitting costs, so it closed and has remained closed for the past four years. The program now occupies a smaller multiplex theater down the street, but they went to a weekly calendar that's not nearly as inspired and random as what they used to show when the movies changed on a daily basis.

    Anyway, this is sort of a tribute to the daily double features that they used to put on. As a rule, any theater I would have control over would have to run Tex Avery cartoon shorts prior to every show.

    Monday - Silent Monday
    Safety Last (classic Harold Lloyd comedy, some of the best stuntwork you'll ever see)
    Metropolis (the Fritz Lang classic; one of the most influential sci-fi flicks ever)
    The General (jawdropping comedy starring Buster Keaton)
    Midnight: Modern Times (can't have a silent movie fest without Charlie Chaplin)

    Tuesday - Musical Mania
    Singin' In The Rain (amazing film that gets better with each viewing; classic musical that doubles as brilliant satire)
    Stormy Weather (one of the greatest collections of jazz-age musicians and dancer ever collected onto one film)
    My Fair Lady (another brilliantly done musical that holds up exceptionally well thru repeated viewings)
    Day At The Races (this Marx Brothers classic is included because it's a funny flick and it has arguably the single greatest dance scene ever filmed, featuring the incomparable swing master Frankie Manning, who by the way still teaches around the world at age 91)
    Midnight: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (what other movie would you play at Midnight?)

    Wednesday - Tune/Trip Out
    Koyaanisqatsi (a time-lapsed view of "life out of balance" captured by Godfrey Reggio with music from Philip Glass without narration, but with a strongly defined theme and exposition)
    Fantasia (stunningly vivid Disney animation set to classical music pieces, again without narration)
    2001: A Space Odyssey ("My God, it's full of stars")
    Midnight: The Wall (basically, it's watching a two-hour drug trip set to Pink Floyd music; bonus feature - Sir Bob Geldof shaves off his eyebrows!)

    Thursday - Post-apocalyptic Redux
    City of Lost Children (visually stunning alternative future fantasy directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet)
    The Road Warrior (one of the greatest car chases ever filmed culminates this classic action pic about a post-nuclear and post-petroleum world)
    Brazil (another alternative vision of the future; brilliantly dark satire)
    Midnight: The Running Man (it's got Arnie, and it's got Richard Dawson, what more could a sci-fi action pic need?)

    Friday - Just Plain Sick
    I Spit On Your Grave (controversial exploitation flick that was banned in some European countries)
    Pink Flamingos (John Waters' delightfully offensive flick; his classic public service announcement about smoking will run prior to this)
    Killer Condom (picture a homicidal condom with bad intentions and sharp teeth designed by Alien designer H.R. Giger, and it's a German movie, need I say more?)
    Midnight: Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival (time to roll out the timeless stuff like Bambi Meets Godzilla, Dogpile, Lupo the Butcher, etc.; midnight screenings for this animation festival used to pass out barf bags to the audience!)

    Saturday - Festival Hong Kong Marathon
    Project A, Part 2 (Star/Director/Producer/Screenwriter/Themesinger Jackie Chan at his creative and comedic best; brilliant display of comedic timing, stuntwork, and choreography)
    Way of the Dragon (original language Hong Kong version of the Bruce Lee classic, originally retitled Return of the Dragon and horribly dubbed for the U.S. market)
    Swordsman II (the audicity and derring do of Hong Kong cinema on full display with Jet Li and Brigitte Lin)
    Iron Monkey (another tour de force stunner, directed by Yuen Woo Ping)
    Hard Boiled (John Woo's final Hong Kong production, culimination of all of his cinematic techniques and themes, stars the incomparably cool Chow Yun-Fat)
    Late-Night: Naked Killer (female assassins, lesbo love triangles, baddies getting impaled and dissected with sewing needles, private parts making their way into hot dog buns, way cool girlfights -- you think Hollywood would ever make something like THIS?)

    Sunday - Die Hard On ________________ (fill in the blank) Marathon
    Passenger 57 (a passenger jet)
    Under Seige (a battleship)
    The Rock (Alcatraz)
    Air Force One (Air Force One)
    Speed (a bus)
    Midnight: Die Hard (the often imitated, but never duplicated, original)
    Brazil - that's the 3rd Terry Gilliam film listed so far. I haven't seen a lot of talk about his films here, but he's obviously well-respected. What's the pre-realease buzz on The Brothers Grimm?

    I was first exposed to Buster Keaton as a freshman in college when I took a film history course. I was aware of Lloyd and Chaplin, but Keaton was right there with them. Of the 3, he was my instructor's favorite. His deadpans and other facial expressions are what I remember the most. Those were some great physical comedians.

    I can't believe I didn't include a John Waters film in mine. I almost went with Female Trouble as a midnight movie, but substituted El Topo at the last minute.

    I think I have I Spit on Your Grave on vhs boxed up from 2 moves ago. Man those "banned in __ (fill in #) countries" labels used to really tempt me.

    Loved your Hong Kong lineup too. Naked Killer sounds verrryyy interesting.

    The Wall is another great selection for a midnight movie. I was trying to think of a rock/animation film, but at the time I could only remember Heavy Metal.

    I forgot to mention this little tidbit about the game. As a bonus, each film you select comes with a full size reproduction of the original movie poster in the film's native language. They're yours to keep after your film fest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    Brazil - that's the 3rd Terry Gilliam film listed so far. I haven't seen a lot of talk about his films here, but he's obviously well-respected. What's the pre-realease buzz on The Brothers Grimm?
    I haven't heard much about The Brothers Grimm. Gilliam has a difficult reputation, and the battle he waged with Universal over the release of Brazil helped to create that perception. IMO, Brazil is an ingenius piece of dark satire that mixes elements of art deco sci-fi with farce, mythology, and romance. Easily my favorite Terry Gilliam film, because it builds on some of what he started with Time Bandits but without the excesses that bloated down some of his later films (Adventures of Baron Munchaussen and 12 Monkeys). But, Universal had a re-edited (and far inferior) version of the movie made, and might have put it into release if Gilliam had not pulled off some highly publicized press screenings of his original cut. Unfortunately, they did wind up putting out the re-edited version for broadcast TV. Criterion's three-disc DVD set is absolutely essential because it includes both edits of the film -- the director's cut and the "love conquers all" re-edited version, as well as a documentary that goes over the battle to get Gilliam's original version of Brazil released.

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    I was first exposed to Buster Keaton as a freshman in college when I took a film history course. I was aware of Lloyd and Chaplin, but Keaton was right there with them. Of the 3, he was my instructor's favorite. His deadpans and other facial expressions are what I remember the most. Those were some great physical comedians.
    I start watching stuff from the silent geniuses because I've been a huge fan of Jackie Chan since his 1978 breakthrough Snake In The Eagle's Shadow. In interviews, Chan will always mention guys like Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Fred Astaire, and Gene Kelly among his biggest influences, not just the popular movie martial artists from the Shaw Bros. era like Bruce Lee, Gordon Liu, and Jimmy Wang Yu. Project A, Part 2 more so than any of his other films pays homage to the silent geniuses, even though their influence is very much apparent in Chan's approach to physical comedy and stuntwork. Buster Keaton's stuff is groundbreaking and ingenius -- all the more so because he and Lloyd did their own stunts in real time, very much the same approach that Chan takes on.

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    I can't believe I didn't include a John Waters film in mine. I almost went with Female Trouble as a midnight movie, but substituted El Topo at the last minute.
    Never saw El Topo or Female Trouble, but those do sound interesting. I once saw a midnight screening of Polyester with the infamous Smell-O-Rama scratch and sniff cards. One of the best times I've ever had at a midnight movie. But, I chose Pink Flamingos because my Friday schedule followed a sick and twisted theme, and that's easily Waters' most depraved and tasteless movie.

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    I think I have I Spit on Your Grave on vhs boxed up from 2 moves ago. Man those "banned in __ (fill in #) countries" labels used to really tempt me.
    It was either that or Faces of Death to fill out my Friday lineup!

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    Loved your Hong Kong lineup too. Naked Killer sounds verrryyy interesting.
    Believe me, my bullet point description of Naked Killer does no justice to how out-of-control and off-the-wall that movie is! I mean, it's got all the typical Hong Kong gangster genre embellishments -- the stylized gunfights, the revenge themes, the brutal violence -- but has female leads with the lesbian love triangle elements, some feminized methods of killing (why shoot, strangle, or stab a guy, when you can stitch him up with projectile sewing needles and rip his flesh off his bones?), and some sick humor mixed in for good measure.

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    The Wall is another great selection for a midnight movie. I was trying to think of a rock/animation film, but at the time I could only remember Heavy Metal.
    This was another movie that I saw at a midnight screening, and I think I was the only person in the entire theater that wasn't stoned! During some of the more disturbing animated sequences, a couple of women in front of me literally started freaking out -- just screaming hysterically as if everything on screen was real.

    Given the tune/trip out theme, I gave The Wall the midnight nod, although Heavy Metal would be an equally good choice, with less potential for scaring the hell out of stoned patrons! Interesting though, I'd always heard the stories about how 2001: A Space Odyssey was really popular with stoned out hippies, who used to watch the movie and then move to the front row during Bowman's trip into the beyond. Interestingly, when I saw the movie in 70mm a few years ago at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, half the audience moved to the front row (or lied down at the base of that massive screen). Couldn't tell if they were sober or not.

    Quote Originally Posted by dean_martin
    I forgot to mention this little tidbit about the game. As a bonus, each film you select comes with a full size reproduction of the original movie poster in the film's native language. They're yours to keep after your film fest.
    Kewl. Audience in my theater would have to settle for master animator Tex Avery shorts before the feature! (one of my favorite theaters in L.A. used to play Avery's classic Rock A Bye Bear before every feature, and it soon garnered a cult following because of its audience participation potential -- too bad it got so overplayed that the print fried a few years ago)

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