Friday, September 02, 2011
What you've seen on the big screen (but not in its original release)
By Edward Copeland
As my readers can no doubt tell, my contributors and myself don't have much in the way of original copy to offer this week (that's why you've seen three days in a row of From the Vault posts of old reviews written when the films in question originally came out prior to this blog's existence). I'm taking this "week off" because I have several projects coming up that require lots of watching and writing so I can more or less place ECOF on autopilot. It then occurred to me that this would be a great opportunity to me to run something I've always wanted to and that really isn't labor intensive.
Since seeing movies in a theater, for the most part, is a logistical impossibility for me now, I've always wanted to list the films that I was fortunate enough to see in a theater through re-releases that I either wasn't born when they originally came out, I was too young to see in their original release or somehow I missed the first time and they happened to come back. I figured that would be a great comment starter. I've only linked to reviews I wrote based on being able to see the films in a theater the way God intended. Of course, I didn't count The Rocky Horror Picture Show since it never stopped playing. I just went with alphabetical order. I hope I've recalled them all.
Hamilton Luske & Wolfgang Reitherman
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Labels: Altman, Browning, Buñuel, Coppola, Curtiz, Fellini, G. Stevens, Godard, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Landis, Lean, Peckinpah, R. Scott, Renoir, Scorsese, Welles, Whale, Wilder, Wise
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Earlier this year I caught the Seattle Noir City at SIFF. The double bill that night was "Don't Bother to Knock" and "They Won't Believe Me" the latter of which I don't think is available on DVD or otherwise. Dressing up to go to the theater and settling in with a crowd sure does set the mood for a noir double bill, IMHO. http://venetianblond.blogspot.com/2011/02/noir-city-seattle-saturday-nights.html
I've caught quite a few of the same movies on the big screen, and too many others to remember, but I want to highlight a couple of groupings I've managed. The first is when the five Hitchcock movies were re-released in the mid-80's. Even more than Vertigo, Rear Window was such a revelation. All five were shown at the Coronet in San Francisco in pristine prints. What a treasure.
I've also seen all the Preston Sturges '40-'44 movies on the big screen, except The Great Moment, and five Astaire/Rogers movies. However, the two greatest not original release movie experiences I've had were The Seven Samuri at the Castro and Godfathers I and II on the same day. also at the Castro.
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I've also seen all the Preston Sturges '40-'44 movies on the big screen, except The Great Moment, and five Astaire/Rogers movies. However, the two greatest not original release movie experiences I've had were The Seven Samuri at the Castro and Godfathers I and II on the same day. also at the Castro.
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