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Gordon McLeod
Film God

Posts: 9532
From: Toronto Ontario Canada
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2000 01:19 PM

My favorites are
Sound of Music 70mm Todd Ao
West Side Story 35mm 4 track mag
North by Northwest
My Life as a Dog
Blade Runner 70mm
The Man Who Would be King

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Stephen Jones
Master Film Handler

Posts: 314
From: Geelong Victoria Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-09-2000 06:27 PM

Hmmm, I have enjoyed a lot of movies over the years,I suppose I'd have to say that The Indiana Jones movies and of course James Bond movies are my favourite.

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Gordon Leslie
Film Handler

Posts: 39
From: Perth ,Western Australia
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-09-2000 07:12 PM

Best;"Paint Your Wagon" 70mm of cause!!
screened this for 68weeks for
952 sessions.
"Blues Brothers"
"Flying High" ("Airplane")
"Hair"
"Local Hero"
"Waking Ned Devine"
Worst;"Sleepy Hollow" real sick sick movie,is that suppose to be entertainment?I'm sure there's plenty of others.

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Rob Brooks
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: NY, U.S.A.
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-09-2000 08:58 PM

I actually showed "The Projectionit" with Chuck McCann and Rodney Dangerfield. Weird because if you keep watching it you kind of loose touch with reality of what's on the screen and going on in your own head. There are movies every now and then that I can't get enough of watching over + over. Such as:
1) Serpico
2) Jaws
3) Close Encounters
4) Raiders of the Lost Arc
5) ET
6) Titanic
7) Life is Beautiful

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Mike Bianchi
Film Handler

Posts: 40
From: Independence, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-09-2000 09:09 PM

Any true film buff isn't likely to have just one, but my preverbial "desert island" picks...

Casablanca
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
How The West Was Won
The Stranger Wore A Gun
Braveheart
Rebel Without A Cause
The Princess Bride
Support Your Local Sheriff/Gunfighter
House Of Wax (3D)

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Gordon Leslie
Film Handler

Posts: 39
From: Perth ,Western Australia
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-10-2000 06:40 PM

Just an addendum to my above post ; "The Adventures of Barry Mckenzie" now how could I ever forget that great classic of Australian cinema with Dame Edna Everage.
"The Mango Tree". ( Christopher Pate )
" Catch 22"
and of cause ALL westerns!.

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Aaron Sisemore
Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day!

Posts: 3061
From: Rockwall TX USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-11-2000 12:25 AM

Hmm... So many movies I have had the pleasure to handle and see in these many years..

In no particular order:

2001: A Space Odyssey (in 70mm of course)

E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Flash Gordon (1980 with the Queen soundtrack)

Tron (go ahead and flame, the story DOES blow, but it is *THE* SFX movie of the 80s, IMO, too bad I never got a chance to see this in 70mm )

Any of the Kurt Russell Disney flicks of the late 60s and early 70s (the films that I began to get 'curious' about the booth with)

Heavy Metal (too bad Sony botched this titles so-called 'restoration' hard core )

Tommy (another good one in 70mm)

Apocalypse Now (70mm)

Full Metal Jacket

West Side Story (wish I could have seen this in 70mm too)

The Fifth Element

Ah, the memories...

-Aaron

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Ky Boyd
Hey I'm #23

Posts: 314
From: Santa Rosa, CA, USA
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-11-2000 01:52 AM

Diva
Bringing Up Baby

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

Posts: 5246
From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-11-2000 05:47 PM

The movies I had the most fun running in drive-ins were:

"Smokey and the Bandit"
"Thunder Road"

Favorite movies in general are:
"The Flim-Flam Man"
"The Sons of Katie Elder"
"For a Few Dollars More"
"Blue Steel" (Wayne & Canutt, not Jamie Lee Curtis)
"The Lucky Texan"
"The Sagebrush Trail"
"Red River"
"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance"

No one movie in particular is my favorite, I like many... mostly Westerns (as if you couldn't figure that out).

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John Pytlak
Film God

Posts: 9987
From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 01-12-2000 01:57 AM

Citizen Kane
Casablanca
GWTW
Schindler's List
2001 A Space Odyssey (70mm)
The Sound of Music (Todd-AO)
My Fair Lady (70mm)
Lawrence of Arabia (70mm)
The Graduate
Bonnie and Clyde
The Gold Rush
Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Singing in the Rain
Patton (D-150 70mm)
Star Wars - IV and V
The Sixth Sense
Toy Story

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Chris Wootten
Film Handler

Posts: 50
From: Moonlit Cinema, RAAF Tindal, N.T. Australia
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-21-2000 08:01 AM

Dances with Wolves
Lawrence of Arabia (70MM)

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Martin Frandsen
Master Film Handler

Posts: 270
From: Denmark, Europe
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-21-2000 08:37 AM

The Breakfast Club 1985/ directed by John Hughes.

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Colin Wiseley
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 123
From: Blacksburg, VA
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 01-21-2000 12:00 PM

The most fun I ever had was running a cartoon short called "The Snow Man and the 3 Bunnies" (16mm) before we had a midnight showing of the Blues Brothers (35mm). It was part of a series of cartoon shorts that I had shown for a school group earlier in the day.

They didn't need to be sent back until the next day so I decided to run one. Everyone there started booing when this cute little cartoon with bunnies started but it was so funny that they gave a big round of applause at the end. I felt great about that.

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-21-2000 01:16 PM

So many films are good for so many different reasons, it's hard to point to only one or two. But if I had to, I would pick "2001" and "Apocalypse Now," not just because they were good films, but because they caused me to become interested in being a projectionist.

I was a science-fiction nut when I first saw "2001" and I was so glad for a mature sci-fi film. I first saw it (1973?) at the Zigfeld in New York. at the time, the Zigfeld was owned by Walter Reed Theaters, but had money problems, and would run a 70mm "2001" once every year or so. They knew the diehards would come out of the woodwork and they would make at least a few bucks. The print had gone slightly pink, but no one cared. Every time I watch "2001", I almost always seem to see some (admittedly minor) new thing.

"Apocalypse Now" (Zigfeld, 70mm) really blew my mind because of the high quality photography and fantastic sound. I had seen "Close Encounters" there and really liked it, but CE3K had slightly fuzzy photography (it was supposed to, I know) and very good sound, but there was someting about "Apocalypse Now" that pushed projection to an all-time high. It was almost like a test film for your theater. I only wish it had been photographed in 65/70mm.

Today with digital sound, it hard to describe to younger people how great "Apocalypse Now" looked and sounded. Everyone (then) were so used to regular old mono, and to go from that- to "Apocalypse Now", was a big shock.

It's kinda sad: 23 years ago we had what was probably the highest quality picture and sound (70mm, a-type mag) ever offered to the regular movie-goer, and it's actually gone downhill since.

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Jim Bedford
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 597
From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-21-2000 02:11 PM

I have 200 films in my top ten, so here's #1:

-Bull Durham
-Hammett
-Kingpin
-Palookaville
-Three Days of the Condor
-Woodstock
-Once Upon a Time in the West (or America)
-Duck You Sucker
-Rancho Deluxe (anybody out there seen it?)
-The Wanderers
-Dr. Strangelove
-Streets of Fire
-Brazil
-GoodFellas
-Bound
-La Jetté
-McCabe and Mrs. Miller
-Wings of Desire
-Touch of Evil
-Stop Making Sense
-The Train
-Repo Man
-The Americanization of Emily
-Shoot the Piano Player
-Mad Dogs and Englishmen
-What's Opera Doc?
-Duck Amuck

Do I have to stop now..........?

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