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Mark DeLettera
Film Handler

Posts: 54
From: Venice, Florida
Registered: Aug 1999

posted 06-01-2001 07:24 AM

Peter: YES >>> BLUES BROTHERS must actually be a great midnight cult film.

I'm sorry I didn't think of that on my list. The sing-a-longs would be fantastic!
Hope a theatre booker in my area is reading this thread, so we can get some of these flicks happening around the upstate New York area!

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Geoffrey Weiss
Film Handler

Posts: 68
From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: May 2001

posted 06-01-2001 05:51 PM

Greetings! I'm new to film-tech, but will soon be begging for technical help with a Super Simplex projector and SH-1000 soundhead. I got my love of movies at the midnights at the Vogue Theatre, a single-screen theatre in Louisville, KY. There was much drinking and smoking of pot (though not by me) in the auditorium. We did quite well in the early eighties with both Caddyshack and Animal House. The Vogue was practically the only place where students from the two crosstown-rival Catholic schools could meet in harmony!

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Mike Jones
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 108
From: Birmingham, MI, USA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 06-02-2001 03:57 AM

Our theatre has started running Midnight Classics last year in the summer. We've had more recent cult hits. We've had about 25 so far and the best performing one was the 1986 kids movie, The Goonies (awful print).

We've also shown: Raiders of the Lost Ark (GREAT PRINT!), Ferris Bueller's Day Off (bad print), American History X (good print), Boogie Nights (good), Ghostbusters (awful print), Beetlejuice (awful), Ace Ventura (awful), Enter the Dragon (GREAT PRINT), The Matrix (great print), Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (bad print), Barton Fink (bad print), The Silence of the Lambs (bad print), Fight Club (great print), Pulp Fiction (awful print), Shawshank Redemption (poor print)....just to name a few.

I'm just baffled how some prints, even relatively new ones can be in such appallingly poor shape and some really old, well travelled prints can be in such good shape. Obviously there are people who don't give a rats ass. We always send em out better than when they came in.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-02-2001 05:02 AM

I am seeing a pattern here. Raiders has had many reprints made over the years and the only other titles you gave decent reports on are New Line titles.

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Mike Jones
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 108
From: Birmingham, MI, USA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 06-03-2001 10:35 PM

I was told that Raiders was a new print. While the color was slightly faded and the sound wasn't up to today's standards, there wasn't alot of dirt or many scratches. Looked like it could have been a year or so old.

Same for Enter the Dragon. As far as I know all the others were originals.

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Josh Jones
Redhat

Posts: 1207
From: Plano, TX
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 06-03-2001 11:55 PM

And who could forget UHF, or any of the pink panther series

Josh

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Joe Schmidt
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 172
From: Billings, Montana, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 06-04-2001 02:10 AM

For something rather offbeat, try to see "Younger and Younger," with Donald Sutherland, who plays a Wurlitzer pipe organ and maybe even sings, tho I've forgot.

And there's nothing more fun than a mag print of Rocky Horror.

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Matt Elzie
Film Handler

Posts: 17
From: Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Registered: May 2001

posted 06-04-2001 04:24 AM

We're just starting a series of midnight movies, and a lot of the films mentioned in this thread are on our list. We were thinking of doing a showing of famous film shorts, like "Un Chien Andalou", and other such bizzarro fare, though. However, "Un Chien" seems virtually impossible to find. Anyone heard of it being shown in recent years? Or "Tetsuo the Iron Man" for that matter?

p.s.- thanks Aaron

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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."

Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001

posted 06-04-2001 05:35 PM

What about "Repo Man"?

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-04-2001 06:09 PM

I don't know why, but for some strange reason I just got hungry for a plate-o-shrimp!

Just a spitball idea but if one were going to have a midnite show of Repo Man I think it'd be funny if somehow you could have "Popcorn Shrimp" for sale at the stand. You know those small, bite size fried shrimp thingies...

Okay, cost is a factor, unless you could swing a deal with one of those fast food joints that sell that kind of stuff. (Is it Long John Silver's?) Then, of course, there is mess and hassle.

Still it'd be a funny inside joke and if done right could make a few $$.

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 06-04-2001 08:09 PM

enter the dragon was released by warner bros.
the matrix was relased by warner bros.
fight club was released by 20th century fox
and of course american history X and boogie nights were released by new line. The crow is a good midnight movie to run. At one point in time the Exorcist was a good midnight movie to run. I remember running a trade screening of the goonies years ago it was a work print so it had no credits on it.

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Brad Miller
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From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99

posted 06-05-2001 06:15 AM

Joe, I would assume that the mag prints of Rocky Horror were printed on that lovely super-fading Eastman stock of the 70s...but was the mag audio in mono or 4 track stereo?

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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 06-05-2001 06:56 AM

Magnetic striped triacetate prints seem to be more subject to "vinegar syndrome" because of the binders used for the oxide, and because iron can serve as a catalyst for the hydrolysis reaction. The acids released by "vinegar syndrome" accelerate the fading of dyes.

Proper storage (cool, dry and vented) can greatly slow dye fading and base degradation. If sealed containers must be used, Molecular Sieves may be used to adsorb moisture and acid vapors released by the film and trapped in the can.

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Scott Norwood
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From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 06-05-2001 07:47 AM

I had no idea that there were mag prints of RHPS. I'm too young to remember 35mm mag (I've seen a few prints, but all were at revival screenings), and I was under the impression that almost all mag titles were scope, which would make RHPS an anomaly, since it is flat.

Was the 4-track mag mix the same one that was used for the newer SR prints that the RHPS fanatics don't like?

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Jeffry L. Johnson
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 809
From: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Registered: Apr 2000

posted 06-05-2001 09:39 AM

There was a mag print of Kurosawa's Seven Samurai circulating in the early 1980's. It was mono and had no analog optical sound track. It was mag mono only.

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