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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-08-2000, 06:41 AM:
Some shows just take forever to run through the machine and others seem to breeze by and before you know it, it's time to run it again. Titanic was a breezer for me. Legends Of The Fall was definately not.But what is your favorite film, either a breezer or just your favorite?
My favorite to run would also be my favorite film of all time and that's Raiders Of The Lost Ark, closely followed by Casablanca.
Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 01-08-2000, 12:33 PM:
My favorite film of all time remains....2001: A Space Odyssey
Steve
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Posted by Tyler Skinner (Member # 229) on 01-08-2000, 01:58 PM:
David Lynch's Lost Highway.
Posted by Martin Frandsen (Member # 74) on 01-08-2000, 03:05 PM:
Let's not forget 'My Fair Lady'( in 70mm )
Posted by Masao Garcia (Member # 184) on 01-08-2000, 04:20 PM:
My fav movie to watch when I'm sick and in bed, is The Princess Bride....hey, don't laugh....something happens to the brain when you're running high fevers...Goonies was a childhood favorite....oh!, and A Christmas Story....ah, memories.
Posted by Chris Erwin (Member # 176) on 01-08-2000, 05:59 PM:
One of my all-time favs is the Walking Tall films. I never saw it in 35mm,just VHS.My favorite seeing at the Drive-In was Gremlins or Bordello of Blood.
Indoor:Mr. Holland's Opus or Pleasantville
--Chris
Posted by Ari Nordström (Member # 288) on 01-08-2000, 06:02 PM:
In the booth, my all-time favorites will probably always be the 70mm prints of "Ben Hur" and "2001". I will never get tired of running them. They're wonderful movies, too.OTOH, I never got tired of running "The Three Amigos", either. I still know the dialogue by heart.
Posted by Christopher A Kerr (Member # 151) on 01-08-2000, 07:04 PM:
Fight Club takes the cake. Every night, it was the last show to end, so i just locked up and watched the end of the last show every night. Never got sick of it. I love that film!Who hasn't considered reproducing Tyler Durden's little projectionist's "contiribution"?
I know i have 
Cheers Chris
Posted by Brad Miller (Member # 2) on 01-08-2000, 09:39 PM:
Classics like Raiders and Star Wars are fantastic flicks and all, but the movies that earn repeated viewings for me are comedies. Some of my all time watching them over and over favorites...
- Kids in the Hall-Brain Candy (This one just gets funnier with every viewing!)
- The Ref (Who doesn't enjoy watching people get all bent out of shape and bitch at each other for 2 hours? Makes those customer complaints seem tame.)
- Orgazmo (Yes, I just find this movie to be extremely funny, even if it IS in poor taste. Southpark was great too!)
- Tremors (This may be my enjoying the overdone Texas accents, but what great low budget filmmaking!)
What sucks is these type of films are always 1.85 flat. Flat movies should be illegal!
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-08-2000, 11:05 PM:
So many titles, so little time. I have too many favorites to count.
I think that my personal favorites that I've run in the booth would be "The Graduate," "Blade Runner," and "Bonnie and Clyde." (All on 20-minute reels, I might add.) Another booth favorite (for a midnight show): Ferris Bueller.
In general, though, there are a ton of films that I like for different reasons: Citizen Kane, Wizard of Oz, Trainspotting, Snow White, Modern Times, Thirty-Two Short Films about Glenn Gould, Lawrence of Arabia (must be seen in 70mm!), 2001 (have never seen this in 70mm...only 35mm mono), and way too many others that I can't think of right now. I've been fortunate to have seen nice 35mm or 70mm prints of all of these!
Some favorites of the last year: The War Zone, Run Lola Run, SLC Punk, Holy Smoke, October Sky, and maybe a few others.
Posted by George Roher (Member # 91) on 01-08-2000, 11:11 PM:
Some of the films I enjoyed running in a theatre:Waiting for Guffman
Brother of Sleep
Everyone Says I Love You
Underground
The Graduate
Favorite films I have not run in a theatre:
Blade Runner
Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Rear Window
Love and Death
Posted by Andrew D'Vrey (Member # 285) on 01-09-2000, 02:12 AM:
I am a lover of comedies. My favorite comedy of all time is Monty Python's the Holy Grail. I am also a big fan of the Back to the Future series.------------------
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Posted by Erika Hellgren (Member # 22) on 01-09-2000, 02:15 AM:
Can't pick just one favorite:The Truman Show
Hamlet (Ken Branagh version)
Interview with the Vampire
Amadeus
Heavenly Creatures
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Seven
Blair Witch Project
The Matrix
Life is Beautiful
The Abyss
The Shawshank Redemtion
Shakespeare in Love
Better Than Chocolate
Man on the Moon
Posted by Tom Ferreira (Member # 70) on 01-09-2000, 08:59 AM:
My favorite films that I've persoally run-
UHF(no one came to see it, so we watched it over and over again. The night SWE1 opened, I ran an hour of old trailers to kill time before we could legally start the film at midnight. By far the biggest pop was for UHF-they were reciting the lines with the trailer-I wanted to scream-"Why didn't you see it in a theatre?")
Other favorites I've ran:
Princess Bride
Serial Mom
Star Wars Trilogy SE
Schindler's List
Shawshank Redemption
South Park
Beetlejuice
I'm sure here's a ton more I'm not thinking of this early in the morning.
Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 01-09-2000, 11:05 AM:
Stanley Spadowski rules! UHF Yes! Can I still be the janitor?
Need to go to Spatula City.
Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 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
Posted by Stephen Jones (Member # 16) on 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.------------------
Posted by Gordon Leslie (Member # 139) on 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.
Posted by Rob Brooks (Member # 186) on 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
Posted by Mike Bianchi (Member # 271) on 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)
Posted by Gordon Leslie (Member # 139) on 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!.
Posted by Aaron Sisemore (Member # 145) on 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
Posted by Ky Boyd (Member # 23) on 01-11-2000, 01:52 AM:
Diva
Bringing Up Baby
Posted by Tim Reed (Member # 137) on 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).
Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 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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Posted by Chris Wootten (Member # 283) on 01-21-2000, 08:01 AM:
Dances with Wolves
Lawrence of Arabia (70MM)
Posted by Martin Frandsen (Member # 74) on 01-21-2000, 08:37 AM:
The Breakfast Club 1985/ directed by John Hughes.
Posted by Colin Wiseley (Member # 247) on 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.
Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 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.
Posted by Jim Bedford (Member # 4) on 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..........?
Posted by Mike Colley (Member # 327) on 01-21-2000, 03:18 PM:
I can't say that I enjoyed watching the movie itself, but I really enjoyed the crowd reactions and the excitement surrounding The Phantom Menace. I can't remember a film that so many people got so hyped about. During the first showing, the whole auditorium screamed their heads off when the title finally hit the screen. Being in management then, the hours of operation were hellish, but the hype surrounding this film really kept me going.
Posted by Joshua Waaland (Member # 287) on 01-21-2000, 03:28 PM:
"CINEMA PARADISO" Enough said.
Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 01-21-2000, 05:44 PM:
Bladerunner
I'd eat barbed wire for a "Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" or "The Haunting" (original
Posted by Dave Williams (Member # 299) on 01-22-2000, 02:51 AM:
I have to agree with Brad on Orgazmo. Damn funny. As I live and breed in Utah I just couldn't help but laugh at the take on mormons (yes I am a recovering mormonaholic).The Matrix just kicked here, we tuned all of our sound systems to it.
But If I had to choose of my actual favorite, whether I ran it or not, it would have to be Arsenic and Old Lace, with Cary Grant. If you haven't seen it you are missing one of the greatest films of all time, period.
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Posted by Brett Rankin (Member # 31) on 01-24-2000, 11:00 AM:
Andrew! It's nice to see that there's another admirer of Python out there. Holy Grail is definitely favorite of all time, followed by Meaning of Life and Life of Brian...
Posted by timothy johnson (Member # 83) on 01-24-2000, 11:58 AM:
I just love the atmosphere of "The Shining" "Blade Runner" and "Apocalypse Now" these are great "mood" films, The Star Wars Trilogy inspired me to be a film maker, I loved "Brazil" and "Trainspotting" I laugh real hard at "Plains Trains Automobiles" and "Vacation" but my favorite film of all time is "One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest" I am proud to own all of these in my collection except trainspotting & PTA.(anybody ?)