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Posted by Rachel Carter (Member # 693) on 01-31-2001, 12:43 AM:
 
Just wondering what everyones favorite movies are...Mine would have to be:

The Client - Based on the John Grisham novel
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Excalibur - The movie that gets shown in History Classes across America

I did run the Client (Kinda) when I was 15 or 16 (I think)....I pushed the start button because the manager was stuck in the bathroom (too many taco's)

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Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 01-31-2001, 07:08 AM:
 
I have tons of favourite movies! And not even tons! Gazzillions! I have not run a single one!

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Posted by Ken Layton (Member # 133) on 01-31-2001, 08:26 AM:
 
The Mouse That Roared (Peter Sellers, Jean Seburg). Ran it/seen it at least 87 times but it's been about 20 years since the last time I saw it.

The Wizard of Oz (ran both 16 and 35mm Technicolor prints of it)


 

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 01-31-2001, 08:47 AM:
 
I have a lot of favorite movies. The star wars trilogy. Phantome Menace was o.k. But the trilogy is one of my favorites. I ran the 1985 re-release of Return of the Jedi. I ran all three original cuts for a special THX promotional weekend in 1993. We ran each one two shows interlocked in our then THX auditoriums. Since have been removed and replaced with DTS. We had people coming from as far as New York to see them. All the shows sold out. Around 450 seats for each showing.
 
Posted by Jerry Chase (Member # 660) on 01-31-2001, 12:51 PM:
 
Stunt Man - yes
GWTW - yes
Star Wars (original) - yes
2001 - yes
Monty Python & the Holy Grail - yes
Jaws (a favorite of mine strictly to stand in the back of the auditorium and watch people jump out of their seats in unison) - yes
Rocky Horror (to watch the wierdness after a hard day of work) - yes
Casablanca - no
Cinema Paradiso - no
Grapes of Wrath - no

That's ten. There are others like "Mindwalk" and "Landscape in the Mist" where projecting isn't as much an issue as being in the proper audience while watching them. Then there is the "Wizard of Oz" where I would have loved to projected if Oz had appeared in cinemascope dual projector 3-D, with a couple of Mecco disco versions of the songs and Pink Floyd songs thrown in to "kick it up a notch". Opening the masking would have been a real kick

One favorite film? Much too limiting.


 

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 01-31-2001, 01:08 PM:
 
I have too many favorite films to list. Of the ones that I've shown, here are some favorites (I'm counting both 16mm and 35mm here, as long as they were for audiences):

Trip to the Moon (Melies short--16mm), Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Nights of Cabiria (Fellini classic), Alphaville (16mm), Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, Blade Runner, Ferris Bueller (yes!), LA Confidential, Holy Grail, Clockwork Orange, Central Station, October Sky, Red Violin, and a bunch of others...

Sorry for the long list...I have too many favorites to list.


 

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 01-31-2001, 01:54 PM:
 
The wonderful thing about great movies is that they fill our collective consciousness. As people mention their favorites, most of us can nod in agreement, remembering something special we shared in different places and at different times, but yet together!

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Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 01-31-2001, 04:27 PM:
 
Okay, here's a shocker to all those who know me from this forum...

'Raiders Of The Lost Ark'.

This is the only movie I have run in

Super 8mm (condensed...it wasn't pretty)

16mm

35mm

70mm

...and I still love it.

Go to www.indy20.com and vote now.

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Posted by George Roher (Member # 91) on 01-31-2001, 04:59 PM:
 
My favorite movie is Blade Runner, and I have never run it in a theatre. Favorites that I have projected include Annie Hall, Rear Window, & A Clockwork Orange.
 
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 01-31-2001, 08:04 PM:
 
I would have to admit mine was "Flight of the Phoenix", which was my very first 35mm on my own.


 

Posted by Darryl Spicer (Member # 711) on 01-31-2001, 11:47 PM:
 
Flight of the phoenix is a great movie Paul.
I also love to watch Stratigic air command and the F.B.I. story. Three of my favorite Jimmy Stewart movies. If I was around in the days these movies came out I would have never been board in the booth dreading watching for the changeover cues.
 
Posted by James R. Hammonds, Jr (Member # 673) on 02-01-2001, 12:13 AM:
 
ANGUS - dont know how many times i ran it on film.

ran it plenty of times on vhs though.

never on dvd. aarrgghh.
 

Posted by Michael Barry (Member # 237) on 02-04-2001, 08:05 AM:
 
I've been fortunate enough to run many of my all-time favourites - one of the advantages of having worked at a repertory/arthouse. These are all in 35MM:

Midnight Cowboy, Five Easy Pieces, Taxi Driver, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, In Cold Blood, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Fail Safe, Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, Nashville, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Glengarry Glen Ross, Klute, Stranger Than Paradise, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Point Blank, Blow Up, Winter Light, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers, The Virgin Spring, La Jetee, When The Cat's Away, (Eric Rohmer's) Autumn Tale, L'Ennui, Dersu Uzala, The Seven Samurai, My Dinner With Andre, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie...

I'm truly grateful to have had the opportunity to work at theatres that have had the excellent taste to program these films, as they are not exactly playing 'in theatres everywhere', especially not nowadays. I won't forget it!
 

Posted by Ian Price (Member # 14) on 02-04-2001, 01:29 PM:
 
In 1990 I got to run Lawrence of Arabia in 70mm for 6 weeks. We followed that up with The Bear in 70mm and 2001 a Space Oddissy in 70mm with a brand new print. It was during those films that we twinned the theatre. It was probably the best 10 weeks I had running a movie theatre. It was also the most stressful.
 
Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 02-05-2001, 12:36 AM:
 
>>I'm truly grateful to have had the opportunity to work at theatres that have had the excellent taste to program these films, as they are not exactly playing 'in theatres everywhere', especially not nowadays.<<

Yes! Good days, eh Michael? Alex at the highly independent Chauvel Cinema in Sydney has a motto he puts in all his advertising...

'If it's at cinemas everywhere...it's not on here'.

Love it.

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Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 02-13-2001, 04:30 PM:
 
Favourites ? - Too many to list here, -but the one to make me tremble is still "way back when" - The opening titles of "Hello Dolly" - in 70mm of course. -The prolouge just long enough to allow you to get downstairs, looking and listening from the back of the auditorium. Eyes, ears, heart - what more do you want - it was so beautiful, and i guess, we'll never see it again. -Not to mention same film - reel 5 - The title song in the Harmonia Garden. - Are we getting a bit romantic/nostalgic here...?

That's another one, The Great Leslie can try on for size ! (Fate, Professor)


 

Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 02-13-2001, 05:00 PM:
 
Lawrence OF Arabia in 70mm at various locations including a 3 week run in Manitowoc,Wi at the Strand Theater.

2001 A Space Odyssey at both the Cinema Borealis outdoor screening and at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, Il. for Hals 25th Birthday. The Virginia screening was SRO. Gary Lockwood along with Roger Ebert was on hand for an after film interview by the audience. It was only the second time that Roger had seen it in 70mm and he was extremely impressed. Roger continues to hold his annual Roger Ebert Film Fest there at the Virginia.

Mad Mad World in 70mm in my Basement theater a number of years back. The print was red but it was still lots of fun and sharp as a tack.

Oklahoma in 70mm in my basement theater at 30fps. Again the print was old and beat red but still very impressive to watch.
Mark @ GTS


 

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 02-17-2001, 12:02 PM:
 
Favs I have shown
North by Northwest
Gigi(4track amg)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (4track mag)
Sound of Music (70mm)
Grand Prix(70mm)
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines(70mm)
To have and Have Not
Maltese Falcon
The Big Sleep
Smallest Show on Earth
Damn the Defiant
 
Posted by Tom Ferreira (Member # 70) on 02-18-2001, 12:02 PM:
 
Topping the list of my favorite films would have to be Cinema Paradiso, Polyester, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Sound Of Music, Dawn Of The Dead, Clockwise, and Rock 'n' Roll High School, and I've never run any of them! I have, however, had the opportunity to run UHF, Princess Bride, the reissued Star Wars trilogy, Shawshank Redemption, The People Under The Stairs, T2, and every film that Jim Varney and Pauly Shore ever made. The business does have it's ups and downs...
 
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 03-23-2003, 03:48 PM:
 
I've been searching the archives lately and feel like bring up another one of my old threads to update...

Favorites (In order listed)
Vanilla Sky -Ran
Moulan Rouge -Ran
Bring it on -Ran
Stigmata -Did not run
The Client -Did not run

[ 03-23-2003, 07:17 PM: Message edited by: Rachel Gilardi ]
 
Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 03-23-2003, 03:53 PM:
 
quote:
Excalibur - The movie that gets shown in History Classes across America
[Confused] [Confused] [Confused]
 
Posted by Rachel Gilardi (Member # 1016) on 03-23-2003, 04:14 PM:
 
WHAT??? It really does!
 
Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 03-23-2003, 04:18 PM:
 
Seriously? That would explain a lot.
 
Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 03-23-2003, 07:05 PM:
 
Cute old topic coming up once more -
Then why not put some titles in this time - allthough it will never cover....

Those, i never ran, but still hope:

The Smallest Show on Earth - would love to. Anyone know, who's got the international rights for this pearl ?

Play Time - in 70 - ran it often in 35 mm - not much fun

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35mm favorites, i did run frequently:

Duck Soup
Victor/Victoria
Casablanca
Jour du Fete
Amadeus
The Third Man
1941 best 35mm mag sound, I've ever heard (maybe prize shared with Jesus Christ Superstar)
Yentl
Little Big Man
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70mm favorites, i have been lucky to run time after time
Camelot
Lawrence
Kelly's Heroes
The Great Race
Paint YOur Waggon
My Fair Lady
Dersu Uzala
Sound of Music
Hello, Dolly
Star (this one not very often - A true beauty, though)
2001
Spartacus - A couple of weeks, when the original print was still around during late seventies - And then again two weeks the glorius new print in 1994 (?)

The original list would be very, very long - still counting favorites only. I suddenly feel both happy -and old ! - And now, it's allmost time for visiting the Kodak Theatre. -Show will start 02,30 in the morning (local DK time). -Good, i have nothing running until 4 o'clock in the afternoon monday. -And that's Mr Smith - the Oscar-winner, i hope...

Happy Oscar's to everyone !

Per [beer]
 
Posted by Christopher Seo (Member # 7) on 03-24-2003, 04:59 PM:
 
"2001: A Space Odyssey" is just about my favorite film, and I will indeed be running it this weekend! Thanks to my theatre's weekend classics series. It isn't equipped for 70mm, but hopefully Warner Bros. will have a nice newish 35mm print available.
 
Posted by Paul G. Thompson (Member # 655) on 03-24-2003, 10:12 PM:
 
Oops....I already posted eons ago. sorry. [Smile]

[ 03-25-2003, 12:05 AM: Message edited by: Paul G. Thompson ]
 
Posted by Coleman L. Zatarain (Member # 1559) on 03-25-2003, 01:18 AM:
 
Here are a few.. .. . [thumbsup]

Memento - Ran it.
The Green Mile - Ran it.
Vanilla Sky - Ran it.
Unfaithful - Ran it.
American Beauty - Ran it.
The Man Who Would Be King - Didn't Run it.
 
Posted by Peter Berrett (Member # 672) on 03-27-2003, 04:13 AM:
 
Favourite movie: What's Up Doc
Ran it: Yes: Copy was pink but the film was still magic.

cheers Peter
 
Posted by Patrick McDonough (Member # 1363) on 03-27-2003, 07:27 AM:
 
Scarface-I will be running it in about a month, for a special show
 
Posted by Claude S. Ayakawa (Member # 1401) on 03-27-2003, 11:55 AM:
 
"GREASE"
"SATURDAY NIGHT FEAVER"
"MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS"

All of the above were in Super 8 Mag and ran it for family and friends in my living room and also at my studio's camera room for many of my high school senior customers.

-Claude
 
Posted by Per Hauberg (Member # 529) on 03-27-2003, 01:32 PM:
 
Claude:

Orient Express in 8mm - The whole thing full lenght ?
Do You have any idea, if this is still available - and where ?
-And remember how expensive ??

All those top-actors in one film - it's a beauty. I've never had luck finding it for sale in 35 or 16. A complete 8 mm print, i didn't even dreamt of excisting, and the only time it has been to buy in Denmark on VHS, it showed up to be with dutch subtitles...! Well, someday it must show up on DVD, and it is sure worth waiting for.

Per
 
Posted by Manny Knowles (Member # 1171) on 03-29-2003, 04:07 AM:
 
I used to have a large screen set up in my backyard when I was a teenager.

I can't tell you how many times I rented 16mm prints of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and the 1950s "Invaders From Mars."

Those were my favorites back then. Other kids used to come over to watch movies all the time...or so I thought. I later learned that my movie events were make-out opportunities! I was the last to know.

Despite the fact that I hated the film, I really enjoyed running STAR WARS: EPISODE I -- THE PHANTOM MENACE at 12:01am on its opening day. It was a full house of die-hard fans and I had just re-installed the DTS system which had been taken out of service some time earlier...I forget why. The crowd went wild when the DTS logo trailer hit the screen. And again when the theme music started up. That's unheard-of in these parts. It was like I was back in L.A. or something...a great moment that I won't soon forget. Too bad about the movie, though.
 
Posted by Michael Schaffer (Member # 1204) on 03-29-2003, 07:17 AM:
 
The midnight premiere was also a very big event here, of course. People in costumes, applause and cheering etc.
However I was upstairs in the booth with tears in my eyes. We had watched the first reel in the afternoon when the print had been delivered.
Despite some of the annoying features of the "Special Edition", it was very fascinating for me to play those movies. Having them in the theater again after many years of screen absence was very good.
I resent the fact that none of the original Star Wars series are available for booking at this time.
 
Posted by Jeffry L. Johnson (Member # 453) on 03-29-2003, 10:27 AM:
 
2001: A Space Odyssey is my favorite motion picture. I have run it in 16mm, 35mm mono, 35mm SVA, 70mm (with CINERAMA credit), and 70mm (with "In 70mm" credit).

The 1980's reissue of Oklahoma was quite thrilling to run in 70mm at 30fps.

Lawrence of Arabia is also pure joy and excitement to play in 70mm.
 
Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 03-29-2003, 03:07 PM:
 
Episode II 12:01am show is one I'll remember the most. I was actually nervous of something going wrong. Must have checked the projector 20+ times in the remaining 5 minutes to showtime.

The managers on the radio kept asking me to turn it up, ended up at 7.0. Apparently the last time it was at 7.0 was for U571.
 
Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 03-29-2003, 07:00 PM:
 
Agreed--Episode II was fun on opening weekend (before everyone realized that the film sucked). We had two prints (at a 5-plex), and one of them was interlocked for the 9:30 show. I was pretty nervous in the booth with three sold-out houses and an old interlock setup that only gets used once or twice per year, but it was fun, too, even though it was lacking some of the "magic" that Episode I had on its opening weekend. Everything went perfectly that night.
 
Posted by Daryl C. W. O'Shea (Member # 1303) on 03-29-2003, 10:18 PM:
 
Ron, how dare you ignore Fox's directive to run it at 7.0 in the first place! [Big Grin]
 
Posted by Alan Plester (Member # 852) on 03-30-2003, 02:19 AM:
 
It has got to be, Educating Rita, ran it, went to see it,(sad), got the video, know the script.
Jaws. Indiana Jones, Smallest show on earth, seen this so many times, never ran though, too old I guess, the prints I mean.
 
Posted by Don Sneed (Member # 955) on 03-30-2003, 02:46 AM:
 
My favorite:
Musical..... Mary Poppins & Grease
Mistery..... Murder Of The Orient Express
Thriller.... Marathon Man
Adventure... Damnation Alley & Raider Of The Lost Ark
Low Budget.. Billy Jack
Comedy...... Blazing Saddles, Up In Smoke, & The Blue Brothers
Horror..... ("I Don't Watch Horror Films")
 
Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 03-30-2003, 03:08 AM:
 
Manny - I recorded the audience in my 12:01 screening of Star Wars Episode 1 screamin' and hootin' onto MiniDisc™. Still have it. They were so loud that they distorted the mic.

I don't have a favorite movie, and yes I have run it. -
 
Posted by Ron Lacheur (Member # 1126) on 03-30-2003, 04:23 AM:
 
Daryl,

I didn't build up the prints so i didn't see the memo if it was included in the cans.

The house is one of the largest THX cinemas in the theater, it normally ran at 5.5-6.0
 
Posted by Bill Gabel (Member # 1105) on 06-30-2003, 08:19 PM:
 
One of my favorite movies is "Patton", I ran it when we re-equipped the Pantages for film. We had a faded print in 70MM and we ran it. WOW, That print still sounded great.
Other favorites that I have run:
 
Posted by John Stewart (Member # 989) on 06-30-2003, 11:23 PM:
 
One of my favorites is THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. Showed it 1st run in the spring of '72 while covering a vacation at the Varsity and then again at the Southwood that summer. Ran a really nice print of it last year at the Paramount. It will be playing again here in a couple of weeks at the Marble Theater in Marble Falls, TX. A small multiplex opened in that town and the Marble can't get product any more. So, THE LAST PICTURE SHOW will be the last film. The owner said that Columbia said that print is getting a lot of use here lately under the same conditions...the closing act for a small town theater.

John
 




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