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Rachel Carter
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 248
From: Gloucester, Massachusetts, USA
Registered: Dec 2000

posted 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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Andrew McCrea
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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posted 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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Ken Layton
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From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 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)

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Darryl Spicer
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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 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.

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Jerry Chase
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From: Margate, FL, USA
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posted 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.

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

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John Pytlak
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From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922
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posted 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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John Wilson
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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 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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George Roher
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From: Washington DC
Registered: Jul 99

posted 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.

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Paul G. Thompson
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From: Mount Vernon WA USA
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posted 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.

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Darryl Spicer
Film God

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From: Lexington, KY, USA
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posted 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.

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James R. Hammonds, Jr
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From: Houston, TX, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 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.

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Michael Barry
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From: Sydney, NSW, Australia
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 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!

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Ian Price
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From: Denver, CO
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posted 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.

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John Wilson
Film God

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From: Sydney, Australia.
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 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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