"if i ran the local cinema...": dream double bills

[DaveCinzano]

"continued" - updates to earlier nights

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[DaveCinzano]

last for today...

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[upsidedownwalrus]

Shaolin Soccer sounded interesting though, I heard about that one. And what was that one where these Tibetan monks watch the World Cup on a secret telly or something? Wouldn't mind seeing that either.

That was The Cup. I've heard its a great film. They showed it at a Tibet Double Bill at the Odeon Wardour street a couple of years ago. Unfortunately I got up late and only made it for hte second film, Himalaya, which was a very beautiful film about some nomads on a journey.

 

[DaveCinzano]

a few more

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[Louloubelle]

My dream cinema experience:

I would show Metropolis on a heeeruuuge screen with a soundtrack provided by a live D&B DJ, probably DJ Flight, alternatively a hip hop soundtrack delivered by Sarah Love. Probably outside in a field.

I think both would work very well. The would be comfy sofas on high ground but mostly people could dance while they watched.

 

[NickLarmour]

Nice 1 ! Say no more, sept I'd not have a RnB sound track (as I dont by enlarge like RnB) Probably have a more alternative soundtrack.

Or all ur favorite movies played silently behind a DJ Set

 

[Louloubelle]

Nice 1 ! Say no more, sept I'd not have a RnB sound track (as I dont by enlarge like RnB) Probably have a more alternative soundtrack.

Or all ur favorite movies played silently behind a DJ Set

d&b sweedie, as in drum n bass

I like films but I get all fidgetty sitting in a hard chair for over an hour.
the other cinema thing that would be good is to have those wicked stationary skiing machines in front of a big screen. watch and exercise at the same time without getting a sore neck and a numb bum.

 

[Louloubelle]

La Belle et le Bette, Orphee and La Belle du Jour would also be cool with interesting DJ soundtracks, as would Repulsion if in a really dark mood.

 

[Louloubelle]

”it’s a funny old game...” prostitution on the big screen

whore theresa russell does lots of ‘alfie’-ish talking to camera as she relays a grim farce involving violent pimps, bent cops and dodgy clients
true romance farrah fawcett-of-hair trick-turner patricia arquette hooks up with comic store cowboy christian slater, rips off drug dealer gary oldman, goes on run from crazy cosa nostra dude chris walken
stella does tricks kelly ‘trainspotting’ macdonald is the schoolgirl pulled into prostitution by well iffy surrogate uncle, james bolam; depressing, and not exactly sunday afternoon popcorn viewing, but powerful nonetheless
risky business the lighter side of the oldest profession, with rachel demornay as the tart-with-a-heart evading guido the killer pimp and hooking up with horny high schooler tom cruise to turn his parents’ house into a bordello
midnight cowboy pretty country boy jon voigt is marooned in new york working as a gigolo; dustin hoffman is the conman with the hacking cough who shows him the ropes
my own private idaho narcoleptic rent boy river phoenix survives on the streets, with keanu reeves his bud

circuses

carny so it isn’t set in a circus - ffs, i’m doing me best anyway, gary busey, jodie foster and robbie robertson join a travelling carnival
trapeze old hand burt lancaster teaches young aerialist tony curtis how to do the triple; but the boy only has eyes for gina lollabrigida’s balcon
octopussy wily maud adams is a jewel thief who also happens to run an all-woman secret army and a travelling circus, in a risible moore bond adventure which sees our boy defusing nuclear bombs in a leather waistcoat
circus of horrors a plastic surgeon living in an abandoned circus gives new faces to crooks on the run, and, um, then kills them. as you do, like

for prostitution you forgot
Working Girls (Lizzie Borden's excellent film, not Working Girl) reviews here: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000059PP7/102-4434201-9174561?v=glance
Klute, obviously, Jane Fonda deservedly won an oscar, also staring Donald Sutherland. Superb film.
Sam Fuller's The Naked Kiss 1964. Amazing film, way ahead of its time.
Belle du Jour
Breathless
Dolemite (how could I forget?)
Irma La Douce

and another thing, as for circuses, what about Sante Sangre and Freaks. It has to be done.

 

[exosculate]

For that 60's feel - Bullet

For that 70's feel - The Ice Storm

For that 80's feel - Donnie Darko

For that 90's feel - Happiness

 

[ats]

A lot of these posts seem to be just lists of personal favourites, not double bills at all.

You want a really inspired double bill?

That Electric Cinema (of late lamented memory) once ran a late night double bill of 'Battle of Algiers' and The Marx Brothers' 'Duck Soup'.

Now, that's what I call programming.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[Shippou-Sensei]

jackie chan night
godzilla night
anime night II

just when you thought it was safe to go back into the theather

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[Termite Man]

I'm sure it's been said but

night of the living dead ( not the Tom Savini re-make )
dawn of the dead ( not the new version )
day of the dead ( they haven't fucked this one up yet )

 

[DaveCinzano]

prison - reprise

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[yyz]

I'm sure it's been said but


dawn of the dead ( not the new version )

I thought this new version was ok, so it might not be as good as the old one, but I think it is the one of the most watchable horror flicks of recent years.

And that scene with the shooting of people on signs had me in stitches.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Double Bills:

The original Manchurian Candidate - Paint Your Wagon.

Tron - Tribes

Kagemusha, the Shadow Warrior - The Legend of Drunken Master

Shaka Zulu - Call Me Bwana

Clockwork Orange - Singin' in the Rain

Threads - The Road Warrior

Gone With the Wind - Roots

It's A Mad Mad World - The Killing Fields

 

[starfish]

Fist of Fury
Death Wish III

An actual double bill that me & some friends watched on my 12th birthday.

 

[Shirl]

La Belle et le Bette, Orphee and La Belle du Jour would also be cool with interesting DJ soundtracks, as would Repulsion if in a really dark mood.

La Belle et la Bette, got it on video but never got round to watching it. How about...'Sorry wrong number' (Barbara Stanwick at her best) and the very first '39 steps' can't you tell I'm an old bird.

 

[Janine]

A memorable double bill we saw in an old theatre in NYC:
The Apartment, with Jack Lemmon, Shirley McLaine, and Fred McMurray, and The Sweet Smell of Success, with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis.
fabulous films!

A great trio of Hitchcock films would be Rope, Rear Window, and Vertigo

 

[DaveCinzano]

guerillavision triple bill

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[MysteryGuest]

I'd run a Tarkovsky triple bill then steal things out of people's pockets when they were asleep.

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[ats]

outbadding the bad guys

the outfit (robert duvall comes out of prison and wants revenge on the mobsters who topped his bro: cue cat and mouse hits on businesses run by the eponymous ‘outfit’ till they offer restitution)
point blank (lee marvin has been fucked over by the big boys, and he’s not happy: cue shitkicking in suits, and a granite-faced climax)

As these two movies are from two pretty much consecutive novels by the same writer, this should really be called 'Richard Stark evening'.

 

[Solitarian]

City Of God

followed by...

The Harder They Come

Gangsta shit, just some of that gangsta shit!

 

[dlx1]

Back to the future [ one ]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Blue Planet Imax
London kills me

 

[DaveCinzano]

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[Sunspots]

-Uh-oh, The Phantom Thread Re-Animator strikes again!

 

[DaveCinzano]

-Uh-oh, The Phantom Thread Re-Animator strikes again!

it's merely responsible thread management, i'll have you know, whippersnapper