Cemetery Film Screenings - request for suggestions
 

I got this email today.

The email addy is Cinespia News [cinespia@earthlink.net].

Have at it, I know I will be suggestions things, but no matter what it on the menu, I will be looking forward to a great season.

This was my very incomplete list:

A Seijun Suzuki film such as Branded to Kill or something else from that genre.

A Ghibli Studios film (Grave of Fireflies ????)

Repulsion

Knife in the Water

Delicatessen or City of Lost Children

Any Wim Wenders -

Any Peter Greenaway

Pirates of the Carribean

Disney Live Action such as 20,000 LeaguesUnder the Sea

Pillow Talk

Life Boat

Matt Helm - Murder's Row

I'd love to see a vampire flick - maybe the Klaus Kinsky Nosferatu? or even Shadow of a Vampire would be pretty cool.

Boatniks.

First thing that comes to mind is Metropolis. Then maybe one of the classic Film Noirs (The Big Sleep?, Maltese Falcoln?). Another Hitchcock flick would be great, but I'd let people with more familiarity with his library mke specific recommendations.

My short, old fashioned list:

Sunrise (1927)

Angel Face (1952)

The Band Wagon (1953)

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1953)

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Captain Blood (1935)

Cobra Woman (1944)

edited to add one more The Five Fingers with James Mason & the 5000 Fingers of Dr. T

and for a really bad evening of film entertainment Robot Monster and Plan 9 From Outer Space


I'd fly out for Cobra Woman, (Give ME da Cobra YOOL)

Psycho would be a blast. I think it's time I saw the Last Picture Show again too

Pyscho would be great, perfect place to show it.

I choose Lifeboat.

Those would bring in the crowds, for certain. Might also want to consider some grittier noir, The Narrow Margin or Pickup on South Street.

On the Waterfront would be great too. Gah, I could have a list a mile long and that's not even covering the films I want to see that I have not yet seen.

I love Tallulah, but I am tired of Lifeboat. How about Strangers on a Train or my favorite from the 1940s Shadow of a Doubt?

How about Manos: The Hands of Fate? Everyone needs to see Manos again.



Except me.

Oh oh - what's the Orsen Wells noir film with Marlena Dietrcih in Mexico? that one was cool!

Touch of Evil

Great film it's recently been restored. The first 5 minutes are worth everything, masterpiece of a single tracking shot. Thanks for reminding me of this! Only flaw, Heston as a hispanic! Ew!

I added to my list:

There's a whole slew of great early 70's films I missed. I was too young to see them in theaters and they wern't being shown at revival theaters yet.....and video didn't exist (remember when....) Patton, Last Picture Show, Nashville, Billy Jack, French Connection, Network

Or some 60's Oscar winners that I have never seen: The Apartment, The Hustler, Hud.

Or maybe Splendor in the Grass, Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?, Suddenly Last Summer, Blow-up, Bonnie and Clyde, Midnight Cowboy, Easy Rider, The Trip, Psych out.

They showed "Strangers" last year. I never end up seeing Lifeboat for some reason. Rear Window and North by Northwest seem to be on all the time (but I'm still not sick of them).

All great films, well not Billy Jack but that has it's own appeal. I saw that on a first run at the Hacienda Cinema in Sunnyvale....also saw Vanishing Point, always a warm spot of me, until the end.

A double feature of Delicatessen and Les Diaboliques would be nifty.

Do they go for a specific mood or is the film selection pretty much divorced from the location?

Some Fuller-- Shock Corridor, for instance. (Though Forty Guns-- also excellent.)

Some Hitch-- I agree that Shadow of a Doubt deserves more attention.

Harold and Maude. Harold and Maude. Harold and Maude.

Some Wilder-- Apartment's good, but I can never love a last line as classic as the example in Some Like It Hot.

What about a short-film fest? Old animated shorts, old b shorts, old newsreels? Keaton?

Did they show Sunset Boulevard last year? If they didn't, they really damn ought to.

And a silent. City Lights? We just watched Modern Times again and that was terrific.

It's all over the board. Last year they showed:

Sunset Blvd.
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Strangers on a Train
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Annie Hall
Bringing Up Baby
Night of the Hunter
Carrie
Point Black
Sullivan's Travels
Pee's Big Adventure
The Shining
And others.

They show a mix of stuff. Some is hardly every shown or seen, others are big hits. I've seen films there I have never seen before. Nothing beats the picnic atmosphere.

Song of The South double featured with Birth Of A Nation

I would like to see Whatever Happened To Baby Jane and Arsenic & Old Lace.

:D

All About Eve (just becaues I've never seen it on the big screen and the more big screens it ends up on the better my chances).

Double Indemnity or Witness for the Prosecution
I would agree with Shadow of a Doubt as a Hitchcock selection.

As a relatively unknown selection I'd suggest 1969's Medium Cool as a good revival with pertinence for our current political and journalistic environment.

The Third Man is another I really want to see on a big screen.

Another forgotten film worthy of a revival is 1979's Saint Jack. The bridge between Bogdanovich's great period and his hack period. It was an attempt to get back to basics going guerilla in Singapore and making a very interesting movie in the process. Best performance of Ben Gazzara's career.

Well, you can always check out the Glendale Center Theater where rumor has it that a certain pipe-tootin' swanker may just land himself a role ;)

He's playing Baby Jane, right?

Desperado would be good. One of the best damned first few minutes of a movie.

Or Raising Arizona. Gotta love a movie that has the pre-opening credits last for half the movie!

How about Last Action Hero followed by Heaven's Gate - movies that killed many careers, and in the case of HG, killed an entire film company.

Oooh, Cohen Bros. would be good. My vote would be for Oh Brother or Barton Fink.

I am so very much looking forward to this years Cemetery Screenings!

The Spiral Staircase (B/W)
Dial M for Murder
Stage Fright
Dr. Strangelove
Ed Wood
Duck Soup
The Women
Angels With Dirty Faces
Shawshank Redemption
The Omen
All About Eve

Blazing Saddles - it may be the only way we'll ever get NA to see it :p

More beans, Mr. Taggart?

I think you've had enough!

Young Frankenstein

I'll 2nd that. Never get tired of that one.

also
Night of the Living Dead
Gumball Rally (ok, a personal fave. :D )
Enter the Dragon
Hollywood Knights

:)



ok, thats just disturbing.

Dark City
Iron Giant

Eraserhead.
The Bride Wore Black.
Phantom of the Paradise.
Blacula.

Love at First Bite would be fun.

I'd like to see them screen the Spanish version of Dracula from 1932.

Well if we're talking about the only way to get NA to see movies...

Life of Brian
Monty Python and the Holy Grail

I'm up for hosting a film festival at my house - All sorts of films NA has never seen! :cheers:

I think I'm busy that day. ;)

Play Debbie Does Dallas, but have sketch comedy players improvise the audio.

We did something LIKE that at a party a few years ago - but it was Wizard of Oz, as a sort of opera.

(Not even gonna mention how many times we've seen Wizard of Oz accompanied by Dark Side of the Moon) :)

Roger Waters will be playing Dark Side of the Moon live at the Hollywood Bowl. I think they should project the movie to accompany it.