chain commercial moviehouses don't normally show double features anymore, though this used to be standard practice decades ago. at one time, one could go to the theatre on any weekend & see a double feature & a short. what 2 feature (or featurette) length movies would you like to see together, along with what short? to answer my own question: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, with the 6 minute short Puce Moment between those 2.
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Re: Cinema Spin-off Topic: A Double Feature & a Short
Sun, April 8, 2007 - 3:40 PMmy stepfather was in the movie theater business.
he used to have a bunch of these great old theaters. Old vaudeville houses and such. Sometimes with 1200 seats, an orchestra pit, the whole nine yards.
he even ran shows that had live opening acts. In his early days, Red Foxx even did one show.
I guess that was the 50's.
Yeah, the whole vibe of going to the movies has changed so much. When cable TV started in the 70's, the independent theater owners (whose acronym is actually NATO), really got jammed. That is when they started taking those old theaters and splitting them into 2, and then 4 and then more and into the modern version.
I think it really affected the vibe. Generally, I think we are in some kind of mad pursuit for perfect efficiency, instead of simply trying to relax and actually enjoy our lives.
Going to those old theaters was a real celebration in life and of life. Now it is more like a factory experience. You used to know the usher, the candy lady, the projectionist. The projectionist would know every film ever made. My dad had one guy who was very interesting and quirky. The guy had a pet monkey and was a gourmet cook. We once went over his house and had this amazing seven course meal, and half the stuff came out of his garden out back. And, we got to hear the monkey scream his head off too. (that hurt!)
But, where are you going to find people like that? This "driven" stuff is driving all the juicy, neat, and interesting stuff right out of our lives.
No anti-anything rap here....just, you know, we need to let things be a bit. Got some old building in town, don't tear it down...make it into some art center or something. Got some old institution that has been around forever...don't let it get pushed aside. We need to keep our icons, our images and heritage. Now we are just in blaze, moving ever faster...but without much direction.
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Re: Cinema Spin-off Topic: A Double Feature & a Short
Sun, April 8, 2007 - 4:11 PMso, to get back to my question, Jon, can you name 2 feature length movies you'd like to see together as a double feature, & can you name a short to go with them? -
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Sun, April 8, 2007 - 8:57 PMHow about a Samurai double feature?
Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri, with The Twilight Samurai by Yoji Yamada. I can't think of an appropriate short to go with them, but I remember it was always fun seeing those Warner Bros. cartoons no matter how little they had to do with the films being shown.
Another good pairing would be Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man and Ghost Dog, especially since the latter makes several sly references to the former.
I remember in the late 70's they would often show John Huston's Wise Blood and Fat City together as a double feature- and I sat through them both a couple of times! They are great films. -
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Mon, April 9, 2007 - 3:10 PMok, just off the top of my head..
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World with The Russians Are Coming..and for a short, any of the winners of the International Animation Festival -
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Thu, April 12, 2007 - 7:13 AMHow about a Bugs Bunny cartoon,
into "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"
Followed by "Throw Mama From the Train" -
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Wed, August 15, 2007 - 9:01 AMIngmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni died recently (on the same day in fact) so i got to thinking about pairing The Seventh Seal with Blow-Up. going for contrast here, not similarity. and for a short: Harry Smith's animation piece "11 (-1/3)". -
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Tue, September 4, 2007 - 11:33 PMRichard Linklater's movie Before Sunrise plus his sequel Before Sunset...and between those 2...the 1953 classic cartoon short Unicorn In The Garden, an adaptation of a story by James Thurber. you can watch that on Youtube! -
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Wed, September 5, 2007 - 2:26 AMinteresting!
here's just a silly one...
The original Godzilla (with Raymond Burr!)
followed by the animation short "Bambi Meets Godzilla"
followed by the 1998 Godzilla re-make
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Re: Cinema Spin-off Topic: A Double Feature & a Short
Wed, September 5, 2007 - 9:22 AMya know, Jon, what i'd REALLY like to see some time is the original Japanese version (subtitled of couse, since solamente entiendo ingles y espanol) of Godzilla (Gojira) WITHOUT the Raymond Burr sequences they inserted into the U.S. release. -
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Thu, September 6, 2007 - 9:44 PMthat sounds good. I do like Raymond Burr though. I had never known that he was a closeted gay man until after he died. I saw some special on him. He really sounded like a wonderful man. Had vineyards in California, very interesting and extremely caring guy. I have a lot of sympathy for what he must have gone through, being gay in the 50's and such.
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Fri, September 14, 2007 - 10:13 PManother double feature idea...2 movies about the search for love, acceptance and fulfillment: Harold & Maude, about a young man and an old woman who meet then become friends, then lovers. very funny, but also genuinely affecting and touching. probably most of the members here at least know about it, as it has become a bonafide classic. i'd follow that one with Hedwig & The Angry Inch, which concerns the life journey of a transgendered rock musician. here's a clip from Hedwig:
video.google.com/videoplay
and between those 2, for a short, i'd put this 8-minute French animated movie, here presented with English subtitles:
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Fri, October 12, 2007 - 12:19 AM2 features: Crumb, the documentary of the cartoonist/illustrator Robert Crumb, with American Splendor, the docudrama about comics writer Harvey Pekar; and between those 2, for contrast not similarity...Eaux D'Artifice, Kenneth Anger's 12 minute short about the movement of water in an Italian garden, set to music by Antonio Vivaldi. -
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Tue, December 18, 2007 - 8:41 PMdon't know why i didn't mention this next idea here a lot earlier, but...Alejandro Jodorowsky's early movie Fando & Lis followed by the sci fi animation feature Fantastic Planet with art work by his old Panic Theatre collaborator Roland Topor...and between those 2 for a short: The Man We'd Like To Hang, Kenneth Anger's study of some of Aliester Crowley's drawings and paintings.
'nother thing: Jim Jarmusch's short Strange To Meet You (which eventually became a segment of his movie Coffee & Cigarettes) followed by his feature Permanent Vacation, followed by his feature Stranger Than Paradise.
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