Monday, February 07, 2011

Answer Me This!

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I have what I think is a fun question for you guys. If someone said to you, "Hey you. I'm gonna give you this single screen at a movie theater for a month, and let you schedule a bunch of programs to run during that time," what would your dream programs be? An unsung actor you feel deserves some credit; a bunch of movies you'd like to see lumped together that belong to their own weird little genre; be creative! I did a version of this a couple of years back but it only consisted of double-features - I'm more interested in programs that'd last the course of several movies here.

Here's an example: The Roommate just topped the box-office this weekend. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a theater be running a series of those Single White Female / Hand That Rocks the Cradle type of movies right now? Marky Mark fingering Reese Witherspooon on a roller-coaster and then decapitating her dog playing right beside Alicia Silverstone trying to hump Cary Elwes when he was still worth humping? Yes.


Before you ask no, this has not happened to me. Christ I wish. But I'm curious what you guys can come up with, and I do have a real reason for asking.
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous12:45 PM

    My dream program would also be centered around a comon theme: Women on the Edge. I would show films about women who are pushed to their emotional extremes including:

    The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
    Black Narcissus
    Black Swan
    Carrie
    Cries & Whispers
    Dogville
    Mademoiselle
    Revolutionary Road
    Rosemary's Baby
    They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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  2. Anonymous1:15 PM

    I'd screen all the things I keep missing at the Prince Charles. Labyrinth, Spirited away, Forbidden Planet.

    Because I am definitely that lame.

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  3. My program would feature films about Spinsters: How Lonliness Can Drive a Person Crazy. The films would include:

    The Attic
    Rachel, Rachel
    That Cold Day In The Park
    The Piano Teacher
    The Forest For The Trees
    The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
    The Beguiled
    May
    Notes On A Scandal
    La Ceremonie
    The Housekeeper (A Judgement in Stone)

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  4. It would have to be a John Waters retrospective for me.

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  5. Laura4:47 AM

    I saw All About Eve for the first time this past week (about damn time, I know), and it got me thinking about the professional highs and lows over the course of an actor's lifetime. All About Eve single-handedly resurrected Bette Davis' career. So I think it would be really interesting to shape a program around hollywood comebacks possibly featuring:

    Katherine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story
    Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce
    Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard
    Bette Davis in All About Eve
    Judy Garland in A Star is Born
    Ingrid Bergman in Anastasia
    Marlon Brando in The Godfather
    Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet
    John Travolta in Pulp Fiction
    Elizabeth Shue in Leaving Las Vegas
    Bill Murray in Rushmore; Lost in Translation
    Diane Lane in Unfaithful
    Robert Downey Jr. in Zodiac; Tropic Thunder
    Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler

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  6. Movies that treat the darkest of subjects with the blackest of humor:

    Happiness
    Heathers
    Chuck and Buck
    Serial Mom
    Withnail and I
    Harold and Maude
    American Psycho

    Or a tribute to the Georges ... as in Christopher and Linda Day:

    Pieces
    Mortuary
    City of the Living Dead
    Beyond Evil
    Day of the Animals.

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  7. Disaster Mania! starring:

    The Poseidon Adventure
    The Towering Inferno
    Earthquake
    Airport
    Airport 1975
    Airport '77
    The Concorde: Airport '79
    Tidal Wave
    Meteor
    Avalanche

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