I'm watching Wilson, a 1944 biopic of Woodrow "Woody" Wilson, a globalist failure who was the American president a few years back. Dreadful movie, just awful. TCM btw

Me and the GF are going to see the 50th Anniversary showing of The Graduate at South Point tomorrow...and then on Wednesday, they are showing Alien!

Never seen either on the big screen...should be fun.

Yikes... never?

In '79 when Alien was released I literally slept with the lights on for a week... not that that would have helped if there happened to be an alien under my bed.

I mean we're closing in on forty years since its release... astounding.

I was 15 when Alien was released...it was rated R. And no way was one of my parents would go to see that with me.

Michael Mann’s Heat Returns to Theaters for One Night Only Featuring Q&A with Director



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20th Century FoxTwentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Alamo Drafthouse have announced that they will showcase the new restoration of Michael Mann's on May 2.

Presented by Alamo Drafthouse and Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, the newly restored print overseen by Mann himself will be screened in over 20 theaters across the country and feature a ********** Q&A with Mann from the Regency Village Theater in Los Angeles.

Fans can get tickets to the Los Angeles event and see the Q&A live and in-person at [http://]http://www.gofobo.com/heatla. Tickets for theaters **********ing the event throughout the U.S. can be purchased through [http://]https://drafthouse.com/event...-**********-qa.

This event is in honor of the all new Heat Director's Definitive Blu-ray Edition, which will be available for purchase on May 9.

Participating Locations and Theaters
Live Screening and Q&A with director Michael Mann
Los Angeles – Regency Village Theater at 7:30pm
Tickets: [http://]http://www.gofobo.com/heatla
Alamo Drafthouse ********** Q&A Theaters (all times local)
Austin Drafthouse Village; Austin, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Mason Park; Houston, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet; Kansas City, MO – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Littleton; Littleton, CO – 6:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Loudoun; Ashburn, VA – 8:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Lubbock; Lubbock, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Laredo; Laredo, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Marketplace; New Braunfels, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Omaha; Omaha, NE – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Richardson; Richardson, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Westlakes; San Antonio, TX – 7:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Winchester; Winchester, VA – 8:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse El Paso; El Paso, TX – 6:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Chandler; Chandler, AZ – 5:30pm
Alamo Drafthouse Corpus Christi; Corpus Christi, TX – 7:30pm
Tampa Theater; Tampa, FL – 8:30pm
Normal Theaters; Normal, IL – 7:30pm
Cinema Detroit; Detroit, MI – 8:30pm
Brattle Theater; Boston, MA – 8:30pm
Michigan Theater; Ann Arbor, MI – 8:30pm


Sucks for nevada... but I preordered my copy already.

The first time I saw it was at a drive-in.

MSchu,

Just watched Heat again a couple of days ago. That sounds great. Very much sucks that they aren't coming to NV. Almost worth flying to Texas and attending multiple showings

Any idea if they will record any of the Q&As?

In the past they have recorded some of them and put them up on their Facebook page.

Thanks Phat!

Defending Your Life for the umpteenth time

If there is a list of the best screenplays ever written, this has got to be on it. It truly is a brilliant, beautiful, funny movie.

The description sounds cool, and I trust your recommendation. Though really you had me at written by Albert Brooks. Will watch ASAP Dom.

anyone seen duplicity with clive owen n julia roberts?

I vaguely remember watching like 10mins before turning it off but just discovered it was written and directed by the ridiculously talented tony gilroy which makes me think maybe I should revisit it.

wondering if anyone has opinions on it.

I wrote a review of it in this thread, I think.

I loved it. Lots of fun. But I think I'm in the minority.

The Graduate, Mike Nichols, 1967

Saw the 50th Anniversary 4k remastered release today...in a theater! My first time after seeing the film at least 14 times or so...

This film is amazing. I've said before that I think that it's the demarcation film between "old" movies and modern film.

I see something new in this every time. This time, I realized how much of a feminist tract it is...the three main women - Mrs. Robinson, Elaine, and Benjamin's mother - are all trapped in a man's world...and they are defined by their men.

Mrs. Robinson got married when she was in school because she got pregnant with Elaine.

Benjamin's mother accepts her life as a "wife" and seems happy..except for that really weird scene between her and Benjamin...when Benjamin's shaving and his mother wants to know where he goes at night. And she's wearing a negligee.

And Elaine is just trying to please everyone but sees Benjamin as her way out of the same life that her mother has.

I also can't believe how I never saw how completely self-absorbed and narcissistic Benjamin is. It's obvious, but I always saw myself in Benjamin some...probably because I saw it for the first time when I was about his age. Now, as man older then Benjamin's parents are in the movie, I see a privileged, mopey, young jerk. I still can relate, but holy ****, I hope I wasn't that self-absorbed at that age.

I mean, Nichols purposely never mentions Viet Nam or the late-60s protests because Benjamin, as a rich, privileged white male, would never have had to think about it. Norman Fell does mention a little something about "agitators," but that's it.

And one more thing I noticed - Katherine Ross does a hell of a lot with an under-written role. She's luminous and perfect.

Anyway...this is about as perfect a movie as has ever been made.

good enough for me.

we seem to have very similar taste in films/tv.
can't remember the last time I didn't like a show/movie u recommended.

oh and I can't believe I never watched movies with the director commentary before.
the reason I still buy blu rays is I love the bonus features so much but I never checked out the commentary feature before (not sure why not) but after my millionth time watching michael clayton last night I decided to check out the commentary feature where tony n his brother/editor john basically narrate the entire film.

it's freaking awesome.

of course now I'm going to lose hundreds of hours of my life as I go thru my giant collection of blu rays and listen to every director commentary.

I'm esp looking forward to hearing fincher as he's been hilarious and super intelligent in every interview ever and I just really hope they have this feature on every blu ray cuz its def worth the price of the blu ray just for this feature and it will be so amazing hearing my fav directors talk about my fav films and will give a whole new perspective on films I've seen a hundred times.

I feel like a little kid on Christmas day.

Told ya!!!!!!!!!

Also kinda toldja, but I go further with it and think he's clearly mentally ill.

Check out Lord Love a Duck for another '60s generational dividing line film.

Spinal Tap has an in-character one that is hilarious (there was also an out-of-character one that I think went out of print long ago, don't know current status).

Michael Clayton I found pretty blah, oh another evil old corporation, never seen that before!

But the move wasn't about an evil old corporation... that was merely the vehicle for the humanistic, or lack of humanity, drama to play out.

rbk, I realize you are lolrbk, but you may want to take a look at these links:

A Companion to Indie Film

Reel Terror

The Fight over "Broadway Brawler"

The Best of Times for Bruce

Variety

Yes, Willis expressed interest in TSS, but it was because he had to pick something since he was forced to make the Disney movies as a result of the BB blowout. Willis didn't even want Shyamalan to direct, and fought for a more experienced director. Vogel held his ground on that one, but it wasn't because Willis was buddies with Shyamalan.

We can agree to disagree on whether or not Willis is a good actor, but you might want to know that he sides with me on that issue.

Here are what two 3rd parties you may recognize had to say about Willis in TSS:

Ebert: "The film opens with the mayor presenting him with a citation, and that moment precisely marks the beginning of his professional decline. He goes down with a sort of doomed dignity."

NYTimes: "For Mr. Willis, the movie continues the unpromising track he took with ''Mercury Rising,'' in which his character goes through hell to save the life of an autistic child. "

I think The Village in unjustly maligned.

The Graduate might easily be seen as the repression of middle-aged female desire. I love the ending, particularly the ways it plays upon the Harold Lloyd film Girl Shy, which I happened upon many years after first seeing The Graduate.

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I will always hate the final ten minutes, but everything up until then had me thinking it was his best film ever.

When I was in grad school, my film professor played this at the university cinema and hosted a Q&A on the film afterward. He was nobody special, he was just eager for a chance to discuss one of his favorite movies with anyone who loved it enough to show up late on a weekday to watch it.

The reveal doesn't bother me...it's a disappointment, yes, but no answer was going to work that well anyway. I just love the old-fashioned-ness of it...and the performances in it are uniformly great, especially Howard and Hurt.

People complain about how "unrealistic" it is, but that's part of its charm, for me. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's a fable. It's Little Red Riding Hood for grown-ups. Yes, in the real world, you wouldn't send a blind girl on a quest through a wood with monsters in it. But this is a fairy tale. And I love that it's a fairy tale.