Your favorite double bills [ new thread ]

[Dave Golder]

In article <595ijq$1...@earth.alpha.net>, l...@earth.execpc.com (Lon
Ponschock) wrote:

> Here is a request for your favorite double bills --
> two movies that go well together and compliment
> each other.
>
>
> An example is RED HOT directed by Peter Haggis
> about the beginning of rock 'n' roll in the
> (old) Soviet Union and LENINGRAD COWBOYS GO AMERICA --
> which gives a humorous idea of "Before and After"
> rock 'n' roll.
>
>
> So what pair of films would you put together?
> Some reason might help if the films are cult faves.

A cinema in Croydon last year showed tedious British social realism outing
"Naked" on a double bill with the slightly less socially realistic (if
similarly nomenclatured) "Naked Lunch".

MJ 'Simo' Simpson
President, ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha - the official Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy Appreciation Society
(for details, SAE to 37 Keens Rd, Croydon, Surrey CR0 1AH, U.K.)
(also News Editor, SFX; posted via Dave Golder, Editor, SFX)

[JimX13]

Although I've seen tons of great double bills (The Strand in SF used to
show 3 different movies every day!!), the most memorable double feature
was: Mommie Dearest and Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?

[selene *]

In article <19961220011...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, jim...@aol.com
(JimX13) wrote:

i think i saw those together on t.v., hosted by Scott Thompson (from kids
in the hall,) who did some hilarious little mini-scenes in-between, as you
can imagine. (spinning wheelchairs & specialty versions of his always
riotous drag get-ups.)