a new and *fun* topic!
Chuq Von Rospach
discussion. It was so much fun I thought I'd clog the net with it for a
while and see what came out. The question is:
If you ran a movie house and could schedule the movies you showed, what
double features would you run (we assume a revival/art house, of course).
To get things started, here are some obvious (to me) ones:
Harold and Maude/King of Hearts
King of Hearts/Apocalypse Now
Apocalypse Now/Sands of Iwo Jima
Rollerball/Slapshot
39 Steps (hitchcock)/39 Steps (latest remake)
Rocky Horror Picture Show/Phantom of the Paradise
Star Trek II: TWOK/Mutiny on the Bounty
Dark Star/Alien
The idea is to put together double features of films that relate to each
other in some way, either film style, content, etc... Movies that show
extreme differences in viewpoint of the same subject can make real
interesting doublets (such as the two Apocalypse Now doublets).
C'mon folks, put on the old thinking caps and try to be original. You don't
necessarily need to explain why they go together, but if it's an extremely
obscure joining, you might want to explain (we might want to disagree with
you, too...)
chuq
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Prentiss Riddle
Eraserhead / Freaks
Casablanca / Play It Again, Sam
I think I'd like to try:
King Kong (original) / Rocky Horrow Picture Show (obvious)
King Kong (original) / Liquid Sky (same reason, less obvious)
Glen or Glenda / In a Year With Thirteen Moons
Return of the Secaucus Seven / For Jonah Who Will Be 25 in
the Year 2000
North By Northwest / Diva
A Streetcar Named Desire / Last Tango in Paris
I'm sure I can think of more, but this is enough for now.
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Byron Howes
The Wizard of Oz/Star Wars IV (similar story elements)
The Wages of Fear/Sorcerer (remake)
Peter Pan/E.T.
The Seven Samurai/The Magnificent Seven
Apocalypse Now/The Wizard of Oz (gotcha!)
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Byron Howes
UNC - Chapel Hill
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Jerry Weil
Eraserhead/Liquid Sky (oooh, scary)
Polyester/Tootsie (who makes a better woman?)
Plan 9 From Outer Space/Horror Hotel (I hope someone has heard of the latter,
since no one around here has)
A Boy and His Dog/Road Warrior
A Boy and His Dog/Dawn of the Dead
Metropolis/Star Wars
Mason Woo
explanations, but most of the connections should be obvious.
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs / Murmur of the Heart
Nashville / Manhattan
Lovesick / Simon (same director--okay, so it's an explanation)
Melvin and Howard / The Bicycle Thief
Fiddler on the Roof / Yentl
Tootsie / Yentl
Rock and Roll High School / Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Zelig / Modern Times
Dr. Strangelove / WarGames
and so on.
Mason Woo
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Morris Keesan
I've been trying for years to get some of the local repertory houses to
schedules such double bills as
The Seven Samurai (original Japanese title translates as "The Magnificent
Seven")/The Magnificent Seven
Rashomon/The Outrage("Western" remake of Rashomon)
Yojimbo/whichever Clint Eastwood spaghetti western was based on Yojimbo
Other interesting double bills:
Sword of Doom/Star Wars (some astonishing parallels here)
Star Wars/The Wizard of Oz (also some amusing parallels -- when the good
guys impersonate storm troopers just after they arrive at the Death Star, I
can't help thinking of the cowardly Lion dressed up as one of the Wicked
Witch's guards, trying to hide his tail. And in Remake of the Jedi, the
Ewooks are clearly munchkin-substitutes.)
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Fantasia / Allegro Non Troppo
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Graeme Hirst
OK, how about
Star Wars/Excalibur
to emphasize just how strongly Star Wars is based on the Arthurian legends.
The parallel between Merlin and Obiwan is especially clear in Excalibur.
Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
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Singin' In The Rain/Clockwork Orange
Casablanca/Play It Again Sam
Dressed To Kill/Dressed To Kill (the B. Rathbone, Holmes flick/the
M. Caine murder flick)
Saturday Night Fever/They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
Robin Hood (the Errol Flynn version)/Robin and Marion
They Died With Their Boots On/Little Big Man
Airport/Airplane
Nosferatu (original, Max Schreck)/Nosferatu (1980? version)
High Noon/Outlands
Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney or Claude Raines version)/Phantom
of the Paradise
Some Like it Hot/The Big Chill
Fantasia/Allegro Non Troppo
some triples:
African Queen/Rooster Cogburn/True Grit
The Seven Samuri/The Magnificent Seven/Battle Beyond the Stars
Dracula (Bela Lugosi)/Love at First Bite/Dracula (Frank Langela)
Possibly more to come...
Done with the able assistance of Jeffry H. Peck.
Ariel Shattan
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Russell Finn
possibly the finest campus film group in the known universe) has
previously (and will likely again this fall) shown "Casablanca" and
"Play It Again, Sam" within seven days of each other. Not bad, since
PIAS is my favorite Woody Allen movie (not his best, mind you, just
my favorite), and Casablanca is, of course, the greatest movie ever
made. (The preceding views are my own and therefore represent
absolute truth.)
Russell "Sunday Night Director" Finn
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One more time: "LSC..."
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Jaws / Shoes of a Fisherman
or
Jaws / Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
Peter Robinson
Hewlett-Packard PCD
Corvallis, OR
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