This movie is…good?!
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Hudson Hawk (Michael Lehmann, 1991)
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Media Tag: 35mm (24 items)
So lucky to have so many theaters around here that work so hard to show things on film whenever possible. I’ll see just about anything on 35mm.
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Silkwood (Mike Nichols, 1983)
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Good movie, but I was stunned by this ABC Motion Pictures logo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0DqBbW0j-g
Also evidently you can’t stream this anywhere, because ABC is now owned by Disney, and Disney is not interested in giving this (star-studded, multiple-Oscar-nominated) movie any due.
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972)
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The Funhouse (Tobe Hooper, 1981)
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Not a “good” movie, but jeez that ending.
Part of a Mahoning Drive-In Road Show 35mm triple feature.
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Shock Waves (1977)
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For a movie about underwater zombie Nazis — pretty dull!
Part of a Mahoning Drive-In Road Show 35mm triple feature.
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The People’s Joker (2022)
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On 35mm!
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Single White Female (1992)
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On 35mm. I’m just such a sucker for these early 90s thrillers. JJL is a genius.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
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I still love this movie, a real treat to see it on 35.
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Out of the Past (1947)
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On 35mm!
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Casablanca (1943)
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On 35mm!
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Pumping Iron II: The Women (1985)
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Polyester (1981)
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
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Saw this “in Emergo”! (They wriggled a plastic skeleton along a length of rope strung across the screen.)
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Shaun of the Dead (2004)
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Hackers (1995)
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
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Jagged Edge (1985)
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A gripping, precisely executed legal thriller. Glenn Close is brilliant. Why had I never heard of this??
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Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
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Saw this on 35mm with director Susan Seidelman in person!
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Grand Prix (1966)
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Saw this on an original 35mm print that was so faded, it was basically monochrome magenta-and-black. R.I.P. François Hardy.
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Chinatown (1974)
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Fifty years later, still the best movie about municipal water systems and real estate fraud.
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The Hunt for Red October (1990)
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If you were to score this on some kind of Bechdel scale, it might come back `NaN`.
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Riddle of Fire (2024)
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I can’t overstate how much I adored this movie. It’s like watching a magic trick. There are so many ways it could have gone awry — tonally, stylistically — but it never does.
It’s one of those movies you would expect to walk away from thinking, “I see what they were going for, but they just didn’t pull it off.”
Riddle of Fire pulls it off.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
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I’d never seen this movie before and I have to admit I had no idea the title was a metaphor. I had pictured a Hitchcock-like twist where a number of rings is the giveaway to some clue. Nope!
Saw this on 35mm which is always a treat. Lots of surprising unpredictable twists to the story. Hume Cronyn as the manipulative lawyer Keats was great.
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Arthur (1981)
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What can you say about “Arthur”?
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