Arts Landmark’s Back in the Repertory Game
posted by on June 5 at 11:57 AM
I just received this press release from Landmark Theatres:
“METRO CLASSICS” Landmark’s Metro Cinemas is proud to announce the launch of Metro Classics, a new repertory film series that will run every Wednesday night from June 27th through August 22nd. This initial experiment presents a decade-by-decade survey of film history from the 1920s through the 2000s. Each film is a representative example of the types of cinema being made at that particular moment in history. From the heights of Silent Cinema in the late 20s, through the Classical Hollywood Studio period, the radical re-imaginings of cinema in the 60s, 70s and 80s in both Europe and America, to the self-conscious postmodern style of the 90s and the explosion of Asian cinema at the dawn of the 21st Century. Nine classic films exemplifying the wide-range and depth of film history.
Feeling the heat from SIFF Cinema’s summer programming, perhaps? Here’s the lineup—nothing too adventurous, but intriguing all the same. (Well, except Crouching Tiger.)
Wed June 27 at 7 and 9 pm: Sunrise
Wed July 4 at 6, 8, 10 pm: Duck Soup
Wed July 11 at 7 and 9:15 pm: Casablanca
Wed July 18 at 7 and 9:30 pm: The Searchers
Wed July 25 at 7 and 9:30 pm: Blow-Up
Wed Aug 1 at 7 and 9:30 pm: Taxi Driver
Wed Aug 8 at 7 and 9:30 pm: Do the Right Thing
Wed Aug 15 at 7 and 9:30 pm: Miller’s Crossing
Wed Aug 22 at 7 and 9:30 pm: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Duck Soup on the big screen on the 4th of July? God bless America.
Also, The Searchers has the most astounding scene of an Indian squaw being kicked down a mountain for comic effect, and seeing how this scene lands on a general audience has long been a dream of mine...thank you, Metro.
If only I didn't dislike your shrimpy cinemas so much...
I like all the films on the list, but the choices are so "safe" and easily available on DVD. Unless the ticket prices are half of what a first-run film goes for, I can't imagine any of these films filling up the avergae screening room in the Metro.
Am I the only one who misses the good old days of The Neptune when they the longest any one film played was three days?
I was kind of thinking the same as elswinger. It's not that the movies chosen are bad movies, in fact they are quite good. But I'm not sure Taxi Driver or Crouching Tiger really represent the decade in which they were made.
Metro Classics movies in the MetroNatural city! Any discounts for Metrosexuals?
?@2 Nope
Thanks for not suggesting that Landmark was in anyway threatened by our extensive rep programming at NWFF.
I realize that this "festival" is designed specifically for the average movie goer who doesn't want to go see a movie that they haven't heard of. But it took me 10 minutes to pull a more interesting list out of my ass:
20s: Pandora's Box
30s: The Libeled Lady
40s: The Ox-Bow Incident
50s: Bad Day at Black Rock
60s: Hell In The Pacific
70s: The Long Goodbye
80s: Drugstore Cowboy
90s: Bottle Rocket
00s: Ghost World
Eh, they may be safe choices, but I'll still see Miller's Crossing on the big screen even though I own it. I see it as no different than seeing a midnight showing at the Egyptian.
Always do the right thing. I'll be there Aug. 8.
Miller's Crossing on the big screen? I'm so there. Gabriel Byrne reached his apex with that role.
Monkey, Taxi Driver isn't representative of the '70s? That's gotta be one of the definitive movies of the '70s, along with Chinatown, The Conversation, or The Godfather. Crouching Tiger? Mmm, not so much.
I do second a screening of The Long Goodbye; it seems to have had a resurgence of interest in the last few months, at least by my perusal of other internet film forums. I personally love it.
I refuse to acknowledge any "film history" line up that fails to include The Third Man.
One movie per decade is a little ridiculous.
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