Slog - Comments on Landmark's Back in the Repertory Game http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game 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... Copyright 2008 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:57:11 -0800 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:02:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by David Schmader 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...

]]> David Schmader http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735237 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:08:08 -0800 Comment by elswinger 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?

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735247 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735247 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:24:17 -0800 Comment by monkey 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.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735259 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735259 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:37:50 -0800 Comment by JC Metro Classics movies in the MetroNatural city! Any discounts for Metrosexuals?

]]> JC http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735264 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735264 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:41:58 -0800 Comment by folklife ?@2 Nope

]]> folklife http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735268 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735268 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:51:11 -0800 Comment by shortshorts Thanks for not suggesting that Landmark was in anyway threatened by our extensive rep programming at NWFF.

]]> shortshorts http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735274 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:57:34 -0800 Comment by elswinger 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

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735279 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735279 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 13:08:59 -0800 Comment by Ghost of Charles Nelson Reilly 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.

]]> Ghost of Charles Nelson Reilly http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735329 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:01:43 -0800 Comment by hunh? Always do the right thing. I'll be there Aug. 8.

]]> hunh? http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735379 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735379 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:26:43 -0800 Comment by laterite 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.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735430 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/landmarks_back_in_the_repertory_game#c735430 Arts Tue, 05 Jun 2007 15:16:33 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi I refuse to acknowledge any "film history" line up that fails to include The Third Man.

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