Classic Films You Would Love To Witness on the Silver Screen?

2001: A Space Odyssey might be cool in 3D

I witnessed 2001 at a midnight screening several years ago. It was worth the sleep deprivation! In 3D? I never thought of the possibilities. Great idea Boomerang!

boomer- I just saw 2001 in Blu-Ray, and it looked damn good. In 3D it probably would knock your socks off.

How 'bout Dr. Zhivago?

Egads, I remember seeing the "House of Wax" in 3D more years ago than I would want to remember.

when i lived in toronto in the 80's i was a member of the Bloor Cinema a nominal annual fee meant you could see movies for $1, the movies were older feature films, foreign films and classics

saw some great stuff, screenings of metropolis with live music playing, a great double bill they'd show on a regular basis was fellini's 8 1/2 and woody's stardust memories, saw dr zhivago, casablanca, tons of great film

You saw Casablanca on the big screen?! You lucky bastard!

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I saw Lawrence of Arabia on a big screen... it wasn't captioned so I missed a lot but visually it was awesome.

I have a small list of films I would love see pop up on the big screen:
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Casablanca (1942)
Chinatown (1974)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo. (1966)
La battaglia di Algeri (1966)
MASH (1970)

Rabbit of Seville (1950)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

I've already seen _______ at the theater:
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
The Sting (1973)
Z (1969)

* have seen in a theater

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloor_Cinema

if there was something like this near me now, i'd probably see more movies in a theater

Now you're just flaunting it!

the bloor cinema showed great films, although some i saw when they were released, AN, CEOTK

I would love the chance to run a small art house/classic film cinema in an area where they are so dearly lacking like Pittsburgh for example. We have plenty of independent and art house cinemas here in NYC.

i waited on line for 3 hours to see a preview of ET on a sunday a full week before it's release, i bought the film adaption at a book store across the street, and read it while i waited

In elementary school, I read the kid's adaptation of ET for the one and only book I had read for the school's short lived book club. I was so upset at the time when I read the author used M and M's instead of Reese's Pieces I never went back to the book club.

william kotzwinkle wrote the adaption i read, good author, if you get a chance read his novel, the bear went over the mountain, an interesting look at how we perceive the world around us

Arthur Bramhall is known by his colleagues to be a poorly performing teacher of English with little talent as a writer. But Bramhall isolates himself in a forest cabin and manages to write a great novel; he goes off to buy champagne in celebration. Whilst he is away, a bear digs up his manuscript. The bear travels to New York, where he is accepted as a talented author and desirable party guest, while Bramhall's increasing animal-like desperation leads to him being shunned by his former friends. In its use of humour and a character of very limited abilities"the bear"to comment on aspects of modern life, the book resembles stories like Forrest Gump and Being There. It also continues a trend well established in Kotzwinkle's work.

I'd love to see the ancient, B&W Mid Summer Night's Dream on the big screen.

I enjoy seeing silent films with live musical accompaniment in the theater, and I've been lucky to have seen quite a few. I'd really like to see some of Chaplin's features, such as The Gold Rush and The Kid, with live musical accompaniment that replaces the mawkishly sentimental scores Chaplin wrote for the reissue of his silent films in the 1930s (Chaplin could always be counted upon to indulge in the mawkishly sentimental, even in his music). But I doubt that will happen anytime soon: Chaplin's estate keeps a pretty tight grip on his films and it doesn't like to see any changes to them.

"North by Northwest"

In Tampa, there is a woman who often plays the organ to accompany silent films. Her name is Rosa Rio, and she is 107 years old. She is tiny, but otherwise looks better than most 80 year olds.

She played the organ for many of the radio soap operas of the 30's and 40's. as well as the early silent films.

http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6284



She finally "fessed up", when she turned 105.