MGM 80th Anniversary Film Fest Starting This Weekend @ THE MFAH: What Should I See?

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The films:

Tom Jones Dir. Tony Richardson 1963
The Great Escape Dir. John Sturges 1963
Burn! (Queimada!) Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (Director’s Cut Dubbed in Italian W/Subtitles) 1970
Sunday Bloody Sunday Dir. John Schlesinger 1971
Mademoiselle Dir. Tony Richardson (New-ish Cut In French W/Subtitles) 1966
Smile Dir. Michael Richie 1975
The Entertainer Dir. Tony Richardson 1960
Women In Love Dir. Ken Russell 1970
Wings of Desire Dir. Wim Wenders 1988
The Witches Dir. Various 1967
The Belly of An Architect Dir. Peter Greenway 1987

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i heard that burn! was brilliant, but i havent seen it

― todd swiss (eliti), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

wings of desire - small screens don't do it justice.

pass on greenaway - i don't understand the love.

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The Great Escape on the big screen, in a new restored print. Do not pass this up!
Burn!
Sunday Bloody Sunday

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Milo OTM about The Great Escape. "Good luck." "Thank You." Ooops.

Smile is great.

Wings of Desire - beautiful.

― David N (David N.), Tuesday, 29 June 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Tom Jones Dir. Tony Richardson 1963
The Great Escape Dir. John Sturges 1963
Burn! (Queimada!) Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo (Director’s Cut Dubbed in Italian W/Subtitles) 1970
Sunday Bloody Sunday Dir. John Schlesinger 1971
Mademoiselle Dir. Tony Richardson (New-ish Cut In French W/Subtitles) 1966
Women In Love Dir. Ken Russell 1970
Wings of Desire Dir. Wim Wenders 1988

― Girolamo Savonarola, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

don't see Wings of Desire it sucks so bad!

― ryan (ryan), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 05:02 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, i heard that wings of desire was kinda good with a kinda pathetic ending, but who knows.

it never interested me enough to watch it.

― todd swiss (eliti), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 07:29 (twenty-one years ago)

there are so many beautiful scenes in wings of desire that they excuse bad endings, random nick cave performances, and whatever else. the fly-over shots of berlin, the slow, tracking shots through the library - these are some of the prettiest scenes in any movie i've seen. it's not my favorite wenders film, but it's really worth seeing on the big screen.

on a related note: kings of the road, alice in the cities, goalie, etc. - are they ever going to find their way onto dvd?

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:56 (twenty-one years ago)

They better release Kings of the Road soon or I must have to bust some heads.

― Anthony (Anthony F), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw the restored print of the great escape last night - fantastic.
i still can't believe they all die in the end, though! i thought in the restored print maybe they could somehow sneak away...

― a spectator bird (a spectator bird), Thursday, 1 July 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

http://scottfeinberg.com/stanleydoneninterview-2

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 November 2010 17:38 (fifteen years ago)

three months pass...

RIP Betty Garrett

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTOJgLF9P2Q

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 February 2011 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

I was looking at Film Comment the other day, and it was mentioned that as part of MGM's bailout deal with Spyglass Entertainment, they will be shuttering their repertory distribution arm. So in other words, goodbye to midnite shows and film series like the one I started this thread about. That news, coupled with other tidbits related about other studios current means of dealing w/their own 35 mm archives, made me throw up in my mouth a little.

― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 March 2011 03:48 (fifteen years ago)

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