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Your ideal double feature?
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So if you could spend your evening at the movies attending an honest to goodness double feature, what two films would they be? There doesn't have to be a common theme between the two films, though it makes it more interesting.
I'd go with:
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The setting is Vienna. A young American woman is brought to a hospital after overdosing on pills, apparently in a suicide attempt. A police detective suspects foul play on the part of her lover, an American psychology professor. As doctors try to save her life, the detective interrogates the professor, and through flashbacks we see the events leading up to the woman's overdose; her stormy and intensely sexual relationship with the professor, her heavy drinking and numerous affairs, and her estrangement from her Czech husband. A darkly erotic study of several rather unsympathetic characters.
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Young teacher Keaton seeks companionship and love by frequenting single's bars and furthers her self-destruction by her aimless intake of drugs and alcohol. In need of a father figure, she makes herself available to numerous men and eventually regrets her hedonistic behavior.
i love this topic but i have to tell you right now that i hated bad timing so much. but i had wanted to see it for a loooong time before i did, so i think i did too much building up into what i thought it was going to be from the clips i'd seen. you know.
okay i've decided on my double feature. it might not be my all-time ideal, in fact i know it isn't. but i sure would like it.
AND (wait for it)
the connections are clear, and yet they're totally different, which is how i would know to love someone for eternity if they wanted to see them in succession with me.
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Originally Posted by cricket
i love this topic but i have to tell you right now that i hated bad timing so much. but i had wanted to see it for a loooong time before i did, so i think i did too much building up into what i thought it was going to be from the clips i'd seen. you know.
That's the reaction my father had to it as well. Nicholas Roeg, in general, bothers him. The film was a disaster for nearly everyone involved, especially for poor Art and his own personal tragedy during filming. I wanted to see Bad Timing for a number of years after perusing Keitel's filmography. For all that time, I merely had the film poster and reviews to go off of; I couldn't even begin to imagine what the film would be like. It was my introduction to Nicholas Roeg, Theresa Russell, and Ken Russell.
I'm still awaiting Looking For Mr. Goodbar on dvd, which is why I started this topic. Sure, I could sit at home with Bad Timing's Criterion release and vhs Goodbar, but what better way to experience them than in the theater?
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Originally Posted by cricket
okay i've decided on my double feature. it might not be my all-time ideal, in fact i know it isn't. but i sure would like it.
AND (wait for it)
the connections are clear, and yet they're totally different, which is how i would know to love someone for eternity if they wanted to see them in succession with me.
okay i've decided on my double feature. it might not be my all-time ideal, in fact i know it isn't. but i sure would like it.
AND (wait for it)
the connections are clear, and yet they're totally different, which is how i would know to love someone for eternity if they wanted to see them in succession with me.
Two of my favourite films EVER. Shame we're an ocean apart, I think you'd be the ideal sleepover buddy - we could do home beauty treatments , watch ANTM, eat Jiffy Pop, get trashed on Merlot, play crap board games like "Boyfriend" and make crank phone calls
Two of my top films would have to be:
"Christiane F."
and
"Pan's Labyrinth"
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Two of my favourite films EVER. Shame we're an ocean apart, I think you'd be the ideal sleepover buddy - we could do home beauty treatments , watch ANTM, eat Jiffy Pop, get trashed on Merlot, play crap board games like "Boyfriend" and make crank phone calls
ooh okay! actually could we play this?
yeah and then we can call all the boys in our class and ask them who they like (as more than a friend).
holy SHIT i loved dreamphone SO MUCH. where the fuck is my dreamphone anyway. my mother thinks if i don't look at something for fifteen years she doesn't need to save it for me in her basement. WRONG-O.
i just really think these two movies were the best independent cinema in the nineties had to offer. both were sweet and funny and kind of edgy and just refreshing.
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