The Brattle Theater is having a neat raffle. . .

[xiphias]

So, The Brattle Theater is one of our art/classic film houses in Boston. It screens classic films, world films, independent films. . . basically, whatever they find nifty and worthwhile.

They're holding a raffle.

$25 bucks a pop: winner picks a double-feature. Brattle screens the double-feature the winner picked.

Neat, hunh?

What would you pick, if you were to win?

Comments

[rosefox]

I used to have a list of fifty or so pairs of films I wanted to see as double-headers, from Basquiat and Pollack to Free Enterprise and Trekkers. (Some of them could be triple-headers, such as the above with Frida and Galaxy Quest.) Sadly, it vanished when my old Palm Pilot died, but I could certainly recreate it off the top of my head without too much trouble. In other words, I'd have to hold my own mini-lottery to choose someone who would choose from that list. *) I was thinking of doing weekly double-header movie nights, back when we had a television set, because I easily had enough for a year's worth and was quite sure I'd come up with more before the year was out.

If absolutely pressed, The Public Eye and Ian McKellen's Richard III, because they're visually similar (set in the same era, in a way) and yet completely different, and both are magnificent on the big screen. My triple-header choice for that pair would probably be The Rocketeer, but it's a weak third. The other two are movies I actually want to own, a vanishingly small category.

Ooh! Or Spice World and This Is Spinal Tap. I'd totally go for that.

Right, I need to post this comment or I'll be here all night.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

oh, good lord. i thought you had written "meat raffle", and i thought "gosh, they have those on the east coast, too? and here i thought it was a midwest thing."

[rosefox]

...oh, I just had to add The Aristocats and Swing Kids. Hee hee hee!

[ckd]

I'd probably say Buckaroo Banzai/Galaxy Quest, or possibly a Kevin McCarthy two-pack of Innerspace and UHF. Funny movies good.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

Ma Vie En Rose and Orlando, I think.
Strange Brew and Rosencrasntz and Guildenstern are Dear is also a nice pair.
Oddest I've actually picked for a movie night was Caddyshack and Strange Crew, aka "They're blue!".
Worst pairing when we did this as a panel at Conjecture last year was My Girl, Interrupted.

[madcaptenor.livejournal.com]

A "meat raffle"? Dare I ask?

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Just for weird movies I like that never show up in revival houses, Real Genius and Batman (the 1966 Adam West one). Yeah, the latter's pure cheese, but it's funny.

[beardedone.livejournal.com]

Joy Luck Club and Last Emperor of China

[cheshyre]

Actually, a couple years ago, the Brattle did a double-feature of Real Genius and Weird Science.

[kalmn.livejournal.com]

just exactly like it sounds! usually held at a bar, and you buy tickets, and they raffle off meat.

movie night

[(Anonymous)]

Ooh! Buckaroo Banzai and Galaxy Quest! Yes!

Re: movie night

[(Anonymous)]

Drat. Forgot to sign again. I've gotta get an LJ! - Felis Sidus

[jhitchin.livejournal.com]

Probably "Tokyo Godfathers" and "Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakkushi" (called "Spirited Away" in the US, but I'd want the original Japanese with the correct subtitles).

[mattblum.livejournal.com]

Brazil and Minority Report, maybe.

Or The Lion in Winter and Hamlet (the Branagh version).

Or Duck Soup and The Princess Bride.

Or The Maltese Falcon and Chinatown.

Or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting.

Or The Great Escape and The Shawshank Redemption.

...should stop and get back to work now. I wish I still lived in the area, so I could enter the raffle.

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Oooh, interesting.

Hamlet/Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead?

Ran/My Own Private Idaho?

The Princess Bride/Pirates of the Carribean?

Labyrinth/Velvet Goldmine? (this connection probably only makes sense in my head)

Blade Runner (director's cut)/Brazil?

I adore Harold and Maude, but I can't think of anything to pair it with.

[marquisedea.livejournal.com]

One time I movie hopped with my Dad, and it was waaaay too much. By the time we got out I made some of the following comments. "W..where am I? Who am I?....Where's the car?"

[copperpoint.livejournal.com]

Army Of Darkness and Bubba Ho-Tep

to go with Harold and Maude?

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

I love Harold and Maude, also - one of my all-time favorites. It was my parenting guide, which explains a lot about my children. There is another Bud Cort movie which might fit with Harold and Maude, if only I could remember the title. Bud Cort was in some kind of weird circus. That tall, strange actress who played Olive Oyl to Robin Williams' Popeye - what is her name? senility is certainly annoying - played Bud Cort's love interest as an angel. Sound familiar to anyone? No, I did not dream this - there really is such a movie out there somewhere.

Re: to go with Harold and Maude?

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

According to IMDB, the actress who played Olive Oyl was Shelly Duval.

Bud Cort and Shelly Duval were both in Brewster McCloud (1970). But Shelly Duval's character wasn't an angel. Dunno if that might be it, though.

Re: to go with Harold and Maude?

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Yes - this is the movie of which I was thinking. Bud Cort's character was trying to create wings to fly around the circus dome. I seem to remember a scene that showed Shelly Duval's back, with scars where her wings used to be. I'll have to rent this movie to see how much I remember is true and how much is made up. Want to come for movie night? Double header: "Harold and Maude" and "Brewster McCloud." Now - what would you serve for food with that?