Discuss: Movies to See ONLY on the Big Screen |
| Published: June 16, 2008, 10:32 pm |
| Tags: 2001 a space odyssey, 2001aspaceodyssey, badlands, blade runner, bladerunner, casablanca, days of heaven, daysofheaven, featured, fletch, gone with the wind, gonewiththewind, lawrence of arabia, lawrenceofarabia, moulin rouge, moulinrouge, serenity, star trek, star wars, st |
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Filed under: Classics, Fandom, Exhibition, ListsThere are a few classic films that I simply refused to rent while growing up, specifically for the reason that I knew I should see them for the first time on a big screen. Of these, I managed to see both 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner in a theater, while others, such as Lawrence of Arabia and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, were on television too often to ignore them on the small screen first. One film that I'm still dying to see in a theater is Terrence Malick's Badlands. A few years ago I actually went to a special screening of the film in Connecticut, but it was disappointingly (understatement) projected from a DVD copy. Then two months ago it played one show at NYC's IFC Center, but I had to miss it for another engagement.Last week Entertainment Weekly presented an article/photo gallery titled "23 Movies You'd Like to See on the Big Screen," which lists these kinds of films (there's actually many more than 23 cited), most [ Full article ] |
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