Unlikely Double Features
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The following has been happening to me increasingly lately...does anyone else experience it?
I'll be watching a movie, and suddenly another film will pop into my head, which strikes me as having similarities to the one I'm watching, although the two on the surface seem very different. I'd be interested in hearing examples of this from anyone else who has them (might make for some interesting future viewing).
I'll start with my most recent one. I was watching Vanishing Point (1971) on BD last night. It was the third time I'd watched it, but the first time since falling in love with Into the Wild (2007), which I also own. And as I watched the film, things began to strike me: both protagonists are on existential quests, they spend much of the movie traveling the backroads of America (especially the American West), they both encounter lots of (sometimes oddball) characters along the way, and
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As I sat down to watch the Sarafian film again, the last thing I was expecting was to be thinking about Sean Penn's film from 36 years later, but for me, the parallels were unavoidable. I like Into the Wild considerably more than Vanishing Point, but obviously enjoy both.
Who would like to suggest my next oddball double bill?
I'll be watching a movie, and suddenly another film will pop into my head, which strikes me as having similarities to the one I'm watching, although the two on the surface seem very different. I'd be interested in hearing examples of this from anyone else who has them (might make for some interesting future viewing).
I'll start with my most recent one. I was watching Vanishing Point (1971) on BD last night. It was the third time I'd watched it, but the first time since falling in love with Into the Wild (2007), which I also own. And as I watched the film, things began to strike me: both protagonists are on existential quests, they spend much of the movie traveling the backroads of America (especially the American West), they both encounter lots of (sometimes oddball) characters along the way, and
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As I sat down to watch the Sarafian film again, the last thing I was expecting was to be thinking about Sean Penn's film from 36 years later, but for me, the parallels were unavoidable. I like Into the Wild considerably more than Vanishing Point, but obviously enjoy both.
Who would like to suggest my next oddball double bill?
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Pecker and Snatch.
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Two that I always think of together are:
F for Fake and The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield ... both made with various repurposed documentary footage and explicitly/implicitly about fakery. TWWWOJM features a dubbed voice for "Jayne" throughout and a lengthy scene with a lookalike, for starters ... also Jayne was a very sharp woman who made a lucrative career out of playing dumb.
I was thinking about double bills the other day and had a few in mind, but of course when it comes time to lay them out in a thread I can't think of any more
Here's one more --- a bit more esoteric or obscure, maybe/maybe not, but when I saw the first one for the first time recently I made the connection:
Another Sky and Lianna ... each features a woman whose life is changed forever by a sexual encounter/awakening, ultimately not necessarily better or worse but very different.
F for Fake and The Wild Wild World of Jayne Mansfield ... both made with various repurposed documentary footage and explicitly/implicitly about fakery. TWWWOJM features a dubbed voice for "Jayne" throughout and a lengthy scene with a lookalike, for starters ... also Jayne was a very sharp woman who made a lucrative career out of playing dumb.
I was thinking about double bills the other day and had a few in mind, but of course when it comes time to lay them out in a thread I can't think of any more
Here's one more --- a bit more esoteric or obscure, maybe/maybe not, but when I saw the first one for the first time recently I made the connection:
Another Sky and Lianna ... each features a woman whose life is changed forever by a sexual encounter/awakening, ultimately not necessarily better or worse but very different.
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I always "enjoyed" the uber bleak double feature of Requiem for a Dream and Dancer in the Dark.
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My wife and I went to the drive-in movies a lot last summer. The oddest triple feature we saw was Ice Age 3, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hangover. We'd already seen The Hangover earlier that summer when it was paired with The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 and Terminator: Salvation so we didn't mind leaving early... with my cousins, ages 8, 10, and 12.
Seriously, I'm not watching The Hangover with them.
Seriously, I'm not watching The Hangover with them.
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My wife and I went to the drive-in movies a lot last summer. The oddest triple feature we saw was Ice Age 3, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and The Hangover. We'd already seen The Hangover earlier that summer when it was paired with The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 and Terminator: Salvation so we didn't mind leaving early... with my cousins, ages 8, 10, and 12.
Seriously, I'm not watching The Hangover with them.
Seriously, I'm not watching The Hangover with them.
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My friends and I once stayed up late to watch Doctor Zhivago, and followed that with Wayne's World. No obvious connections, but if you watch them between, say, midnight and six-ish, work very well together. Just sayin'.
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When I was a teenager, I feel one of my proudest sneaking in moments were in 2003 when I had such winning triple features like ...
Bulletproof Monk / Malibu's Most Wanted / Bend It Like Beckham
Finding Nemo / Wrong Turn / The Italian Job
Grind / Camp / Freddy Vs. Jason
Bulletproof Monk / Malibu's Most Wanted / Bend It Like Beckham
Finding Nemo / Wrong Turn / The Italian Job
Grind / Camp / Freddy Vs. Jason
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A few come to mind theatrically:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind followed by Dawn of the Dead (2004).
Street Kings followed by Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan, which I walked out of, then into The Strangers, followed by Kung Fu Panda at the end of the day.
A recent curious DVD double feature that was unintentional: Serial Mom and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind followed by Dawn of the Dead (2004).
Street Kings followed by Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
You Don't Mess with the Zohan, which I walked out of, then into The Strangers, followed by Kung Fu Panda at the end of the day.
A recent curious DVD double feature that was unintentional: Serial Mom and The Outlaw Josey Wales.
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My local drive-in currently has:
Clash of the Titans / The Blind Side, or The Last Song (the Miley Cyrus movie) / How to Train Your Dragon.
Clash of the Titans / The Blind Side, or The Last Song (the Miley Cyrus movie) / How to Train Your Dragon.
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The only time I have ever theater hopped makes for an interesting double feature:
Wild, Wild, West ----> South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
Wild, Wild, West ----> South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut
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It started me on my downward spiral with anti-depressants....
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Just think how healthy you'd be if you'd gone to see the discount double bill I went to that season...BLUES BROTHERS and AIRPLANE! No anti-depressants for me! (Not that I'm not depressed these days, but in 1980 I was fine!)
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I once had a theater hop trippple feature of Requiem for a Dream, Best In Show, and Quills. Best in Show didn't seem funny after Requiem and Quills (about the Marque DeSade) seemed tame.
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Oh, yeah. It rocks: http://valihi.com.