Requiem for A Dream and then later on followed by Trainspotting …Or vise versa….I guess the theme would be disaffected youth and drugs…Since I think both movies have a different take on the subject matter, it will be interesting to see them one after the other…
Just one day? Then I’m tempted to make an all-day marathon of Satantango and In Vanda’s Room.
though if you ask me in 5 minutes I’ll have 5 other ideas.
Dave, I’d never heard of Satantango, just read about it and would join you. It looks incredible. That’s what I love about this site.
memento and irreversible would play well together. Two films utilizing the same technique and handling topics of the same form, just from different perspectives and surroundings.
Satantango is one of the great achievements of cinema. It’s worth seeking out, Django, though it’s a film best experienced on the big screen the first time you see it. A truly great film.
A good double feature would be brokeback mountain followed by my own private idaho.
El Topo followed by Pink Flamingos or Electra Glide in Blue followed by The Swimmer
A 60s Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Double:
“Alphaville” followed by “Fahrenheit 451”
idea #2, inspired by an actual double feature I had this week: two films about the eternal presence of the past
John Gianvito’s Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind, followed by Jean-Luc Godard’s Eloge de l’amour.
This is a fantasy I hope comes true:
Godard’s “Breathless” followed by Altman’s “McCabe and Mrs. Miller”.
Citizen Kane followed by Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard.
Two arthouse double features:
“Adrenaline drive” (Yaguchi) followed by “Pulp fiction” (Tarantino)
“Week end” (Godard) followed by “The boss of it all” (Von Trier)
I tried this one last night and it turned out just fine:
Godard’s “A Woman is a Woman” complimented with PT Anderson’s “Punch Drunk-Love”
For all of your double feature nuts:
I dare you to try Tarkovsky’s “Stalker” followed by Tarr’s “Werckmeister Harmonies”. And you can’t just see them and go on with things you need to talk the whole way through and stop with a few intermissions if you have to; I’m sure it’ll be great.
-Wild Strawberries / Ikiru
-City of god / La Haine
-The seventh seal / Winter light
-4 months 3 weeks & 2 days / Izgnanie(the banishment)
-Seven samurai / Nobi(Fires on the plain)
-Y tu mama tambien / The dreamers
-Y tu mama tambien / La pianiste(the piano teacher)
-The edge of heaven / Amores perros
-Persepolis / Waltz with bashir(I haven’t seen this one yet but I can’t wait)
-Salo / Caligula
haha. good ones olivier.
the best ones there by far are salo/caligula (that’s just vile) and wild strawberries/ikiru (talk about a solemn evening).
i don’t know about y tu mama tambien/ la pianiste though haha. that’s like erotic asphyxiation.
Try one of Henri Langlois famous double features:
Griffith’s “Broken Blossoms” and Morrissey/Warhol’s “Chelsea Girls”
To quote:
Rivette: “One could see there successively at 6:30 p.m. Griffith’s Broken Blossoms and at 8:30 Andy Warhol’s The Chelsea Girls. And it was fabulous precisely because one could see Griffith and Warhol together on the same night. Because it was then that one realized that there are not two or three kinds of cinema, there’s only one cinema. It was the perceptual interaction of the present and the past of the cinema that was so exciting.”
Roud: “His great joy was to establish an evening’s screenings so that the film shown at 6:30 would have some hidden connection with the film at 8:30 and the one at 10:30 — nothing obvious like the same director or the same stars or even the same studio or the same country. He didn’t care whether the audience noticed a connection, for he was sure that unconsciously they would learn from the juxtapositions — a form of montage.”
A good old school double feature would be Samuel Fuller’s shock corridor followed by Frankenheimers seconds.
I’ll play Henri Langlois for this evening:
Scorsese’s “Goodfellas” followed by Wes Anderson’s “Rushmore”. There’s a variety of reasons why these films make a great pair: the music, the editing, the style; it’s amazing how one film bleeds into the other regardless of the time it was made. Check it out and you’ll see what I mean. It’s nothing as simple as Scorsese saying Anderson is the “next Scorsese” because I think the connection between these filmmakers goes beyond style. There’s a life they both bring to their cinema that has the same enthusiasm and violence and dread and love; there’s magic in these films.
The Gastronomic/Alcoholic Suicidal Double:
6:30pm – Ferreri’s “La Grande Bouffe” – Eat yourself to death!
9:00pm – Figgis’ “Leaving Las Vegas” – Drink yourself to death!
Man, you boys from NZ sure have style.
dr. strangelove / fail-safe
knife in the water / dead calm
from hell / sleepy hollow
waking life / a scanner darkly
minority report / blade runner
ratattouille / finding nemo
time code / hotel
I like Antoine’s idea but i would prefer Under the Volcano over Leaving Las Vegas
Bronc, I’d like to suggest ratatouille paired with stolen kisses instead.
Ah “Stolen Kisses”! That’s one of my all time favourites!
But then you have to watch the whole doinel series. But i commend you for the recommendation.how about pierrot le fou followed by natural born killers.
Fox and His Friends followed by 8 1/2
The Balcony followed by Blood and Black Lace
In the Realms of the Unreal followed by How to draw a Bunny (unknown artists double feature)
Gents, I am really happy I started this forum topic…I have learned a ton from all of you. Thank you. Keep it going….
Cronenberg double feature videodrome followed by the fly. Long live the new flesh. Even if it’s falling off.
Exploitation/musical prison movie double bill. And yeah, I’d lock the audience in, just for kicks.
Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS followed by Chicago
Django
If you had a theater to run for one day and any film at your disposal, what would you show as double features? Would they follow a theme or be random?
Something like
“When a Woman Ascends the Stairs” followed by “Woman in the Dunes”
“Monterey Pop” followed by “Woodstock”
“I am Cuba” then “Before Night Falls”…