The Graduate/American Beauty
Midnight Cowboy/The Odd Couple
Brokeback Mountain/The Times of Harvey Milk
Interiors/Cries and Whispers
Persona/Performance
“STATE OF SEIGE” & “Z”
“IF..” & “THE WARRIORS”
“TAXI ZUM KLO” & “GLEN OR GLENDA”
“LA JETTE” & “SUNLESS”
“LAST TANGO IN PARIS” & “QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY”
“BIRDY” & “STREAMERS”
“GREGORY’S GIRL” & “BLOODY KIDS”
“UNION CITY” & “THE LOVELESS”
""QUERELLE" & “IN THE YEAR OF THIRTEEN MOONS”
“INSERTS” & “DAY OF THE LOCUST”
“VIDEODROME & “MAITRESSE”
The Fire Within/Singin in the Rain. just thought these films would be great because they are so opposite
Salo/Sweet Movie
I would either do
The 400 blows/Breathless
or
2001: A Space Odyssey/Solaris (original)
the celebration/the idiots.
Wendy & Lucy/Umberto D
Une femme est une femme/Singin’ in the Rain
Shane/Taxi Driver
Stroszek/Dancer in the Dark
Roman Hoiday/Hated
Election/Rushmore
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner/Over the Edge
Five Easy Pieces/Paris, Texas
This is fun. I’m sure I can top all of these if I give it some thought. Two of those listed should make you want to kill yourself.
Seven Samurai/Les Enfants du Paradis
American Beauty/Magnolia
Garden State/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Boy A/Reprise
Ratatouille/Les Triplettes de Belleville
Little Nemo/The Dark Crystal
Lilo and Stitch/Salo
The Maltese Falcon/Le Samurai
Paris, Texas/Motorcycle Diaries
Nosferatu/Metropolis
Bad Education/Matador
Yojimbo/A Fistful of Dollars
Magnolia/Short Cuts
The 400 Blow/Breathless
Persona/Hour of The Wolf or Cries and Whispers
“Lilo and Stitch/Salo”
- Simon
Haha! I haven’t watched Salò, but I hear its gruesome, to say the least. I love that pairing!
I like ones that bring out themes and connections that might otherwise not be evident—a great example is Andrew Kay’s Now, Voyager/Blue Velvet. Thus:
400 Blows/Let the Right One In
Badlands/Radio On
Carrie/Wild Child (or Kasapar Hauser)
Solaris/Under the Sand
Interiors/The Great Silence
The Ox-Bow Incident/My Fair Lady
Double vie de Véronique, La/The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
The Silence/Viridiana
War:
Tunes of Glory/Letters from Iwo Jima
Class:
Grapes of Wrath/This Sporting Life
In terms of understanding some of the most important technical achievements in early cinema…
Birth of a Nation/Wooden Crosses
Battleship Potemkin/Vampyr
Other stuff….
Sunrise/Little Children
Christmas in July/A Face in the Crowd
Breathless/Goodfellas
Un Chien Andalou/Eraserhead
Alexander Nevsky/Bourne Ultimatum
Best Years of Our Lives/Stop-Loss
And, I know it’s probably done before….
Blues Clues/Salo
DAVID LEE: I’m diggin’ the way you think. Those are some great combos! The 2001/Alien and Fargo/Shining double bills, in particular (okay, I’m a bit of a Kubrick fanatic, so sue me).
if you feel like being optimistic and loving human beings for a while: Amelie/Juno
“Going up River” double bill: Fitzcarraldo/Apocalypse Now
“Going Crazy” double bill with Possession (1981)/Jacob’s Ladder (1990).
MELIES / BLUE VELVET
The Face of Another/Suture
The Music Room / The Leopard
Mysterious Object At Noon / Slacker
Days And Nights In The Forest / La Collectionneuse
The Ceremony / Amarcord
Distance / Cure
Day of Wrath/ Le Corbeau
Stagecoach/ Citizen Kane
Maltese Falcon/ The Conversation
M/ Aguirre, Der Zorn Gottes
Lola (Demy)/ 2001: A Space Odyessey
Ugetsu Monogatari/ To Have and Have Not, (or, as I prefer to call it, “To Not Have, and To Not Not Have”)—On David Thomson’s Birthday
Eraserhead – Alucarda
All the Evil Dead Films
The Crazies – Dawn of the Dead(Romero)
Dead or Alive 2 – Gozu
The Virgin Spring – Shame
Suicide Club – Noriko’s Dinner Table
Punch-Drunk Love – Strange Circus
Taxi Driver – Mr. Vengeance
Texas Chainsaw Masscure 2(Hooper) – Devils Rejects
Phantasm & Phantasm 2
Zombie – Cemetary Man
C.H.U.D – Q: the Winged Serphent
Django – For a few Dollars more
The Untochables – Casino
Funny Games – American Psycho
Tokyo Drifter – Blast of Silance
I could go on
Straw Dogs followed by White Dog. Peckinpah double feature!
White Dog is directed by Sam Fuller. A “Sammy Doggy” double-feature, possibly?
urban jungles: Colors/Wall Street
You guys have pre-empted all my ideas.
I guess I’ll make it a Dogme double bill with a couple of the lesser well known titles. Starting off will be Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s “Mifunes sidste sang” followed, after some iced vodka and seasonal snacks, with Marius Holst’s “Øyenstikker”. Enjoy!
(I’ll be joining you all in the theatre so that I can fall in love all over again with Iben Hjejle in the first half and Maria Bonnevie in the second.)
Flesh for Frankenstein / Young Frankenstein
The Man Who Fell to Earth / Holy Mountain
Band of Outsiders / Rivers’ Edge
Seven Samurai / A Bug’s Life
Suspiria / Halloween
The Unbearable Lightness of Being / In the Mood for Love
Crimes and Misdemeanors / From the Life of Marionettes
Meet the Feebles / Return of the King
Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2
Kustom Kar Klassics (Kenneth Anger) / The Love Bug or Cars – I guess this would be more like having a short to open for a feature, but I think it would be funny.
Boondock Saints – Death Wish 3
andrew kay
How about:
TARKOVSKY’S “SOLARIS” AND GODARD’S “ANTICIPATION”
ANTONIONI’S “RED DESERT” & THE TAVIANI BROTHERS “ALLONSONFAN”
“THE LAST BATTLE” & “ALPHAVILLE”
“STALKER” & “THE COLOUR OF POMEGRANATES”
“MAN OF FLOWERS” & “TALES OF ORDINARY MADNESS”
“PAULINE AT THE BEACH” & “LA SOUFFLE AU COEUR”
“IF..” & “PINK FLOYD: THE WALL”
“RUMBLEFISH” & “DINER”
“THE TIN DRUM” & “THE TENANT”