Naked Lunch / Barton Fink
In the Company of Men / American Psycho
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy / The Night Porter
Videodrome / Pulse (2001)
All That Heaven Allows/ Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Night of the Hunter / Johnny Guitar
Persona / Mulholland Dr
Stroszek / The Man Who Fell To Earth
Solaris (Tarkovsky) / Solaris (Soderbergh)
Groundhog Day/Groundhog Day
A History of Violence/Vera Drake
The King of Comedy/The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Day For Night/State and Main
Pi/ Requiem for a Dream was a lot of fun. I saw Rope/ Lifeboat in theatres as a double bill and that was cool too.
Night of the Hunter/Sansho the Bailiff
Pierrot le Fou/ Badlands
The Mascot/ The Wrong Trousers (+/or The Nightmare before Xmas)
Singin in the Rain/The Band Wagon
Finding Nemo/The White Balloon
Fear Eats the Soul/ Far from Heaven
The Gospel according to St Matthew/ The Life of Brian
Apocalypse Now/Aguirre Wrath of God
Don’t Look Now/The Wicker Man
Ivan’s Childhood/Come and See
Toni/Ossessione
The Age of Innocence/ The Innocent
Pickpocket/Raging Bull
Babette’s Feast/Blood of the Beasts
Spirit of the Beehive/Cria Cuervos
Mulholland Dr/Celine and Julie go Boating
Boudu Saved from Drowning/L’Atalante
Miss Oyu/Sunrise
The Colour of Pomegranates/Gabbeh
Voyage to Italy/Contempt
The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser/The Apple
Vertigo/Suzhou River
The Searchers/Paris Texas
Blissfully Yous/A Day in the Country
My Childhood- Bill Douglas/ Hope and Glory
Innocence/Madchen in Uniform
L’Age d’Or/Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Ordet/Silent Light
Stagecoach/Who’s Singing over There
Raining in the Mountain/Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Mouchette/Rosetta
Chacun Cherche son Chat/Take Care of my Cat
Why did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East?/ Spring, Summer Autumn, Winter, Spring
Blanche/Perceval le Gallois
Kind Hearts and Coronets/ Story of a Cheat (or Zelig)
Mughal-e-Azam/Pakeezah
Alice in the Cities/ Central Station (or Eternity and a Day)
The Seventh Seal/Andrei Rublev (or Marketa Lazarova)
One Eyed Jacks/The Outlaw Josey Wales
I also agree with JP Belmondo on Persona/Mulholland Dr, All that Heaven Allows/ Fear Eats the Soul; these would make good triple bills with Celine + Julie go Boating, and Far from Heaven respectively
JP- Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy! oh shit. You made my weekend.
ha ha, it does sound great fun
The Old Dark House/Thundercrack
Breakin’/West Side Story
Blue Velvet/Now Voyager
Salvador/The Killing Fields
Heart of Darkness/Firtzcarraldo
Even Dwarfs Started Small/Freaks
Salo/The Dammed
Jazz on a Summers Day/Bird
Stalker/Colour of Pomegranates
Rumblefish/The Warriors
The Fourth Man/Maitresse
Pretty Baby/A Walk on The Wild Side
Orphee/Dreams That Money Can By
The Tenant/Repulsion
Do the Right Thing/La Haine
Raging Bull/Somebody Up There Likes Me
Battle of Algiers/Army of Shadows
Querelle/Taxi Zum Klo
The Girl Can’t Help It/Beyond The Valley of the Dolls
The Long Long Trailer/Weekend
Celine and Julie Go Boating/Jeanne Diehlmann (with an intermission, naturally)
Rules of the Game/Nashville
Mouchette/Out of the Blue
Salo/Pink Flamingos (guess the connection?)
Vertigo/Letter from an Unknown Woman
i was feeling depressed one night and rented Safe and In a Year of 13 Moons. unless you are curious about what it feels like to be suicidal, I would not recommend doing this.
Many years ago at the New Yorker, Fabiano Canosa double-featured “Cobra Woman” and “Duck Soup.” It was perfection.
Cobra Woman/Duck Soup — that’s genius!
in 1980 I was 17 and saw Altered States with my girlfriend. It was very powerful and I could not imagine any movie being able to follow it. The Elephant Man came on next and it ended up being a perfect follow up and one of the most satisfying movie nights of my life.
the rules of the game and dazed and confused
cleo from 5 to 7 and marked for death
Killer of Sheep/George Washington
Spirit of the Beehive/Pan’s Labyrinth
Divorce Italian Style/Unfaithfully Yours
Central Station/Kikujiro
Harold & Maude/Rushmore
Grindhouse/Tokyo Gore Police
Good picks all around. I really love JP’s choice of Naked Lunch/ Barton Fink.
I would go with : Rear Window/Blue Velvet
Dark City/ 12 Monkies
2001/ Brazil
Sunset Blvd./Mulholland drive
Mirrormask/Big Fish
Pulp Fiction/Lost Highway
Kill Bill vol1./ Yojimbo
3 Women/Persona
Sunset Blvd./Mulholland Drive
The Boys in the Band/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf or Sunday Bloody Sunday
Eyes Wide Shut/Blowup
Ace in the Hole / Network
The Last Picture Show/Brokeback Mountain
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm / Last Year at Marienbad
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders / Celia
They Live By Night (Ray) / Thieves Like Us (Altman)
Cache/Blow Up
Network/Being There
Lonely are the Brave/Hud
The Long Goodbye/The Late Show
Debbie Does Dallas / The Reader (but then you’d have to see the Reader, so maybe it ain’t worth it)
I Live in Fear with The Sea (Kormákur, Iceland)
The Lower Depths with The Anniversary Party (Jennifer Jason-Leigh / Alan Cummings)
(or The Lower Depths with Dodes’ka-den with The Celebration (Dogme #1))
Un Couer en Hiver or Les Liaisons Dangereuses with Brief Crossing
A Nos Amours with Claire’s Knee or Suzanne’s Career
Why did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East? with Into Great Silence
Kenji— Groundhog Day / Groundhog Day is hilarious, and Why did Bodhi-Dharma Leave for the East?/ Spring, Summer Autumn, Winter, Spring would be a wonderous marathon.
Mine is more of a dusk to dawn film marathon, best seen at the drive-in: The Party/Brief Encounter/The Conversation/After Hours/Beauty & the Beast/Only Two Can Play/A Shot in the Dark /Bringing Up Baby
Some groaners here:
Third Man/Fourth Man
Chariots of Fire/Ben-Hur
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?/The Hours
L’avventura/Swept Away
Shine/The Shining
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning/Never on Sunday
My Life as a Dog/Lassie Come Home
My Dinner with Andre/Man Who Came to Dinner
Wild Strawberries/Grapes of Wrath
Cranes are Flying/The Birds
Closely Watched Trains/Trainspotting
@Good picks all over.
Do they need to match? My list propably have no rhyme or reason to ‘em – though I’ve had some good times watching them back to back during those rainy mid-week evenings, as I recall…
Spetters/ This Property is Condemned
Naked/ Teorema
The Firm (Alan Clark)/ Slap Shot
Night of the Iguana/ Basquiat
Merchant of Four Seasons/ Do The Right Thing
Rambo, First Blood Part 2/ Hiroshima Mon Amour
Ghost World/ Loves of a Blonde
Night at the Opera/ Dracula 1972AD
The Naked Prey/ Dersu Uzala
Justin Biberkopf
Vidas Secas and Les Carabiniers
Johnny Guitar and Forty Guns
Pickup on South Street and Gods of the Plague