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What is your most memorable film going experience? (Only one per post please!) over 3 years ago

Going to the local cine-club, back in 1979, age 12, with a dozen of friends, all of them older than me, to see a film called Bogard, 1975 action movie, being there with all the hood bad guys, probably 50 guys, just to discover that the film presented was Casablanca, with Bogart, Humphrey…
5 minutes into the movie we were only 5 o 6 guys, all my friends gone, 15 minutes and we were 2…
i finished the movie alone in the auditorium… loved it and from then on devoted to cinema…

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Your favorite title sequence over 3 years ago

My Own Private Idaho, all Saul Bass sequences, Fincher’s seven, Fight Club, Panic Room

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Ommited Auteurs over 3 years ago

Wim Wenders

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Ommited Auteurs over 3 years ago

Lynne Ramsay

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Movies That Should Be In the Criterion Collection over 3 years ago

i’d love to see what Criterion would do with any film by Wim Wenders

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Books about film. over 3 years ago

Moviemakers’ Master Class for sure.
The logic of Images and The Act of Seeing by Wim Wenders

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What was the first Criterion movie you watched? over 3 years ago

Amarcord. Hooked since.

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Worst Criterion DVDs over 3 years ago

The Long Good Friday, no subtitles. It’s probably difficult to follow the accents for an english speaker, imagine for a non native speaker!

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A Character Just Like You over 3 years ago

i remember 3 or four different people telling me after they watched The Big Lebowski: it’s just like you!!…
those were the days!

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