Well, it's not always at 'home', sometimes it's a splendor-y movie palace afternoon...THE DRIVE-IN is a state of mind...[Unknown factoid: I first kept a list in '85-86(!)...because, y'know, Ms. 45 and Evil Dead just rocked so much.]
At 11:00pm on New Year's Eve, I began watching 2001 on Turner Classic Movies...and thus ended a year's worth of the 'Home Drive-In Experience'...175 is pretty much the tally for the year.
DeCemBER 2000: Stir of Echoes...The Children's Hour...Promised Land...Frenzy...Sleepy Hollow...Castaway...Gone with the Wind...Tron (I want the soundtrack!)...Requiem for a Dream...I finally watched some of Heavy Metal 2000 and actually liked it, despite the horrible noisy music in it...The Birds (Damn, how many times am I gonna watch that???)...Planet of the Apes...Unbreakable...Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills...The Ninth Gate
NoVeMBeR 2K: Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie...1/2 of Car Wash...My Breakfast w/ Blassie...Any Given Sunday (WtF?)...Time After Time...Twins--!!!!...Dazed and Confused(midnight movie)...Flashdance...Orca: the Killer Whale (!)...Misery...Urban Cowboy (midnight movie)...This is Spinal Tap (theatrical re-release)
OCToBer 2000: The House by the Cemetary (midnight turkey)...Zombie (midnight movie)...1/2 of Two-Lane Blacktop...Slap Shot (sitting 2 rows behind the Hanson Bros!)...Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - it's the Kung Fu Star Wars!!! Best of '00...A L I E N/ The Texas Chainsaw Massacre/ Dead/Alive. Triple Feature. In a Theater. Aaaaahhhhhh!!!...The American Nightmare...State & Main (dir.David "F*** is my name" Mamet)...Shadow of the Vampire...Dr. T & The Women...Peeping Tom and Nosferatu--Through a gin haze, I watched Sisters and Martin; they both had b&w flashback scenes; they blurred together; an absolutely perfect late-nite TV drunkfest double feature...High Fidelity...Almost Famous (movie of the year, by golly...Cameron Crowe rulz!!!)...The Player...The Shawshank Redemption...Labrynth ($1 moviehouse)...
Welcome to September 2000: The Way of the Gun is the worst movie I've seen this year, I swear to Gawd...Girl, Interrupted...Gimme Shelter...Dario Argento's Phenomena...American Psycho...Holy Smoke!...Cannonball Run...Mommie Dearest...The Thomas Crown Affair (the original 1968 version)...Magnolia...Mission to Mars...Nurse Betty
August 2000 (I saw 40 movies!!!): These are the movies I've seen during QT QUATRO (Weeklong film fest): Night 1--Secret Agents: HammerHead, Kiss the Girls and Make Them DIE; I left half-way into Lightning Bolt...2--Japanese Monsters/Italian Horror: The Mysterians, The Psychic, Mothra, Suspiria, and, I left half-way into Destroy All Monsters (It was 6 am and they still had 2 more movies to go!)...Night 3--Heist Movies: Gambit (1966, w/ Michael Caine and Shirley McClaine, THIS IS A GREAT MOVIE! Try to find it!), The Master's Touch, The Muthers...Night 4--Sex Movies (WORST movies of the fest): Succubus, Sex on the Run [Only things worth mentioning: The Best of Sex and Violence (a compilation of sleezy greezy drive-in trailers), and a vintage trailer for Behind the Green Door (my first time seeing actual X-rated footage on the big screen. Whoo!)]...Night 5--Italian 70s Crime: Shoot First Die Later, Wipe Out!; Bonus: Hickey & Boggs...Night 6--Italian Epic Adventures: The Huns; Giant of Metropolis...Night 7--Spaghetti Westerns: Arizona Colt; They Call Me Hallelujah...Night 8--Big Pimpin' Friday: Boogie-down classic The Mack; a little-known P. Bogdanovich film called Saint Jack (it was voted Best of the Fest!)...Night 9--Good Ol' Boys: The Walking Tall Trilogy (Walking Tall, Part 2: Walking Tall, and Final Chapter: Walking Tall!); Devil Woman...Sunday Matinee: Go-Go Mania (featuring the bands to watch in '65), and an Awesome Mix Tape of rock movie trailers (inc. 'Boogie Nights', 'Saturday Night Fever', Elvis, 'Spice World', 'The Wall', 'Quadrophenia', and so on...My favorite feature of the entire fest!)...Night 10(!!!)--Hong Kong Kung Fu: Dragon Vs. Snakefist; Dragon Vs. Needles of Death...and, that's everything. In all, I saw 26 films!--The most movies I've ever seen in the space of a week. Now, I am INSPIRED...I want to raid one of those Mom and Pop video stores, in search of old freaky flicks!
My little TV TeenFilmFest--My Bodyguard/Fast Times/War Games...Add to that: Valley Girl...The Cell...Bringing out the Dead...Midnight Express...American Movie...Every Thing You Ever Wanted to Know about Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)...Hollow Man...Showgirls (midnight movie)...Lenny and Straw Dogs(classic moviehouse double feature)
JuLY '00: ReAnimator...Loser...Boys Don't Cry...Breaking Away...Altered States (big screen)...X-MEN...High Fidelity...The Untouchables (70mm)...Blood Simple: Director's Cut (big screen)...Candyman...The Breakfast Club/alt. soundtrack by Nirvana...Pink Floyd: The Wall (big screen)...City of Lost Children (midnight movie)...Phantasm II...The Wizard of Oz/alt. soundtrack by The Floyd...The Changeling...The Perfect Storm...The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle
June 2000: To DIE For...Hitchcock's Rear Window (on the big screen)...Woody's Manhattan and Annie Hall (on the big screen)...Me, Myself, & Irene...Fantasia 2000...Jackie Brown...Sid and Nancy (midnight movie)...The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (big screen)
MaY 2K: Mission: Impossible II...The Limey...an hour of Eyes Wide Shut...Cheaters...Conan the Barbarian (on the big screen)...Suddenly, Last Summer and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (classic moviehouse Sun. afternoon double feature)...American Beauty ($1 moviehouse)...The Virgin Suicides...Gladiator...Barbarella (midnight movie)
April: Rumble Fish...SW: Ep. One...the Devil's Advocate...The Collector...Aliens--Special Edition [LATER NOTE: I watched it on my computer--Bought the 'Alien Legacy' set, but wouldn't have a reg. DVD player until 3 yrs. later!!]...The Story of Ricky (midnight movie)
March 2000: Wonderboys...The Exorcist: The Version You've Never Seen(SXSW premiere)...Contact...Carrie...Neil Young: Silver and Gold (SXSW)...Coal Miner's Daughter...Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai...Thelma and Louise...Family Plot...PHANTASM (Midnight Phanfest!)
FeBRuaRY: 'Mad Max'(Undubbed and on the Big Screen!)...Pitch Black...Poltergeist...Man, that was a skimpy February!
JaNuaRY 2000: Magnolia...Being John Malkovich...Smokey and the Bandit (midnight movie)...NICO ICON...Wait Until Dark...Deceiver...Stripes...Jawbreaker...Say Anything...Swimming w/ Sharks...DICK...Porky's and Porky's II: The Next Day...Snake Eyes...That sucky Renny Harlin shark movie...'Species 2'(late night, bad movie mood)...Single White Female...A Simple Plan...Silkwood...Lolita (A. Lyne version)
Something else for you to make fun of me for: In my bedroom, there are 2 posters hanging side-by-side. One is for 'A Brian DePalma Film'; the other, 'A Max Baer Film'...YOU know..."Jethro" from The Beverly Hillbillies. Definitive Proof of my very-sad and warped TASTE IN ART.
SuPeR SPeCiaL BoNuS!!!: Recently discovered...What I Watched the Last 6 months of 1999:
Dec. 99:Man on the Moon...9 1/2 Weeks...Scarface...The Nightmare Before Christmas
Nov. 99: The Hand that Rocks the Cradle...Body Double...Existenz...Young Frankenstein...Near Dark...Election...South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut...Edward Scissorhands...Heavy Metal Parking Lot
Oct. 99: The Mummy...Night of the Living Dead (68)...Blair Witch Project...American Beauty...Consenting Adults...Friday the 13th...Fight Club...A Nightmare on Elm Street...The Rocky Horror Picture Show...Terror in the Aisles (plus the Freaks & Geeks Halloween ep., 10/31/99. Funny as Heck!)...Permanent Midnight
Sept. 99: Dawn of the Dead...Phantasm...The Forbidden Zone (Oingo Boingo)...Poltergeist...Phantom of the Paradise (first viewing!)...Gods & Monsters...Deconstructing Harry...Affliction...Blade Runner (the ORIGINAL version, w/ Harrison's hardboiled narration)...Lone Wolf and Cub...The Sword and the Sorcerer...Albino Alligator...Seven...The Exorcist...Blow Out
Aug. 99: The Sixth Sense...Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels...Celebrity...Little Big Man...Payback...Virus (ugh)...8MM...Hurly Burly...Mystery Men...Race with the Devil...Assault on Precinct 13 (1st time!)...Damien: Omen II
July 99: Summer of Sam...Evil Dead...South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut...Phantasm...Friday the 13th, Part 2...The Haunting...Eyes Wide Shut...The Blair Witch Project (it skeered me.)
June 99: The Hand...Born on the 4th of July...Simon Birch...Rounders...American History X...The Untouchables...Ronin...Apt Pupil...Homegrown...Happiness (Oh My Gawd.)...Southern Comfort...Red Dawn...Rushmore...A Simple Plan...High Art...Streets of Fire...Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things...Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas/ Where the Buffalo Roam...Even Cowgirls Get the Blues...Dead/Alive...Evil Dead 2...Cape Fear (91)...The Matrix...Hands on a Hardbody (1st time in Austin.)
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