Movie Draft: Your Picks

1. Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) - Drama
2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) - Horror
3. Harold And Maude (1971) - Comedy
4. High Plains Drifter (1973) - Western
5. Mad Max (1980) - Futuristic Action

1. The Godfather (1972)
2. The Sting (1973)
3. A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
4. Murder by Death (1976)
5. Suspiria (1977)

Bonus Xanadu (1980)

This week at Film Forum: The Failure of the Anti-Hero: A Celebration of the 1970s

Films will be introduced by Village Voice film critic J Hoberman, with an aim to place it in the context of it's release date. Related trailers will play before each feature. Following the feature, Hoberman will moderate a panel discussion featuring creative contributers and one artist inspired by the feature. 30 minutes after the panel discussion ends (60-90 minutes) a companion feature will be shown. Tickets will be prohibitively expensive, and are probably already sold out.

1. Thursday: The Shining (1980)
Special Guests: Stephen King, Shelly Duvall, Vivian Kubrick, and Sam Raimi. Could be combative.
Trailers: The Haunting, Days of Wine and Roses, Carrie, 1408, A Clockwork Orange
Companion Feature: The Dead Zone
2. Friday: The Man Who Would Be King (1975)
Special Guests: Sean Connery, Michael Caine, and Michael Chabon
Trailers: King Solomon's Mines, The Treasure of the Sierra Madres, The Roots of Heaven, Raiders of the Lost Ark, White Hunter, Black Heart
Companion Feature: Kim
3. Saturday Afternoon: Last Tango in Paris (1972)
Special Guests: Maria Schneider, Bernardo Bertolucci, and John Cameron Mitchell
Trailers: The Conformist, A Streetcar Named Desire, Bitter Moon, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Shortbus
Companion Feature: The Dreamers
4. Saturday Evening: Love and Death (1975)
Special Guests: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, and Steve Martin
Trailers: Annie Hall, Nicholas and Alexandra, The Seventh Seal, Blazing Saddles, Doctor Zhivago
Companion Feature: Duck Soup
5. Sunday Afternoon: The Wicker Man (1973)
Special Guests: Edward Woodward, Britt Ekland, Christopher Lee and Neil Gaiman
Trailers: The Satanic Rites of Dracula, Carry On Screaming, Lair of the White Worm, Haxan, The 40-Year-Old Virgin
Companion Feature: Witchfinder General

Found in a piece of shit video store half made up of porn selections three blocks away: Black Shampoo (1976)

1. Trailers- Rear Window, Blow-Up, Blow Out
Feature: The Conversation (1974)

2. Trailers- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Apocalypse Now, There Will Be Blood
Feature: Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)

3. Trailers- 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Age of Innocence, The House of Mirth
Feature: Barry Lyndon (1975)

4. Trailers- Lord of the Flies, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Where the Green Ants Dream
Feature: Walkabout (1971)

5. Trailers- Paris, Texas, Dead Man, The Talented Mr. Ripley
Feature: The Passenger (1975)

6. Trailers- Mean Streets, The Outsider, The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Feature: Fingers (1978)

1. The Long Goodbye (1973)
2. Days of Heaven (1978)
3. The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
4. Martin (1978)
5. California Split (1974)

B. Payday (1973)

Individuals and Institutions: Codified Rebellion in '70s Cinema (6 credits)
T.A. position available; will train and/or sleep with

Monday------Crossed-out Culture: Little Big Man (1970)
Tuesday---Attack of the Ordinary: Brewster McCloud (1970)
Wednesday-------Three Prisoners: The Last Detail (1973)
Thursday---------Knuckling Under: The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Friday-----------Playing the Game: Semi-Tough (1977)

Extra credit: Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970)

Eileen's marathon of greatness









5. The Mechanic (1972)

1. M*A*S*H (1970)
2. Halloween (1978)
3. Night Moves (1975)
4. The Driver (1978)
5. Scarecrow (1973)

Bonus: The Wind and the Lion (1975)

Friends and Lovers



Day 1. Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Leia loves Han. He knows.
Trailers: The Hidden Fortress, Dersu Uzala, The Big Sleep, Dr. Zhivago

Day 2. The Last Waltz (1978)
Martin Scorsese loves rock and roll.
Trailers: No Direction Home, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Woodstock, Stop Making Sense, This is Spinal Tap

Day 3. Day for Night (1973)
Francois Truffaut loves actors and movie making.
Trailers: The Bad and the Beautiful, Ed Wood, Stolen Kisses, Day of the Locust

Day 4. Dersu Uzala (1975)
Kurosawa loves the forest. Also, a Russian surveyor loves his native guide.
Trailers: Kagemusha, Dreams, Koyaanisqatsi, Grizzly Man

Day 5. The Muppet Movie (1979)
Kermit the frog makes a rainbow connection and gets by with a little help from his friends.
Trailers: Easy Rider, The Incredible Journey, The Dark Crystal, Around the World in 80 Days

Bonus: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
Trailers: After Hours, Thelma and Louise, Tender Mercies, Requiem for a Dream

1. Chinatown (1974)
2. Rocky (1976)
3. Serpico (1973)
4. The Ωmega Man (1971)
5. Death Wish (1974)

Bonus: Boss Nigger (1975)

Rebel Takes A Fall - The High Cost of Anti-Authoritarian Behavior


Noon - They Might Be Giants (1971)
Trailers: Being There, Miracle on 34th Street, Lost in La Mancha

3pm - The Stepford Wives (1975)
Trailers: Showgirls, Pretty Woman, The Company of Wolves

6pm - Lenny (1974)
Trailers: Richard Pryor: Live In Concert, George Carlin: Carlin on Campus, South Park: The Movie
Short Film: Lenny Bruce's "Thank You, Masked Man"

9pm - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Trailers: The Chocolate War, Quills, The End

Midnight - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
Trailers: Carpenter's The Thing, 1984, Brazil
Short Film: Five minute remix of all other Body Snatcher films

The first fifty people who buy tickets to the film marathon will get free tickets to next Saturday's Midnight movie:
Bonus: Race with the Devil 1975
Trailers: Breakdown, Lost in America, RV

The Dellamorte Festivus
10 AM: Intro by Nick Redman and Dustin Hoffman, (Trailers TBD), Straw Dogs (1971)
1 PM: Into by Woody Allen and Michael Murphy, (Trailers TBD), Manhattan (1979)
3:30 PM: Intro by Roger Ebert, Kitten Natividad, (Trailers TBD) Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979)
6:30 PM: Intro by Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland, (Trailers TBD) Klute (1971)
10 PM: Intro by John Carpenter and Quentin Tarantino (Trailers TBD), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
MIDNIGHT SHOW:Intro by Issac Hayes, Johnathan Kaplan and Quentin Tarantino (Trailers TBD), Truck Turner (1974)

1. Star Wars (1977)
2. Marathon Man (1976)
3. Caddyshack (1980)
4. Time After Time (1979)
5. Westworld (1973)

Bonus: What's Up, Doc? (9172)

THE STARVING DOG SHOW'S FESTIVAL OF PEACE AND LOVE

1. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid [1969] - Introduced by Paul Newman and Robert Redford. Trailers include Cool Hand Luke, The Natural, The World According to Garp and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

2. The Last Picture Show (1971) - Introduced by Peter Bogdanovich and Jeff Bridges. Trailers include Mask, The Big Lebowski, Brokeback Mountain and Red River

3. Gimme Shelter (1970) - Introduced by Mick Jagger and Albert Maysles. Trailers include When We Were Kings, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, A Hard Day's Night and The Thin Blue Line

4. Carrie (1976) - Introduced by Brian De Palma and Sissy Spacek. Trailers include Scarface, Badlands, The Shawshank Redemption and Pyscho.

5. Saturday Night Fever (1977) - Introduced by John Travolta and Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. Trailers include Pulp Fiction, WarGames, Staying Alive and Singin' in the Rain

THE MIDNIGHT SHOW: Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975) - Intorduced by Quentin Tarantino and Don Edmonds. Trailers include Grindhouse, Zolmbie 2, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and I Spit on Your Grave

Straxflicks Presents: "Dev's Golden Age Cineplex Takeover Week"

Playing all five screens, all week, two shows a day

Screen 1: The French Connection (1971) supporting feature The Seven Ups, trailers for Zodiac, Bullitt and Night Moves
Screen 2: Profondo Rosso/Deep Red (1976) supporting feature The Girl Who Knew Too Much with trailers for The Beast With Five Fingers, Blow Up and Clue
Screen 3: The Parallax View (1974) supporting feature The Star Chamber trailers for JFK, Man Wanted and Reds
Screen 4: Cries & Whispers(1972) supporting feature Carl Dreyer's Day Of Wrath with trailers for Time Of The Wolf, Images and The Brood
Screen 5: The Abominable Dr Phibes (1971) supporting feature Witchfinder General with trailers for Revenge, Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter and The Ten Commandments

Bonus Feature plays Friday night, 2 shows at 12am, 2:30am: Friday the 13th (1980) with trailers for all 11 Friday films and Mario Bava's Twitch Of the Death Nerve

Tati's Festival

1. Alien - 1979 - Horror/Sci Fi

2. Dog Day Afternoon - 1975 - Drama

3. Animal House - 1978 - Comedy / Life Lesson

4. The Big Boss / Fists Of Fury - 1972 - Martial Arts

5. The Poseidon Adventure - 1972 - Disaster / Action

Bonus Feature - Orca : The killer Whale - 1977 - Naturalistic Documentary

1. A Clockwork Orange (1971)

2. American Graffiti (1973)

3. Kagemusha (1980)

4. Breaking Away (1979)

5. The Towering Inferno (1974)

Bonus: Wizards (1977)

TONIGHT ON WGON

all times are Eastern Standard

8 p.m. - 9:35 p.m. Badlands

9:35 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. What's New on WGON preview calvacade:
"Bucktown", "Dillinger", "Coonskin", "Heavy Traffic" and "The Buddy Holly Story"

10:00 p.m. - 11:43 p.m. Harlan County, U.S.A.

11:43 p.m. - Midnight What's New on WGON preview calvacade:
"Super Vixens", "Eaten Alive", "The Day of the Dolphin", "Five on the Black Hand Side" and "Cooley High"

Midnight - 2:00 a.m. The Harder They Come

2:00 a.m. - 2:15 a.m. What's New on WGON preview/animated short calvacade:
"Asparagus", "Wild in the Streets", "The Wind and the Lion", "Flesh Gordon" and "Uptown Saturday Night"

2:15 a.m. - 3:48 a.m. Pink Flamingos

3:48 a.m. - 4:00 a.m. What's New on WGON preview/animated short calvacade:
"Jubilee", "Hearts and Minds", "Fat City", "The Monkey Hustle" and "Crippled Masters"

4:00 a.m. - 5:51 a.m. Tommy

5:51 a.m. - 6:05 a.m. What's New on WGON preview/animated short calvacade:
"Fast Company", "The Arena", "The Bees", "Black Mama, White Mama" and "The Five Deadly Venoms"

6:05 a.m. - 7:45 a.m. Coonskin

5:51 a.m. - 6:05 a.m. What's New on WGON preview/animated short calvacade:
"Sweet Jesus, Preacher Man", "Man and Boy", "Let's Do It Again", "Race with the Devil" and "Magnum Force"

As demanded by the people, Travolta brings you:

"It´s The End Of The World As We Know It"

1. Apocalypse Now (1979).
2. Three Days Of The Condor (1975)
3. Z (1969)
4. Catch 22 (1970)
5. Black Sunday (1976)

The Chris O. Comedy Cavalcade

The laughs start at noon!

1. 12:00 pm - Trailers for Silent Movie, High Anxiety, Blazing Saddles, History of the World: Part I, Spaceballs

12:30 pm - Feature Presentation: Young Frankenstein (1974), dir. Mel Brooks

2. 2:30 pm - Trailers for And Now for Something Completely Different, Jabberwocky, Brazil, Erik the Viking, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Monty Python and The Meaning of Life

3:00 pm - Feature Presentation: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), dir. Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones

3. 5:00 pm - Trailers for What's Up, Tiger Lily, What's New, Pussycat?, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex...But Were Afraid to Ask, Take the Money and Run, Sleeper

5:30 pm - Feature Presentation: Bananas (1971), dir. Woody Allen

4. 7:00 pm - Trailers for The Villain, Wagons East, Cat Ballou, The Frisco Kid, They Call Me Trinity, Trinity is Still My Name

7:30 pm - Feature Presentation: My Name is Nobody (1973), dir. Tonino Valerii and Sergio Leone (uncredited)

5. 10:00 pm - Trailers for Abbott & Costello Go to Mars, The Three Stooges in Orbit, Galaxy Quest, The Creature Wasn't Nice, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ice Pirates

10:30 pm - Feature Presentation: Dark Star (1974), dir. John Carpenter

Surprise Bonus Film

Midnight - Trailers for The Manitou, The Apple, Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy, A Boy and His Dog, Battlefield Earth, Hell Comes to Frogtown

12:30 - Zardoz (1974), dir. John Boorman

Kevin K's Satirapalooza
(Closed Saturday night)

1. Network
2. Dawn of the Dead
3. The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
4. Slaughterhouse-Five
5. Soylent Green
B. Rock 'n' Roll High School

1. Close Encounters of the Third Kind
2. THX 1138
3. The Blues Brothers
4. The Spy Who Loved Me
5. The Sugarland Express

"You asked me "When will it end?". Well let me tell you: Once an evil deed is done, it never ends. It goes on and on forever."
Bonus: ?????

1. Dirty Harry
2. Monty Python's Life of Brian
3. Cross of Iron
4. The Outlaw Josey Wales
5. The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1) Annie Hall (1977)
2) Don't Look Now (1973)
3) Used Cars (1980)
4) Sorcerer (1977)
5) Phantasm (1979)

1. Jaws
2. The Exorcist
3. Deliverance
4. The Getaway
5. Grease

THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
1. CONQUEST OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
2. MEAN STREETS
3. KILLER OF SHEEP

1) Patton
2) Willy Wonka And The Fucking Chocolate Factory
3) Day of the Woman
4) The Rocky Horror Picture Show
5) Boxcar Bertha

BONUS: The Hills Have Eyes

1. The Godfather Part II (1974)
2. Airplane! (1980)
3. Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid (1973)
4. Blue Collar (1978)
5. Prime Cut (1972)
Bonus Baby: The Bad News Bears (1976)

1. Bring Me The Head Of Alfredo Garcia (1974) Existential Western Eulogy

2. Vanishing Point (1971) Existential Car Chase Movie

3. Up in Smoke (1978) Existential Pothead Comedy

4. The Big Red One (1980) Existential War Movie

5. Rolling Thunder (1977) Existential Revenge Movie

Bonus Lightning Round: Silent Running (1972) Existential Joan Baez songs in space

Last but not least: Keith looks up the meaning of the word existential.

I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to get so baked at my festival. Amen.

1. Superfly
2. Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
3. Across 110th Street
4. W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
5. Three the Hard Way

1. Five Easy Pieces
2. Enter the Dragon

1.The Deer Hunter
2. Phantom of the Paradise
3. Get Carter
4. Duck, You Sucker ! (aka A Fistful of Dynamite aka Giu la testa ! aka Il Etait une Fois la Revolution in my part of the world)
5. The Longest Yard
Bonus: Soldier of Orange

1. Nashville (Altman)
2. Eraserhead (Lynch)
3. F for Fake (Welles)
4. Hardcore (Schrader)
5. Scenes from a Marriage (Bergman)
Bonus: Love in the Afternoon (Rohmer)

Update this shit.

1. THE CONFORMIST
2. THE TENANT
3. O LUCKY MAN!
4. THE FURY
5. UN FLIC

Bonus round:

Update or be punched.

Rath's "Some Theatre Was Dumb Enough To Let Me Pick The Movies" Festival

1. All The President's Men (1976)
On a double-bill with Shattered Glass. Introduction by Dustin Hoffman & William Goldman. Trailers for Zodiac, Newsies, and Broadcast News.

Panel: The Life of Kings? Goldman moderates Bob Woodward, David Simon, Charles Lane, and James Vanderbilt discussing the decline of the newspaper buisness and how that is reflected in film.

Richard Dreyfuss makes a surprise appearance to remember Roy Scheider before introducing:

2.All That Jazz (1979)
On a double-bill with The Commitments. Trailers for Streets of Fire, Flashdance, and Adaptation.

Panel: After Fosse: The Modern Screen Musical. John Lahr moderates Alan Parker, John Cameron Mitchell, Jason Robert Brown, and Duncan Sheik discussing the decline and rebirth of the movie musical, as well as the massive changes on the stage.

Special Guest Performance by the New York Theatre Ballet: "Take Off With Us/Airotica"
Only patrons over the age of 17 will be permitted to attend this event.

3. Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)

<double feature and guests coming soon>

4. Return of the Secaucus 7 (1980)

<double feature and guests coming soon>

1. McCabe And Mrs. Miller
2. Being There
3. Death Race 2000
4. The Holy Mountain
5. Spirit of the Beehive

1. Midnight Express (1978)
2. The Elephant Man (1980)
3. Frenzy (1972)
4. The Day of the Jackal (1973)
5. The Omen (1976)

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I didn't draft, but here's what I cobbled together from the un-drafted...

Trailer Reel: The Man with the Golden Arm, The Gravy Train, The Brink’s Job, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, California Split, The Panic in Needle Park, Mean Streets
Born to Win (Ivan Passer, 1971) 90 Minutes

Trailer Reel: Claire’s Knee, Murmur of the Heart, Manhattan, New York New York, Mandingo, All That Heaven Allows
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) 93 Minutes

Trailer Reel: A Hard Day’s Night, Villain, Quadrophenia, Get Carter, Head, The Long Good Friday, Gimme Shelter
Performance (Donald Cammell/Nicoas Roeg, 1970) 105 Minutes

Trailer Reel: Trailers: McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Long Goodbye, The Mack, The Harder They Come, Hearts and Minds, The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Saint Jack (Peter Bogdanovich, 1979) 112 Minutes

Trailer Reel: North by Northwest, Two-Lane Blacktop, Electraglide in Blue, Badlands, High Sierra, Violent Saturday, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot , The Outfit
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel, 1973) 111 Minutes

Extra-Long Grindhouse Trailer Reel: The Landlord, Taxi Driver, Death Wish, Joe, The Offence, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Prime Cut, God Told Me To, Straw Dogs, Little Murders, The Last House on the Left, Bone, Rolling Thunder
Fight for Your Life (Robert A. Endelson, 1977) 82 Minutes

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Andre, this was for the last draft.

Oh yeah, I wanted to see it, and figured others would want to see what they've had in the last three drafts in total.

Patton aside, mine blew.

okie dokie.