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I don't know what THOSE AWFUL HATS is but based on this series of shots I really hope it's a movie entirely based on the idea of hats obstructing views of the movie screen!
Terrific post. This makes me want to see these films (or see them again), and also to rent Goodbye, Dragon Inn.
daniel - yes, its exactly that. funny too, i was chuckling out loud. its on the "biograph shorts" dvd.
dave - thanks! i was hoping for ideas for other films with scenes like this. "goodbye, dragon inn" is on the list now, along with "nuovo cinema paradiso."
any more?
I'm missing Bogdanovich's 'Targets' :)
And 'The Purple Rose of Cairo', of course (though a bit differently).
(and 'Sherlock Jr.' along those lines)
oh yes - drive-ins!! a whole subgenre i should also explore....
Shahn, what a stimulating post!
Just a few others off the top of my head:
-- Anna Karina, tear-filled, watching Dreyer's PASSION OF JOAN in VIVRE SA VIE.
-- A young girl watches her father's ex-lover, the movie star Irene Rios (played by Aurore Clement) in Victor Erice's EL SUR (1983).
-- Hitchcock's SABOTAGE. Oskar Homolka owns a cheap movie theater and I seem to remember a scene set inside the theater while a film is playing.
-- De Niro takes Cybill Shepherd to a porn movie theater on a date in TAXI DRIVER.
-- Last scene of THE LAST PICTURE SHOW: the final showing of RED RIVER before the theater folds.
Love this. A few more:
THE GOOD FAIRY, with Margaret Sullivan as a movie Usherette (I've got William Wyler on the brain right now).
KAIRAT, a film from Kazakhstan, has a terrific sequence in a very Soviet-looking movie house.
THE CAMERAMAN'S REVENGE by Starewicz ends with a memorable moviegoing scene.
and then there's PLAY, a found-footage short film by Austrians Matthias Muller and Christoph Girardet. Probably rather difficult to track down, but one never knows.
wonderful! most of these i haven't seen.
["last picture show" - why didn't i remember that one?]
keep them coming.
what would Baudrillard say about these?
First to mind is The Dreamers where Pitt, Green, Garrell are watching Fuller's Shock Corridor.
not exactly the same but..
http://www.stephengill.co.uk/audience/index.htm
Love this blog by the way, subscribing now!
thanks edwin for the film suggestion and for that link. my here-to-fore wonderings if anyone would ever film me sitting in the theatre is now full-blown paranoia.
Ever so many... Among the greatest:
Minnelli's "Two Weeks in Another Town", Erice's "The Spirit of the Beehive" and "La Morte Rouge", Keaton & Sedgwick's "The Cameraman", Kelly & Donen's "Singin' in the Rain", Godard's "Les Carabiniers" and "À bout de souffle" and "Masculin Féminin" and... It is however, always very dangerous: quite often the (older) film shown is so much better than the one at which it is watched...
Interesting to look at how many films have scenes of screenings...
Best,
Miguel Marías
i remember when criterion released their version of "brute force," many people were writing about the fred macmurray/ claudette colbert film on the screen the prisoners were watching. at times, it got as much print as the main film. movies sure like looking at themselves.
great additions to the list. thanks, miguel.
Hi shahn,
Just came back to your site, scrolled down to this post and thought of a few:
"Chacun Son Cinema" - The omnibus film made for Cannes that has 34 directors each with a 3 minute film about their impression of the state of the movies today as filtered through movie theatres. Tons of scenes of people watching film.
"Matinee" - Terrific 1993 film about the golden age of gimmick films. It has a real love for movie entertainmnet.
And a few others that have shorter scenes:
"Donnie Darko" - Donnie and his girlfriend go to see "Evil Dead" and the big bunny joins them...
"Bachelor Party" - Yes, the early Tom Hanks comedy...There's a well done scene late in the movie where our hero chases the evil ex-boyfriend into a theatre and as they fight in front of the screen all their actions are mirrored by the movie being shown.
"Amelie" - An early scene when she talks about things she likes to do includes watching people's faces in a movie theatre.
"chacun son cinema" sounds great, i'll have to see it.
i haven't seen "bachelor party" since... i think the video store first came to town. either you've seen it recently or it made a great impression. hee hee!
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