This film still is from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain. The Holy Mountain, along with Jodorowsky’s El Topo, are among the Dryden’s most requested films. Both films screen by popular demand in June, click on the links for details and trailers.
Is there a film you would like to see at the Dryden? Voice your thoughts and suggestions here in the comments section. Or, is there a film you saw, but can’t remember the name? Post your clues here, and the Dryden staff will try and identify the film.
Big Business starring Bette Midler and Lily Tomlin. A true gem! Laughs galore!
from IMDB: In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory.
I would love to see a Dario Argento series. Any of his films would be great to see at the Dryden but my personal picks would be Deep Red and Suspiria. Maybe a harder to find film like 4 Flies on Grey Velvet would be a nice addition as well.
A Paul Verhoevan series would also be excellent. I would love to see Robocop and Starship Troopers mixed with some of his earlier stuff.
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Note from Dryden staff: We’ll be showing a Dario Argento double feature on August 9th: The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and The Cat O’ Nine Tails.
An 80s Cold War film series. Films could include WarGames, Red Dawn, Commando, etc. These would be films that would be influenced by the direction the Cold War had taken by the 1980s.
I would like to see Gus Van Sant’s Last Days and Gregg Araki’s Mysterious Skin.
Any possibilities that you’ll be showing Lynch’s Inland Empire? Given that it had very limited distribution and didn’t play very long at any of the venues that did show it, a reprisal (perhaps even coupled with a Lynch mini-retrospective) would seem worthwhile. I’d drive from CT to see it.
I would like to see THE NIGHT DIGGER (MGM, 1971) an unusual suspense thriller which starred Patricia Neal and Nicholas Clay. The screenplay was by Roald Dahl and the musical score was by the great Bernard Herrmann.
how about a classic fight series such as “the rumble in the jungle” ?
I would like to see Billy Wilder’s The Major and the Minor (1942).
Chronique d’un été by Jean Rouch. It is difficult to find with English subtitles but still a ground breaking piece of cinéma-vérité.
One month I would like to see Gregg Araki’s “Teenage Apocalypse” trilogy shown. The Doom Generation, Totally F***ed Up, and Nowhere.
I would also like to see Richard Kelly’s new movie Southland Tales. It came out for like a week, and I don’t think anyone saw it. I remember seeing Donnie Darko for the first time at the Dryden, and it would be cool to see Southland Tales here too.
Note from the Dryden: SOUTHLAND TALES will screen on March 1st.
Also I would love to see An American Hippie in Israel if you could find a print of it. I can’t find it anywhere, but it looks spectacular.
Trailer:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GHS07PbD6cI
I understand from an article by Jack Garner several years back that there are several “oodball rarities” in the collection, no real surprise there. By any chance will you be showing Dennis Hopper’s print of The Last Movie or Bogdanovich’s X-rated cut of Saint Jack in the future? And keep up the great work!
Not sure if you are still checking this, but I would love to see a retrospective of the films of Bela Tarr, especially (in order of preference):
1. Satantango
2. Werckmeister Harmoniak
3. Damnation
4. The Man From London (brand new)
Hard to believe it’s been 15 years since Altman’s “Short Cuts”. I’d give anything to see it on the big screen. The opening sequence with the “Medfly” helicopter marauders is worth it by itself, not to mention the brilliance of everything else. Mmm, what a lovely evening.
A suggestion for a future “not available on video” mini-retrospective might include the rarely seen “Deadhead Miles”, released only briefly in 1972 by Paramount … http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068452/
would be its imdb entry. Terry Malick wrote the script for this before his directorial debut “Badlands”, so “Deadhead Miles” might be billed as a kind of bookend to the recently presented “Gravy Train” / “Dion Brothers”.
Malick wrote the script for one other feature film that I know of prior directing “Badlands”, that being “Pocket Money” which used to show up on TV occaisionally. That might also dovetail into one Dryden series or another. Malick also made an uncredited screenwriting contribution to “Drive, He Said”, which was shown in the summer of 2007 and he wrote a twelve minute student film in 1969 entitled “Lanton Mills”, another rarity that only a cinetheque such as the Dryden might have the contacts to unearth and present to the public.
Sincerely,
Norman Browning
Jonathan (1970) by Hans W. Geissendorfer. I first read about this film a year or two after it was made and spend 30 years looking for it. I finally managed a copy on DVD that appeared to have been burned from a very poorly transferred dup. For all that, the film was worth the wait. A very unique take on the Dracula/Vampyre mythos. The NY Times reviewer said that it was “the most beautiful-looking vampire movie I have seen.” I would love to see a film print of this obscure classic.
I’d like to suggest the films of Paul Scofield, who just passed away. His bio in the NY Times mentions a lot of films (including Man For All Seasons - I’m a Thomas More fan) that I don’t recall being shown at the Dryden, and a series like this might be a good opportunity to trot them out.
If you show Man For All Seasons, I’d like first dibs on the intro - one of my ancestors was in the Tudor administration and played a role in More’s beheading, and perhaps I can make up for it with a good intro…
The Pedro Costa retrospective is going on a tour around the States. I was wondering whether it is coming over at Dryden?
Please let me know. I’m dying to catch this guy’s film! :-)
Thanks!
Perhaps it has been done in the past, as becoming only recently familiar with the Dryden I am ignorant to many of the past features, but I would like very much to see an array of Peter Lorre films.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000048/#actor1960
Fritz Lang’s “M”, “The Maltese Falcon”, “Casablanca”, a “Mr. Moto” marathon, “Arsenic and Old Lace”, “Der Verlorene”(the lost one), the list of spectacular and significant films barely ceases.
I understand that Josef von Sternberg’s “Crime and Punishment”, which stars Lorre as Raskolnikov, will be screened in August, but there are many truly wonderful films surrounding Lorre that I believe many people would benefit from viewing.
I would also like to see a screening of “Heima”; a film that documents the unannounced tour of the Icelandic band, Sigur Rós.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094594/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1094594/
Is there any chance the Dryden might uncover a print of Thorold Dickinson’s 1949 film of Alexander Pushkin’s classic story “The Queen of Spades”? If so, perhaps it could be presented as part of a Thorold Dickinson mini-retrospective (including both versions of “Gaslight”, for instance) or shown as a lead-in to a British horror film series of say Hammer studios movies from the ’50s, or fare of that sort.
Norman K. Browning
Kudos for the Tuesday July 1 of Milos Forman’s early Czech works “The Audition” and “Black Peter”. Could the Dryden develop a corollary series of other Czech works fron the 1960s such as Ivan Passer’s “Intimate Lighting”, Jan Kadar’s “The Shop on Main Street”, Jiri Menzel’s “Closely Watched Trains”, and/or Zybnek Brynych’s “The Fifth Horseman is Fear? Other less well known works from these directors during this period might lend even more diversity to this peek behind the iron curtain during a turbulent decade.
Another angle from which audiences might peer into works of a different ilk from this period and place could be films by Polish directors under Communism such as Jerzy Skolimowski’s “Le Depart”, Andrzej Wadja’s “Kanal” and “Ashes and Diamonds”, Polanski’s “Cul-de-Sac” and others. I realize some of the films by the aforementioned Polish directors were made in Western Europe, though their early experiences were all formed under occupations by Germany then Russia.
Norman Browning
I would like to see a week-long run of Fassbinder’s Berlin Alexanderplatz in it’s entirety. This has long been considered a masterwork of pacing, characterization, and cinematography. Seeing this on the big screen (and not requiring a purchase of the $100+ Criterion Collection box set) would be phenomenal.
The recent Vintage Black Cinema series of movie poster postage stamps shows some rarities only an archive with contacts as varied and interesting as the Eastman House might actually be able to present on screen in a theater. The five movies pictured in the stamp set are readily referenced through IMDB pages such as; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019959/trivia
which could also be used to link to entries such as “Hearts in Dixie”, other Josephine Baker movies, additional screen appearances by Duke Ellington & Louis Jordan that might be billed as forerunners of music videos, various other erstwhile “race movies” that might flesh out a series of sorts.
Norman Browning
I would like to see ‘Geminal’.
I also would like to see ‘The Fall of the Roman Empire 1963 colored’.