Best cinema experience?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Best and Worst
+-+-+ — 8 months ago(July 29, 2025 07:40 PM)
I have attended screening of Lawrence of Arabia on its 60th anniversary three years ago. It's one of those films that needs to be experienced in cinema IMO.
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(August 27, 2025 02:54 AM)
I'm in Manhattan where there's juicy opportunities to see classic/foreign films on the 'big' screen –although frankly, there are screens which are very big. Everything in Gotham is rather small and cramped.
Anyway –you can well imagine –I've had some fun movie nights 'out on the town'.
It will take me a lot of tedious typing to recount some of these anecdotes so I will simply bookmark this discussion for some afternoon when I'm down with dengue fever.
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Paul P. Powell — 7 months ago(August 27, 2025 11:27 AM)
Just a little time-management, is all.
I'm not a fan of the megalopolis in general –it's too big and too cold for this southern boy. The 'cinema scene' is drying up just like how the music scene died, and how the art scene died. Gentrification, consumerism, mass-media killing everything. Massive conformism.
But I was lucky enough to be able to meet some famous stars in person. There's book signings and lecture -related stuff.
Scorcese himself, is occasionally involved with the repertoire theater I frequent. He organizes film festivals there. Does a good job too.
I've seen Paul Schrader lead a discussion on "
Pickpocket"
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Once there was a whole month of Italian & French crime flicks; another season they ran a month of Brit-Crime. Another time, a month of Brando films. Fabulous.
One Q-&-A session I caught was with Veronika, the fashion model from Antonioni's "
Blow-Up
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Christopher Plummer gave a lobby talk one night. Always stuff like that. I'll simply circle back here when I feel like jawin' 'bout it.
Paul P. Powell, Pool Player