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Author Topic: Projectionist Movies Wade Brashers Film Handler Posts: 18 From: Doylestown, PA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-03-2000 01:50 AM                     The only two that stick out in my head are Fight Club (the book has much more projectionist stuff)and Cinema Paradiso what others are out there?  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-03-2000 05:07 AM                     Rodney Dangerfield was in a horrible low budget film called "The Projectionist".  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-03-2000 08:25 AM                        The Smallest Show on Earth (UK 1957) aka Big Time Operators Peter Sellers as aged disgruntled projectionist in a run down flea pit cinema battling for survival against a new "Ritzy" theatre  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-03-2000 02:43 PM                     I didn't think he was disgruntled...drunk maybe, but not disgruntled... The scene where the three old timers watch the silent film is right up there with most of Cinema Paradiso.  |  IP: Logged Paul Cunningham Expert Film Handler Posts: 146 From: Melbourne, Australia Registered: Jun 2000 posted 09-03-2000 05:15 PM                     John, whats that aussie one? The travelling showman? You know its set in the 20's 30's 40's (something like that) and he goes around to country towns setting up for the night. Paul  |  IP: Logged Jim Bedford Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 597 From: Telluride, CO, USA (733 mi. WNW of Rockwall, TX but it seems much, much longer) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-03-2000 05:26 PM                        The Aussie film was The Picture Show Man with Rod Taylor from '77. There was also Bye, Bye, Brazil and Jiri Menzel's Those Wonderful Movie Cranks. All three of these films were about travelling projectionist and showmen (and a woman in Bye, Bye).  |  IP: Logged Dustin Mitchell Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1865 From: Mondovi, WI, USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 09-03-2000 07:37 PM                     Don't forget "The Inner Circle." Its about Stalin's projectionist.  |  IP: Logged Kevin Crawford Expert Film Handler Posts: 207 From: Sacramento, CA, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 09-03-2000 08:01 PM                     I have a difficult time seeing Peter Sellers being disgruntled. However, I would have to say that Tyler Durdin was a disgruntled projectionist. And no, I don't splice porn into children's features. I save that for serious dramas.  |  IP: Logged Jesse Skeen Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1517 From: Sacramento, CA Registered: Aug 2000 posted 09-04-2000 04:15 AM                     If I had some 35mm porn I wouldn't go ruining it like that- you know they quit making porn on 35mm about 15 years ago, right? Porn theaters showed trailers too that didn't even bother TRYING to get a green "All Audiences" band! The few porn theaters that are still open now have just been showing projection video for quite some time. There's a weird little horror movie called "Anguish" that ends with a psycho going into a movie theater and killing people, and it's the only movie I've ever seen that actually shows a platter. The theater in the movie was a single-screen and you just see a few seconds of the projectionist sitting there reading the paper while his one film's going! "Dirty Work" has a projection bit that's pretty funny, but like "Fight Club" it's just not realistic. There's a low-budget flick from 1976 called "Drive-in Massacre" that's really bad, it was one of the first laserdiscs I ever bought (thanks, Camelot Music cutouts!)  |  IP: Logged Phil Connolly Film Handler Posts: 80 From: Derby, England Registered: May 2000 posted 09-04-2000 04:41 AM                        Last Action Hero? Well it has a Projectionist in it.  |  IP: Logged Dick Vaughan Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1032 From: Bradford, West Yorkshire, UK Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-04-2000 06:26 AM                        Perhaps I should have said that Sellers was as disgruntled as a newt!!  |  IP: Logged Bruce McGee Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1776 From: Asheville, NC USA... Nowhere in Particular. Registered: Aug 1999 posted 09-04-2000 07:53 AM                     "Night Of The Comet" (1984) Our heroine makes love in the booth. Sigh.....  |  IP: Logged Dwayne Caldwell Master Film Handler Posts: 323 From: Rockwall, TX, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 09-04-2000 09:29 AM                     Things to do in Denver When You're Dead. Christopher Lloyd played a projectionist of a porn movie theatre. In fact, he was shot to death in his own booth. And of course he was running a changeover system like the projectionists in all of Hollywood's movies do. ------------------ The man with the magic hands.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-04-2000 11:08 AM                        I'm surprised that no one has mentioned "Sherlock Jr.," which is one of Buster Keaton's greatest shorts (well, it runs for about 60 minutes...not sure if that makes it a short or not).  |  IP: Logged Florian Pausch Film Handler Posts: 11 From: Wien, Austria Registered: Dec 2000 posted 09-04-2000 01:55 PM                     "Hellzapoppin´", a screwball comedy with Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson is one of the finest pieces of projectionist films I remember, others are: "Gremlins" and,of course, "Im Lauf der Zeit" by Wim Wenders. The best, most authentic nitrate fire is in "Cinema Paradiso". Note: Buster Keaton is the only carbon arc projectionist able of running a full feature length on only one projector! (The lamp of the second Power´s standing in his box is not connected electrically...) so long Flo ------------------ Florian Pausch projectionist and technician Filmarchiv Austria,Vienna www.filmarchiv.at fpausch@aon.at  |  IP: Logged

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