{"id":1404,"date":"2008-12-31T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T02:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2008-12-31T18:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T22:36:08","slug":"brandon%e2%80%99s-top-ten-retrospective-screenings-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1404","title":{"rendered":"Brandon&#8217;s Top Ten Retrospective Screenings of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These were all theatrical (film) screenings of non-current movies.<\/p>\n<p>1. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/526\">George Kuchar film program<\/a> at Eyedrum<\/strong><br \/>\nMr. Kuchar himself talked about the films, which Andy projected for us on 16mm.  I&#8217;d never seen any of the Kuchar brothers&#8217; films before&#8230; a revelation!<\/p>\n<p>2. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/578\">Eraserhead<\/a> (1977, David Lynch) at the plaza<\/strong><br \/>\nUnbelievable on the big screen&#8230; no wonder it was a midnight cult flick.<\/p>\n<p>3. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/502\">&#8220;To Hell with Hitler!&#8221;<\/a> at the plaza<\/strong><br \/>\nClay&#8217;s collection of WWII cartoon shorts for an appreciative audience.<\/p>\n<p>4. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/750\">What Is It?<\/a> (Crispin Glover) at the plaza<\/strong><br \/>\nMore for the full in-person experience than the film itself<\/p>\n<p>5. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/784\">Phantom of the Opera<\/a> (1925) at the Rome GA Film Festival<\/strong><br \/>\nWith live music by The Alloy Orchestra<\/p>\n<p>6. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/551\">Zorns Lemma \/ Lemon \/ Scorpio Rising<\/a> at Emory<\/strong><br \/>\nExtreme avant-garde flicks for an unappreciative audience&#8230; I was mesmerized both by the films and their reception.<\/p>\n<p>7. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/553\">Canyon Cinema program<\/a> at Nashville Film Festival<\/strong><br \/>\nA tamer version of the avant-emory screening, worth the whole drive to Nashville just for the Martin Arnold and Len Lye selections.<\/p>\n<p>8. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/528\">X: The Man With X-Ray Eyes<\/a> (1963, Roger Corman) at the plaza<\/strong><br \/>\nWith live music by Pere Ubu<\/p>\n<p>9. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1067\">Forest of Bliss<\/a> (1986, Robert Gardner) at Eyedrum<\/strong><br \/>\nAn entrancing feature, courtesy of programmer extraordinaire Andy<\/p>\n<p>10. <strong>Four-way tie between my next favorite Emory screenings:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/497\">Written on the Wind<\/a> (1956, Douglas Sirk)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/478\">Pather Panchali<\/a> (1955, Satyajit Ray)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/529\">Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors<\/a> (1964, Sergei Parajanov)<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/1150\">Story of Floating Weeds<\/a> (1934, Yasujiro Ozu)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were all theatrical (film) screenings of non-current movies. 1. George Kuchar film program at Eyedrum Mr. Kuchar himself talked about the films, which Andy projected for us on 16mm. I&#8217;d never seen any of the Kuchar brothers&#8217; films before&#8230; a revelation! 2. Eraserhead (1977, David Lynch) at the plaza Unbelievable on the big screen&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[152],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-lists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}