Turn Back Time

[donna]

for one night in your life at the cinema what film you would like to go back and see in teh same venue with the same friends and when. mine is to go with my very best pal to see Tammy with Debbie Reynolds , think the best time of my life , must have been around nine or ten. Also remember seeing the Wizard of Oz with my mum , it must have got released again, and couldnt believe what I was seeing I was in awe, loved it. Just to go back for one night to the old cinema near my home now lying empty with broken windows, now is being sold for luxury flats. just wish Id taken some photos before it closed its doors in 75.

[john audley]

You tweaked my memory there Donna with TAMMY - fell in love with Debby totally with those Jeans she had! The film that really drove me as a boy was the Three Musketeers - the Kelly version. Went back to the cinema several times. I saw it TV a short time ago and thought it was totally ridiculous and nonsensical! Just goes to show.

[donna]

know what you mean I loved A Summer Place with Troy Donahue and Sandra Dee and never seen it since, but can just imagine how corny it will be now.

[Mark O]

Well I don't think I was with anybody but I recall seeing 2001-Space Oddysey in the 70's a couple of times on huge original Cinema screens.........love to see it again 'big screen', but I'll always remember 'the ultimate trip' (all the changing colours).......it really was!

[donna]

I remember going to the Gaumont in Glasgow one night , didnt know what was on and saw the big red carpet down ,full of celebs, as it was the first night of the Sound of Music.

[penfold]

Not that long ago...about ten years back, without checking it out. The first time I saw Napoleon vue par Abel Gance (1927)....Royal Festival Hall, Front Balcony....London Philharmonic Orchestra, about 80 strong, 12-1300 in the audience.....a stunning, stunning, film....technique, imagery, editing, acting...just about perfect. About Five and a half hours in, (there are two intervals) the film changes size. From Academy, the standard ratio, to ultra-widescreen....4/3 to 4/1, three screens wide...the psychological effect is like being forced into the back of your seat when an aircraft accelerates to take off.... and how Gance uses his invention....panoramas, multi split-screens, images repeated, or reflected either side (It's called the Triptych sequence) until finally a simple image, of the sea rushing under the prow of the boat returning Napoleon from Corsica, is repeated on all three screens, dyed Blue and Red on the end screens....the biggest Tricoloeur you have ever seen, with an orchestra belting out the Marseillaise....for a few moments, you're proud to be French, such is the power of the experience. I've seen it three times like that; financial constraints(The costs are horrendous) and legal complications too boring to go into here mean that I may not see it again, thus, in my lifetime.......

[CaptainWaggett]

I've seen Napoleon in very similar circumstances - that's three days of my life I'm never getting back. The tryptych bit is good -is the first 23 hours that can safely be skipped. *ducks from penfold*

I'd like to see Powell and Pressburger being interviewed at the NFT again since I know about a million times more about them know that I did 20 years ago. And I'd like to see Fellowship of the Ring again for the first time - I'd been waiting 30 years for it and it really didn't disappoint. And since I saw it in Seattle, I wouldn't say no to a trip to the same cinema