Wednesday, April 9, 2008
News / Film Screen on the Green, 2008
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 9:53 PM
A competing publication has announced Turner Broadcasting's line-up for this year's outdoor Screen on the Green festival, to be held on Monday evenings May 20-June 26. This year, drought conditions have forced Screen on the Green to be relocated from Piedmont Park to Centennial Olympic Park. (After all, who'd want to go to "Screen on the Brown?") The films are:
May 29: Jaws (1975)
June 5: Big Momma’s House (2000)
June 12: Chicago (2002)
June 19: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982).
June 26: Either Back to the Future, Rocky or Footloose, to be chosen by fans, who can vote at Peachtreetv.com from April 14-27.
I'm a little disappointed that there's no vintage classic, like a Hitchcock thriller, this year. And surely they could have come up with a better comedy than Big Momma's House, or at least a Tyler Perry film for local interest. With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull coming to theaters in May, it makes sense to represent Steven Spielberg: maybe they programmed both Jaws and E.T. because they couldn't decide between the two. In honor of the first film on the line-up, here's the 1975 trailer ("It is as if God created the Devil and gave him... jaws.")
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No classic thriller? I don't know. Jaws is almost a 35-year-old movie at this point, so I'd consider it a classic. There may be no hard and fast rule on this, but it does make me wonder: how old does a movie need to be before it can be considered a "classic?" (Just as a reference point, here's something to consider: Jaws is now 33 yrs old. When it came out, surely people would've considered a 33 year old movie like Casablanca a classic, wouldn't they?)
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Oh, I wouldn't imply that 'Jaws' was anything less than a classic. When I said "no vintage classic," however, I was thinking of something from the studio era. Sometimes I feel like many contemporary moviegoers think that anything earlier than 'Jaws' and 'Star Wars' is ancient cinematic history.
The last movie should be Footloose for sure. Any Hitchcock would be better than Big Momma's House.
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