Films that it makes sense to watch at the same time* as another film

IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
*Or just after. I don't mean simultaneously.

Looks as though I may be choosing films for a film club to watch, the idea will be that each month the club will meet up in a bar and they will project two films over the course of the evening between eight and midnight or so. Before, after and between the films a dj will play soundtracks and other sounds related to film. But the two films should be linked in some way, which could be something pretty prosaic such as both films being made by the same guy I suppose, or they could both be from the same movement, perhaps one could show two adaptations of the same book if they are different enough to merit watching them one after the other. What I reckon might be most interesting though is you had two films that deal with the same theme - so maybe, off the top of my head, A Day at the Beach and The Lost Weekend are both about alcoholics - perhaps it doesn't need to be so literal as that, maybe you can come up with a great theory that says that the Bicycle Thieves and Ai No Corrida are making the same point. So I need more suggestions of things like that - but I should say that it's gonna be a club for weird films... art films and trash films and obscurities. And it's in a bar, everyone will be grown up enough to drink there so no movies for kids with stupid cunty superheroes etc
 
DLaurent

DLaurent

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Too difficult for me off the top of my head. I thought of some too obvious ones like Sans Soleil and Tokyo Ga immediately. Best I can think of is a trio of 'plastic surgery' face mask movies.... The Face of Another, Eyes without a Face, and Dark Passage. Maybe it easier to with genre like Prison and Le Trou and A Man Escaped even though they're stylistically different, but I came up with a good theory about The Long Good Friday and An American Werewolf in London making similar points about laissez faire economics, I think they might not be grown up enough.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
DLaurent said:
Too difficult for me off the top of my head. I thought of some too obvious ones like Sans Soleil and Tokyo Ga immediately. Best I can think of is a trio of 'plastic surgery' face mask movies.... The Face of Another, Eyes without a Face, and Dark Passage.
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That's exactly the kind of thing I'm on about.

DLaurent said:
Maybe it easier to with genre like Prison and Le Trou and A Man Escaped even though they're stylistically different,
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But that's perfect. I want things that attempt the same theme but in a totally different style - or, equally, vice versa. I don't want two things that are just totally the same like two really similar heist movies or whatever. In fact, really, what I should have said is I want two films that ideally are quite different in some ways but which do have something that justifies showing them together.

DLaurent said:
but I came up with a good theory about The Long Good Friday and An American Werewolf in London making similar points about laissez faire economics, I think they might not be grown up enough.
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It will definitely be grown up enough. This will be at a very basic level.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Double Bills for IdleRich

Here is my first double bill @IdleRich: Call Me By Your Name and A Summer's Tale

Content-wise the overlap is: young idle men on idyllic journeys of sexual self discovery, in beautiful European settings. (Edit: also both thematically set in the Summer season. Plus, they have similar hairstyles.)

I just finished watching the latter minutes ago, probably my favorite among the three Rohmer films I've seen. The same young man oscillates between sexual innocence and romantic cunning over the course of the film.

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Clinamenic

Clinamenic

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IdleRich said:
We have that phrase but couldn't that mean any two films shown together regardless of any link betwixt?
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Well sure, anyone can play two films together, but like here the idea is to have some unifying link. Otherwise it would be a pretty clumsy double bill
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
Nobody's gonna arrest you for playing two arbitrary films together, but doing so would lose you some degree of esteem in circles such as ours.
 
IdleRich

IdleRich

IdleRich
In Threads it starts before the apocalypse though.... there are countless films that could fit that bill of course eg the entire oeuvre of Lopushansky.
 
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