I just bought tickets to see The Wizard of Oz on the big screen!
I’m so excited! They are showing it all over the country this week for the 80th anniversary. The same company is showing several other classic movies this year.
[quote]“The Wizard of Oz” is the first title in Fathom’s yearlong “TCM Big Screen Classics” series. As reported by Variety last month, other titles screening this year include “My Fair Lady,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” “Ben-Hur,” “True Grit,” “Steel Magnolias,” “Field of Dreams,” “Glory,” “Hello, Dolly!,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Alien,” “The Godfather Part II,” and “When Harry Met Sally.”
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 27, 2019 3:55 PM
|
I never made it through this movie. Not once. And, good Christ, I tried.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 27, 2019 3:27 PM
|
Can anyone fond that hilarious blurb in an old television giuse that started off something like, "Brain-damage farm girl kills the first person she meets is strange land with demented accomplices."
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 27, 2019 3:34 PM
|
Have you read this bizarre New Yorker review? You’d think it’s the worst movie ever made, not arguably the greatest.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 27, 2019 3:36 PM
|
R2 It was: “Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first person she meets and then teams up with three strangers to kill again.”
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 27, 2019 3:37 PM
|
I saw it in a movie theater about 15 years ago. The aspect ratio of the movie is the same as an old tv show... like almost perfectly square. It’s weird watching a movie like that in a cinema.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | January 27, 2019 3:37 PM
|
Saw it in 3D on the big screen. Next.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | January 27, 2019 3:39 PM
|
r3, as every DL'er knows all too well, contrarians get all the attention. Anyone can make reasonable comments so they're boring.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | January 27, 2019 3:41 PM
|
R7 But to suggest the movie lacks imagination...just incredible. I honestly can’t believe The New Yorker would print that. The only way to possibly consider it lacking in imagination is by comparing it to 50 years of movies that it inspired.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | January 27, 2019 3:45 PM
|
Not surprisingly, the original book has been endlessly debated for it’s political subtext about the American financial system. Seriously.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | January 27, 2019 3:54 PM
|
The New Yorker review of When Tomorrow Comes is hilarious. If people only wrote that well about today's ridiculous movies.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | January 27, 2019 3:55 PM
|
