Where in the world did you see that film, what was it like?

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In this thread we post anomolous juxtapositions of place and film, be it Les Enfants Du Paradise in a library, to X-Men in a department store in Mexico. This is also a thread where we ponder the possible effect of this odd coupling of film and place - and perhaps even get on to the idea of perfect exhibition spaces for individual films (cf the screening of An American Werewolf In London in Aldwych Tube Station, or Lord Of The Rings at Glastonbury).

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:51 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Fellowship of the Ring", dubbed into German on a HUGE canvas screen outside at a park next to a public swimming pool, as a storm rolled in and threatened to take the screen down. Very, very cool.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Die Hard 2 on a plane was great. Apparently not very popular with the other passangers. I just downed my well hard Bloody Hary and waited for BRuce to say Yippee-Kae-Aye-Motherfucker.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought I was going to a cinema in Budapest, but it was just like a classroom with plastic stackable chairs. 'Bonnie and Clyde' was projected on to the wall. I liked it.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Beach on a beach.

― Archel (Archel), Friday, 14 February 2003 11:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Also -- Roger Rabbit in a roofless cinema on a Greek island (my friend and I went 'cause the beer was cheap). In English with Greek subtitles. A small German boy, who spoke no Greek nor English, sat in front of us with his Greek father and German mother, growing increasingly hysterical as he couldn't figure out what the hell was going on ("Was tut die Hase jetzt, Mama? Ist die Hase OK? Mama, ich versteh's nicht, was ist geschehen?"). After about forty-five minutes of this, Mama gave up and took the boy, who had deteriorated into hysterical tears, out of the theatre.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Apocalypse Now in a hangar at Duxford Imperial War museum underneath a plane. (Also saw Jaws at a drive-in type affair in the middle of a field - was v cool.)

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Manhattan in Paris.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Fellowship of the Ring last thing in Glastonbury with a wobbly inflatable screen and an incredible sound system: The sound made it even more terrifying.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:13 (twenty-three years ago)

"Mulan" on a car ferry travelling from Ireland to France. The screen was not very big and from any possible seat it would either be too small or at a weird angle. Rener and I were the only people over ten watching the film (apart from one or two parents).

We enjoyed the film immensely, despite the not-overly positive prior impression we had formed of the film. Thus I formed my idea that ALL current Disney films are worth watching.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:39 (twenty-three years ago)

Spiderman in a cafe on Ko Tao Thailand was a pleasure, Mango lassi in one hand, fish curry in front of me, lots of "atmosphere"... marvellous.

Saw first LOTR on a plane, fell asleep due to dullness.

― chris (chris), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Speed in Lisbon with Portugese subtitles.

― Sam (chirombo), Friday, 14 February 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Primal Fear on an inter-continental flight in the midst of a 3-month mental breakdown. I knew he did it from the first frame

A Clockwork Orange, 3 years later, 2 weeks before Finals, on the verge of another mental breakdown which did not occur, thankfully. Not recommended viewing if you are in a similar context

Schindler's List, in the middle of my thirteenth year, with my family. My mother, threatening to leave due to hypersensitivity, made us walk out right before the Transformation, 1.5 hours of the way through. Still haven't seen the rest.

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Its got a great car chase near the end that everyone should see.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:14 (twenty-three years ago)

Muppet's Christmas Carol in Berlin dubbed into German (obviously). Under duress, I might add.

"Les parapluies de Cherbourg" which happened to be showing at some cinema club in a village hall in Suffolk when I was working down there. I was the youngest member of the audience by about 30 years. It was still wonderful.

"Crash" at a film festival in Athens (Greece not Georgia), with an audience who cheered every name on the opening credits. It was not wonderful.

― Tag, Friday, 14 February 2003 13:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I saw Rush Hour in Burma, dubbed in Chinese with Thai subtitles.

― Lara (Lara), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:42 (twenty-three years ago)

the first time I saw In The Realm of the Senses it was in the library when I was 16; I kept looking over my shoulder.

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 14 February 2003 13:44 (twenty-three years ago)

"12 Monkeys," by myself, late at night on a very humid summer day in Pensacola, Florida, and when it was over my car was the only one in this huge parking lot, everything was damp and still.

― chicxulub (chicxulub), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

the first thing we saw when we switched on the telly in vienna was a dubbed australian sitcom, 'heartbreak high'

― minna (minna), Friday, 14 February 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

"Of Mice and Men," in a theatre in Barcelona - the movie was in English with Spanish (or Catalan?) subtitles - I laughed before everyone else in the theatre (er, not that it was a partiularly funny story).

"Smokey and the Bandit" on a plane, flying to Hawaii, on the day that John Lennon was shot...mother thought that the movie was too violent, so she took away the headphones. I still laughed, though. And I discovered that if I pu my ear close to the headphone jack I could hear some of the dialogue. I showed her!

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:12 (twenty-three years ago)

"Perdita Durango" on a hot summer night in a cinema without air conditioning sitting between a smelly drunk and a fat man whose deodorant had failed. Classic.

― Wintermute (Wintermute), Friday, 14 February 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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