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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Here are the movies I’d rather see at the Fox
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Four more films have been selected to screen in August at the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox Theatre. Each is, as accurately described, a summer blockbuster.
The films are “Sex and the City” (7:30 p.m. Aug. 7), “Iron Man” (7:30 p.m. Aug. 8), “Kung Fu Panda” (2 p.m. Aug. 10) and “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (7:30 p.m. Aug. 30). Three more films will be named later.
I don’t know about you … and I’m certainly not charged with the difficult task of filling 4,000 seats for a show … but I’m disappointed in the choices.
Why? I JUST SAW ALL THOSE MOVIES!
I like it best when the festival plays classics. Like “Casablanca,” which the fest did screen recently. And “Ben-Hur,” which will be shown July 13.
The festival should play more classics.
Since director-producer-actor Sydney Pollack passed in May, they could have considered showing “Tootsie” or “The Way We Were.”
This is the 30th anniversary of the festival. So why not book some movies from 1978? Like “The Deer Hunter,” “Halloween,” “Grease,” “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” or “Superman.”
If you want to celebrate an anniversary, fete the 50th birthday of “The Defiant Ones.” And while you’re at it, get your sponsor, Coca-Cola, to pony up to bring Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis to the Fox to talk about the movie. I think that would draw a crowd.
Here are other movies I wish were playing at the Fox: “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Mary Poppins,” “Thunderball,” “Blazing Saddles,” “Lawrence of Arabia,” “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” “Big Night,” “The Birds,” “Dumbo,” “The Grapes of Wrath,” “Patton,” “The Naked Gun,” “Unforgiven,” “Stop Making Sense,” “Sunset Boulevard,” “Pulp Fiction,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” “Shaft,” “Bonnie and Clyde” and “Chinatown.”
That’s just a start.
What films would you want to have screened at the Coca-Cola Summer Film Festival at the Fox?
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