And it's not just Catholics who have a visceral reaction: News footage filmed at movie theaters during The Exorcist's
original theatrical run shows people, many of them women, leaving midway through the movie short of breath and clutching their chests.
In 2003, for example, both Sean Penn and Tim Robbins won Oscars for their work in Mystic River; I found both of them embarrassingly hammy — especially Robbins, whose tic - ridden portrayal of lingering trauma I'd actually call his career worst (and I saw Howard The Duck in
its original theatrical run).
(According to Drafthouse, Dangerous Men made $ 70 during
its original theatrical run on a single screen in Santa Monica, but rather like The Velvet Underground, everyone who saw it was converted.)
THE GODFATHER trilogy and CASABLANCA restorations are amazing and is the best you'll see these movies look since
their original theatrical runs.
Both films are clearly products of their time, with numerous anecdotes relating spontaneous applause and standing curtain calls during
their original theatrical runs.
Running February 19 thru March 10, along with a separate shorts program of short films and trailers, the Music Box will be showing 14 features — some of them in prints from
their original theatrical runs — that run the gamut from Oscar - winning classics to cult oddities to contemporary uses of the format.
I'd like to catch up with Captain Phillips, which I still regret missing during
its original theatrical run.
Since failing to light up the box office during
its original theatrical run last year — leading Warner Bros to rename it Live.
Fifteen years afters
its original theatrical run, Felix Hubble pens a love letter to Tom Green's irreverent directorial debut, the infamous FREDDY GOT FINGERED.
When I was 8 years old, I saw Bugsy Malone in
its original theatrical run.
They may be classics now, but in
their original theatrical runs, movies like Office Space, Harold and Maude, and Heathers got savaged by reviewers.