"If We Owned a Movie Theater" special - 1980 - movie reviews - Sneak Previews with Ebert and Siskel
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This is "If We Opened a Movie Theater" special episode by Siskel & Ebert on "Sneak Previews" from 1980.
Movies featured are:
The Conversation
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie
Real Life
The Green Wall
And Now My Love
Citizen Kane
The Conversation is ine of my top three films if all time. It builds, and builds, and builds. One of Hackman's best role.
The Conversation is great!
It's one of the best of all time.
Grew up watching sneak preview with Siskel and Ebert..RIP.
Now and again people on UA-cam get nostalgic for years past. This was what 1980 was like: FAR fewer entertainment options.
Most movies opened in New York or LA. Only if it did well there would it trickle down to smaller markets weeks later. If you lived in a small town with one movie screen in the whole county - like I did - you might never see small, interesting films until they showed up on TV. And R-rated films had so much cut out, they barely made sense.
Affordable VCRs were a total game-changer for the film and TV industry. And don't get me started on music.
Another 'game changer' was Showtime and HBO which if I remember right we got the former in 77 or 78 before we got a VCR. Big clunky box you had to flip a couple switches on to get one channel. Still that was where I first saw apocalypse, godfather, clockwork and so much more, basically films I never would have seen when I was 7 or 8 otherwise.
@Dean F. Not the movies, though. Not the movies. There were so many modern classics released during the '80s it was almost ridiculous.
Real Life was way ahead of its time.
Love these videos! Keep up the good work👍
Gene & Rodge are just so pure and likable
I remember hearing that fanfare at :50 back then. It was used for coming attractions often.
These guys cannot be duplicated
Real Life is hilarious. Grodin is great as the everyman dad.
the Conversation was released during the Watergate era.coincidence?
No coincidence.
If I was to own a movie theater, the first film I would show is gone with the wind. The best movie ever made.
You forgot to put "Happy New Year" in the list of movies, inbetween "And Now My Love" and "Citizen Kane"
They started out saying they wouldn't show the classics
Here's something when Siskel and Ebert were ahead of their time, what they would show in their theater. Today they have places like The Cinema Drafthouse and of course The New Beverly.
Those sorts of theaters have been around for decades.
As much as I love both of these great men and miss them very much, I must point something out. If Gene Siskel owned a movie theater and didn't show any film that he didn't recommend, I doubt it would make any money lol. He gave thumbs down to a long list of pretty darn good movies over the years lol.
When they were at home I wonder how often these two actually watched something foreign made like "And Now, My Love" or "The Green Wall" with all the subtitles?
Can you please re-post this clip with louder volume? And please don't ask me how to do it because I have no idea. Thank you.
Tim O'Neill don’t look a gift mouth in the horse. Hear that?
@NotSnarl It's a free video of a Video from fucking 1980! If you don't like it, move along or figure out how to fix it yourself. Otherwise, STFU and be happy it's uploaded at all. Fucking Choosing beggar...
@@collectibleasmr I couldn't agree more.