Which films would you most like to see on a big screen?

That you haven't already.

I like to keep a list. These would be near the top of the list:

The Fall of the Roman Empire
The Girl Can't Help It
The Last Picture Show
Lawrence of Arabia
The Long Good Friday
Notorious
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
The Passenger
Playtime
Solaris
Tony Rome
Written on the Wind

living and/or working in NYC for 35+ years, i can't think of any

(i've seen all of the above in rep houses except for... Tony Rome?)

Same

I need to step up my game. If I ever move out of NYC I know I'll regret not seeing as many rep screenings as possible when I could.

well not just rep houses... i saw Lawrence of Arabia at the Ziegfeld when they did the first 70mmm restoration. '80s i guess.

I waited to see 2001 on the big screen at AFI Silver, and I'm glad I did. Now I'm hoping to see The Godfather (I and II) and Lawrence of Arabia in that sort of setting. And next month Sherlock Jr. will be at AFI--I've seen it but live accompaniment and a copacetic audience should make a good experience.

Big Time the Tom Waits concert film. Supposedly there's ONE copy in existence which i can't quite understand.

Gutted that there aren't more places showing old stuff in the UK but it's been getting better lately; i've seen Apocalypse Now in Imax, and Distant Voices, Still Lives in 4K in the last year.

I dunno who's been doing the BFI trailers but they're a thing of beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZVEUpgKi10

Supposedly there's ONE copy in existence which i can't quite understand.

Do you mean one 35mm print? Since the rise of digital formats, you hear stories about programmers not being able to book even recent titles in analog format. This past weekend someone from the Film Noir Foundation was describing how the last official 35mm print of Woman on the Run was lost in the 2008 Universal fire. The foundation restored the film, from a bootleg copy someone had made of that lost print.

(If you'll be in the DC area this coming weekend, there'll be a 35mm screening of WotR at AFI.)

Keaton's features were very rare until the Lincoln Plaza (RIP) showed em all when i was a freshman or soph in college, so i saw em all first in a theater.

Helter Skelter (2012) - a visually beautiful film
with some great soundtrack moments - would love to hear Naturträne in surround. And Erika Sawajiri is just so beautiful!

Big Time the Tom Waits concert film. Supposedly there's ONE copy in existence which i can't quite understand.

Most films ever made have fewer than one print remaining.

Thank you, New York Times online archives:

July 15, 1981
Keaton Retrospective At Lincoln Plaza Cinema
A Buster Keaton film festival will run from Aug. 12 to Sept. 19 at the Lincoln Plaza Cinema, Broadway at West 62d Street. Presented by New Yorker Films and Raymond Rohauer, the festival will consist of 11 features and 23 shorts.

That was the summer between my sophomore and junior years at School of Visual Arts. What a great couple of weeks--I only missed one screening, and I saw Emo Phillips in the audience a couple of times.

(Failed film student, in case you were wondering.)

Wait a minute... I saw the Keatons at the single-screen Regency Theater on Bdwy & 67th, not the tiny, 6-screen Lincoln Plaza Cinema.

The theater was a block north of Tower Records Broadway, which is the key to my figuring out what year this was. I keep a list of every record I've bought since 1979 (on paper for many years, later a spreadsheet), including the date and store. So looking for a series of Tower purchases over a short period of time, I find that it must have been September 1984.

And not a bad purchase in the bunch!

9/5/1984 - Budd & Brian Eno, Harold - Pearl, The
9/5/1984 - Budd, Harold - Abandoned Cities
9/5/1984 - Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
9/12/1984 - Springfield, Dusty - Very Best of Dusty Springfield, The
9/12/1984 - Various - Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him
9/12/1984 - XTC - All You Pretty Girls/Washaway/Red Brick Dream
9/20/1984 - Chiffons, The - Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear...But Couldn't Get by the Chiffons
9/20/1984 - Jones, Rickie Lee - Magazine, The
9/30/1984 - Shirelles, The - Shirelles, The
9/30/1984 - Various - Phil Spector's Greatest Hits
9/30/1984 - Various - Phil Spector's Christmas Album

(1984 was also the start of my '60s girl group obsession after watching the doc "Girl Groups: The Story of a Sound.")

Bad Timing
News From Home
The Apartment
Zabriskie Point
Solaris
The Wrong Man
Nashville
Alphaville
The Last Picture Show
World on a Wire

xp that's my favorite XTC single

XP ^^Got half of those under me belt! Apartment, Zabriskie (w/all Pink Floyd at the end--RULED), Nashville, LPS, and WoW.

My list? I wouldn't know where to start. Houston is not the rep town it once was.

Godard's Goodbye to Language in 3d was such a mindfuck, would like to try it again.

genuine thrills at Hideous Lump’s self-researching

Have caught screenings of Bad Timing, News From Home, and Nashville within the last year or so, and they're all worth it

Napoleon (Abel Gance)
Barry Lyndon
Days of Heaven (played near me recently but I missed it)
Black Narcissus
various Tarkovsky (think I've only seen Solaris in a theater)

Seeing a print of Lost Highway on an extremely wide screen totally transformed that movie for me.

seen stalker and mirror in theater; both spectacular experiences.

Having just gotten into Nuir Bilge Ceylan, I wanna see all his stuff on the big screen... particularly Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

i used to keep ink-and-paper lists of my filmgoing; if i ever find '81 i'll transcribe it.

re the Regency Theater, the first time i ever went to NYC by myself in high school was to see Psycho there.

my first serious foray into regular marathon movie watching in theaters was when i first came to the city in 2000 and i set up residence at MoMA while I was couchsurfing. They were helpfully starting a "canon" series at the time and had two theaters open regularly for matinee and evening shows. Wish i had kept better notes...

xpost - The Regency was a great theater--probably the largest screen for a revival house in NYC, from what I remember. Also, the average age of the audience members was about 80.

Weird memory: Eating lunch before one of the Keaton screenings was the first time I ate Pizza Combos.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/6792Foods_in_Baliuag%2C_Bulacan_08.jpg/320px-6792Foods_in_Baliuag%2C_Bulacan_08.jpg

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is overwhelming on a big screen. I've seen it twice, once in London while I was on holiday, and once at a repertory screening in Copenhagen, which for some weird reason was on 35 mm, I'm fairly certain. It's one of the best digitally made films of all time, but it did look pretty incredible on celluloid. Apparently, Pedro Costa wants his films to be seen on celluloid as well, even though he shoots on digital. I think Colossal Youth might be the closest thing I have to a great white whale I want to see on the big screen. That and Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks.

The Regency was a great theater--probably the largest screen for a revival house in NYC, from what I remember. Also, the average age of the audience members was about 80.

And the interior temperature was about 55. It was wise to have a sweater during the summer.