What 16mm Films Did You See Last Night?

[Janice Glesser]

I've been working on replacing a main switch on one of my Elmo 16CLs all week and haven't really had time to watch any film. So last night in honor of Kurt Douglas' recent passing I watched The Devil's Disciple (1959).

[Janice Glesser]

Just when I think there's not many more films out there that I want... I seem to find one. I just received a print of Sex and the Single Girl (1964) yesterday shipped from Canada. I screened it last night. The color and sound was excellent. Reel one had a good deal of white scratch lines on and off and some audio jump-cuts...but nothing major. Reel 2 & 3 were much better. I guess this is to be expected on prints this old.

Sex and the Single Girl has a great cast...Natalie Wood, Tony Curtis, Henry Fonda, Lauren Bacall, and Mel Ferrer.
It is the typical 1960's genre of romantic comedies mimicked in the 2003 movie Down with Love starring Renée Zellweger and Ewan McGregor.

[Marc Koch]

I watched MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, original with red tinted orphanage fire, and reel 2 of SON of KONG.

[Janice Glesser]

Last night I was testing out a new lens in my Elmo16CL. I didn't want to watch a complete movie so set up my 2300ft reel of Mission Impossible. Quality is great on the print and I was very happy with the performance of the lens.

[Dominique De Bast]

A very good surprise. I bought a film on EBay called "Une enquête au Congo" (600 m / 2000 ft). There is no title, the film starts with a fade so I'm not sure it's the original title. It seems to have been shot in the '50s. During the colonisation, priests ran cinema in the Belgian Congo (but there was also a French Congo so I'm not sure from which one this film is from) and they made some films. It may be one of those. It has been shot as a silent film and sonorized later (with a narration, in French of course, music and two or three basic sound effects). Most of the action happens in the countryside but ends in a town (uninditified). There are no informations on the net about this film. I would be interested to be lucky to find others from the same serie.

[Janice Glesser]

I can never get enough of Robert DeNiro and Meryl Streep and a good love story. DeNiro and Streep run into each other at a book store during a Christmas shopping spree. Weeks later they meet again riding the same commuter train and there is an instant attraction. Despite both being married their attraction grows and they continue to see each other. Also in the cast is Harvey Keitel, Dianne Wiest, and Jane Kaczmarek.

My print has great color and sound. The Norwegian subtitles don't bother me.

[Chip Gelmini]

Sunday January 26

SLEEPING BEAUTY
scope full length

w/changeover

[Chip Gelmini]

Saturday January 25

WC Fields in the Golf Specialist
short

Mary, Queen of Scots
feature

😀 my 1st screening w/ changeovers in 16mm

[Janice Glesser]

Last night I watched Albert Finney and Diane Keaton in the 1982 film Shoot the Moon. Set in the SF Bay Area...probably Marine County and a few shots in San Francisco. Peter Weller (pre-Robocop) and Karen Allen are also in the cast. This LPP print has great color and sound. Some scenes have been edited for TV...but nothing of importance missing.

[Janice Glesser]

Tonight I watched Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, and Goldie Hawn in Cactus Flower (1969). Walter Matthau plays a womanizing dentist who to avoid commitments tells his girl friend Goldie Hawn that he is married with 3 children. However Matthau eventually decides he loves Goldie and proposes to her. However...Goldie won't marry him until she can meet his wife. Ingrid Bergman who plays Matthau's dental assistant then poses as his wife and tells Goldie she is ok with a divorce. Things get very complicated after that. This is a fun movie with very good supporting character actors...and don't forget Goldie won an Oscar for her performance.

[Steve Klare]

I watched a couple of 16mm shorts tonight. One of them was Pacific 231: both the title of the film and the piece of music that the film was created around.

-it's like Fantasia for railroad fans! (-or maybe a railroad film for Fantasia fans!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKRCJhLU7rs

(This was brought to us this evening via the Franchetti Tables at CineSea, Wildwood New Jersey!)

[Janice Glesser]

Watched Glenn Ford and Geraldine Page in Dear Heart (1964). Geraldine Page is a quirky but caring single women who while attending a postal convention in New York meets up with the recently engaged womanizing greeting card salesman Glenn Ford. Their relationship starts out a bit rocky...but they grow closer over the course of the movie. The music scored by Henry Mancini works so well with this film. I always find myself humming the title song well after I've finished watching the movie.

[Chip Gelmini]

Sleeping Beauty in scope. 😀

[Mark Mander]

Last night was Superman the movie, haven't watched it in a while so decided to dig it out, apart from a few lines it still looks good, amazing it's over 40 years old, I saw it at the cinema when it was first released, Mark

[Dominique De Bast]

Another French film (from 1953) : L'ennemi public numéro 1, with the famous actor Fernandel. My copy has English subtitles but since the action is set in the US (mainly in New York), it adds to the atmosphere of the film. It starts explaining that the Americans know Europeans by caricatural films and that it was time to make a film with all American clichés. So, it's a kind of parody of gangster films. Not a masterpiece but I spent a good moment.