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Ishtar (May,
1987)
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1976)
The Devils (Russell,
1974)
The Pirates of Penzance (Papp/Leach,
1983)
The Fortune (Nichols,
1975)
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1959)
Betrayal (Jones,
1983)
Play It As It Lays (Perry,
1972)
The Outfit (Flynn,
1973)
Alex in Wonderland (Mazursky,
1969)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (Aldrich,
1968)
In The Cool of the Day (Stevens,
1963)
That Cold Day in the Park (Altman,
1969)
Thumb Trippin' (Masters,
1972)
Midas Run (Kjellin,
1969)
At Long Last Love (Bogdanovich,
1973)
Brewster McCloud (Altman,
1972)
Outcast of the Islands (Reed,
1951)
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1936)
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1937)
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1951)
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1953)
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1955)
Run of the Arrow (Fuller,
1956)
House of Secrets (Green,
1956)
Saint Joan (Preminger,
1957)
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1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West (G. Douglas,
1958
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1959)
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1960)
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1961)
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1962)
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1962) [on Hulu]
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1963)
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1964)
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1965)
You're a Big Boy Now (Coppola,
1966)
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1967)
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1968)
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1968)
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1969)
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1969)
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1970)
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1970)
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1970)
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1970)
I Never Sang for My Father (Cates,
1970)
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1971)
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1971)
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1971)
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1971)
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1971)
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1971)
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1971)
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1972)
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1972)
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1972)
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1972)
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1973)
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1974)
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1974)
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1974)
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1974)
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1974)
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1974)
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1974)
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1975
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1975)
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1975)
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1976)
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1976)
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1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming (Aldrich,
1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (Brooks,
1977)
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1978)
Movie Movie (Donen,
1978)
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1978)
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1978)
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1979)
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1979)
Rich Kids (Young,
1979)
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1979)
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1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder? (Katselas,
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1980)
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1980)
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1980)
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1980)
Fast-Walking (Harris,
1982)
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1983)
Trouble in Mind (Rudolph,
1985)
When the Wind Blows (Murikami,
1986)
Housekeeping (Forsyth,
1987)
The Glass Menagerie (Newman,
1987)
Patty Hearst (Schrader,
1988)
Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway,
1988)
Haunted Summer (Passer,
1988)
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years(Spheeris,
1988)
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1991)
Prospero's Books (Greenaway,
1991)
City of Hope (Sayles,
1991)
The Baby of Macon (Greenaway,
1993)
King of the Hill (Soderbergh,
1993)
Dadetown (Hexter,
1995)
SubUrbia (Linklater,
1997)
comment #1
breadlymoore
says ...
How is this desperate?
Loads of films offer chunks of footage to preview these daays.
Posted by breadlymoore
at June 10, 2008 1:18 PM
comment #2
Mark
says ...
Has a such a preview ever worked with the public? Sure didn't work for Speed Racer and Running Scared. Maybe it helped The Illusionist, but my memory isn't great on how much that preview showed.
Posted by Mark
at June 10, 2008 1:21 PM
comment #3
Rich S.
says ...
I think USA or Sci-Fi or something like that showed the first 10 minutes of Snyder's Dawn of the Dead (which, not coincidentally was the best part of that film) a couple of days before the premiere. I think it opened surprisingly big and did pretty robust business.
Posted by Rich S.
at June 10, 2008 1:25 PM
comment #4
Webster
says ...
Disney/Pixar offered a nine-minute preview of Ratatouille last summer. Seems to me that worked out OK.
Posted by Webster
at June 10, 2008 1:27 PM
comment #5
Mark
says ...
Didn't know that about Dawn of the Dead; twas a good opening. Regarding Ratatouille, that wasn't exactly a domestic cash cow. The worst Pixar box office since a Bug's Life, and by far the biggest budget. (I'm positve that it did great in Europe, but have no idea if Europeans paid attention to the preview.)
Posted by Mark
at June 10, 2008 1:59 PM
comment #6
Rich S.
says ...
The most surprising thing about Dawn was that the network showed that 10 minutes completely uncut (and if you remember, it's pretty damn gory). I watched it and it certainly sold me on seeing it that weekend.
Posted by Rich S.
at June 10, 2008 2:07 PM
comment #7
televisiontears
says ...
Agreed about the first ten minutes of the Dawn remake. Wish the film kept on with that frentic "let's get the fuck out of here" tone for the whole film - like a feature-length escape set piece.
It's strange that the remake slowly deflates once they settle into the mall, yet that's when Romero's original started getting really interesting.
Posted by televisiontears
at June 10, 2008 3:31 PM
comment #8
Jamie
says ...
The Variety review of the film is pretty harsh. Desperation wouldn't be uncalled for...
Posted by Jamie
at June 10, 2008 4:10 PM
comment #9
corey3rd
says ...
the few times this has been done, it's been for films that stunk it up. And in the case of most of them, had the lamest first reel.
Posted by corey3rd
at June 10, 2008 4:10 PM
comment #10
T. Holly
says ...
http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117937374.html?categoryid=31&cs=1
Jamie, there's plenty of wiggle room to suggest the average movie goer is going to love it. What's the deal with running the review so early though? It opens 6/20.
Posted by T. Holly
at June 10, 2008 4:33 PM
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