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Ishtar
(May, 1987)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (OOP)
(Ross, 1976)
The Devils
(Russell, 1974)
The Pirates of Penzance
(Papp/Leach, 1983)
The Fortune
(Nichols, 1975)
-30-
(Webb, 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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1930's-1950's
The Moon's Our Home
(Seiter, 1936)
Sh! The Octopus
(McGann, 1937)
The Mating Season
(Leisen, 1951)
Bad for Each Other
(Rapper, 1953)
The Phenix City Story
(Karlson, 1955)
Run of the Arrow
(Fuller, 1956)
House of Secrets
(Green, 1956)
Saint Joan
(Preminger, 1957)
Macabre
(Castle, 1958)
The Fiend Who Walked the West
(G. Douglas, 1958
Five Gates to Hell
(Clavell, 1959)
1960's
Key Witness
(Karlson, 1960)
Summer and Smoke
(Glenville, 1961)
The Chapman Report
(Cukor,1962)
Bachelor Flat
(Tashlin, 1962) [on Hulu]
The L Shaped Room
(Forbes, 1963)
The Chalk Garden
(Neame, 1964)
A Thousand Clowns
(Coe, 1965)
You're a Big Boy Now
(Coppola, 1966)
The Whisperers
(Forbes, 1967)
Dark of the Sun
(Cardiff, 1968)
Skidoo
(Preminger, 1968)
Last Summer
(Perry, 1969)
The Comic
(C. Reiner, 1969)
1970-1974
The Revolutionary
(Williams, 1970)
The Landlord
(Ashby, 1970)
Diary of a Mad Housewife
(Perry, 1970)
Tropic of Cancer
(Strick, 1970)
I Never Sang for My Father
(Cates, 1970)
Sometimes a Great Notion
(Newman, 1971)
Marriage of a Young Stockbroker
(Turman, 1971)
The Music Lovers
(Russell, 1971)
Drive, He Said
(Nicholson, 1971)
The Steagle
(Sylbert, 1971)
The Last Movie
(Hopper, 1971)
Made For Each Other
(Bean, 1971)
The Day the Clown Cried
(Lewis, 1972)
Hickey & Boggs (OOP)
(Culp, 1972)
The Carey Treatment
(Edwards, 1972)
Pete 'n' Tillie
(Ritt, 1972)
Slither
(Zieff, 1973)
Man on a Swing
(Perry, 1974)
Open Season
(Collinson, 1974)
The Tamarind Seed
(Edwards, 1974)
Law and Disorder
(Passer, 1974)
Homebodies
(Yust, 1974)
Stardust
(Apted, 1974)
Celine and Julie Go Boating
(Rivette, 1974)
1975-1979
Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins
(Richards, 1975
At Long Last Love
(Bogdanovich, 1975)
Hearts of the West
(Zieff, 1975)
Welcome to L.A.
(Rudolph, 1976)
W.C. Fields and Me
(Hiller, 1976)
Citizens Band
(Demme, 1977)
Twilight's Last Gleaming
(Aldrich, 1977)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar
(Brooks, 1977)
Girlfriends
(Weill, 1978)
Movie Movie
(Donen, 1978)
The Medusa Touch
(Gold, 1978)
American Hot Wax
(Mutrux, 1978)
Hot Stuff
(DeLuise, 1979)
Scavenger Hunt
(Schultz , 1979)
Players
(Harvey, 1979)
Rich Kids
(Young, 1979)
Nightwing
(Hiller, 1979)
Screams of a Winter's Night
(Wilson, 1979
When You Comin' Back Red Ryder?
(Katselas, 1979
1980's
Resurrection
(Petrie, 1980)
The Awakening
(Newell, 1980)
Simon
(Brickman, 1980)
God's Angry Man
(Herzog, 1980)
Fast-Walking
(Harris, 1982)
Twice Upon a Time
(Korty & Swenson, 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)
1990's
Old Times
(Curtis, 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)

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Uploaded 14 days ago on Flickr, forwarded last night by Oregonian critic Shawn Levy. "This is an actual photo -- not Photoshopped -- of a second-run Portland movie theater, the Cinemagic, changing its marquee over from Hancock to TDK. As the fellow who sent it to me said, 'Sometimes it's better to work right to left.'"

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on July 31, 2008 at 7:57 AM

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BurmaShave says ...

That's hilarious. Though based on your timeline, it must be a first run?

Posted by BurmaShave at July 31, 2008 8:10 AM

comment #2

shawn says ...

Good catch, BurmaShave: Cinemagic, which is part of a small local chain, changes booking policies frequently. Not with such felicitous impact on their signage, though.

Posted by shawn at July 31, 2008 8:38 AM

comment #3

Rich S. says ...

I want to see the Geezers review THAT movie.

Posted by Rich S. at July 31, 2008 8:40 AM

comment #4

cjKennedy says ...

Good one, Rich.

Posted by cjKennedy at July 31, 2008 8:59 AM

comment #5

Killingtheday says ...

A few years ago, there was a marquee in sherman oaks (the theatre near gelsons) that had "Passion of the Christ" and "The Ladykillers" on it. The titles lined up perfectly to read "Passion of the Christ Killers"

This one's funnier.

Posted by Killingtheday at July 31, 2008 9:03 AM

comment #6

BurmaShave says ...

Said it before, but nothing will ever beat:

ERIN BROCKOVICH
SCREWED
MY DOG SKIP

Posted by BurmaShave at July 31, 2008 9:22 AM

comment #7

ZacharyTF says ...

That picture reminded me of this one:

http://www.awardsdaily.com/?p=499

Posted by ZacharyTF at July 31, 2008 9:32 AM

comment #8

115thDreamer says ...

I used to have a photo of the small theater somewhere several years back that had two movies showing at the time:

THE IRON GIANT
DICK

Good times.

Posted by 115thDreamer at July 31, 2008 9:45 AM

comment #9

HohoOfDoom says ...

The CineMagic is where I remember seeing Like Water for Chocolate and Punch-Drunk Love... and now they're showing midnight showings of The Dark Knight on opening day? What has happened to my darling Portland since I've been gone?

Posted by HohoOfDoom at July 31, 2008 9:46 AM

comment #10

Mgmax says ...

Marquee humor is fine, but there's no thrill like getting a memo at Leo Burnett about a project called the Ameritech Home Office Link, and the first paragraph is about how our goal is to increase awareness and penetration of the AHOL.

As God is my witness.

Posted by Mgmax at July 31, 2008 10:29 AM

comment #11

adorian says ...

San Antonio was once having a summer arts festival, and the opera that year was going to be Madama Butterfly. The workers were putting up a poster on a giant billboard sign along the Loop, but they put only the left half of it on the first day and it read

MAD
BUTT

Posted by adorian at July 31, 2008 1:42 PM

comment #12

Meegosh says ...

If they worked the other way it still would have read "The Hand Knight"

Posted by Meegosh at July 31, 2008 2:36 PM

comment #13

Cassy2008 says ...

Recently, quite a few celebrities and pro athletes were said to appear on the millionaire luxury club "R I C H L O V I N G.C O M" to hook up with hot girls, ladies, models... OMG!!! Are these famous guys fond of internet dating for now?? Maybe they are indeed so rich that they feel boring sometimes to need new things? It was reported on MSN Charlie Sheen has found his girl there last May

Posted by Cassy2008 at August 1, 2008 2:51 AM

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