Nostalgia Nights!
- Posted By : Brook Willeford
- Comments : 38
We’re often asked about showing older movies, but we’ve never been able to arrange it to our satisfaction — until now.
Starting July 25, The Clyde will be showing special Nostalgia Nights movies Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday nights at 7:30. We’ve curated a selection of summer movies that we think will appeal to the South Whidbey crowd. Unfortunately, we can’t show Disney movies (or any movie from any of the many distributors that Disney now owns) because they won’t provide the license for them. But there are a ton of great movies out there (we have a list of around 50 that we think would work well if this takes off, and we’re sure we’ve missed a lot of them).
We have them scheduled through the first week in September, with the films as follows:
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — July 25-27
Dirty Dancing — August 1-3
Blazing Saddles — August 8-10 Rescheduled to Sept 12-14
Back to the Future — August 15-17 Rescheduled to Sept 19-21
Best in Show — August 22-24
Grease — August 29-31
The Goonies — September 5-7
If those go well, then you’ll likely see The Blues Brothers, The Big Lebowski, When Harry Met Sally…, and Singin’ in the Rain.
UPDATE: Due to Warner Brothers requiring us to play Barbie every show (even special shows like Nostalgia Nights) during the week, Blazing Saddles and Back to the Future have been rescheduled.
If you have suggestions for other Nostalgia Nights movies, you can use the Contact Us button.
Young Frankenstein
It’s on the list of 50-ish that we have gathered.
Un homme et une femme) is a 1966 French film written and directed by Claude Lelouch
We’re generally aiming for movies with a broader appeal, something that a wide variety of folks will be interested in rather than going for pure cinematic quality.
“Young Frankenstein” is one of the lovely films in which I have a moment of “Solo Violin”. No longer getting Royalties for this one.
I’d like to suggest a “Locals for Locals” Film Series. I am still getting Royalties for Solo Violin and Film Scoring Credits for some fun/great films and TV shows (like Fame and Star Wars TV series and “Raid on Short Creek” with Johnny Cash starring…and of course my biggest theft in “An Officer and A Gentleman” and my biggest grief of concert and recording footage from “Van Morrison in Ireland” film and the recording “Into the Music” which then became the sound track for the movie “Belfast”!!!!!!!! including an onscreen moment when Van Morrison introduces me near the end of the film after taking a solo: “Toni Marcus” and the 1979 recording “Into the Music”) on the sound stage for “Yes, Georgio”, “When whatsit met Maud”, “Yes, Giorgio”, “Staying Alive”, And a great 30 minute Jack Benny TV show featuring Julie London 1960 !!! Eh, Kimasabe? There are “a lot of us” on the South End of The Island. Let’s see more of Billy’s work too!!! Sincerely appreciative of you’all and “The Clyde Cinema”. (:))
Young Frankenstein is definitely on our expanded list — the idea of a locals film series is interesting though!
Some of DeMille’s epics that no one under 50 has probably seen in a theater: The Ten Commandments, Samson and Delilah, Reap the Wild Wind, Union Pacific, Cleopatra
One or two of those could be interesting — particularly The Ten Commandments and Cleopatra.
I would love to see the 10 Commandments or Ben Hur on a big screen.
What about a musical series? South Pacific, Oklahoma, Hair, Calamity Jane, Sound of Music, etc. Imagining the audience singing along. Might be fun.
Singin’ in the Rain is on the list. Oklahoma, Sound of Music, and others are great ideas too.
Hey Brook – any chance of bringing back Life Is Beautiful with Roberto Begnini? We can’t seem to rent it anywhere. It’s not an oldie necessarily, but it’s definitely a goodie and a classic!
Also, on a different note, any plans to show Sound of Freedom in the near future? A very important movie, from what I hear.
Lovelovelove The Clyde!!
My Suggestion for an awareness of climate change is the film “Waller.”
But just for plain Nostalgia entertainment I’d like to see “Charade” on the big screen. Thanks, Brook.
Disney no longer owns Studio Ghibli films, so My Neighbor Totoro is a possibility! https://gkids.com/about-us/
Raiders of the Lost Ark
On Golden Pond
Saturday Night Fever
Goodbye girl
Yentyl
The Wizard of Oz
The Sound of Music
Rocky
Goodfellas
Shawshank Redemption
Field of Dreams
Life is Beautiful
Cinema Paradiso
Amadeus
Dead Poet Society
Thanks everyone for the suggestions — many of them were already on one of my lists, a few of them have since been added.
Weekend at Bernies
Harold and Maude
Alice Doesn’t Live Here anymore
The Graduate
Five Easy Pieces
Thank you, Blake and Brook! -and thank you for playing my CD before the movies! (I have a new remastered copy for you.) 😎
Harold and Maude
Alice Doesn’t Love Here Anymore
The Graduate
Five Easy Pieces
Coda -not nostalgic, but sure wish I could find it
Thanks, Blake and Brook! -and thank you for playing my CD before the movies! (I have a newly remastered copy for you) 😎
Cinema Paradiso
How about Peter Sellers Pink Panther series. Just thinking about them makes me laugh
So many great suggestions, several of which made it onto my Great Big List — but attendance has been marginal most nights for the first two Nostalgia Nights special films. Hopefully more folks will come after Barbie’s two weeks.
Blade runner and Dr. Strangelove in the fall please
Chinatown
Independence Day
Men in Black
The Bird Cage
Monty Python movies
Home Alone
The Sand Lot
Moon Struck
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Wallace and Gromit Movies
I would love to see a Film Noir series with such greats as:
Out of The Past 1947
The Big Sleep 1946
The Third Man 1949
Double Indemnity 1944
Maltese Falcon 1941
In A Lonely Place 1950
I hear they are re-releasing Roman Holiday for its 70th anniversary! Would be wonderful to see on the big screen!
Would also love to see To Kill a Mockingbird on the big screen.
Love that you’re doing this!!!!
Suggestions from a mid-thirties guy who grew up in the 90’s-
American Graffiti
Back to the Future
Big Daddy
The Big Lebowski
Clueless
Coneheads
The Goonies
Jurassic Park
Kiki’s Delivery Service
Kung Fu Hustle
The Little Rascals
Matilda
Mrs. Doubtfire
Office Space
Pleasantville
Spaceballs
Three Amigos!
Wayne’s World
What About Bob
Hotel Chavelier/The Darjeeling Limited
The Departed
The Fifth Element
And for the month of October-
Casper – 1995
ParaNorman – 2012
Practical Magic – 1998 (cause we’re on Whidbey)
Rocky Horror picture show!
We’ve always been a little hesitant about Rocky Horror because of all of the fun things involved with a group watching the film — we don’t really want to deal with thrown toast or squirt guns.
Yes! But I suspect that a group from Seattle or Tacoma would have to be lured up to lead the audience participation portion.
That would be part of the problem for us — we don’t want the extra clean-up.
Can you do original terminator?
The Last Dragon (1985)
The Swashbuckler (1976) Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) Errol Flynn
Krull
The princess bride
The Princess Bride was at the absolute top of my list — but unfortunately Fox is owned by Disney, who won’t release any of their films for shows like this.
Thank you, Clyde!
Franco Zefferelli’s Romeo and Juliet
To Kill a Mockingbird
Out of Africa
Musical concert series: Queen, A Hard Day’s Night, Earth Wind and Fire, etc
Alfred Hitchcock. Rear window, Trouble with Harry. All of them!