2001 at the Drive-In

Just a list of every movie I've seen this year...*


*See also: The Home Drive-In Experience, the Year 2K list.

Dec. 01: Out w/ a bang--I saw Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring on 12/31/01...The Royal Tennenbaums...L.A. Confidential (it was on TNT late...I always have to watch it, for the sexual trifecta of Spacey, Crowe, and Pearce.)...Vanilla Sky...The Apartment...Wild at Heart...Assault on Precinct 13 (w/ that cool-*ss synth score)...Once Upon a Time in the West (Henry Fonda shoots a little KID!)
Nov. 01: Year of the Dragon...Damage...Citizen Ruth...The Big Chill...Boogie Nights...Revenge (Costner movie that I avoided for years, finally saw and dug it)...Cecil B. Demented...Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story...The Minus Man...Inside Moves...Boys on the Side (!!!)...Rollercoaster...The Exorcist (2000 version)...
Lookout, it's Oct. 01: Halloween II...The Omen...From Hell...Sleepaway Camp Reunion...Traffic...Footloose (My favorite movie of 1984, rightfully ridiculed on the big screen)...The Devil's Backbone (not a 'spooky' ghost story, just disturbing)
Sept.01: The Gift...The Boys Next Door...Willie Wonka...It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World...Outland...Moulin Rouge...Wonderboys...The Deadliest Art: Best of the Martial Arts Films

August '01: The Good, the Bad, and The Ugly...Original Kings of Comedy...Me, Myself, & Irene...The Others...Red Dawn(!!)...Mahogany
QT 5 FeST: For a Few Dollars More...SCI-FI HORROR Marathon: The Omega Man/ Star Trek II/ Saturn 3/ Vampire Planet/ Lifeforce...HONG KONG Sunday: King of Beggars/ The Blade (cool as hell)...ITALIAN CRIME: The Family/ The Italian Connection/ Machine Gun McCain...SEX+VIOLENCE: Slaughter Hotel/The School That Couldn't Scream...GOOD OL'BOYS: Dixie Dynamite/Brotherhood of Death...MEN-on a-MISSION: Dark of the Sun...REVENGE: Framed/Rolling Thunder (aah!!!)/Fist of Fury...KUNG FU: 2 eps. of Kung Fu/Jade Claw...The Last Nite: Billy Jack

July 2001: The Wizard of Oz Sing-A-Long...Deliverance...Requiem for a Dream...Best in Show...Unbreakable...The Apartment...The Beach...The Talented Mr. Ripley...Hands on a Hardbody...Mommie Dearest...Little Shop of Horrors...A.I....Excalibur...The Godfather...American Pop

JuNE 2001: Evil Dead 2/ Bruce Campbell live...Phantom of the Paradise...The Falcon and the Snowman (Sean Penn in one of the truly great 'coked-up gun nut' performances)...Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures...Raiders of the Lost Ark (20th Anniversary)...Conrack...Young Frankenstein/ Blazing Saddles double feature...Swordfish...Zu Warriors of Magic Mountain...The Game...Sisters (DePalma rulz!)...Manhunter...Mary Shelley's Frankenstein...Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

It's May of '01 now: Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Skeery Diznee: The Headless Horseman throws a flaming pumpkin at Ichabod Crane.)...They were showing Jaws on the Superstation YET AGAIN!!, back to back showings, and--I saw the end, and then the beginning--it's the perfect movie...Saw some of The Shining on there too, it holds up...John Cassavetes double feature!: Rosemary's Baby and The Fury...John Carpenter's Vampires...The Lost Boys...Seconds

April '01: Superman and Superman II on TV in the same week...Xanadu...Snatch...Blow (again!)...6 Degrees of Separation...The Other...Harlan County, U.S.A....Pandora's Box (silent movie on the big screen w/ a live band supplying the jazzy soundtrack)

March '01: Spy Kids...The King of Comedy ...Ordinary People...Blow...Memento...Ginger Snaps...Jaws (like, 3 times this month...)...Pornstar: The Legend of Ron Jeremy--!!!...The Devil You Know: Inside the Mind of Todd McFarlane...We Sold Our Souls for Rock and Roll (Ozzfest doc.)...Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 (My favorite line: "Dis-em-bowwwwled, Jeffrey!", sez the redneck sheriff)...What Lies Beneath

Feb. 2001: Hannibal...Point of No Return...The Hotel New Hampshire...the last 1/2 hour of The Ice Storm...Papillon (Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman survive the ultimate prison hell)...only as much of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang as I could stand...

January 2001: It all began w/ 2001...Three Kings...Run Lola Run...Waiting for Guffman...Traffic...Looking for Mr. Goodbar...Oh, Brother, Where Art Thou? (Coen Boys hootfest)...Empire Records...Victor/Victoria (the gayest movie ever made!)...Arthur ("Where's the rest of this moose?")...Something Wild...Chuck and Buck...Lucio Fulci's The Beyond

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© 2001 Mia J. Fudge.
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