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When I was about 14, my whole family - me, my five younger siblings, and our parents - saw Disney’s Sleeping Beauty at a private screening sponsored by our church. Clearly that was more due to the happy circumstances of the day than the quality of the movie. My favorite moment might actually be seeing Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace with my dad on the same day I graduated from college.

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Mark Young, Sound on Sight, The New York Movie KlubĪlthough I saw movies with my family now and then when I was a kid, no one experience really stands out from any other. My parents are wonderful people, but there is no question that this was the single coolest thing they ever pulled over on us in our lives. “Well, do you want to see Star Wars?” my mother asked. After coming out and putting the few groceries in the car, my parents started walking towards the theater. She said she had to pick up a couple of things, and we went to the grocery store. On a Sunday after church, we stopped in at the shopping center where my mom did our grocery shopping - and which also had the only multiplex in town showing Star Wars. Like every other school kid in 1977, I was frantically wanting to see this movie, but as a family we didn’t tend to go out to the movies very often.

Plenty of people from my generational cohort have a Star Wars story, but I’ve yet to come across one quite like mine. Even now, twenty-some years later, I still get e-mails from my mom saying “Just watched Double Impact on DVD…. The best part about all this is that it was neither annoying nor the least bit scary: those guys were just there digging the movie like we were, and their enjoyment and manner of expressing it made for a really sublime Saturday morning vibe. It’s a good gun,” in an approving manner. They seemed very concerned that Bolo Yeung would sneak up on Van Damme, and kept on softly (so as not to tip off Bolo, I suppose) calling out “Hey, yo, Jean-Claude! There goes Bolo! Behind you, motherfucker!” The best, though, was when Van Damme picked up a Desert Eagle, and one observed to the other, “Yo, my cousin got that gun. The Metropolitan Theater in downtown Brooklyn was the site of many a fond movie memory, but none so fond as the afternoon bargain matinee of Double Impact my mom and I went to where the only other people in the theater were these two hung over (and probably also stoned) gentlemen in the row directly behind us who kept a very hazy commentary going throughout the picture. The Future of Movie Streaming Is an 'Exhausting' 'Beautiful Nightmare'Īfter 25 Years, These Are the 'Friends' Characters Critics Love the Mostġ9 Best Erotic Thrillers, from Adrian Lyne to Brian De Palmaįrom 'Barbie' to 'Babylon,' Here's Everything Margot Robbie Has in the Works He was the first person I ever met who knew a Beatle personally, having worked with Ringo Starr on Caveman.ĭanny Bowes,, Movies By Bowes

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His visits to the US, often on the heels of a Caribbean shoot, were full of great stories from various sets. He worked on all the 007 flicks, even after he retired, up through The Living Daylights. The audience flocked to the exits, but we sat rapt waiting for the name “John Tythe” to appear: My great uncle Johnny, an East End lad who in post-Blitz London had worked his way up through the ranks at Pinewood Studios to become chief electrician.

So imagine how it exciting it was to see a movie! Even more exciting for us was sitting through Goldfinger, or, even, in later, more technologically advanced years after uber-suave Sean Connery exited and winking clown Roger Moore heralded the franchise’s decline towards untempered camp, Live and Let Die, and waiting for the end credit crawl.

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I’m sure our TV at home was still black-and-white. People used to line up around the block back then, as there were only two movie-houses (single-screen) in town and cable TV didn’t exist yet. Pretty much the opening night of every new James Bond movie that played during my Florida childhood.

Q: What’s your favorite memory of watching a movie with your family? (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.) Send suggestions for future questions to sam at indiewire dot com. Every week, the Criticwire Survey asks film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning.

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