#matinee 1993

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

I was asked to recommend movies for my 14 and 7 yr old cousins - any advice?

#i'm thinking ghibli #also #matinee 1993

[xofeno]

Jesse Lee Soffer as Dennis Loomis MATINEE (1993)

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#matinee #matinee 1993 #jesse lee soffer #lucinda jenney #simon fenton #john goodman #kellie martin #filmedit #movieedit #mine

[grctw]

#matinee 1993

[zachfett]

Matinee (1993) Directed by Joe Dante Cinematography by John Hora

Recently watched this for the first time and absolutely loved it!

I'm surprised when people discuss Joe Dante's films this one rarely comes up, it might be my favorite of his.

#Matinee #1993 #Joe Dante #John Hora #John Goodman #Cathy Moriarty #Simon Fenton #Omri Katz #Kellie Martin #Lisa Jakub #Jesse White #Dick Miller #John Sayles #MANT #90s films #90s movies #Matinee movie #William Castle #Cuban Missile Crisis #box office flop #box office bomb #takes place in 1962 #1993 film #1993 movies #movie photography #movie screenshots #film #movies #cinema #cinephile

[spectrumtacular]

Vibrating out of my skin looking at the schedules for the two Good theatres next month, October is theeeeee month for movie-going

#fritz lang's destiny with live score. vampyr with live score. caligari/nosferatu double feature with live score. 35mm exorcist. #dracula 1993/drag show double bill. night of the living dead midnight showing. bride of frankenstein matinee. the mummy 1999 on halloween. #no rocky horror though surprisingly enough #anyway i'm sooooooo jazzed for all the silents i'm gonna have a BLAST

[2ndaryprotocol]

The cult comedy ‘Matinee’ hit theaters this day 30 years ago. 🎟️🐜📽️ #OTD

“𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚘𝚛𝚢 𝚘𝚏 ‘𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚝!’ 𝚒𝚜 𝚋𝚊𝚜𝚎𝚍 𝚘𝚗 𝚜𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚒𝚏𝚒𝚌 𝚏𝚊𝚌𝚝; 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚘𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚋𝚎𝚎𝚗 𝚙𝚞𝚋𝚕𝚒𝚜𝚑𝚎𝚍 𝚒𝚗 𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚕 𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚊𝚣𝚒𝚗𝚎𝚜!”

#otd #1993 #30 #matinee #Joe Dante #comedy #movies #john goodman #cathy moriarty #omri katz #lisa jakub #kellie martin #jesse lee soffer #Lucinda Jenney #robert picardo #dick miller #john sayles #naomi watts #joey fatone #kevin mccarthy #william castle

[subjectivecuriosities]

My ★★★★ review of Matinee (1993) on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/4OZpQP

#Matinee #1993 #1990s #Joe Dante #John Goodman #First Time Watch #film review #movie review #letterboxd review

[potteresque-ire]

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, in a 1993 Hong Kong charity variety show in which he had to sing while drinking a lot of beer. He kept saying, I'm full, I feel quite full in the end. Best actors all started from somewhere, and that somewhere is often idolhood — "traffic stardom", as they call it these days — and situations associated with the role that are at times awkward, uncomfortable, disrespectful. Tony was among the first stars I got to know as a child, and matinee idol Tony remains as much my impression of Tony as the Tony who sweeps up international acting awards.

And why shouldn't it be like that? He's the same person.

The Tony in the clip, at age 31, was between the two Tony's, having left the television station that had given him his idol status and already starred in several critically acclaimed roles, but had yet to win his first best actor award (which would happen the following year, with Wong Kar-Wai's ChungKing Express), or fully left his traffic star image behind.

He was in his so-called "transition period", much like Gg and Dd are.

The difference between traffic star Tony and acting god Tony is time and experience; people in the industry who recognise his talents and offer him opportunities, audience members who give him room to grow.

Idols, traffic stars have always had the potential to become great actors. Those who refuse to see the possibility ... they hardly matter, do they? Because Tony is already a living proof of that.

#Youtube

[jonbutter]

Watching Matinee (1993), 90s John Goodman smoking a big cigar is, the hottest thing that could ever happen??? Possibly

#kill my gay ass #john goodman

[cinematic-literature]

Matinee (1993) by Joe Dante

Book title: Famous Monsters of Filmland, September 1962 issue

#matinee #joe dante #magazines in movies #famous monsters of filmland #simon fenton

[brokehorrorfan]

Shout Select has revealed the specs for its Matinee 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray, which releases on June 25. John Goodman stars in the 1993 comedy as a filmmaker inspired by B-movie legend William Castle.

Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling) directs from a script by Charles S. Haas (Gremlins 2: The New Batch). Cathy Moriarty, Simon Fenton, Omri Katz, Kellie Martin, and Lisa Jakub round out the cast.

Matinee has been newly restored in 4K from the original negative, supervised by Dante, with Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos sound. Special features are listed below.

Disc 1 - 4K UHD:

Audio commentary by film critics Drew McWeeny and Eric Vespe (new)

Disc 2 - Blu-ray:

Audio commentary by film critics Drew McWeeny and Eric Vespe (new)

Interview with actress Kellie Martin (new)

Interview with actor David Clennon (new)

Interview with director Joe Dante

Interview with actress Cathy Moriarty

Interview with actress Lisa Jakub

Interview with production designer Steven Legler

Interview with editor Marshall Harvey

Interview with director of photography John Hora

MANTastic! The Making of a Mant

Paranoia In Ant Vision – Joe Dante discusses the making of the film

Vintage making of featurette

Behind the scenes footage courtesy of Joe Dante

Deleted and extended scene

Still gallery

It’s 1962, and fifteen-year-old fan Gene Loomis (Simon Fenton) can’t wait for the arrival of Woolsey, who is in town to promote his latest offering of atomic power gone berserk, Mant! But the absurd vision of Woolsey’s tale takes on a sudden urgency as the Cuban Missile Crisis places the real threat of atomic horror just 90 miles off the coast. With the help of Woolsey’s leading lady, Ruth (Cathy Moriarty), the master showman gives Key West a premiere they’ll never forget.

Pre-order Matinee.

#matinee #joe dante #john goodman #cathy moriarty #simon fenton #omri katz #kellie martin #lisa jakub #william castle #shout select #dvd #gift #90s movies #1990s movies #90s comedy

[nelson-riddle-me-this]

This ?9? year old girl is wiser and savvier and hipper than 95% of the American population

#matinee 1993

[consanguinitatum]

David Tennant's Plays: An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (1995)

I haven't done a thread on any of David's plays in a while, so I had some time yesterday to rustle one up about his 1995 play, An Experienced Woman Gives Advice. It premiered 28 years ago yesterday (which was why I chose to do a deeper dive about it) so let's get into it! An Experienced Woman Gives Advice (I'll use EW to refer to the play from here on out because what a long title!) would be David's first time performing onstage at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

Prior to winning his role in EW, the last play David had done was What The Butler Saw as Nicholas Beckett, a role he was warmly praised for. What The Butler Saw ran for two months at five different venues around England before closing its run at the Nottingham Theatre Royal in late May 1995.

EW's playwright, Iain Heggie, had seen phenomenal success with his 1987 tour-de-force, A Wholly Healthy Glasgow. But in the years afterwards, Heggie had produced only a few more plays before deciding he'd rather go back to teaching and let his writing commence at its own pace.

Originally written as a miniature sex comedy, EW was long in development, and received further script development workshops at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow in 1992, and at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh in 1993.

Its world premiere would see Heggie's return to the stage.

Initially, it might have seemed odd that EW - with its Glasgow setting, Scottish writer, and fully Scottish cast - didn't make its debut in Scotland. But because Heggie and the Royal Exchange had similar actor-centered outlooks and many of the artistic directors in Scotland preferred a more visual style, Heggie chose to work with the Royal Exchange (who liked his work anyway) and the play made its debut in Manchester.

Previews for EW began at the Royal Exchange Manchester on 21 November 1995, with an opening day of 23 November 1995. It had a small cast of five: Siobhan Redmond as Bella, David Tennant as Kenny, Jenny McCrindle as Nancy, Alastair Galbraith as Irving, and Alexander Morton as Stick. It was directed by Matthew Lloyd, and its assistant director was Marianne Elliott.

The set, which was designed by Laurie Dennett, was quite sparse - a communal back garden and garden shed of a block of Glasgow tenement flats. The music was composed by Paddy Cunneen, who fans will recognize from many other projects he did with David, some of which I've previously done deep dives into (like Sunburst Finish, The Pillowman and Bite).

The three-act play had a runtime of 3 hours and 20 minutes, with two intervals - one 15 minutes in length, the other 10 minutes in length. It closed its run on 16 December 1995. Tickets were priced from £5.50 to £18, with matinees on Wednesdays and Saturdays.

The action takes place on two Sunday mornings and opens with Bella, who's a 39 year old teacher, gardening in her back garden. We learn she's in a three-year long relationship with a live-in toyboy lover, Kenny (DT) who's a former pupil and 15 years younger than her. And that he didn't come home the previous night.

Bella calls Kenny her "charming, fallible boy", and she treats him like one. Former lovers say he's "tall, kind of blond, with a lovely lean build" and "incredibly rich brown eyes." There’s "just no resisting him,” and he's "bastardly good looking.”

David in rehearsals as Kenny (from program of An Experienced Woman Gives Advice)

In a series of interruptions from people passing into the garden, Bella (Redmond) dispenses advice to the inquiring strangers Nancy and Irving (Galbraith), and learns Kenny spent the night with another woman...from the woman herself, Nancy (McCrindle), who doesn't realize who she's told. What Bella does with this information - and how her meticulously cultivated freedom of choice lifestyle shatters, especially given her first love, Stick (Morton) lives nearby - is what the rest of the play explores. We see love, lust, and lies play out as Bella makes her choices.

And there's a scene with Bella and Kenny...and sex behind the doors of a rocking, exploding garden shed!

I haven't been able to locate a production script of the play to see whether this scene was enacted onstage, but Heggie's published script book says this scene, where Bella strips Kenny of his clothes piece by piece before they go into the shed to have sex offstage, had some brief nudity. None of the play reviews I've been able to find mention any nudity, though one article about the play does state that due to "strong language and the sexual nature of the story, the play is not suitable for children under 15." (I don't know how much weight I should give this particular article, however, because it also calls the lead character "Maggie" rather than "Bella"!) Anyway, if this scene was included in the play, it would be the second known instance (the first being that now-infamous What The Butler Saw full frontal nude photograph) where DT was onstage in the buff!

Speaking of reviews, they were wildly different - some found it hilariously funny with barbed, sharp dialogue, while others found it fatiguing. David's "able portrayal" as Kenny was praised as part of an extremely talented cast, and his was called a "great performance".

David and Siobhan Redmond earned Manchester Evening News Theatre Awards (MENTA) nominations - Redmond for Best Actress, and David for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. They also earned British Regional Theatre Awards nominations; Redmond for Best Actress and David for Best Actor. The play itself was also awarded a MENTA nomination for Best New Play. Redmond won both her nominations; David and the play didn't.

Photos from the play are almost nonexistent. I haven't located any images housed in any archives anywhere...so far. That doesn't mean they're not out there, mind you, just I haven't found them yet! I did manage to find a few of horrible quality while digging around in newspaper archives (I'll refrain from venting here about the quality aspects of digitizing newspapers, as that's a rant for another day) but it's a damned shame. I mean, in one of these, David just looks like a David-shaped black hole with floating arms! Nevertheless, I'll leave them here.

Something else I found fascinating during my research was that, like many venues, the Royal Exchange had a tradition of scheduling at least one informal discussion with the director and members of the company for each of their productions. While I didn't find any information on whether a discussion of this sort occurred during EW's run, I have to assume it did. Ah, to be a fly on the wall for that!

And that, my friends, is pretty much the story of An Experienced Woman Gives Advice! I wish I knew much more about this play, but like many parts of David's theatre career, wide gaps in our knowledge remain. But I keep on looking.

Thanks for reading!

#DavidTennant #ObscureDavidTennantPerformances #DavidTennantEarlyTheatre #AnExperiencedWomanGivesAdvice

[chainsawmatinee]

If you haven't already, be sure to check out our Leprechaun episode! We had a blast!

#horror #horror movies #lgbtq #podcast recommendations #podcasting #podcasts #chainsaw matinee #podcast #leprechaun #Spotify

[nine-frames]

"What a perfect time to open a new horror movie."

Matinee, 1993.

Dir. Joe Dante | Writ. Charles S. Haas | DOP John Hora

#matinee #joe dante #mant! #john goodman #us film #1990s #period piece #comedy #coming of age #1960s #b movie #10 frames

[a-book-of-creatures]

The trailer for Mant, the film-within-a-film in Matinee (1993) and an affectionate spoof of B-movie trailers. How many clichés can you spot?

#mant #matinee #trailer #Youtube