Details: Date: Saturday, December 31, 2011 Length: 7 hours Type: Multiple films Format: Set schedule Press Kit: Movie Day Press Kit Gallery: Event Photo Gallery Releases: • December 30, 2011.
For the past two New Years, we've focused on highlighting the works of late actors, delving into their filmographies and celebrating the careers that they left behind. This year we're taking that concept one step further by exploring cinematic history dating back from the last moments of 2011. Our movie selections will span a period of one-hundred years, dating back to a Winsor McCay animated short from 1911 and touching off on films dated by equidistant decades from there. In other words, if the film's anniversary is a multiple of ten from 2011, it's a potential candidate. To ring in the New Year I've chosen a classic from twenty years ago, James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day from 1991. There were several reasons for picking this one. First, it's a great movie (though I personally prefer the first Terminator). Second, it's one I think we've all seen and thereby doesn't require our rapt attention as midnight nears. Third, I'm allowing that T2 plays into that whole "2012 apocalypse" meme that people clamor about so much. Fourth, the time travel theme relates to our decades of film. Fifth, as far as midnight moments go, this year's will be pretty big. Here's the base schedule if you're interested in showing up:
The one thing I have to stress is that this won't be a booze-pounding, raucous affair. It will be a drier, quieter, robopocalypse-ier New Years than the other parties out there. So, y'know, we'll be here if you're interested! |
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