“For the memory of a lifetime, Rekall, Rekall, Rekall.”
Raza and I had one of our famous and fabulous Early 90s Film Club screenings last weekend. On the evening’s program, “Total Recall” (1990). Such a fantastic movie, gets even better with age.
My fantasy is that we start a tumblr in which we post in advance when and what early 90s film we’ll be watching (usually at my house, invariably soused) and that people who care to will join us to watch the movies (usually at their house, invariably soused). We would encourage our new friends to acquire the movies by any means: Netflix, iTunes, Redbox, Target, Stealing, and the format is unimportant (although ideally, we’d all watch on VHS). During and after, we would all collaborate to collect our impressions, memories, screencaps and glittercollages by submitting to the tumblr.
Here are some of E90FC’s past screenings:
- “The Firm” (1993) dir. Sydney Pollack
- “Disclosure” (1994) dir. Barry Levinson
- “The Net” (1995) dir. Irwin Winkler
- “Demolition Man” (1993) dir. Marco Brambilla
- “Death Becomes Her” (1992) dir. Robert Zemeckis
- “Rising Sun” (1993) dir. Philip Kaufman
- “Wolf” (1994) dir. Mike Nichols
- “Bonfire of the Vanities” (1990) dir. Brian de Palma
And here are some of E90FC’s upcoming screenings:
- “Speed” (1994) dir. Jan de Bont
- “Freejack” (1992) dir. Geoff Murphy
- “Dave” (1993) dir. Ivan Reitman
- “L.A. Story” (1991) dir. Mick Jackson
- “Point Break” (1991) dir. Kathryn Bigelow
- “Strange Days” (1995) dir. Kathryn Bigelow
- “Soapdish” (1991) dir. Michael Hoffman
We tend to favor the Sci-fi and Action-Thriller genres, or anything which hilariously features the tech of the time, but I guess it would make sense to take any and all programming suggestions.
Answers enabled?
UPDATE: So it’s settled. We’re taking suggestions and compiling them here. Once we’ve selected our the movie for our first screening, we’ll let the club know when it’s happening.
Disclosure (1994) 4 of 4
Top: Tom Sanders
Rectilinear hair concept #1: “Fallingwater” by Jose Eber
Bottom: Meredith Johnson
Rectilinear hair concept #2: “Sydney Opera House” by Vidal Sassoon
Thus ends the Disclosure series. Seriously, kids. It’s a really good movie and an ideal artifact of its time. Watch it. You’ll have fun.
Disclosure (1994) 3 of 4
Top: e.mail from A FRIEND
to Tom Sanders dig.ts@rec.com
Bottom: FootBall and BasketBall ca. 1994
“Did you find out about “A FRIEND”? Did we get the address from Internet?”
Disclosure (1994) 2 of 4
Top: DigiCom VIE Virtual Reality File System: /usr/guest/vie/
“All information accessed during this demonstration is for entertainment value only, and should not be duplicated or fed to another database. If you have questions, please ask the Angel.
VIE: When reality isn’t enough.”
Bottom: Direct Video Linkup to DigiCom Malaysia manufacturing base
“Tom… You look frighteningly awake… Look, Tom, I still think that Arcamax will be a major, major hit.”
Disclosure (1994) 1 of 4
Top: DigiCom CommuniTech handheld cellular
“Smaller, faster, cheaper, better.”
Bottom: 16:9 widescreen CRT display
“The Advanced Products Group has been the heart of DigiCom and its impressive expansion over the last 10 years. Advanced Products has historically consisted of four distinct divisions: marketing, manufacturing, design, and software development.
The new compression algorithms should shift the industry standard to full-res digitized video at 60 fields per second, with platform-independent RISC processors supported by 32-bit color active-matrix displays… What we’re selling is freedom. We offer, through technology, what religion and revolution have promised but never delivered: freedom from the physical body. Freedom from race and gender. From nationality and personality. From place and time.
Communicating by cellular phone and handheld computer, PDA, and built-in fax modem, we can relate to each other as pure consciousness.”
