IMMP
The Inter-Millennium Media Project, where a GenX dad subjects his Millennial son to 20th century media.
We found 10 episodes of IMMP with the tag “movie”.
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143: EARTH II (1971 TV movie)
April 29th, 2024 | 57 mins 42 secs
70s, drama, movie, scifi, tv
Way back in 1971, when the Apollo program was still cool, a TV pilot imagined a techno-utopia in orbit. Governed by D&D. It's EARTH II.
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142: John Carpenter’s THE FOG (1980)
April 15th, 2024 | 59 mins 1 sec
80s, horror, john carpenter, movie
The IMMP rolls into another John Carpenter movie with 1980's THE FOG.
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139: David Lynch’s DUNE (1984)
March 4th, 2024 | 1 hr 3 mins
80s, movie, scifi
In 1984, while studio execs panicked and audiences scratched their heads, Universal Pictures released David Lynch’s trippy, epic adaptation of DUNE.
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138: Bette Davis in NOW, VOYAGER
February 19th, 2024 | 55 mins 58 secs
40s, drama, movie, romance
Melodrama month continues with 1942's NOW, VOYAGER. Bette Davis and Paul Henreid star in a saga of metal health, personal transformation, and really, really bad parenting.
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137: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1935)
February 5th, 2024 | 1 hr 4 secs
30s, drama, movie, philosophy, romance
Before THE CELESTINE PROPHECY...before THE SECRET...before female characters had agency?...there was...the 1935 film MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION.
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136: ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
January 22nd, 2024 | 1 hr 12 mins
80s, adventure, comedy, movie
An epic American quest of danger and self-discovery through the mythic land of Chicago. The IMMP looks at 1987's ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING
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131: Irwin Allen’s THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE
November 13th, 2023 | 52 mins 5 secs
70s, adventure, drama, movie
It's a little early for New Year's, but never too early for an Irwin Allen disaster movie like 1972's THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
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Bonus: DRACULA (Spanish language 1931)
October 31st, 2023 | 13 mins 4 secs
bonus, drama, halloween, horror, movie
One final Halloween treat for 2023. This is a discussion from the Patron feed, and from the Drafthouse Diary video series, about the 1931 Spanish version of DRACULA starring Carlos Villarías and Lupita Tovar.
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130: THE WOLF MAN starring Lon Chaney Jr. (1941)
October 30th, 2023 | 53 mins 46 secs
40s, drama, halloween, horror, movie
Ian and Matthew close out Halloween 2023 with another Universal monster movie: the psychological mystery of THE WOLF MAN.
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129: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
October 16th, 2023 | 46 mins 46 secs
30s, halloween, horror, movie, thriller
Halloween season 2023 continues at the IMMP as Ian and Matthew watched (well, sort of watched?) Claude Rains in Universal's 1933 THE INVISIBLE MAN.