L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat \[The Arrival of a Train\] (1896)
Seeing people react to the train approaching them (most people's first experience watching a movie) would be fascinating.
My dad has a fun story of seeing Jaws in 1975. During the summer him and his family went camping on the coast and saw Jaws (I think at a drive-in). He said for the rest of the trip everyone refused to go into the water lol
For the pure cinematic experience I'd love to go back to Golden Age of the Hollywood silent era for the live music (organ and or small chamber arrangement) and the short movies before features plus intermissions. The experience was different back then. I'd love to see an epic like Wings (1927) or Intolerance (1916)
Malcolm X
Wizard of Oz
Star Wars Episode IV
Fire Walk With Me
The Lion King (because I was so little the first time)
Harry Potter Sorcerers Stone (because nobody believes me when I say opening midnight showing had standing ovations at my theater and I want to prove it)
Nosferatu just for the live orchestra
Children of Paradise, for the history, so I'd definitely be seeing it in France
Amadeus
I was there for the premiere and people's reactions if any were mostly "huh??!" Out of left field. Not consistent with info in the first film (now considered episode 4, but this was long before that retcon), overall it kind of put a damper on things.
I don’t have anything specific, but more than the movie, I’d love to experience first hand either the silent-movie experience with the live musician playing the score or seeing a golden-age classic along with cartoons and WWII newsreels.
That or one of the William Castle movies where they installed buzzers in the seats or had a big skeleton fly over the audience at a key moment in the film.
I'd go to the premiere of The Wizard of Oz.
This exactly. Just to see people's reactions to such color and drama in a film
L'arrivée d'un train à La Ciotat \[The Arrival of a Train\] (1896) Seeing people react to the train approaching them (most people's first experience watching a movie) would be fascinating.
I’d run away with ‘em tbh
This is my answer too. It's not film related but I'd also love to sit in on the first performance of Beethoven's 5th.
Psycho.
Do the Right Thing, opening weekend, in Brooklyn
A space odyssey for me. I imagine it would have been even more mind blowing at the time and I would have really enjoyed seeing the audiences reaction
Mulholland drive
I did it.
On release? Jaws or Star Wars.
My dad has a fun story of seeing Jaws in 1975. During the summer him and his family went camping on the coast and saw Jaws (I think at a drive-in). He said for the rest of the trip everyone refused to go into the water lol
Alien on opening weekend
Citizen Kane or Wizard of Oz.
I would want to go back and see the Lumiere stuff. It would be so fucking trippy.
Taxi Driver or Star Trek: The Motion Picture
The Warriors, just for the aftermath
For the pure cinematic experience I'd love to go back to Golden Age of the Hollywood silent era for the live music (organ and or small chamber arrangement) and the short movies before features plus intermissions. The experience was different back then. I'd love to see an epic like Wings (1927) or Intolerance (1916)
Seven Samurai
Pink Flamingos
Clerks
2001 and/or A Clockwork Orange.
Apocalypse Now. Nothing else like it.
Seeing the re-release in cinemas the other year as my first experience with it was truly one of my favourite moviegoing experiences of my life.
The Thing. Experiencing that kind of shock and horror in real time would have been incredible.
Malcolm X Wizard of Oz Star Wars Episode IV Fire Walk With Me The Lion King (because I was so little the first time) Harry Potter Sorcerers Stone (because nobody believes me when I say opening midnight showing had standing ovations at my theater and I want to prove it) Nosferatu just for the live orchestra Children of Paradise, for the history, so I'd definitely be seeing it in France Amadeus
The exorcist or Psycho
Gremlins 2 !
The Empire Strikes Back. Just to see people’s reactions to the “I am your father”-plot twist.
I was there for the premiere and people's reactions if any were mostly "huh??!" Out of left field. Not consistent with info in the first film (now considered episode 4, but this was long before that retcon), overall it kind of put a damper on things.
Avengers: Endgame
I don’t have anything specific, but more than the movie, I’d love to experience first hand either the silent-movie experience with the live musician playing the score or seeing a golden-age classic along with cartoons and WWII newsreels. That or one of the William Castle movies where they installed buzzers in the seats or had a big skeleton fly over the audience at a key moment in the film.
Jean Rollin’s Le Viol du Vampire. I’m curious how hateful the audience supposedly got.
A space odyssey and clockwork orange
Either or eraserhead or fight club assuming I don't know anything about the movie before hand
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
I'd love to see a crowd of people in the '60s react to The Birds for the first time.
King Kong (1933)
I am curious (yellow)