Escapism Film Festival Returns to Durham
If the inclination strikes you to venture out a little from Raleigh this weekend, you might want to check out the annual Escapism Film Festival in Durham. Held each year at the Carolina Theatre, the fest showcases a variety of classic, old school film favorites ranging from fantasy to animation to sci-fi. This year’s line up features some great movies like Big Trouble in Little China, Escape From New York, The Last Starfighter, Legend, The Muppet Movie, Robocop, and The Secret of NIMH among others.
We’ve spent months searching through studio archives to present some of the rarest prints in existence. The black monoliths of the Manhattan skyscrapers in Escape from New York, dark and seemingly lifeless, are much more menacing within the 1000-seat Fletcher Hall auditorium. Khan’s ferocious attack on the Enterprise in Star Trek II is even more breathtaking when watched on a screen that’s more than thirty feet wide. The eye-popping visual effects of Big Trouble in Little China are truy realized in a room whose history pre-dates the invention of color motion pictures. Escapism is proud that all of our films will screen exactly as the filmmakers intended, their visions unaltered, and no DVD or Blu-Ray reproductions.
Escapism runs tonight through Sunday. Tickets may be purchased as a 10-Pass for $65 during the festival, and individual tickets go for $8 each, or $6 for Star Members and children 12 and under. For detailed film synopses and screening times, you can check out the Escapism website.
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sarah chill
09/24 10:19 AM
That was a good movie, am oldy but a goody~
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Charlotte
09/24 02:16 PM
Bit of a typo you got there—y’all wanted The Secret of NIMH, not NIHM!
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Stacey
09/24 02:37 PM
oops. i hadn’t had my coffee when i posted this. i’ve made the correction. thanks!
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Jesus
09/25 09:43 AM
$8? Really? That’s just excessive.
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neal2zod
09/27 10:27 AM
As much as I want to see Robocop on the big screen (and support mom and pop), times is tough and most of these movies can be BOUGHT on DVD for $8. I think $5 (like The Colony’s retro movies) is about the right price for something like this.
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c'mon
09/27 12:06 PM
They look a lot better on 35mm than they do on blu-ray and especially DVD. Retrofantasma series is of course the ultimate bargain with two films for 8$, but it takes a considerable amount of time and money to get the quality of prints and films for something like this from the studio and they should be rewarded for it, really.
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Stacey
09/27 12:21 PM
a good chunk of the films shown at the colony, at least for cinema overdrive, are from matt and adam’s personal film collection. so they can charge less because they don’t often have to deal with shipping the film or working with studios.
i don’t think the price is a deterrent for folks who enjoy the cinema experience.
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