August 1996, Los Angeles, Hayden Lake, Spokane

Mel Stuart: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (US 1971), based on Roald Dahl, starring Gene Wilder.

1.8.1996 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory / Jali ja suklaatehdas (Mel Stuart, US 1971) chez S.M., Hayden Lake. I had never seen this wonderful movie before. After a disappointing first run it grew into a sleeper hit and cult movie, not well known in Finland.

2.8.1996 Rio Bravo (Howard Hawks, US 1959) tv at Shangri La Motel, Spokane. I opened the tv set at the motel. The transmission was terrible, full of static. I recognized the opening scene and sat transfixed through the 141 minutes of Rio Bravo, a movie that I had also programmed at school film societies on 16 mm. The film is always great no matter what quality the presentation.
7.8.1996 The Disorderly Orderly (Frank Tashlin, US 1964, with Jerry Lewis) video
8.8.1996 A Time to Kill (Joel Schumacher, US 1996)
9.8.1996 Victory Through Air Power (Walt Disney, US 1943) screening at Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, with Scott MacQueen
10.8.1996 Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, US 1939) Lakeside Video
13.8.1996 Darby O'Gill and the Little People (Robert Stevenson, US 1959) video
14.8.1996 Escape from L.A. (John Carpenter, US 1996) AMC Burbank
15.8.1996 Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, US 1994) Lakeside Video
16.8.1996 The Manchurian Candidate (John Frankenheimer, US 1962) Lakeside Video
17.8.1996 Basquiat (Julian Schnabel, US 1996)
23.8.1996 Kansas City (Robert Altman, FR/US 1996) Lammle's Sunset 5
25.8.1996 Nixon (Oliver Stone, US 1995) video, director's cut
26.8.1996 Tin Cup (Ron Shelton, US 1996)