In a different style, this cycle of reruns also celebrates another anniversary and it is that of one of the great and highest-grossing horror films of the ’80s, Tobe Hooper’s “Poltergeist” (the one from “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre”) , partially co-directed by its producer, Steven Spielberg (on September 15).
The already mentioned “Blade Runner” with Harrison Ford, based on the cult novel by Philip K. Dick “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?”, which turns 40, will be seen on October 6, while the film which first imposed superheroes on the big screen, that is Richard Donner’s “Superman”, with Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman and Christopher Reeve, goes on September 22. An antihero like the first “Mad Max” starring the young Mel Gibson under the command of Australian George Miller will be seen on September 29.
The retrospective will begin more modestly with two prison films based on Stephen King stories, “Unexpected Miracles” with Tom Hanks, and “Dreams of Freedom” with Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins, although excellent in quality they do not qualify as authentic classics ( both titles directed by Frank Darabont, will be screened respectively today and on September 8. Thursday’s festival of classics culminates in a big way with a fantastic film title that gets scarier with each revision, “The Exorcist”, with the priest Max Von Sydow and the possessed girl Linda Blair, with whom the director William Friedkin achieved something almost impossible like getting the Oscar with a horror film, which will be seen on October 27, almost advancing Halloween.
Source: Ambito
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