The Color Purple Returns To Movie Theaters (1 Viewer)

[Todd Erwin]

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The Color Purple Returns To Movie Theaters

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[Todd Erwin]

Hopefully a 4K release is forthcoming....

 

[Ronald Epstein]

One of my favorite Spielberg films

 

[Todd Erwin]

Closest movie theater for me that participates in Fathom Events is nearly 120 miles away...

 

[Tino]

0-11 in Oscar Nomination Wins

Terrific film

 

[Jake Lipson]

I hate when Fathom does these only on one date. I'm not sure I can make it. I get why a full wide release as a normal screening film is not practical for most re-releases anymore, but I wish they would add a second date for it to give us more than one option.

 

[Tino]

I hate when Fathom does these only on one date. I'm not sure I can make it. I get why a full wide release as a normal screening film is not practical for most re-releases anymore, but I wish they would add a second date for it to give us more than one option.

It’s usually 2 and sometimes 3 days. I’m surprised it’s only 1 this time.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It’s usually 2 and sometimes 3 days. I’m surprised it’s only 1 this time.

Yeah, I know. I don't know why they think The Color Purple can't support more than one day.

Looking at my schedule, the screening here (at my multiplex as is always the case with Fathom shows) overlaps with my arthouse doing a separate one-time screening one of my all-time favorite movies. I can do one or the other but not both. I'd be happy to pick Color Purple under almost any other circumstance or day, but not this one. Oh well.

 

[Tino]

Yeah, I know. I don't know why they think The Color Purple can't support more than one day.

Looking at my schedule, the screening here (at my multiplex as is always the case with Fathom shows) overlaps with my arthouse doing a separate one-time screening one of my all-time favorite movies. I can do one or the other but not both. I'd be happy to pick Color Purple under almost any other circumstance or day, but not this one. Oh well.

What’s the other film?

 

[Jake Lipson]

What’s the other film?

Howl's Moving Castle.

(Not that most people would pick that over The Color Purple, but it's a seminal film for me personally, so I have to, because I want very badly to see that on the big screen again.)

Of course, I own both -- so I can spin The Color Purple on Blu -- but it would be nice if the scheduling gave two days for Color Purple so I didn't have to choose.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

It's a decent enough film, but Whoopi Goldberg's performance as Celie is one for the ages. The lifetime of abuse that Celie has endured is etched in every movement, every glance, every expression. And that grounds and supports the extraordinary courage that comes late in the story.

 

[Noel Aguirre]

Not one of my favorite Spielberg films. Not gritty enough and a little too smaltzy for the subject matter as far as the direction, set and clothes design , music, and cinematography. Wish either Spike Lee or Martin Rittt did this one. Whoopi is super though.

 

[Tino]

Until recently, was the only Spielberg film NOT scored by John Williams.

 

[bujaki]

Not one of my favorite Spielberg films. Not gritty enough and a little too smaltzy for the subject matter as far as the direction, set and clothes design , music, and cinematography. Wish either Spike Lee or Martin Rittt did this one. Whoopi is super though.

I saw this at a Director's Guild screening and I'm with Noel in the dissenting side. I was viscerally angry at the film's conclusion. However, I did like Avery's performance because it felt so natural, so unforced.
Spielberg wasn't the right director for this one. As Noel wrote, maybe a Spike Lee... and I'm out.
Continue with the praise.

 

[TravisR]

Until recently, was the only Spielberg film NOT scored by John Williams.

A kind of an asterisk to that is that Jerry Goldsmith did Spielberg's segment in Twilight Zone: The Movie.

 

[Museum Pieces]

I thought Spielberg lost his nerve with this movie, that he didn't have the confidence in himself as a filmmaker to make the grown up parts truly grown up. He totally whiffed it when it came to giving this movie any of the teeth the novel had, IMO. That said, the performances, music, and cinematography are fabulous. It would be interesting to see what Spielberg would do with this material today. I think it would be a much different--and a better--movie.

 

[Jake Lipson]

It would be interesting to see what Spielberg would do with this material today.

Well, as it happens, he is onboard the upcoming remake, but only as a producer.

 

[Todd Erwin]

I thought Spielberg lost his nerve with this movie, that he didn't have the confidence in himself as a filmmaker to make the grown up parts truly grown up. He totally whiffed it when it came to giving this movie any of the teeth the novel had, IMO. That said, the performances, music, and cinematography are fabulous. It would be interesting to see what Spielberg would do with this material today. I think it would be a much different--and a better--movie.

And Spielberg has admitted as such, saying he perhaps wasn't mature enough as a filmmaker at the time. After all, this was his foray into drama. Schindler's List is where he truly matured as a filmmaker.