{"id":26605,"date":"2026-06-20T01:16:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=26605"},"modified":"2026-06-20T01:16:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T05:16:34","slug":"special-older-movies-on-the-big-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/special-older-movies-on-the-big-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Special older movies on the big screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of movies I saw on the big screen were ones that had just come out. However, there were a few special times when I saw older movies that came out before. For &#8220;Joan of Arc&#8221; it was my 1st time seeing it, whereas for the others it was my 2nd or 3rd.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2001: A Space Odyssey\n<ul>\n<li>I saw this in Waterloo (at the Princess) with friends<\/li>\n<li>One of my favourites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Blade Runner\n<ul>\n<li>I saw this in Waterloo (at the Princess) with friends<\/li>\n<li>One of my favourites<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Citizen Kane\n<ul>\n<li>I saw this in Guelph (at the Bookshelf) with my friend Marita<\/li>\n<li>One of my favourite old movies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Metropolis\n<ul>\n<li>I saw this in Waterloo (at First United Church) &#8212; organist Jan Overduin played live music during the movie<\/li>\n<li>My favourite old movie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The Passion of Joan of Arc\n<ul>\n<li>I saw this in Toronto (at the ROM) with my friend Karen<\/li>\n<li>This one was a bit less interesting as a movie but it was certainly a striking story, particularly as it was all true<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The vast majority of movies I saw on the big screen were ones that had just come out. However, there were a few special times when I saw older movies that came out before. For &#8220;Joan of Arc&#8221; it was my 1st time seeing it, whereas for the others it was my 2nd or 3rd. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[42,6],"class_list":["post-26605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-thoughts","tag-lists","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26605"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26609,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26605\/revisions\/26609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}