Films in Big School

AKAP · Post by **AKAP** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:06 pm

I seem to remember a film called "genevive" about a car. Main reason it stuck in my memory was the actress putting her stockings on. Nearest thing to sex we were allowed. Had a big impact on the rest of my life.

Sergiu Panaite · Post by **Sergiu Panaite** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:23 pm

More recently, films were usually brought in by pupils etc and watched in the various dayrooms (VHS, DVD's, etc). There were also occasional school film nights organised in the theatre (usually on the rather large projector screen, with either the now very old theatre projector or one borrowed from, say, the science department), but those were quite rare. When we did do them we tried to get them to work in surround sound - it worked, it was just that the rear speakers were rather crap

Rory · Post by **Rory** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:39 am

I think I saw a film called Genevive - but it was definately nothing to do with a car. I thought it was about a couple of lesbians and a bloke playing the piano (complicated plot). RR mentioned Emmanuelle - I presume you are referring to the Dominion at Tottenham Court Road?? And wasnt it on before that???

Also - back in the old days the cinema in Horsham had a useful side door entrance where for some reason we were never asked to pay for a ticket. Very obliging they were. That's where I saw my first 18 rated film - The Wild Bunch - I think that today it wouldn't even rate a PG!!

Richard Ruck · Post by **Richard Ruck** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 9:49 am

Rory wrote:I think I saw a film called Genevive - but it was definately nothing to do with a car. I thought it was about a couple of lesbians and a bloke playing the piano (complicated plot). RR mentioned Emmanuelle - I presume you are referring to the Dominion at Tottenham Court Road?? And wasnt it on before that???

Also - back in the old days the cinema in Horsham had a useful side door entrance where for some reason we were never asked to pay for a ticket. Very obliging they were. That's where I saw my first 18 rated film - The Wild Bunch - I think that today it wouldn't even rate a PG!!

Your memory for detail is better than mine!

The Dominion sounds likely, although I don't recall the 'short' before Emanuelle. I'm sure it wasn't an instructional film about the windmills of East Anglia, though........

I think, unfortunately, that this is the 'Genevieve' in question -

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:33 pm

Another thread I've resurrected because Spoonbill evokes the atmosphere brilliantly!

Eruresto · Post by **Eruresto** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:02 am

These days they're relatively common. IIRC, TSG and her group of Saturday Night People organise them, with the projection and sound done by techies - an easy job for them! Quality's quite good, and the film selection is done by a vote through houses. Having been a techie for a while (i.e. from October 2005-GCSE time roughly speaking) - though nobody taught me much! - I know that the techies, once the film is running nicely, go and watch the film from behind the screen!

cj · Post by cj » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:51 am

We had films in the theatre. Sunday nights and an excuse to get out of house and prep. Brilliant. The one I remember most vividly was Top Gun, and this would have been when I was young enough to think that Tom Cruise was attractive. Add Val Kilmer and Kelly McGillis, the place must have been throbbing with hormones.

MKM · Post by **MKM** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:36 am

We had occasional films in the School Hall on Saturday afternoons. The only one I remember is "Whistle Down The Wind" with Hayley Mills. The were chosen by the senior girls from a catalogue.

We were also allowed to go to the nearby cinema sometimes. We saw one of the St. Trinians films there.

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:24 am

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045808/

A classic British film.

The first one I ever saw was "A tale of Two Cities" with Dirk Bogarde, black and white and scratchy but when he was executed the whole school burst into tears.

I remember "whistle down the Wind ", I think that too produced a lot of adolescent sobbing.

Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 12:33 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:Another thread I've resurrected because Spoonbill evokes the atmosphere brilliantly!

I'm so pleased that, thanks to Spoony, I've had my date of death predicted!

midget · Post by **midget** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:10 pm

MKM wrote:We had occasional films in the School Hall on Saturday afternoons. The only one I remember is "Whistle Down The Wind" with Hayley Mills. The were chosen by the senior girls from a catalogue.

We were also allowed to go to the nearby cinema sometimes. We saw one of the St. Trinians films there.

SENIOR GIRLSbeing allowed to choose the films! Whatever next!
Yours in amazement

Maggie

Mid A 15 · Post by **Mid A 15** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:22 pm

Angela Woodford wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:Another thread I've resurrected because Spoonbill evokes the atmosphere brilliantly!
I'm so pleased that, thanks to Spoony, I've had my date of death predicted!

Am I being thick

Don't understand!

cj · Post by cj » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:37 pm

Mid A 15 wrote:
Angela Woodford wrote:
Mid A 15 wrote:Another thread I've resurrected because Spoonbill evokes the atmosphere brilliantly!
I'm so pleased that, thanks to Spoony, I've had my date of death predicted!
Am I being thick

Don't understand!

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Angela Woodford · Post by **Angela Woodford** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 4:40 pm

Oh, sorry Andy - ages ago Spoonbill created a topic called "The End Is Nigh - This Means You". You answer a few diagnostic questions and get the very day of your death predicted. JR came off the worst, you'll be sorry to hear.

I'll have a few more years to struggle on.

Munch

kayinbaja · Post by **kayinbaja** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:57 pm

Before I die, and i do seem to have a while according to that website, I'll bring this thread back to films....
Sobbing helplessly over Tale of Two cities and Whistle Down the Wind in the hall are very clear memories.
We went "out" to see The Great St Trinian's Train Robbery, Khartoum (more sobbing) and, inexplicably, Lindsay Anderson's "If". I'm absolutely sure that none of the staff had a clue what that last one was going to be about! It was followed by some dark muttering in 5s about a school revolution, which, sadly, came to nought.