Starting today (9/24) Shawshank Redemption will get a limited theatrical rerelease in eight cities for two weeks this fall in celebration of the film's 10th anniversary and to promote Warner Home Video's two-disc special DVD edition debuting on October 5.
Check out moviefone.com to find out if SR is coming to your city.
Edited to add: The eight cities are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Philadelphia, Seattle and Austin.
[ September 25, 2004, 03:17 AM: Message edited by: vwiggin ]
Posted by DocCoyote (Member # 5612) on :
Yay!!!! One of the all-time best movies/stories!
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Excellent movie!
Posted by Eduardo_Sauron (Member # 5827) on :
Very good indeed! I already have the "normal" DVD, but I'll be buying the special edition as soon as it comes to Brazil.
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Is it coming to Dallas? I can't figure it out. Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
One of my favorite movies.
Posted by Foust (Member # 3043) on :
Really Chad? Despite the fact that it is clearly a marxist criticism of our court system?
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
LOVE that movie. Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
quote: Really Chad? Despite the fact that it is clearly a marxist criticism of our court system?
The court scene is only at the beginning isn't it?
Maybe I'm missing something about the Marxism. Could you point out what it is for me?
(lead me because I am blind on this issue)
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
It's about time they put out a new dvd. The first one is seriously lacking in the "extra features" department.
Posted by vwiggin (Member # 926) on :
It doesn't look like it katharina. I tried searching for the movie in two Dallas area zip codes (75225 and 75219) and moviefone said it is not playing in those areas. To be sure, you can enter your zip code into the "search by location" box, click enter, and then enter "shawshank redemption" into the "search by movie" box.
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
There are very, very, very few films I wold dare to call "Perfect". Shawshank is one of them.
The new DVD has a commentary track, and I can't freakin' wait.
Anyone wanna take a trip into NYC with me to see it?
[ September 24, 2004, 04:09 PM: Message edited by: Taalcon ]
Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :
Do you want that instead of the birthday present I already got for you?
Added: Realizing, of course, that you'd be missing on some really priceless funny. I giggled for about ten minutes.
[ September 24, 2004, 04:10 PM: Message edited by: katharina ]
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Why would I ever want to miss out on The Funny?
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
Chad, the whole point of the movie is a condemnation of our court system, and how prisoners are /were used for the profit of the people in charge of the prisons. Also, it is an innocent person who is wrongly convicted and punished, and forced to work for the "capitalistic pigs" in charge.
Not that I believe that is what was intended, but I think it has some merits when viewed that way.
Great movie, too....IMO.
Kwea
Posted by Anthro (Member # 6087) on :
That's a Steven King one, right?
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
(Extra strokes for Chad. I'm so glad to see that you're enjoying your time here!)
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
It's kind of mean for you guys to harsh on Chad for what you perceive as his views. I mean, we don't jump on your back for liking a movie that portrays (x conservative value).
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Just to be clear, I was perfectly sincere. I think Chad is relaxing enough in our company to be just meandering around, talking about this and that. It's so cool.
(Of course, this may be making him yet more tense -- the pointing it out, though. But I promised him lavishment with positive reinforcement for trying to meet us halfway.
Actually, I think Chad's eventually going to be nearly as hooked as Telpy, and we do need new blood, as Katie says. Roughs up the place a little bit, makes it more interesting. )
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
How was I bagging on him?
He asked how it might be percieved as that, and I answered.
I don't particualrily agree that it is a marxist commentary on the prison system, but I can see why it might be seen as one...
And if he missed it, well that is all good too.
Hell, he can even disagree...right Chad?
It's not like he is shy or anything...
Kwea
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
quote:Chad, the whole point of the movie is a condemnation of our court system
Funny. Here I was thinking the whole point of the movie was "Hope".
Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :
quote:the whole point of the movie is a condemnation of our court system
Really? The point I got out of it was:
Andy suffers for something he did not do. He chooses to overcome and to hang on to who he is, instead of allowing his sufferings to corrupt him or break his spirit. In the end, he succeeds in freeing himself.
We can liken this to ourselves: we're all like Andy, because we are subject to forces beyond our control and suffer for someone else's sins. We are all "in prison for crimes we did not commit." What matters is how we respond to it.
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
Amen, sistah.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
I was mostly talking to Foust.
Posted by Sara Sasse (Member # 6804) on :
Okay. Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Yep, this is an adaptation of a Stephen King short - and a fairly accurate one as well, in my opinion, perhaps one of the most accurate adaptations I've ever seen. There were some details from the novella that were left out - such as Andy's time with a cellmate - but I didn't think that those omissions detracted from the story.
And I LOVE the looks I get from people when I tell them that "by the way, Stephen King wrote that"... especially if they just sat there telling me that they hate his work.
Goody (the King fanatic)
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
That is the point...but if it wasn't a condemnnation of the system, it wouldn't be suprising or wonderful that he manages to do so.
It has a lot of meanings, and hope is one of the most important parts of it...but it isn't all of it.
As I said, twice, I liked it for more than one reason.
Kwea
Posted by Jeni (Member # 1454) on :
Are the eight cities listed somewhere on that site? I can't seem to find them.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
Goody I watched Shawshank 2 days ago on DVD, and was very moved. I also watched Green Mile the day before, and ditto. (On holiday at the moment.) I'd read Green Mile earlier in the year, and loved it. I read it on the back of Hearts in Atlantis, which I also loved. Despite this, I'm not a regular Stephen King fan, as I don't like HORROR (!). But I have been really impressed at his ability to tell a powerful and moving story with characters that I can believe in, and in a way that can give me so much gratitude for the goodness in people, and the ways that that can be discovered. Can you, as a King fanatic, recommend any other books of the Green Mile/Shawshank type?
Posted by Fitz (Member # 4803) on :
Bag of Bones and Dolores Claiborne come to mind. The Body, which was adapted into a fairly well-known movie called Stand By Me, is also pretty good, though I'm not sure which collection it can be found in.
I love almost every book of his which I've read, but those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head that you might enjoy.
Posted by Cashew (Member # 6023) on :
Thanks, I'll look out for them.
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
I believe The Body was in Night Shift, but I might be wrong.
I like King's short fiction better than his novels, to be honest.
And Stand By Me was a great movie.
Kwea
Posted by Storm Saxon (Member # 3101) on :
I think his short works are much better, too, though since he has started to conquer the impulse to ramble in his novels, I think the two are maybe starting to even out. I guess when you get off coke, you just don't have the energy to hammer away at a novel the way you used to. Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
"The Body", "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", and "Apt Pupil" were in the same collection: Different Seasons.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
Well, not to be annoying, but thanks to this thread, I got 2 tickets to tonights 8:45 showing of Shawshank at the Boston Common Cinema, just a 20 inute ride on the subway from my apartment
Actually, rather than being a strict Marxist critique of anything, I see Shawshank, from a sociological POV as a critique of the "retribution" style of punishment, and implying that the "rehabilitiation" method of punishment as being much nobler.
-Bok
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
<--- jealous like there's no tomorrow.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
What are all of the movies made from King stories? Off the top of my head, I can think of:
Shawshank Redemption Green Mile Running Man Misery Secret Window It Stand By Me Pet Cemetary
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
The problem is, most of the people making movies based on King works don't get King, and don't get his popularity. They see the 'fur and the fangs' and think that's what draws people to his works, because afterall, he's the "King of HORROR!" - they don't get that what we love is the complex and deep characterization that makes you feel like you really KNOW the characters in a King work - even the one-chapter-boys who you get to know excrutiatingly well right before they do something horrible to him. In the books, it's wrenching. In so many of the movies, it's slapstick.
Frank Darabont (Shawshank, Green Mile), Rob Reiner (Stand By Me, Misery), and Mick Garris (The Stand, The Shining:TV Version) are the three main directors who really seem to get King.
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
The Stand
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Yay Dag! Even I didn't realize there were quite so many... looks like my video collection has a LONG way to go. and BOOO HISSSSS for Desperation as a TV mini!
Goody
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
Watched it again last night. Gaw...it's such a good movie.
Posted by Bokonon (Member # 480) on :
It was pretty sweet to see it on the big screen! There was an annoying crowd though (3 cell phone rings, two time a cell phone screen, when people were passing it around to read a text message), people making weird comments, including one who had never seen the movie before, apparently.
The movie itself? Awesome. The sound track really shines through on modern audio (even if the movie itself is in stereo).
-Bok
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
"Get busy livin or get busy dying"
Words to live by!
Posted by Taalcon (Member # 839) on :
"Remember...Salvation lies within."
Posted by Tammy (Member # 4119) on :
"The Count of Monte Crisco"
"That's "Cristo""
"..by Alexandree Dumb-ass. Dumb-ass"
"Dumb-ass? "Dumas". Ever read it? You'll like that one Heywood, it's about a prison break"
"Jailbreak? Maybe we ought a file that one under "Educational" too."
Posted by CStroman (Member # 6872) on :
Sorry to bump this, but just wanted to say thanks for those that explained their views of the film for me.
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