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Two days late here, but Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, opened on August 9th, twenty five years ago. As I stated in a prior post earlier this month, since seeing this for the first time theatrically in 1985, this movie has held a comforting presence for me. It's attention to detail, joie de vivre and willingness to traverse several genres within itself makes it a worthy repeat watching candidate.
Things seem to be turning up Pee-Wee these days, he successfully toured Los Angeles with a stage show in January 2010 (I was there for one show, and attended a Q & A afterwards) which will soon be going to Broadway, he programmed a day's worth of screenings at this year's Los Angeles Film Festival, and he seems to have finally got his long discussed follow-up film greenlit (so long that he's mentioning it in the Big Adventure commentary which was recorded in 2000) with Judd Appatow producing.
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure was the feature length directorial debut of Tim Burton (and my favorite film of his besides Ed Wood), and Victor J. Kemper was the director of photography.
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2 comments:
You had to include the frame that would haunt me throughout my childhood, the infamous large marge scene. I was watching an intro to the movie online in which Ruebens as Pee Wee warns the children in the audience about that scene. I will never forget it, thats for sure. And this movie was pretty scary to a kid but gets better when you understand it more. I need to get this on dvd one day.
Yes, that Large Marge sequence is a dozy. This remains a film that both my kids and I adore. I'm still waiting the Blu-ray Disc release for this one. Great pick, Colonel. Thanks.
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