Movies of a Lifetime
On 1997 I created a Word document to write down of the movies I watched in cinema. It has survived several PCs and I continue updating it every time I back to the cinema, hence the accuracy of the data. This is the list of these movies I've seen on theater on my life (cinema was so much cheaper at 80s, 90s and early 2000s), indicating date and place, including outdoor cinemas and special events, as my age when I watched them as extra. Also there are a few terms coined by me:
-"A Hanks": at late 90s, in the Spanish cinema magazine "Imágenes de Actualidad" (Imágenes, for short) existed a little section to read real-life quotes from actors, actresses and directors. Once I read one attributed to Tom Hanks (rough translation): «A good movie is the one that you leave the cinema telling yourself "thank God for have watching it"». Leaving aside the religious reference, this is how I call a movie that it makes say to me "thank for have watching it" after I leave the cinema.
-"A Heston": it refers when I watch a movie in an empty cinema, and I am the only one viewer. The name comes from The Omega Man (1971), when Charlton's character Robert Neville is in an empty cinema watching Woodstock (1970).
-Doublet: two movies watched in the same day.
-"A Hanks": at late 90s, in the Spanish cinema magazine "Imágenes de Actualidad" (Imágenes, for short) existed a little section to read real-life quotes from actors, actresses and directors. Once I read one attributed to Tom Hanks (rough translation): «A good movie is the one that you leave the cinema telling yourself "thank God for have watching it"». Leaving aside the religious reference, this is how I call a movie that it makes say to me "thank for have watching it" after I leave the cinema.
-"A Heston": it refers when I watch a movie in an empty cinema, and I am the only one viewer. The name comes from The Omega Man (1971), when Charlton's character Robert Neville is in an empty cinema watching Woodstock (1970).
-Doublet: two movies watched in the same day.
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- DirectorRichard BenjaminStarsTom HanksShelley LongAlexander GodunovA young couple struggles to repair a hopelessly dilapidated house.Movie No. 1
Date: Monday evening, September 1, 1986 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés).
Two months before (Sunday, July 20) my parents and me had moved from a town (Muros de Nalón) to the city. In Muros there wasn't cinema. Marta y Maria opened in 1948, being the oldest cinema in Avilés. - DirectorHarvey MillerStarsSteve GuttenbergAlan ArkinJulie HagertyUnable to gain acceptance into an American medical school, aspiring physician Jeff Marx studies abroad in a small Latin American medical program run by the country's dictator.Movie No. 2
Date: Saturday evening, September 13, 1986 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorColine SerreauStarsRoland GiraudMichel BoujenahAndré DussollierJacques, Pierre, and Michel are three adult friends who enjoy single life until they find themselves stuck with a baby.Movie No. 3
Date: Monday evening, October 13, 1986 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsGriffin DunneRosanna ArquetteVerna BloomOrdinary word processor Paul Hackett experiences the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit Marcy, a Soho resident that he met that evening at a coffee shop.Movie No. 4
Date: Saturday evening, February 21, 1987 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés).
Almirante opened on April 1, 1973. With Marta y María, were the last cinemas in the downtown, after the closure of Cine Florida (1941-1983), Cine Ráfaga (1957-1980), Cines Chaplin (1978-1980) and Cine Canciller (1979-1986). - DirectorJim AbrahamsDavid ZuckerJerry ZuckerStarsBette MidlerDanny DeVitoJudge ReinholdA couple cheated by a vile businessman kidnaps his wife in retaliation, not knowing that their enemy is delighted that they did.Movie No. 5
Date: Saturday evening, March 14, 1987 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorJim HensonStarsDavid BowieJennifer ConnellyToby FroudSixteen-year-old Sarah must solve a labyrinth to rescue her baby brother when he is taken by the Goblin King.Movie No. 6
Date: Monday evening, April 20, 1987 (8 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés).
Repeated on Thursday night, July 21, 2016 in Plaza de España (Avilés) in an outdoor cinema during the Celsius 232. It's a fantasy and Sci-Fi festival created in 2012 as meeting point between fans and authors. It includes diverse activities, conferences, books and comics stalls, book signing, cosplayers and the cinema cycle. The name Celsius 232 comes from Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451" (passing the temperature from a scale to another). In the festival the movies are free admission, no ticket needed.
74th "a Hanks" movie (in July 21, 2016). - DirectorPaul MazurskyStarsNick NolteBette MidlerRichard DreyfussA rich but troubled family find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.Movie No. 7
Date: Monday evening, July 27, 1987 (9 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorDon BluthStarsDom DeLuiseChristopher PlummerErica YohnWhile emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.Movie No. 8
Date: Monday evening, August 10, 1987 (9 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorJohn LandisStarsSteve MartinChevy ChaseMartin ShortThree actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to perform their onscreen bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.Movie No. 9
Date: Saturday evening, October 3, 1987 (9 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsTom SelleckSteve GuttenbergTed DansonJack Holden and his friends, Peter and Michael, spend most of their time having flings with several women in their apartment. Their life changes when a mysterious baby appears at their doorstep.Movie No. 10
Date: Saturday evening, May 21, 1988 (9 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorChris ColumbusStarsElisabeth ShueMaia BrewtonKeith CooganA babysitter must battle her way through the big city after being stranded there with the kids she's looking after.Movie No. 11
Date: Saturday evening, July 2, 1988 (9 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsBob HoskinsChristopher LloydJoanna CassidyWhen a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.Movie No. 12
Date: Monday evening, February 6, 1989 (10 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorDavid ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyO.J. SimpsonIncompetent police Detective Frank Drebin must foil an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.Movie No. 13
Date: Monday evening, July 3, 1989 (10 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordSean ConneryAlison DoodyIn 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.Movie No. 14
Date: Friday evening, September 15, 1989 (11 years old).
Place: Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorTim BurtonStarsMichael KeatonJack NicholsonKim BasingerThe Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.Movie No. 15
Date: Saturday evening, October 14, 1989 (11 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorAmy HeckerlingStarsJohn TravoltaKirstie AlleyOlympia DukakisAfter a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile, the point-of-view of the newborn baby is narrated through voice-over.Movie No. 16
Date: Saturday evening, September 29, 1990 (12 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorSteve BarronStarsJudith HoagElias KoteasJosh PaisFour teenage mutant ninja turtles emerge from the shadows to protect New York City from a gang of criminal ninjas.Movie No. 17
Date: Saturday evening, December 22, 1990 (12 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorEmile ArdolinoStarsTom SelleckSteve GuttenbergTed DansonThree ex-dads quickly discover how empty life is without their little lady, and go to outrageous lengths in their efforts to win their daughter back in this critically acclaimed and equally charming sequel.Movie No. 18
Date: Monday evening, February 25, 1991 (12 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorChris ColumbusStarsMacaulay CulkinJoe PesciDaniel SternAn eight-year-old troublemaker, mistakenly left home alone, must defend his home against a pair of burglars on Christmas Eve.Movie No. 19
Date: Saturday evening, March 16, 1991 (12 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorAmy HeckerlingStarsJohn TravoltaKirstie AlleyOlympia DukakisThis time, a new baby is on the way, and it's a girl. Wrapped together with the standard conflict between mother and father, Mikey engages in a bit of sibling rivalry with his new sister.Movie No. 20
Date: Monday evening, June 24, 1991 (12 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés). - DirectorGary SiniseStarsRichard GerePenelope Ann MillerBrian DennehyTwo brothers who are forced off their farm in the debt stricken mid-west become folk heroes when they begin robbing the banks that have been foreclosing on farmers.Movie No. 21
Date: Saturday night, July 13, 1991 (13 years old).
Place: Plaza de Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) in an outdoor cinema during the Feast Day of St. James festivities.
Watched during my summer holidays. - DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsPhilippe NoiretEnzo CannavaleAntonella AttiliA filmmaker recalls his childhood when falling in love with the pictures at the cinema of his home village and forms a deep friendship with the cinema's projectionist.Movie No. 22
Date: Monday night, July 20, 1991 (13 years old).
Place: Plaza de Galicia (Santiago de Compostela) in an outdoor cinema during the Feast Day of St. James festivities.
Watched during my summer holidays. - DirectorMichael PressmanStarsPaige TurcoDavid WarnerMichelan SistiThe Turtles discover their origins while they endeavour to save New York City from the evil Shredder and his Foot Clan.Movie No. 23
Date: Saturday evening, August 3, 1991 (13 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorJoe JohnstonStarsBilly CampbellJennifer ConnellyAlan ArkinA young pilot stumbles onto a prototype jetpack that allows him to become a high-flying masked hero.Movie No. 24
Date: Saturday evening, August 31, 1991 (13 years old).
Place: Cine Almirante (Avilés). - DirectorDavid ZuckerStarsLeslie NielsenPriscilla PresleyGeorge KennedyLieutenant Frank Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy.Movie No. 25
Date: Saturday evening, October 12, 1991 (13 years old).
Place: Cine Marta y María (Avilés).