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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Light ''Empire of Light''] || Sam Mendes || 2022 || Featured ||
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_(2022_film) ''Pearl''] || Ti West || 2022 || Featured || Features a projectionist working in a 1918 single projector booth, with some technical errors.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergman_Island ''Bergman Island''] || Mia Hansen-Løve || 2021 || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergman_Island ''Bergman Island''] || Mia Hansen-Løve || 2021 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Wind ''The Other Side Of The Wind''] || Orson Wells || 2018 || Featured || Excellent projectionist & booth moments throughout
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Other_Side_of_the_Wind ''The Other Side Of The Wind''] || Orson Wells || 2018 || Featured || Excellent projectionist & booth moments throughout
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  | [http://www.ihearvoices.gr/project/24-frames-per-century 24 Frames Per Century] || Athina Rachel Tsangari || 2013 || Featured || Tsangari's short film was made to commemorate the 70th Venice International Film Festival and features two projectors facing the sea and speaking to each other.
  | [http://www.ihearvoices.gr/project/24-frames-per-century ''24 Frames Per Century''] || Athina Rachel Tsangari || 2013 || Featured || Tsangari's short film was made to commemorate the 70th Venice International Film Festival and features two projectors facing the sea and speaking to each other.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillerama ''Chillerama''] || Adam Rifkin, Tim Sullivan, Adam Green, Joe Lynch || 2011 ||
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  | [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1773058/ ''Stella Days''] || Thaddeus O'Sullivan || 2011 || Featured || An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stella_Days ''Stella Days''] || Thaddeus O'Sullivan || 2011 || Featured || An Irish priest starts a community cinema and feels conflicted.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film) ''Hugo''] || Martin Scorsese || 2011 || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_(film) ''Hugo''] || Martin Scorsese || 2011 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://cironline.org/reports/behind-story-cinema-komunisto-3564 ''Cinema-Komunisto''] || Mila Turajlic || 2010 || Featured || A documentary about President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito as told through his personal projectionist. He claims to have screened a film for Tito every single night for over 30 years.
  | [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1686660/ ''Cinema Komunisto''] || Mila Turajlic || 2010 || Featured || A documentary about President of Yugoslavia Josip Tito as told through his personal projectionist. He claims to have screened a film for Tito every single night for over 30 years.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Useful_Life ''A Useful Life''] || Federico Veiroj || 2010 || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Useful_Life ''A Useful Life''] || Federico Veiroj || 2010 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Longlegs_%282009_film%29 ''Daddy Longlegs''] || Josh & Bennie Safdie || 2009 || Featured || A man struggles to watch his two young sons while working as a projectionist in New York City.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daddy_Longlegs_%282009_film%29 ''Daddy Longlegs''] || Josh & Bennie Safdie || 2009 || Featured || A man struggles to watch his two young sons while working as a projectionist in New York City.
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| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_Shanti_Om ''Om Shanti Om''] || Farah Khan || 2007 || Featured || Our hero watches dailies in a studio screening room. His buddy, who is operating the projector, has manipulated the footage as part of a plot to close in on the villain!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28film%29 ''Zodiac''] || David Fincher || 2007 || Incidental || No actual projection booth scenes, but one of the main suspects in the Zodiac murders case is a projectionist who works in a silent film house named Rick Marshall. Marshall doesn't appear in the film as a character, but there is a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character visits the house of a friend of Marshall's ( a silent film organist) and sees his creepy basement film collection.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_%28film%29 ''Zodiac''] || David Fincher || 2007 || Incidental || No actual projection booth scenes, but one of the main suspects in the Zodiac murders case is a projectionist who works in a silent film house named Rick Marshall. Marshall doesn't appear in the film as a character, but there is a scene where Jake Gyllenhaal's character visits the house of a friend of Marshall's ( a silent film organist) and sees his creepy basement film collection.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moumen_Smihi ''A Muslim Childhood''] || Moumen Smihi || 2005 || Incidental || The cinema plays a formative role in the life of a teenage boy growing up in Tangier. One brief shot of a projectionist (and turret).
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moumen_Smihi ''A Muslim Childhood''] || Moumen Smihi || 2005 || Incidental || The cinema plays a formative role in the life of a teenage boy growing up in Tangier. One brief shot of a projectionist (and turret).
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Dragon_Inn ''Goodbye,Dragon Inn''] || Tsai Ming-liang || 2003 || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodbye,_Dragon_Inn ''Goodbye, Dragon Inn''] || Tsai Ming-liang || 2003 || Featured ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_Monk ''Bulletproof Monk''] || Paul Hunter || 2003 || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletproof_Monk ''Bulletproof Monk''] || Paul Hunter || 2003 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Eyes_(film) ''Porn Theatre (also: "Glowing Eyes", "La chatte à deux têtes"''] || Jacques Nolot || 2002 || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowing_Eyes_(film) ''Porn Theatre (also: "Glowing Eyes", "La chatte à deux têtes"''] || Jacques Nolot || 2002 || Featured ||  
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Is_East_(1999_film) ''East Is East''] || Damien O'Donnell || 1999 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club ''Fight Club''] || David Fincher || 1999 || Incidental || One of the more well known projectionist scenes in film, Brad Pitt's character shows us how cue-marks work and how he spends his time splicing porno frames into regular films.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fight_Club ''Fight Club''] || David Fincher || 1999 || Incidental || One of the more well known projectionist scenes in film, Brad Pitt's character shows us how cue-marks work and how he spends his time splicing porno frames into regular films.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Cit%C3%A9_de_la_peur ''La Cité de la peur''] || Alain Berbérian || 1994 ||
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero ''Last Action Hero''] || John McTiernan || 1993 || Featured ||  
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Action_Hero ''Last Action Hero''] || John McTiernan || 1993 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(1993_film) ''Matinee''] || Joe Dante || 1993 || Featured || Climax ends in the projection booth, John Goodman operates a third projector from behind the screen.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matinee_(1993_film) ''Matinee''] || Joe Dante || 1993 || Featured || Climax ends in the projection booth, John Goodman operates a third projector from behind the screen.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_Zero ''Apartment Zero''] || Martin Donovan || 1989 ||
| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Come_See_the_Paradise ''Come See the Paradise''] || Alan Parker || 1990 || ||
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apartment_Zero ''Apartment Zero''] || Martin Donovan || 1989 || ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso''] || Giuseppe Tornatore || 1988 || Featured ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso ''Cinema Paradiso''] || Giuseppe Tornatore || 1988 || Featured ||  
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Up_Roses_(1986_film) ''Coming Up Roses''] || Stephen Bayly || 1986 || Featured || When the cinema where they work closes the projectionist and concessionaire attempt to start a mushroom growing business in the auditorium. Set and filmed in Wales.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_Up_Roses_(1986_film) ''Coming Up Roses''] || Stephen Bayly || 1986 || Featured || When the cinema where they work closes the projectionist and concessionaire attempt to start a mushroom growing business in the auditorium. Set and filmed in Wales.
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  | [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090915/ ''Dead End Drive-In''] || Brian Trenchard-Smith || 1986 || Incidental || Set at a dystopian drive-in where no one can leave. Trenchard-Smith's films are seen on the screen, one very brief projection booth moment, and the manager walks around carrying Goldberg cans in several scenes.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_End_Drive-In ''Dead End Drive-In''] || Brian Trenchard-Smith || 1986 || Incidental || Set at a dystopian drive-in where no one can leave. Trenchard-Smith's films are seen on the screen, one very brief projection booth moment, and the manager walks around carrying Goldberg cans in several scenes.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demons_(1985_film) ''Demons''] || Lamberto Bava || 1985 || ||
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperately_Seeking_Susan ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] || Susan Seidelman || 1985 || Featured || Aidan Quinn plays a projectionist, two scenes are shot in the booth (the now closed Bleeker Street Theater in New York City). Also some criminals break into Aidan's apartment and dump all his reels of film on the floor!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desperately_Seeking_Susan ''Desperately Seeking Susan''] || Susan Seidelman || 1985 || Featured || Aidan Quinn plays a projectionist, two scenes are shot in the booth (the now closed Bleeker Street Theater in New York City). Also some criminals break into Aidan's apartment and dump all his reels of film on the floor!
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins ''Gremlins''] || Joe Dante || 1984 || Incidental || The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch ''Snow White''. Chaos ensues!
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gremlins ''Gremlins''] || Joe Dante || 1984 || Incidental || The gremlins gather in a movie theater to watch ''Snow White''. Chaos ensues!
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ah_Ying ''Ah Ying''] || Allen Fong || 1983 || Featured || Two people lovingly clean the port glass in a small screening room. Later, a main character enters a different projection booth to yell at a projectionist for removing a scene from the print.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Iron ''Man of Iron''] || Andrzej Wajda || 1981 || Featured || Long scene in a very well decorated projection booth about 35mins in.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_of_Iron ''Man of Iron''] || Andrzej Wajda || 1981 || Featured || Long scene in a very well decorated projection booth about 35mins in.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets ''Targets''] || Peter Bogdanovich || 1968 || Incidental || A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targets ''Targets''] || Peter Bogdanovich || 1968 || Incidental || A drive-in movie theater projectionist is shot by a sniper through the projection port!
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casino_Royale_(1967_film) ''Casino Royale''] || John Huston, Ken Hughes, Robert Parrish, Joe McGrath, Val Guest || 1967 ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculin_Féminin ''Masculin Féminin''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1966 || Incidental || Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masculin_Féminin ''Masculin Féminin''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1966 || Incidental || Jean-Pierre Leaud yells at the projectionist for messing up the aspect ratio!
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  | [http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_%28film%29 ''Persona''] || Ingmar Bergman || 1966 || Incidental || Film opens with beautiful images of film running through a projector. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TJ2d7-1e8 ''here'']
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_(1966_film) ''Persona''] || Ingmar Bergman || 1966 || Incidental || Film opens with beautiful images of film running through a projector. See [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8TJ2d7-1e8 ''here'']
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_%28film%29 ''Contempt''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1963 || Incidental || Watch an angry Jack Palance smack a pile of film cans out of the hands of a very dejected looking projectionist.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_%28film%29 ''Contempt''] || Jean-Luc Godard || 1963 || Incidental || Watch an angry Jack Palance smack a pile of film cans out of the hands of a very dejected looking projectionist.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler ''The Tingler''] || William Castle || 1959 || Featured || Much of the film is set at a movie theater, and there's a significant scene during which a projectionist meets THE TINGLER! Also features an early depiction of LSD ingestion.
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tingler ''The Tingler''] || William Castle || 1959 || Featured || Much of the film is set at a movie theater, and there's a significant scene during which a projectionist meets THE TINGLER! Also features an early depiction of LSD ingestion.
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blob ''The Blob''] || Irvin Yeaworth || 1958 ||
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smallest_Show_on_Earth ''The Smallest Show on Earth''] || Basil Dearden || 1957 || Featured || Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working at a struggling theater
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Smallest_Show_on_Earth ''The Smallest Show on Earth''] || Basil Dearden || 1957 || Featured || Peter Sellers as a drunk (yet committed!) projectionist working at a struggling theater
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  | [http://youtu.be/5iXQ9BpTbBY ''Mother Goose''] || Ray Harryhausen || 1946 || Featured || A goose projectionist!
  | [http://youtu.be/5iXQ9BpTbBY ''Mother Goose''] || Ray Harryhausen || 1946 || Featured || A goose projectionist!
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| ''Cartoons Ain't Human'' || Seymour Kneitel || 1943 || Featured || Popeye makes an animated cartoon and projects it for his family. Toward the end, it becomes an expanded cinema performance!
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_%28film%29 ''Hellzapoppin'''] || H. C. Potter || 1941 || Incidental ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellzapoppin%27_%28film%29 ''Hellzapoppin'''] || H. C. Potter || 1941 || Incidental ||  
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock,_Jr. ''Sherlock,Jr.''] || Buster Keaton || 1924 || Featured || Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock,_Jr. ''Sherlock,Jr.''] || Buster Keaton || 1924 || Featured || Buster Keaton as a projectionist who falls asleep on the job and enters the frame himself...
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_of_War!_(film) ''Dogs of War!''] || Robert F. McGowan || 1923 || Featured || The "Our Gang" kids bust into Hollywood, make their own movie, and then project it.
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  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Nibs_(film) ''His Nibs''] || Gregory La Cava || 1921 || Featured || Set in a rural theater run by an elderly projectionist nicknamed "His Nibs," featuring a film within a film that the projectionist narrates because someone cut out the title cards. The film includes number of projection related gags.
  | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/His_Nibs_(film) ''His Nibs''] || Gregory La Cava || 1921 || Featured || Set in a rural theater run by an elderly projectionist nicknamed "His Nibs," featuring a film within a film that the projectionist narrates because someone cut out the title cards. The film includes number of projection related gags.
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  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%27s_Movie_Muddle ''Luke's Movie Muddle''] || Hal Roach || 1916 ||  ||  
  | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke%27s_Movie_Muddle ''Luke's Movie Muddle''] || Hal Roach || 1916 ||  ||  
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| [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countryman_and_the_Cinematograph ''The Countryman and the Cinematograph''] || Robert W. Paul || 1901 || ||
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==See Also==
==See Also==
* [https://vimeo.com/76383856 85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies]
* [https://vimeo.com/76383856 85 Years of the Projection Booth in Movies] ([https://letterboxd.com/nungee/list/85-years-of-the-projection-booth-in-movies/ Letterboxd list])
* [https://www.imdb.com/keyword/projectionist List of films on IMDb tagged with keyword "projectionist"]
* [https://www.themoviedb.org/keyword/161849 List of films on TMDB tagged with keyword "projectionist"]
* [[List of educational films about film handling and projection]]
* [[List of educational films about film handling and projection]]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207113625/http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/anthologyall.php Peter Knight's Projectionists Anthology]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120207113625/http://www.madcornishprojectionist.co.uk/anthologyall.php Peter Knight's Projectionists Anthology]
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