Rolling Roadshow

Not that Netflix needs any free publicity on my website, but I think this Rolling Roadshow thing they're doing sounds pretty cool. They're going to the cites where various movies were filmed or inspired, and showing them on location.

Here's the list....

The Warriors at Coney Island in New York
Jaws on the beach at Martha's Vineyard

Clerks in Red Bank, New Jersey

Ferris Bueller's Day Off at the "Save Ferris" water tower in Northbrook, Illinois

Field of Dreams at the baseball diamond in Dyersville, Iowa

The Shining at the hotel in Colorado that inspired Stephen King to write the book

The Searchers in Monument Valley, Utah

Raising Arizona at the state park in Arizona where they had their trailer

The Poseidon Adventure at the R.M.S. Queen Mary in Long Beach, California

Escape from Alcatraz at, you guessed it, Alcatraz

Granted, I won't be able to go to any of these. The only one that's remotely close is Clerks, and I've already made a Kevin Smith related trip to New Jersey... Granted, I'd make another, but this is next Tuesday, which is not feasible.

My friend Brad is going to be in Colorado at the time of The Shining one, and is seriously considering going.

A couple years ago, during "Screen on the Green" on the Mall in Washington, I saw "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." So I've had an experience similar to this roadshow. It was quite cool.

A few other movies I think would be cool to add to a roadshow like this...

--- Blues Brothers in Chicago at Daley Plaza
--- Animal House in whatever fraternity-row type of area they have at the University of Oregon
--- North by Northwest at Mt. Rushmore
--- King Kong at the Empire State Building (granted, there's not really an open space to show it, but it sounds cool)
--- The Exorcist on the Georgetown Campus (I hear they don't this every once in a while, but don't know the details)
--- Ghostbusters at the New York Public Library

Anyone else have any ideas?

***UPDATE***

The Alamo Drafthouse in Austin is actually responsible for creating the Roadshow, Netflix is a partner this year. The Drafthouse did one last year too. Among the movies they did last year was North By Northwest, but in Bakersfield, California, not at Mt. Rushmore where they ended up later in the movie. They also did another one I should have thought of... Close Encounters of the Third Kind at Devil's Tower in Wyoming.