Corsica. A beautiful evening in 1975. A big screen set up in a field with a wood behind. The moon was rising. They ran Once Upon A Time In The West. Dubbed in French with Italian subtitles. I'll never forget it.

I set up a projector and speakers on the side of my house and watched a movie on the grass in my backyard under the stars

Before a themed school dance, my friends and I rented a U-haul, parked it at a city park and watched the Austin Powers trilogy in the back of it - it was the closest we could come to living in a van down by the river.

A few years ago, I was brought in as the special Judaic-historical consultant for the film The Nativity Story. I worked side by side with the director Catherine Hardwicke, now famous for the hit film Twilight. The film is the only one in history to have its world premiere inside the Vatican...and I was the one religious Jew present that evening. As the cast and crew were being ushered into the vast Palazzo Nervi, where the Pope has his indoor audiences, a Swiss Guardsman asked me if I was there by myself. I actually got to reply with the line of a lifetime: "No, I'm here with Jesus and Mary."

Roy Doliner, co-author of The Sistine Secrets

In Melbourne at MSAC they show kids movies on the big screen over the Olympic Pool.

Malacca, Malaysia, 1996: The film was Schwarzenegger's Eraser; tickets were $1. People sat on the floor in front of the seats, right up to the screen. The film played in English with Malaysian and Chinese sub-titles.

In COSTA RICA at MONTESUMA BEACH a HIPPIE kind of hangout on
some nights they would show movies at a cafe and you could
here monkeys outside in the trees.

Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Hollywood, CA. They show the movie on the outside wall of a mausoleum while everyone drinks wine and eat cheese on the grass. Nice venue really.

When I was in college, the school set up a showing of Jaws in the olympic sized swimming pool so we could all watch it while floating around on rafts. Quite an effect!!!

I realized that I misspelled my email in the last post. jowynn@hotmail.com should be jowynne@hotmail.com. sorry

In the late 1970's I watched "Lawrence of Arabia" in an open-air "cinema" in an oil-camp in the Hamada el Hamra desert in Libya – against the backdrop of gigantic sand-dunes – unforgettable!

On a troop transport going to Korea in the early 60's. They showed movies every night in the open air. The movies were projected on the flat area below the bridge and the seats were canvas cargo hold covers. Over 200 GI's enjoying an outdoor movie every night, except when storms were brewing.

On the rooftop of a Saigon villa we watched a first run movie "borrowed" from the PX as B-52's roared overhead to drop bombs on communist locations in neighboring Cholon.

I was at a friend's house in Venice, California. We heard the music for "Jaws" and went to investigate. We found a group of people watching the movie, which was projected onto the side of one of the bridges crossing the canals. Some people sat in boats to watch, others, like us sat along the banks. It was a community experience to remember.

Watched "Super Size Me" at a fasting resort on Ko Samui Island, Thailand with a group of poeple from all over the world. None of us had eaten ANYTHING in a least several days – it was a riot ... really fun and surreal.

We used to screen movies on a sheet hung on a wire on the rooftop of a hotel in Basra that was converted into the UN sleeping quarters after the 2003 invasion of Iraq. We used to brew coffee and get up on the roof for the nightly viewing, as the temperature was still in the forties at night, and the roof had the dust-filled hot wind that gave some relief and we could catch the Kuwaiti cell network from the roof to call home. Sometimes they used to force us in when the stray bullets reached a critical level, like when the sons of Saddam were killed and Basra erupted in celebratory gunfire. Weird times.

A few years ago the Alamo Drafthouse did a roadshow where they showed movies at locations from the filming – for example, they showerd "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" at Devil's Rock. It was a really fun idea.

In Los Angeles, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery there is a summer movie series. Some of the films are shown on the back on Valentino's grave!!!