Celebrate Rob Reiner with a movie marathon in Oakland on Jan. 25
Was there any better back-to-back streak of movies from a director than Rob Reiner in the 1980s? First “Stand by Me” then “The Princess Bride” and “When Harry Met Sally…,” each film was uniquely wonderful, worthy or rewatching until the VHS tape went all streaky.
To mark Reiner’s untimely death this winter, the New Parkway Theater in Oakland is holding a day-long marathon of his works on Jan. 25. Starting Sunday morning, the event will feature some of his best-loved movies like “Misery” and “This Is Spinal Tap” – and includes one that’s not usually available for streaming, John Cusack road-trip comedy “The Sure Thing.” Tickets are available both for individual films or for the whole marathon (with special themed meals).
“Rob Reiner’s movies were a common social background for all of us who were alive and aware in the ’80s and early ’90s,” the organizers write. “It might have been the last time that Americans all watched the same movies together (now our media landscape is much more fractured). We can get together — not for one last time, but hopefully the first of many times!”
The Oakland theater isn’t the only one going Reiner-mode. Orinda Theatre is showing “When Harry Met Sally…” on Feb. 19, and the Roxie in San Francisco the same on Feb. 1.
Details: 10 a.m.-late Jan. 25 at 474 24th St., Oakland; $60 for marathon pass ($100 with themed meals) or $14 general admission for each movie, thenewparkway.com/upcomingevents/calendar