Double Features, made by filmfriend

The history of double features is already a proud 100 years old. In the early 1920s, leading Hollywood studios had put massive economic pressure on cinemas, which had to play many smaller films in order to get the big hits. In order to be able to meet their contractual obligations, cinema operators combined these "B-movies" into double screenings, and from the 1930s onwards "double features" became a permanent programming feature. At that time, it hardly mattered whether the linked films were thematically similar or whether they belonged to the same genre. This only developed over the decades and was often used by art house cinemas to broaden the perspective by means of a relationship between the films in terms of content or design. Double features" were also popular as a nostalgic reminiscence - something Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez used for their double programme "Grindhouse", for example. Our double feature idea has a lot to do with this, but at the same time it also makes use of another approach: our pairings of two films provide double film enjoyment with unexpected, often surprising pairings. Sometimes the combination is obvious, but often the connection only becomes apparent at second glance. Let us surprise you!